so I've got that going for me, which is nice.

"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." -E. Fromm

I am generally not a large supporter of quotations.  This is primarily born out of my preeminent distaste for anything that even intimates triteness.  I also believe that people rarely apply quotes from old white men in the spirit in which they were uttered.  Sometimes, history plays a very perverse game of "telephone" with what dead white men said before they died.  I tend to limit my quotations to PCU or Caddyshack (title-in-point), their meaning seems safer to me somehow.

As a mental exercise, however, let us review my current details:

I live in Los Angeles (Santa Monica if I'm feeling particularly sensitive about my LA-ness at the exact moment that someone asks).  I am in the process of leaving a job, within the first year, that I had signed up for with a ten year plan in mind.  The driving factor behind both of those decisions is (to put it democratically) somewhat less present than I was banking on.  The best laid plans... am I right?  Two years ago all of these things would have been neigh impossible.

In more sanguine news, I am tan, my hair gets more blonde from the sun daily, and I am running every day again.  It is amazing what you can accomplish when 90-hour work weeks are supplanted by apathy-induced 50 hour jaunts through the office.  My dry-cleaning is no longer held hostage for time-periods that test property laws.  I remain taller than average.

For those that know me well, concern will be limited.  I work hard enough that I tend to land on my feet (Irish luck and all).  I am newly twenty-six (ick) which gives me just a little more runway to figure things out... again.  More importantly, in hindsight, I am confident in the priorities I struck and the decisions I made around them.  Presented with the same scenario again, I know that my heart and my head would arrive at the same place.  In fact, I am very much hoping to be presented with the exact same situation again, for the very fact that I did not choose incorrectly.

In silver-lining news; not having my hands on the switches as VIX spikes back to astronomical levels (again) and Mr. Market is surely headed back to re-test some technical level that will inspire very ugly headlines (again), may just add a few years to my life on the back-end.

The most important question is what to invest all this new-found uncertainty in?  Work, running, reading, and Boondock were the answers before.  My mental suggestion box is open.  I am paying attention.

Doogie Howser, M.D.

I mean...

-I Heart Palindromes