I love driving down Perryville Road in the late afternoon. Heading south from Riverside Blvd, there's wide open spaces and some decent views, but what I especially love is just south of Spring Brook Rd. There is a house with a backyard bordering the jogging path along Perryville. In this backyard there stands a flagpole and today it was waving a navy blue flag with a white L. I've seen it other days when the white flag with the navy W is flying. Now that is a household after my own heart. The flags of course, are the same as flown high atop Wrigley Field after each Cubs home and away game. This clever family does the same and they are at such a great location...spreading their love of the Cubbies to all the passers by. I should drop by one day and tell them thank you.
I had another good workout today, this one a little more intense on my arms and back versus the legs. I know my shoulder is still weak, but it is feeling pretty good, and I can't really complain too much. But man, I can't wait until I can throw again. Even if it's only 20 feet. Who wants to be my first partner in a game of catch? Feel free to email me if you're up for it. Maybe, if there's a big enough response, we'll have a lottery. Man, I'd feel special.
It looks like it might storm outside and I hope it does. There is nothing I can think of that I'd rather do, than sit in front of an open window or on a tin-roofed porch and listen to the rain and thunder. Maybe it's my southern roots and my mom's influence, but everytime I get a chance to just sit there and enjoy it, I feel like it's a total blessing and gift.
I'm starting to write again. Slowly but surely...it isn't flowing like it once did, but I notice more stanza's and ideas coming to me. Im hopeful it continues. I really need to produce some good stuff.
And yes, I need more Rockford area friends. I really, really, really don't want to be here after August, but if I stay because of dad, I need some people to do stuff with. Sarah lives in Indy. Cory's getting married out in Ohio. The softball guys...I dunno...I just don't 'fit' with them that well. Everyone else was smarter than I and headed out of town asap. Maybe I should just try and find a job in Carbondale for a year and save money while Im there. Joe, Alec, Dale, Paul, Lil Jew, and the rest of them are there. But I just can't see myself finding a decent enough job to make any money so that I could save for my Seattle/Portland fund.
So I've rambled a lot tonight, but I felt like I had stuff to say for once. Im really nervous about the next few months. I need to find a decent job so i can get a newer/better car and put a little money away. It's just frustrating. Eh, I'll figure it out I guess...I usually do.
In Other News...
a) Freaking Joe Borowski.
b) Ive decided my next short term goal is to quit making ridiculously bad first impressions. Seriously. I make a bad FIRST impression and then after that am branded. People always say to me "you arent at all how I thought you were at first." Fair warning, if I ever meet any of you random readers somewhere down the road and Im not exactly who you thought Id be, give me a second chance to make that impression. My first one usually sucks.
c) I really need new contacts.
d) What's the best way to initiate conversation with a female you find attractive but whom you've never met? I suck at said situations as Im sure most of my male friends (minus Paul) do. Any tips? LJ, please, no "just go up and say hi". That certainly doesn't work.
Current Musical Musings: Toby Keith's old stuff. Yeah, go ahead...mock me, you heartless bastards.
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