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Name: Elwood Blues

Homepage: www.pixyland.org

Notes: I know and love a lot of the people on the Diner. A great place to be. Thanks, Pedro!

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9 Dec 2005  »

p.s. "can you have stockholm syndrome for your employer?" lukas i'm sorry that made me laugh because i feel awful for you. keep us posted.

9 Dec 2005  »

Hear, hear for another Laurent in this world, and a beautiful, healthy one with a beautiful name like that, no less! There are never enough Laurents in the world. I am so happy for the MercMouth family, and for a happy aunt as well. I wish I was with the family to celebrate.

Hee hee, BigJ, I would aboslutely love to see you but Evergreen is pretty far from Denver (at least when you drive as crappily as I do, with a pretty scary old car), but it's great to hear from you and I hope your trip out west is awesome! It's about 35 degrees today, which should be a nice change from the snow and planes running out into the the street in Chicago.

3 Dec 2005 (updated 3 Dec 2005)  »

There is nothing like fresh hummous, falafel, and tzaziki for a midnight snack. Or in this case, a 2:45 a.m. snack.

Wow, tux measurements--Baggins, your wedding must be drawing nigh! I'm excited for you and Jackie. That is so wonderful.

Big J--hold your head high. I know that work shake-ups can make life pretty tricky, at least during the transition time. Good luck.

Raskol--I miss you mightily. Much love to you.

28 Nov 2005  »

Hey all (thanks for the shout-out, Lukas. I love those CDs you sent me some time ago, esp. the "Go West" one. Thank you kindly).

Happy (late) Thanksgiving & other assorted past and upcoming holidays; it sounds as though everyone celebrated in style, and I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, I'm back in the beautiful 303 and loving it, though I actually write this from Chicago. I've been here for the past week, visting my sister, brother-in-law and friends. I feel at home here; nine years really did a number on me and made me love this place (and I'm sick of Denverites telling me I have a Chi-CAA-go accent. I don't think I do). I leave Chicago early tomorrow morning. In fact I need to be up in about five hours and should be in bed at this point, but I'm on a ridiculous schedule now and rarely get tired before 3 or 4 a.m. That's what not working will do to you.

Long story short, I'm back in Colorado (or will be early tomorrow afternoon), and for the most part am really enjoying being "home." I'm staying with my dad for the time being, until I have the finances and means to afford my own place, and we get along very well, stay out of each other's way and have a lot of fun when we're together, and being with a parent again hasn't meant any loss of autonomy or anything for me. For which I'm most grateful, and appreciative of my dad's understanding and laid-back demeanor and support. My mom moved back to Colorado Springs from Iowa with my little brother (he turned 9 last month--man, time flies) just a week or so ago, and that was one of main reasons for my moving back to CO. It's a great comfort to know I'll be close to my brother, as my mom isn't exactly fit to be raising him on her own. It will remove a lot of worry/apprehension from my and the rest of my family's minds.

Denver is beautiful. I missed it a lot, and always meant to move back after college, but then life happens and it just kept getting put off. I'm glad I had this perfect and timely opportunity to move back when I did. It was meant to be. I love Chicago (and I absolutely love visting, which I'll be doing a lot of with a CPS teacher for my twin sister and a Chicago cop B-I-L, and their upcoming wedding--they're here for a while, no doubt), but it is too crazy for me, not quite my speed as a native of the more spacious west. I feel much more at home in Colorado than I ever did here. It was like letting out a big breath I didn't even realize I had been holding. I was fortunate enough to go hiking and exploring several times before the weather changed, and I saw the Aspens and mountains in their full October glory. Outside Boulder and in Golden Gate Canyon (outside Golden). Not that the weather is bad even now. Colorado amazes me with its ability to be sunny and relatively warm about 325 out of 365 days each year. I always feel happy when the sun is shining, and it's nice to be able to run outdoors whenever my heart has the desire. I left my treadmill in Chicago, but I don't have much cause to miss it. No diss to Chicago--again, I love this place--but the winters (and summers--some of you know how much I hate heat) here effin' suck. Taking the CTA or walking everywhere makes you at one with the drastic, windy, snowy (or hellaciously hot, in the summer) climate.

That's another thing. I'm driving now. That's something I never thought would come to pass, but it's easier than I thought and it IS liberating to be able to get from place to place without depending on a bus or train, or other people. I don't know when or if I ever would have gotten my license had I stayed in Chicago, but in a city like Denver (I live in Lakewood, actually, but it's more or less Denver, like Evanston is to Chicago) a car is a necessity. My driving is scary, but everyone says it gets easier in time. I hope they're right. Driving is something of which I've always had a very strong and irrational fear. Nothing but almost complete immobility could have induced me to take this step, but I can honestly say I'm glad I took it.

I'm still planning on Nursing school, though I have so many damn pre-reqs to take that it'll be a good year before I can start that. I'm applying to several accelerated BSN programs, so the plan is to be done with that a year after starting (so with pre-reqs, about two years total from this upcoming January). I'm thrilled about that. I wish I had gotten my BSN as an undergrad, which was why I came to North Park almost ten years ago. I would say I don't know how I ended up an English major instead, but I do know...I love English, literature and writing. But it's more an avocation, something I will always love and do whether I get paid for it or not, whereas Nursing is my calling. Anyone willing to let me practice phlebotomy on them? (just kidding. Unless you really are comfortable with that. That would be great).

Um...what else. Everything is going well, better than I had expected, even, and I am very happy and thankful for the many blessings in my life right now. In addition to a good living situation and the enjoyment of being back home, I've made some really great friends and feel I have a good community of people in my new surroundings, which is important. Especially because I left so many dearly loved friends and some family (namely my twin sister--we've never been apart and it's been a major adjustment) in Chicago. All in all, it's been a wonderful few months and promises to get better. My main worry right now is not working and not being in school until January. I am not used to that--usually have done both at the same time since I was 15--and I feel really unproductive. My savings are starting to run out and in general I just feel out of sorts without a set schedule. Everyone is telling me to enjoy a few months of leisure before I set into a hectic pace at school (and studying things which will take a lot of work for me, like Micribio and Chem--ugh), but to me it just feels like idleness. I wish I could learn to relax, but I don't think it's in my nature.

So to sum it up, all is well and going even better than I could have wished or expected. It is nice, I'll admit, to have some time for meditation and prayer and reading and just having fun. It'll be over soon enough and then I'll be missing this time. I'm sorry I haven't kept up on the Diner, but it sounds as though everyone is well and moving along, and for that I am thankful. Happy holidays!

17 Nov 2005  »

happy birthday, laura...a few days late, but i love you.

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