Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Life continues to go on. I've been here a week now and it's finally settling in that this is a permanent thing. When you first arrive, you think of your time as if you're on a trip... you're going home, you know you are and you bank on that. When you send your co-workers home and you're still there, it begins to dawn emotionally that this is different. You learn to cope, and I have been. No breakdowns the past couple days... it feels like an advance.
The thing that I'm probably struggling with the most at the moment is how to even go about putting roots down
here. Ang and I had a church that we really loved in St. Paul, but I don't have any idea about churches in Colorado. I was looking at the website for the church that Five Iron started called Scum of the Earth. I think I
might try to check it out this weekend.
Last week I spent a lot of time pondering how social circles fit into my life, and how I felt about this social circle I had nurtured in St. Paul shifting. It's not that I won't see these people anymore, but they shift positions to almost being net-friends instead of meat-space friends. It's odd that I'm having a bit of trouble with this shift. I mean, I've had this close knit circle of friends from a USENET group called rec.music.christian for going on 10 years, and even though we only see each other once a year if that, I'm more comfortable with spacial distance in these relationships than I am when I talk to my friends back home.... (can Ieven call it that anymore)
I need to dig through my library here at work to get some reading material. I haven't read anything of substance lately. With all of this extra time, I probably should alleviate that.
if you want, give me some suggestions. e-mail me! admin@pegtop.com
The thing that I'm probably struggling with the most at the moment is how to even go about putting roots down
here. Ang and I had a church that we really loved in St. Paul, but I don't have any idea about churches in Colorado. I was looking at the website for the church that Five Iron started called Scum of the Earth. I think I
might try to check it out this weekend.
Last week I spent a lot of time pondering how social circles fit into my life, and how I felt about this social circle I had nurtured in St. Paul shifting. It's not that I won't see these people anymore, but they shift positions to almost being net-friends instead of meat-space friends. It's odd that I'm having a bit of trouble with this shift. I mean, I've had this close knit circle of friends from a USENET group called rec.music.christian for going on 10 years, and even though we only see each other once a year if that, I'm more comfortable with spacial distance in these relationships than I am when I talk to my friends back home.... (can Ieven call it that anymore)
I need to dig through my library here at work to get some reading material. I haven't read anything of substance lately. With all of this extra time, I probably should alleviate that.
if you want, give me some suggestions. e-mail me! admin@pegtop.com
