A Chronicle of my Changing Times.

Sorry, it's been a bit since I've last posted. I figured I'd share some good news from today though. I got a call from my Peace Corps medical officer and after establishing I never had some nearly fatal lung disease (I really need to learn to watch what I fill out on forms) I am now cleared medically for service. So Yay! Things are starting to feel real. It's just around the poverbial corner now... I suddenly feel like I have so much to do. Oy.

So tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I'm gonna try to make some time to publish something about it then. Just a side note tonight though. I truly have so much to be thankful for, I need to remember that and appriciate the time I have with my family tomorrow.

The rest of the weekend looks to be more than a bit busy. I'm headed over to Raliegh on Friday to stay with Mattias and Amy. I haven't seen them in months and we're going to see some holiday performance with the ochestra with whom Mattias is involved. That'll be an afternoon performance after which I'll drive back to Charlotte. Sunday morning I'm part of an octet from the Chorale who'll be performing on a local talk radio station (AM 1110 - I guess the most popular in town??). Actually they're really interested in our director, Joe Judge and we're interested in the free publicity. Unfortunately, that's from 8-9, thus I have to be up somewhere around 6 am to get there. After the radio gig (I'm really looking forward to this - can't you tell?) we have to head back to catch the bus up to Asheville at 9:30. After a day at the Biltmore the Chorale is performing there for their candlelight tours. Six performances and a wasted voice later, we head back to Charlotte - probably getting in around 1:30 am. Toss work in Monday morning followed by Chorale practice that night and I'm really starting to get tired here. But I'm happiest somehow when I'm busiest, so I'm looking forward to it.

I'm also getting my car fixed next week. That truly feels good, since I'm going to be selling it to finish off my debt. I get more money if I get this little smashed bumper fixed. It's only a year on since I had my accident, but it seems like forever that I've had the off kilter headlight and slightly crumpled bumper.  So I'll drop the $250 next week in order to get the extra couple thousand when I sell it.

JenW (waitress at AA and study partner extrodinaire) took the GRE today and didn't do quite as well as she hoped on the Verbal protion. I guess this should be a shot across the bow for me to buckle down and study. I must force myself to study.  We'll see if I take heed.

I've been following the election in Ukraine very closely. Besides being enormously interesting (especially for potential long range implications for Europe and Russia) I have a gut feeling that I might end up in Ukraine for my Peace Corps assignment. Maybe that's just wishful thinking. I don't know. But I'm definately paying attention. Plus whilst the events surrounding the colapse of the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain framed my view of international politics (due to it occurring when I was in high school and just beginning to realize that the world was larger than Cleveland, Ohio) I never truly appriciated mass demonstrations and political upheaval. I'm developing an appriciation now.

Ok, I'm off to bed... More to write tomorrow.

Posted by: mjmarble at November 24, 2004 21:38 | link | comments

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