No, not ET. Eckhart Tolle. I'm having problems living in "the now" here. Especially when my "now" includes sitting a a desk with no real requirements of me until 2pm. That's my Thursdays. I have to show up at 10am, but don't do anything until 2pm when my classes start, then I'm here til 6pm. Fine and dandy that it's only 4 hours of real work, but I'm restless and could be doing so much more with my time (violin, fitness stuff, sleeping, site seeing etc). I love that I can just chat with folks for those hours, but then I get distracted with looking at the price of apartments in Los Angeles. And I find things like a duplex in Topanga Canyon that's $1500/month (2bd/2ba...so I was thinking with a roommate) and while I said I'd never live away from folks again, it would be kind of amazing since it's only 7ish miles from Santa Monica. I could bike that, even when the hills. And then I could go home to a nice, quiet place with my kitties safe from cars, and listen to the toads and silence of being walking distance from a state park. Or the studio (with study/den) in Los Feliz that's only $900/mo and has awesome tiles in the bathroom and is super close to things I like as far as city stuff and Griffith Park. Ah, fantasyland.
It's difficult to not just think "___ more months, just ____ more months." Though, with Chuseok coming up, I'm thinking "China in a few days!" So, that helps.
It is just another office job, so my brain's kind of restless. :P
I'll stop the blabbing and start looking at what to do in China.
~Sarah
How about a nice 2bd/1ba on 22nd and Tucson for 650/month with 2 gay roommates? :D
ReplyDeleteI might do that for a bit, it sounds like a good deal. ^_^
ReplyDeleteIf I can land a good-paying temp job in Tucson, I'm down go be there for a few months. Everything's so up in the air right now.
Sounds like your Thursdays will be a good time for you to ponder your life and what directions you might want to go. My last years in my home town of Ann Arbor (age 21-23) I had a job as a cook in a restaurant including a lot of time for my mind to be bored and think about everything. In retrospect, it was important developmentally for me, away at least from other people telling me what I had to do and think.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing my best to use the time well and not just slip into my usual net-surfing nothingness.
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