Summer Doldrums
It may be flooding down in Texas, but the summer doldrums have been giving me the blues for a few weeks now. Several friends moved away, leaving me to make new ones, which I have. I could always use a few more. Living on a shoe-string budget makes makes trips a little bit more painful than they used to be, but I'm taking a big group of friends to the Ranch this weekend. That should be fun.
I did sense something change between myself and the girl of my dreams, who moonlights at the Harp on Friday and Saturdays. For so long, I've had the sense that she didn't really like me, but the other night I was kind of talking to her about bar business and it just seemed different. Maybe its a change in me, not her. I'm trying to write something inspired by her, to give to her, that might make her feel good. ("Her" shows up a lot in that sentence.)
Six weeks to school starts and I can't wait--yes, I'm such a nerd I'm dying to take calculus. Despite that, I'm actually fun to get drunk with. I keep going back and forth about whether or not to go for an MBA or a grad degree in Economics. But, I feel close to a decision. Two of my friends who have MBAs have encouraged the Econ degree and a third who is just a fellow academic, also thinks that is the right direction for me. Ah, but what do I think? Well, they all pretty much said the magic words for me, "you get to be happy with what you are doing." Agreed. The draw to the MBA is about money mostly.
So far the best album I've bought this summer is the new Wilco disc, Sky Blue Sky. It's a bit of a roots album for the band; opting for a stripped-down sound over the heavy production of the last two albums, they have created a work that references a lot of 60's and 70's era rock. It's mostly love songs, and can be--like many Wilco albums--a little bit on the slow side of the spectrum. You can hear several cuts in the current batch of VW commericals on TV.
I did sense something change between myself and the girl of my dreams, who moonlights at the Harp on Friday and Saturdays. For so long, I've had the sense that she didn't really like me, but the other night I was kind of talking to her about bar business and it just seemed different. Maybe its a change in me, not her. I'm trying to write something inspired by her, to give to her, that might make her feel good. ("Her" shows up a lot in that sentence.)
Six weeks to school starts and I can't wait--yes, I'm such a nerd I'm dying to take calculus. Despite that, I'm actually fun to get drunk with. I keep going back and forth about whether or not to go for an MBA or a grad degree in Economics. But, I feel close to a decision. Two of my friends who have MBAs have encouraged the Econ degree and a third who is just a fellow academic, also thinks that is the right direction for me. Ah, but what do I think? Well, they all pretty much said the magic words for me, "you get to be happy with what you are doing." Agreed. The draw to the MBA is about money mostly.
So far the best album I've bought this summer is the new Wilco disc, Sky Blue Sky. It's a bit of a roots album for the band; opting for a stripped-down sound over the heavy production of the last two albums, they have created a work that references a lot of 60's and 70's era rock. It's mostly love songs, and can be--like many Wilco albums--a little bit on the slow side of the spectrum. You can hear several cuts in the current batch of VW commericals on TV.
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