I consistently learn more about myself as I try to share selected tidbits of my life with those of you checking in from time to time. So here are a few insights I've come across in the last few months.
1. I'm much more family oriented that I thought previously. I sincerely enjoy an evening with the wife and child hanging around the house...
2. I still love my motorcycle, but for the first time in years, I've about decided that I don't need it anymore. (We still will not sell Jill's, so Mimi and Grammy don't get your hopes up...) Since I've yet to come up with a legal way to connect Zeke's car seat to the back of my bike, (I looked it up and bungee cords aren't exactly up to code...) and I pick him up routinely from daycare, riding to work isn't the draw that it used to be.
3. I'm reasonably political, but not very vocal about it. I suppose that someday I'll develop a more strident voice about my opinions, but now is not that day.
4. Family life has replaced the theatre as my creative outlet...I still love the theatre and enjoy dedicating time to projects (just ask Jill about the hours I'm putting in on the Fiddler set...), but at this point in my life I can pick and choose projects as opposed to doing every show that comes along as I used to. I really miss being on stage, but being Dad is the role of a lifetime.
5. I'm becoming increasingly tacky to people that I feel were "tacky to me first". I used to be much better at letting things roll off my back. I'm developing an extremely smart mouth. I'm working on curbing the habit...any help would be appreciated.
6. I miss golf. I used to play a lot. I rarely play now. I was hoping to play a lot this summer. 4 summer school courses have ended that dream...
7. My former laziness is biting me in the kiester currently. I took several semesters of graduate school "easy". By easy I mean taking only one class at a time because I was "busy." So now in order to finish my degree by December, I'm choosing to double up in each summer session. Two classes in the first session, two in the second, with my internship and comprehensive exams coming in the fall. It's going to be extremely tough, but I need to be done with this masters.
8. I don't have time to update the blog and the website consistently....it's one or the other....I'll keep working on it.
9. I'm not doing a good job of prioritizing...more on that later.
Chris
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Come on Chris, throw out the politics.
I'll get there eventually. I do tend to be a bit of a voyeur when it comes to strident conversations...
Wait! I want to know what his political views are before he throws them out! Chris, if you agree with me, they must be important. If not, of course, everything else is a much higher priority... ^_^
Family life as a creative outlet: that's absolutely wonderful! Right now my main creative outlets are homeschooling, studying New Testament Greek & Christian apologetics & painting, probably in that order, which is strange, because painting used to he first. God, family & marriage are important to me, not as categories, but as the things that give structure and meaning to everything.
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