apropos of anything

So, yeah, no more wedding posts. I was too tired and there was too much going on. I’ll try and post a couple of pictures later, after I’ve had a chance to size them down.

There is something unsettling about coming back to your house and still feeling you’re living a life that isn’t yours. I think I am still adjusting to Aamir’s being here — and to my computer’s often not being here since he’s been taking it to school with him. We reconfigured my wireless router to work with his shiny new laptop (it’s so tiny and cute!) today, so I’m expecting that I’ll be getting full ownership of my machine back soon, and that will hopefully translate into more frequent updating of this site.

I think working at a news organization gets to me sometimes; it is hard to constantly be surrounded by updates about how some band of insane people started shooting elementary school children or how another band of insane people is desperately working to blow us all up. They’ve added speakers to the large televisions in the atrium, so now we can hear the news while we eat too, and the result is so appetizing I’ve taken to eating at my desk or not eating at all. In Chicago, I saw the news — CNN.com and the BBC are in my daily rotation, after all — but it did not dominate my day or haunt my every action the way it does here. Perhaps there’s a reason I’ve been gravitating towards the non-news work lately…

I don’t want to hide from the news; pretending everything is all sunshine and lollipops never got anybody anywhere. Lately, though, it certainly seems like there’s nothing good left in the world.

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