notes from the road

I don’t like this time of year. There, I said it. I said what I said. In the past, this time of year has always been when things turn to …

It’s hard to believe we’re coming to the end of summer, but here we are. Summer’s slowly fading into fall or autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere, and springtime’s on …

It’s halfway through a long 10-hour day, and I’m feeling like someone hit me w/ a 5 ton wrecking ball at Mach 10 speed. I need to force myself through …

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It’s coming down to the wire for this tour of duty of my summer job. I’d spent the better part of 3 weeks at a location in a neighboring town. …

It all feels different this year than it did a year ago, and definitely the year before that. Even though the place itself hasn’t changed, and neither has the scenery, …

It’s still dark outside, and I turn off the radio tuned to the classic country station on the FM dial, since the one on the AM dial doesn’t come in …

It’s been 2 years. 2 long, miserable, rotten, worthless, wasted years. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of applications, half of which I literally didn’t give even a fraction of a …

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