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one last journey
i am leaving on a plane... again!
this has been an insane six months for me, but i've been preparing for this since 2002. i knew that whatever job takes me after graduation will have to suffer me through 2004 because this year is a pivotal year for me.
and i'm so glad it's almost over!!! well, not really, ahahaha. it's just that i spent almost $80 on a hotel room just now, and i'm getting tired of giving my credit card a workout. i still have savings, but mama! hello. as if i have that much to spend to begin with!
but i'm going to miss this mobility. i can't ask for a better 2004. i'm going to enjoy my december. i need to just sit down, organize, document, and look back on the damage i inflicted that is 2004.
i mark my first 10 years in the u.s. in 2004.
my family and i mark 10 years since our dad passed away in 2004.
i mark the first decade since i graduate from high school in 2004.
it's been 10 years since i got involved with a high-end, filipino-majority, faith-based organization, fully responsible for turning me into the fearless monster that i am. AHAHAHA!
i want to make my calendar dates matter, so at least i know what i did during that first lost decade. i'm so grateful that, to me at least, i was based in one city for that entire decade. for some, that sounds like prison, but in these times where you gotta go to where the jobs are, i think it's remarkable that i got to stay in one city with my family and form the kind of friends i want around here. there wasn't a moment's time lost in that decade, coz i knew i lived every moment of it thinking it were my last. i thought that way because i always knew i'd return to quezon city somehow, so while i'm out here, i gotta live it up.
i still have debt up the wazoo, ahaha, but this time i have a way of paying back every cent, and then some.
i still have graduate school to consider. i gotta get out of chicago for that - it'd be folly to limit myself to one u.s. city if i have the chance to experience another.
i still have europe to venture.
this last trip promises to be insane, busy waaaay up the ante. it's with high school friends. it's with their kids and their spouses and their significant others. we're all stuck silly in this one resort-type place, with a day trip to colorado, so i think imma pack my sleeping bag just in case. it's going to be... in las vegas.
HOLLA!!! ahahahahaha... i am so excited. we don't leave till next friday. ¶ 11/04/2004 07:26:00 PM
this has been an insane six months for me, but i've been preparing for this since 2002. i knew that whatever job takes me after graduation will have to suffer me through 2004 because this year is a pivotal year for me.
and i'm so glad it's almost over!!! well, not really, ahahaha. it's just that i spent almost $80 on a hotel room just now, and i'm getting tired of giving my credit card a workout. i still have savings, but mama! hello. as if i have that much to spend to begin with!
but i'm going to miss this mobility. i can't ask for a better 2004. i'm going to enjoy my december. i need to just sit down, organize, document, and look back on the damage i inflicted that is 2004.
i mark my first 10 years in the u.s. in 2004.
my family and i mark 10 years since our dad passed away in 2004.
i mark the first decade since i graduate from high school in 2004.
it's been 10 years since i got involved with a high-end, filipino-majority, faith-based organization, fully responsible for turning me into the fearless monster that i am. AHAHAHA!
i want to make my calendar dates matter, so at least i know what i did during that first lost decade. i'm so grateful that, to me at least, i was based in one city for that entire decade. for some, that sounds like prison, but in these times where you gotta go to where the jobs are, i think it's remarkable that i got to stay in one city with my family and form the kind of friends i want around here. there wasn't a moment's time lost in that decade, coz i knew i lived every moment of it thinking it were my last. i thought that way because i always knew i'd return to quezon city somehow, so while i'm out here, i gotta live it up.
i still have debt up the wazoo, ahaha, but this time i have a way of paying back every cent, and then some.
i still have graduate school to consider. i gotta get out of chicago for that - it'd be folly to limit myself to one u.s. city if i have the chance to experience another.
i still have europe to venture.
this last trip promises to be insane, busy waaaay up the ante. it's with high school friends. it's with their kids and their spouses and their significant others. we're all stuck silly in this one resort-type place, with a day trip to colorado, so i think imma pack my sleeping bag just in case. it's going to be... in las vegas.
HOLLA!!! ahahahahaha... i am so excited. we don't leave till next friday. ¶ 11/04/2004 07:26:00 PM
