Happy New Year!

I’m back in Albuquerque but you might have thought I never left.  I was in California for 5 weeks living the high life.  The life where you mention that there are no more English muffins and the next morning the cupboard is full of them.   I got to see lots of cool people and was reminded why certain people are my friends. Or more why I’m friends with people, I’m not quite sure why they’re friends with me.  Other people are much nicer than me.  Besides the time it took to make that discovery I was back at Dowd and Guild being an ambassador of goodwill.  I considered my work schedule “fulltime” but evidently 9ish to 4ish 3-4 days a week isn’t officially fulltime. 

Now that I’m back in New Mexico my life is full of enchantment.  I’m taking 4 classes again and I think this semester will be much more gradschoolish than last semester.  We only have 1 week off and I think in general I’ll need to put in more effort.    Probably the most challenging is “Strategic Leadership and Development,” so far there is a lot of talk of feelings and life goals.  By Tuesday I’m supposed to make a list of 27 things I want to do before I die. I’m confident that if I died tomorrow I’d be totally satisfied so I’m having a hard time thinking of things to write.  So far it is like make cookies and do my laundry.  But I have a feeling I’m supposed to be thinking “bigger.”

I’ve been working here too, still for D&G just with some projects I can do on my computer requiring no brain activity.  What that means practically is I’ve been watching too much daytime TV.  We only get like 12 channels so the variety is seriously limited.  I did learn about trophy husbands that stay at home while their wives have high-powered jobs and, on the other end of the employment spectrum, real people have the 12-month job driving the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile.  Maybe that can be on my bucket list.

I started a new blog http://whatjoyeats.blogspot.com/ chronicling my eating habits. I guess if I keep working regularly I can probably afford more assortment but I like the challenge of thriftiness.