I want a boyfriend

E-word,

Work has chilled out quite a bit, at least for this week and the next. I talked to one of the senior guys on the project about what I should do now, and he said 'Enjoy life!'. Sweet. I'm going to do that right now.

I love how you play with phrases. Reader humilis, I am reader reader futilis.

I'm glad you're posting back on our log here, and that things are going fairly well. You also got me really excited about that Joseph Heller book. I'm still in the midst of reading 'The Grapes of Wrath', but I'm planning 'Something Happens' to be my travel book. Besides (probably not) traveling to Pune this winter, we are definitely flying out to Seoul and Tokyo again this fall. I'm really looking forward to it, but I must say I have similar concerns about having enough money to do both this trip and the one to India. As I mentioned, El has started freelancing, so we might be able to bring home enough from those jobs to pay for our trips. However, during these economically uncertain times, perhaps we should put all of that money toward savings?

A surprising thing (at least to me) that has happened recently is I joined a gym. The reason this is surprising is because I had decided that I had spent enough time in gyms when I was younger, and recently thought I didn't have patience to actually spend time in a place where I literally feel like a hamster running around one those hamster wheels. I've lost patience with running, even, like all this stuff lately just bores me to tears, I'd much rather play tennis or go for a hike or something. Anyways, I joined a gym, and it's actually not so bad. I try very hard not to stay longer than 45 minutes at a stretch. Actually I don't have to try, it's more like I try to stay in the gym for 45 minutes. Yesterday I did some exercises that I hadn't done in years; bench press and squats. I have to say, it felt pretty darn good. I wasn't doing anywhere near what I could do in the past, but at the same time I don't want to be an absurdly muscled person anymore. I ran a mile (I think for treadmill running my max will be 2.5 miles, I just don't have the patience for this shit any more), and overall it felt pretty good.

Anyway, I'm going back to enjoying life.

Love,

Toe