Woot the ever popular work update
Apparently if you check ij at one in the morning and expect something new to be up for lunch break, you are sadly mistaken. Not that this a huge surprise to me, just that it leaves me with little to do during my precious half hour.
So work update. I think I've been moved to write some more about my life, but it will probably be later as a more private post.
Until then talking with Kathleen last night was good. She told me not to worry about that other incident because, well she could be talking to a lot of people. As a result, I've privatized that entry for the moment. It may pop back up and it may not. We'll see.
Kathleen and I also came to the conclusion that our dear friend is getting less well. Which brings me to ask, does anyone know what to do if a friend is getting steadily less mentally stable than they were before? He was on a lot of meds and stopped cold turkery. He was moving away from a very rigid dogmatic Christian base to a more open one and has suddenlt sprung back worse than he was before. He's always been a little obsessive but now its to the point where it is dibilitating him in some ways. Neither my friend or I can help him with this and our presences seems to make it worse. The only thing I can think of doing is retreating from him until whatever this is takes its course...which may be forever. So any thoughts?
I have a couple of story ideas I want to tinker with. I think that I can finally return to writing Escape Artist (which I'll post a fourth chapter soon, maybe later today). I also think I'm going to write another short or maybe two in the modern day short I wrote a week or so ago. I have two or three scenes that seem particularly clear to me.
And you know, I'm not going to think of a job or future, because I find it depresses me. I don't like my options and even though I'm cool with working a job that doesn't make me warm and tingly (I know the extras that give me a happy vibe so I don't need the job to do it) its more a concern of the job and out of college thing isolating me completely from peers or community that I would enjoy...plus I think I might still live with my parents for at least a few months after college and I really really really don't want to do that. I know the ij has some neat community but its not the same as face to face. But alas, I'll either have to live or not think about it too much or both.
I worry about the bf too. But honestly, its far too early in the relationship to think about or talk about that.
I'm also pretty consumed with the world wide thirty day peace prayer. That's going to start Sept. 11th and I'm still trying to decide how I want to participate and whether I can organize others to do the same. More thoughts on that after work though. Now I don't have the time.
So work update. I think I've been moved to write some more about my life, but it will probably be later as a more private post.
Until then talking with Kathleen last night was good. She told me not to worry about that other incident because, well she could be talking to a lot of people. As a result, I've privatized that entry for the moment. It may pop back up and it may not. We'll see.
Kathleen and I also came to the conclusion that our dear friend is getting less well. Which brings me to ask, does anyone know what to do if a friend is getting steadily less mentally stable than they were before? He was on a lot of meds and stopped cold turkery. He was moving away from a very rigid dogmatic Christian base to a more open one and has suddenlt sprung back worse than he was before. He's always been a little obsessive but now its to the point where it is dibilitating him in some ways. Neither my friend or I can help him with this and our presences seems to make it worse. The only thing I can think of doing is retreating from him until whatever this is takes its course...which may be forever. So any thoughts?
I have a couple of story ideas I want to tinker with. I think that I can finally return to writing Escape Artist (which I'll post a fourth chapter soon, maybe later today). I also think I'm going to write another short or maybe two in the modern day short I wrote a week or so ago. I have two or three scenes that seem particularly clear to me.
And you know, I'm not going to think of a job or future, because I find it depresses me. I don't like my options and even though I'm cool with working a job that doesn't make me warm and tingly (I know the extras that give me a happy vibe so I don't need the job to do it) its more a concern of the job and out of college thing isolating me completely from peers or community that I would enjoy...plus I think I might still live with my parents for at least a few months after college and I really really really don't want to do that. I know the ij has some neat community but its not the same as face to face. But alas, I'll either have to live or not think about it too much or both.
I worry about the bf too. But honestly, its far too early in the relationship to think about or talk about that.
I'm also pretty consumed with the world wide thirty day peace prayer. That's going to start Sept. 11th and I'm still trying to decide how I want to participate and whether I can organize others to do the same. More thoughts on that after work though. Now I don't have the time.