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I've just come back from a much too short visit to see Joy. I've forgotten just how beautiful France actually is, especially the southern region. I could wander around for hours (and have) staring wide-eyed at the just right shade of yellow buildings that make the sunsets pop. It's nuts, honestly. I'm counting the days until I can get back. Some pics:

Vegetarian. I'm now a vegetarian. If you had told me 5 years ago that I would never eat meat again I'd have never believed you, and yet here I am. It's cool in a way because I've always had a penchant for cooking, and with there being only two restaurants near me that have anything vegetarian; "Crazy" sushi, which may as well be "Mediocre" Sushi and East Side Mario's. I could write volumes explaining why one should never eat there. I can use this as a reason to go out and gather my ingredients and rediscover something I enjoy. I generally prefer to cook for other people but as I haven't really "cooked" in awhile it will be nice to have a buffer period before I am back in the presence of my friends.

I'm resolute to leave my job. I hate my job. I used to tell myself that I could work these sort of hours for the rest of my life. I'm a dope. I love being able to give people things that they need or want. It's something that I have always drawn on as a source of happiness. The problem is it doesn't leave any time for me, and while that may sound selfish, it's also absolutely necessary. I don't know what it was about this trip overseas that opened my eyes to that but I'm thankful. I don't know what I'm going to do about work in the future. I'm in school still here and I would like to finish that degree. I think, rather I know, that I will have a lot more opportunities available to me once my Master's is complete. There is nothing to say I have to complete it in Michigan though. I want to get back to working on things that can make a difference in people's lives, no more of this making cars that people shouldn't even be driving in the first place. So, I will use this job I have or what I should have from the get go; a means by which to save a bunch of money and leave for something better.

Learn a foreign language. It’s something that I have wanted to do for the longest time and for whatever reason I have never made the time to do it. I’m open to suggestions at the moment. I’ve had a few conversations with people about languages I could learn that would help me in my career and I like my options so far. French, German, Spanish. It’s going to be hard. The last time I took a foreign language was in High School, so ten years ago, and it wasn’t exactly something that my brain just ran with. It could have been that I was young and stupid and didn’t realize the doors that open when you can speak something other than English. It’s a mistake I look forward to remedying.

Start taking photographs again. I don’t know why it is that I wax and wane when it comes to my interest in taking pictures. Actually, now that I think about it, my interest has stayed fairly constant, it’s my ability to actively pursue it that has changed. Looking back now at the times when I found myself to have a substantial amount of free time I always went back to photography. It nearly killed me once, did I tell you that? I spent the night in a hospital laughing at the beeps and whirs of the myriad tests that were being run to determine the state of my brain. “Addled” I told them, which only made them look harder. It sucked actually, I was bruised from my eyes to my toes, but learned a valuable lesson; mind your step. I got a cool new camera out of it too, so, not all bad.

I’m back in school, sort of. I don’t feel like I’m in school. I’m commuting to Dearborn once a week for night class. It is what it is and hopefully I will have an answer for it before I fall asleep at the wheel. On the bright side, there are two girls that work at the currency exchange booth that are smoking hot. If I were them I would have asked me out by now. What are you waiting for?!?

That’s about all for now. I’ll be more diligent in updating this now that I know that you’re checkin it.

Music I’m listening to right now: “Bones” – Radiohead

Quote of the week---

"Matt said cool he would look for your call, but he is in trapeze clas until 9 so give him a couple of minutes to get out of there"