A post in November

But wait! There is more!
Hope you all have been well and happy and fulfilled these past weeks. Hopefully you are still around to even read this. There have been a whole lot of little things keeping me too busy to write. The break has been okay, I haven't really missed this at all. I guess when I am happy and making progress I don't have much time to moan. I mean happy in the progressive sense. I still am in a job I am embarrassingly overqualified for but I am making more money and have transferred to an office where the people are a lot more normal. Normal in the sense that they are not idiots. Still hate the job, though. I have been working a lot more and working out a lot and am getting into some mean shape. In addition, I did some travelling trying to cope with the earthquake last month.. or more like trying to help people cope with the earthquake. That has taken quite a toll and while I would love to share pictures of tenths of families, I was too ashamed to take them. The disaster and the ensuing chain-reaction of disasters are not for display, not for me to document and speak about as if I know what it means to lose everything. All I know is the feeling of helplessness and emptiness that resulted from the knowledge that I would get onto an airplane and return to a world that belongs to an entirely different reality. No images or arrangement of letters could possibly relay this sensation.

Outside of that, there is not much to report. Not that that is worth reporting, but here it is. Trying to organize the rest of my life.. or the next ten years anyway, has kept my mind occupied. Ape is well and his usual unemployed self but that is looking to change early next year. Hopefully there will be an apple-ape engagement and wedding next year but do not want to tempt fate. Just want to get out of this rut and move onto the next phase.

I also thought you should know that this winter I will be sporting a cream white cashmere hat with a red apple on the side.