Busy time at work. Seems like one catastrophe after another lately, not a lot of time to go about doing system upgrades, which is what I should be doing this summer. Oh well.

My wife had a rough spell last night, and she's pretty depressed over it, though less than I expected. One of her online friends, who she talked daily to, suddenly shut down last night, and decided that he wasn't going to talk to her any more. She's not sure why, and to tell you the truth, neither am I. But, she's kinda beating herself up over it, which she doesn't need to do. I know that in the past, she feels like she could never make and hold onto friends, and there have been some experiences in her life where she hasn't had those life long friends, even though she had the opportunity to. Of course, I don't know that this is necessarily a huge problem, as I don't really talk to any of my friends from high school either, or over 90% of the people I hung out with from college. I talk to exactly one person on a regular basis that I've known for over 10 years (not including family). I talked with my parents about this when I was 20 or so, and we had a conversion about friendships, and how transitory they were, and they mentioned that what was happening to me at the same time (not the same way that my wife is going through it), had happened to them. So, I think over time, transitory natures of friendships is the way of things, unless both sides continually renew to maintain it. In my case, I went to school almost 1400 miles away from where I did my undergrad. That pretty much put a nail in the coffin of a lot of my college, and any remaining high school friendships I had. However, I replaced them with friends and associates here and in Boston, where I was before here. Hopefully she accepts this and moves on.

The college here is looking for a part time IT guy to help them with an important task throughout the summer. I'm debating. It's 20 hours a week, and it is at my current salary, which would make a pretty big dent in our other mortgage. I'm considering the offer, though it would make my summer verrry difficult, but financially rewarding. :-) I'd also get to play with some big iron, and get some AFS experience that I won't get in this department. So it is worth thinking about.

Running up a storm. I put in 39 miles last week in six days, which is more than I should have, but it felt right. This week is a week easy (34 or so miles). Next week is another two week cycle of running hard.

posted by Jeremy at 10:06 AM