Of wintry weekends, work and well-wishers*

For the past 10 years I’ve gotten quite a bit of mileage out of dropping out of my PR diploma at Pta Tech (or whatever it is called now) but now that I have discovered that I rock sales and marketing I realise 2 things:

1. The guidance counsellor was right about my ideal career** and;
2. I really, really wish I didn’t drop out.

I scoffed at seating plans (which is still a little bit -4 on the required IQ scale) but now I could really do with that knowledge. Granted age making one wiser and the fact that my reading and uptake speed is now infinitely more than it was way back then I can assimilate the course’s knowledge in a few months but even so it would have been nice to have hardwon information to fall back on. Oh for the love of templates.

I don’t know if other writers do the same but for me writing the first time around is the hard bit. Once it is done all you have to do is copy/paste/edit – so creating anything from scratch (knowing that it is highly bloody unlikely anyone will read it >.<) is fun but hard work. Especially if it isn’t letters to a friend who is no longer really a friend ;)

Speaking of which: colleague GF and I spent 12 hours in each other’s company yesterday at the Lephalale-very-much-almost-install and it was fun. He may be a kid but he is a kid that I will certainly be friends with for some time to come. And then there is CC. Spending time with him is effortless and such a joy. He makes me laugh so hard that I sound like I’m wheezing***. We watched Waking Life and he got it. Awesome guy. Can’t wait to spend more time with him. Just sucks that he is leaving for Cape Town.

I’ve also been speaking to TH again. It is good to have someone who has known me before I turned to the Creator (and who had quite a hand in it mind you) and is of like mind, on hand. Especially someone who understands what it is to be so easily led astray by the world. I’ve been so tangled up in work that I’ve severely neglected my spiritual life and it has definitely been showing. “Wat die hart van vol is…”. Josh’s sermon this evening on evangelisation was exactly what I needed to hear. How can I stand idly by when those I love do not know Him and purposely choose not to live in the light and I am focussing on bloody marketing proposals? Not ok.

I’ve pretty much given up on you. It is sad but probably inevitable. I guess you cannot tell someone you love them and assume that you can go back to being friends.

As for work…I think I am in over my head but then again I’d rather be drowning than coasting.

1. Word of the day: sunkissed. I actually felt the word on the way to Lephalale. It was a perfect few minutes. We were going really rather fast and GF’s golf is so stable it feels like it is glued to the road, the sunroof was open and the weather perfect and balmy. I don’t remember the cd playing but they sound quite a lot like Fetish. I closed my eyes and felt my hair floating around me and sunlight kissing my upturned face. It was amazing. Those few minutes made this entire weekend of work worth it.

2. Insight of the day: I need to buy all of Richard Linklater’s dvd’s.

3. State of the pool: Limply splishing in the hope of being warmed by the rocks.

4. Random thought: I wonder how my overuse of words that I love saying has changed those who know me.

5. Awesomest lines:

6. Scripture: still Ephesians and Keith Green. Oh and I need to read Spurgeoun.

* I eventually found a w word for friend :) The Sage rocks.
** I honestly did NOT see that coming – for so long I had been convinced that academia or some such thing (linguistics being the latest incarnation thereof) was my intended life. I therefore apologise to that poor lady for the past 10 years of insults and doubts of her ability.
***Which in all honesty, I am since I have bloody bronchitis. I have to admit that I like the raspiness I have had for the past 2 weeks. I wheeze when I laugh but at least I don’t sound like a 6 year old on crack.

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