Thrilling, thrilling background on my life

OK everyone.

This will be a general background post about my life to catch everyone up to speed on what I've been doing. Then, in the future, the blog will run more concurrently with whatever issues I'm facing in my life at the time. But it won't all be e/n posts about my favorite gyro place closing, or whatever. I'll do some reviews of books I've read, movies I've watched, music I've listened to, or dragons I've slain. For those of you who read my last blog, I am also going to make a better effort to keep up on this blog. I mean that.

So...my life as of today.

I work as a law clerk. It's not exciting, but I do like the regularity. I'm doin' OK, too, I think. I don't lose things and I'm actually learning a bit about the field (delinquent tax law). It's a 9 to 5. Yes, I have a 9 to 5.

Music is at a dead end. I am fairly neurotic about practicing my physical execution skills for at least an hour. Then I realize I've been neglecting some style of playing or another, so I practice for another forty-five minutes. Then I put the guitar down. I don't write very much and I'm not playing with a band. These two factors are feeding on each other to make me angry and desparate. I don't even really know what style I want to play. Belle & Sebastian? Sounds great. Shellac? I'm open to it. Of Montreal? Of course! Hum? I can dig it. So that's really pretty terrible except that I'm keeping up / developing my skills for when something happens / I make something happen.

Housing just took a turn for the shitty about thirty minutes ago. I live with two roommates, and now BOTH are moving out, rather than just one. I already knew Chris was going to Los Angeles for a job. He's leaving Saturday but has pledged to pay rent through January. Now it turns out that Mike is just moving so he can be "closer to the blue line", i.e., for the hell of it. Which leaves me the sole occupant of a three-person apartment that's not close to the el in a mediocre neighborhood. Safe and cheap, but not desirable in any way, shape, or form. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to move. I've got one eye on a neighborhood I probably cannot afford and don't know that much about, and the other eye is roving for a nice place. Maybe Cabrini Green. On the other hand, I could pursue roommates...we do know a 33 year old who still lives with his parents, so perhaps he'd like this place.

Certain other elements of my life, however, almost certainly hold the seeds of either happiness or disaster. An update is forthcoming when I convince myself that my life is not a Mobius strip. Or just pathetic.

Lest you think everything in my life is awful...well a lot of it is right now and the other half is mediocre. BUT, I will be travelling to Dayton for New Year's. It's going to be fun. I'm just waiting to see what kind of time off I will get around New Year's...then I will buy my bus ticket and be off for Ms. Lora's New Year's party! Oh, and I will totally freeload and crash at someone's place.

Please leave comments / insults / the name of your blog.

Joe