Since my now five-year old G4 Tower is as slow as molasses when redrawing art work, I've got time for late night musings about where I find myself these days. Plying my design trade late, late at night and early in the morning. Taking care of the kids in the morning until they leave for school, picking up Liam in time for lunch, afternoon play and nap. Homework with Izzy on her return around 2:45 pm. And five nights out of seven closing at our neighborhood Barnes & Noble. An actually fun job that doesn't pay nearly as well as it should but the benefits are good and the people I work with quite nice. And if you know me, I love to read, so having book benefits rocks.
Is this a quality life? It certainly isn't the life I imagined I'd be living at this point in my illustrious career. The time with the kids is certainly priceless but the stress of making the budget is quite trying at times.
(It's now actually eight days later and a new topic, if you nobody minds)
Living in the city one becomes used to seeing somewhat strange sites, so much that one usually doesn't remark on them. But tonight I was struck by a woman standing in front of the closed dry cleaner, one hand grasping a pen and the other holding the local paper's crossword puzzle. This was at 11 pm. No one around her and no one in the store. And the puzzle itself was still blank. (I think that was the first thing I noticed, the empty puzzle). She seemed to be staring at something bridal but I'm not for sure, since I didn't stop to ask any questions. It simply struck me as being rather odd.
As I am the last person on earth to have read The DaVinci Code (finished it in three nights), I can say that I totally enjoyed it and it's gotten my curiosity up about the whole secret societies thing. Certainly one has to start with the Freemasons, since they seem to have arisen from the Templar Knights. So the question becomes, what do I read next?
Posted by robdesign at May 19, 2006 12:00 AM | TrackBackTry "The Sign and the Seal" if you haven't already. I'd loan it to you (an even better discount than you're currently getting ) but it's on my sister's bookshelf near Philly. It's the book that was part of the lawsuit against DaVinci Code's author. I think the same author wrote "Holy Blood, Holy Grail." Both were interesting. Happy reading.
Posted by: David Colbert at May 20, 2006 11:52 PMRob actually not the last, I haven't read it yet and have no plans to at this point.
Posted by: deb at May 23, 2006 11:10 PM