Just for you, Dad

Ben and I made our yearly trek to Yuma last weekend to see the great expanse of desert, strip malls, and old people. Luckily, some of our favorite old people happened to be there, so we crashed on my parents' couch and adopted the RV lifestyle for a few days. Before I offend the majority of my readers (and by that, I mean my only reader at this point), I should clarify that I really mean older people. Working with college students makes it impossible to maintain the illusion that one is young. Ergo, I am old, and other people are older. With that said (and albeit that this is the year of turning 65 and 30), it sure beats the alternative. Right, Dad?

Anyway. Over the relaxing weekend of sleeping, eating, more sleeping, reading, the occasional domino game, shopping, and more sleeping, my dad communicated his displeasure with my lack of blogging of late (side note: can you still call it "of late" when you hit the year mark?). We made an agreement that I would just notify him when I posted something new, rather than forcing him to experience daily disappointment. Since then I've been thinking about my practically non-existent blog and why it is in such a state. I think it's safe to identify the Great Internship Drama of 2010 as the beginning of the end, followed by my new found title of Home Owner driving multiple nails in the coffin, and serving as the final straw (mostly because I'm out of metaphors) is this strange state I now find myself in - let's christen it Contentment.  You read that right, folks. My only excuse for not writing these days is not having things from which I feel the desire to distract/procrastinate/etc. When I look back at most of my old blogs, I realize they were written when I was either a) bored in class or b) trying to avoid work related to class. Huh. Well, now isn't that interesting? Now that I pretty much get to do what I want, I'm no longer avoiding life by blogging. (Not that all bloggers are guilty of this - I just know I frequently was.)

I'm not really sure where that leaves us, since life looks fairly stable for the next few months. I'm kind of digging this Contentment state, so I'll probably go ahead and try to stay here awhile. But I do know that something will come up (case in point - I should be working on post-doc cover letters right now), and there is the looming Licensure Exam that I'll have to study for eventually. It's probably a safe bet that I will pick up the blogging pace then. 

Until next time, here's a picture of the first step in our White Trash Front Porch Makeover and of a book you need to start reading today, or at the very least, by Tuesday.  Enjoy.