Crashing head-on into the real world

As I kick back and enjoy a nice cold beer after my first day of the real world, I think: what will become of this blog?

Surely it can’t just go away. After all, I’m not going away anytime soon. I may not be in college, but I am young. I am alive. I lead a charmed life in my English bunker. I bike in the park, dance in converted mansions, and wade through lengthy depositions like it was my job. Oh yeah, I guess that last one is my job.

Neither is my newfound non-poverty (non-povertedness?) going to keep me from blogging. I will be forever in search of free food. Let me tell you how excited I was this morning when learning the rules of the company expense account. Suddenly, working 10 hour days seems so much more attractive. No, money has not changed me. After all, the best spice is not pepper or paprika, it’s that inexplicable tingling sensation that comes from tasting something without a price tag. Or at least without a price tag to you.

No, that’s not MSG either. Trust me.

After a month of running around driving home, finding an apartment, packing, unpacking, and more than anything dumping craploads of money into my sad state of a car, I am ready to begin my online life again. There’s a whole world out there that needs to be explored, and it’s high time I start exploring it. And then telling you about what I explored. And then letting you read, comment, and generally live vicariously through what I said. Isn’t that why we read each other’s blogs in the first place?

So first thing’s first. I need a new tagline. Anyone have any ideas?

4 Responses to “Crashing head-on into the real world”

  1. How about something like “In search of free time” ?

    I look forward to continue reading your blog, and enjoing a cold beer with you and A sometime in the next couple of weeks.

    I’m leaving for DC tomorrow morning… Start my real job on Monday.

  2. What do you mean in search of free time? I just got home from work and it’s 11pm. Why would I want free time?

  3. As always, well put. A few thoughts: Let money change you a little bit- you’d be silly not to. How about just changing the sub heading “In Search of Free Food: and other non-trivial ways to pass away my early 20’s.” Which comes to the next point: why we read each other’s blogs. Because everytime you see a post it’s like “hey, I really do like my friends a lot.”
    So keep on trucking/rocking in the free world/deposing those despositions and free time really is overrated.

  4. hmmm. how about: in search of free food because i’m spending all my new cash so fast that i’m still broke on grocery day.

    oh wait, that’s me.

    ummmm, how about: full checking account and no time to spend it.

    or, i *heart* job, jam cellar, and juxstapositions of my early 20’s

    hell, i don’t know. you’re fairly witty.

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