mission statement
Thursday, November 10, 2005
i have found that i have rather an unfortunate habit. no, i'm not talking about the smoking, or the drugs, or the drinking, or my blatant disregard for other human beings. the habit of which i speak is my habit to suddenly abandon blogs of mine. with these lines, i'm inaugurating my third blog. I start each in a burst of motivation and energy, because i truly like writing, despite the endless dead counters and commentless posts. Each ends when i feel like moving on. The ends mark significant shifts in my life, be it small and personal, or obvious enough to be labeled as shifts of paradigms.
This one begins at the beginning of the winter of my discontent. I graduated nearly 6 months ago, and since have been facing the real world of the unplanned gap year. Unplanned not because I didn't expect it (I didn't know what else to do) but because I didn't really think about what I would do with the next 15 months. That's why it hasn't really amounted to anything yet. The summer was fantastic, I spent the entire time surrounded by people, in a number of different countries, and it made me very optimistic about the future. Then I had to get a job. Apart from the occasional random job, I've been working for a construction company owned by my parents, and I've worked in Porto, Covilha and right here in Cascais, doing random buildy-type stuff. It's been an experience. I do have the rare privelidge to be able to say that I helped build my home (my new home, as yet unfinished), and that I managed to drill my thumb in the process.
Big Deal of the Month so far was when I got my multibanco card. Actually, its a Super Cartao Jovem, which means that, alongside the multibanco features, I can cash in on all kinds of discounts (though I'll probably only use it at the cinema). Within an hour of getting the card, I managed to take €100 off the account... which sort of alarmed me. I'm very good at spending, you see. I feel sorry for my future wife and kids. Despite my reckless spending (as in to spend without reck) I saw that it hadn't really hit the account yet, so I feel alright. Also, I'm due to pick up a check (with my name on it) which should feel nice to spend.
What can you expect from this new site? I don't rightly know. Some of the old stuff, I'm sure, as well as, I hope, an older and wiser me. I'm not sure how much of the rough and raunchy stuff I get up to will make it to these pages, since my parents have been showing increased interest in my affairs (and the fact that so much of my affairs are rough and raunchy). I'm sure a bunch will leak in, anyway. My last blog ended with the end of highschool, and this one, I hope, begins with the start of my life.
you're that much closer to knowing me.
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