What is this place?

Wow. If anyone is still out there, you have some stamina, I'll tell you that. I've said before that sometimes you're as busy as you want to be, and sometimes you're as busy as you gotta be. Since starting at Big Important U, I've been squarely in the second camp. And it's been good.

It's also been exhausting, since I'm still over at the Fruit Store, and between the two, I've been on the go for essentially 90% of the time since the last post.

It's good to be busy. It sucks to be busy at Step One. However, as ASM826 is showing me, it's not so important to try to race through these things. Yeah, I want to be done and back onto that 'career path' I used to walk (was it really four years ago?), but I don't have to sprint.

"If you have one eye on your destination, you only have one eye left with which to find the Path."

So I'm trying wicked hard to be a white-belt again. Trying to channel my inner nihonjin and do what sensei and senpai tell me without bellyaching. Learn, learn, practice and learn more.

So I'm pooped. I'm happy. I'm scared. I'm frustrated.

I'm alive, I guess.

Thanks.