October is finished! Woo! Ever since August time has started moving up again. The new job is to blame for that, I'm sure. Its been a blast working at the preschool. The kids all like the beard and are always sad when I tell them that its going to be gone after Christmas time. The beard is now just an annoyance and I can't wait till its gone. I will never be envious of the long beard again. I respect those that do it, and enjoy the fact that they can, but the long beard was not meant for this man. I'm still losing weight, too, it seems. Amber and I haven't taken as many progression pictures as I had hoped, but the recent comparison to myself at the beginning of the year to myself now is pretty funny. It reminded me of Tom Hanks in Cast Away. Ha!
2012 is not disappointing either. We've got all the goods I've been hearing so much about since I was twelve; crazy earthquakes and weather systems, increased insanity and tension globally on social and economic levels, and so on and so forth. It could just be coincidence with the year 2012 being right around all the time of these big changes. A lot of these problems are as old as the Bible and we are just dealing with them in a modern context. Although, as far as all the crap I've been reading about 2012, I could use a little bit more alien interaction/intervention, but hey I'm happy to get as much as I have. Sheesh, not to mention we have one of the biggest and most controversial elections in our nation's history. Perhaps even more fateful than the 2001 election of George W. Bush! And to top it all off the date of my graduation falls right smack dab on the day that gets the most attention for the date of Change in the world; December 21, 2012. It's like my birthday and Christmas all at once!
I joke around, but the truth is that things are pretty nuts right now. Politics, economics and even elements of religion are getting to a point where they can not sustain themselves at the rate they are going and must change in order to continue to be functional and relevant. It really does seem that we are poised on the tip of some kind of change. Its a change that's bigger than whoever gets elected as our President because no matter who the man is he is going to have to be a part of that change. Its going to be so interesting to watch 2013.
Especially with a glass of wine in hand.
