OftenBen and I have similar things to talk about, so...

The Future

I'm almost outta this rotational program and into an engineering role, waiting on the official title transition. Either way, already working in the position and really enjoying this department. Radio is still ongoing, starting to get more people involved in one of them and becoming more disenfranchised with the other one. The later of which is making me question the effectiveness of a decentralized organizational structure. By which I mean, I don't think it works.

Love Life

Not even attempting to date anybody out of contempt for...the world, I guess, and having forsworn all forms of online dating once and for all. It's a sham. At the same time, I don't have much interest joining groups from Meetup or the like, the subtext behind it just makes me uncomfortable and desperate so, I'm not going down that road. This also applies to making friends (see below).

Summer Feelings

Three of my close friends in town moved away. Two up north, and one to California. Effectively halving the number of people I regularly see in the area. I've learned that there are people I can always see up in Seattle, but when that's thirty miles away it's hard to consider most of those people friends when you see them once every other month.

MISC

I saw Yo La Tengo on Sunday night and experienced tears of happiness when they took the stage. Y'all can call that kind of a reaction shallow or lacking depth in character or whatever, but music is a central tenet of my life and allows me to communicate with myself and with others. Seeing a band that, not necessarily saved your life, but helped you get through some hard times is a transcendent experience. Somehow they exceeded my expectations.

Though I will say, can't remember the last time I had tears for that kind of a reason. It felt nice.