What you get for a quarter

Day 97

Back on dry land for a week now I have been hesitant to say/write/think anything as I am still wet behind the ears. It's been a long hard battle with the jet-lag as it always is and I am thrilled to say that I woke up today at 9:30 AM and not 4:13 am like I did every other morning last week. I'm sure that's not really an accomplishment to most people especially those who have their act together and have jobs and aren't moonlighting on their hyper extended quarter life crises.
Yes, I'm still doing that and finding it rather slow going but definitely progressing. Did you know there are books out there about this? Books about why a spoiled, self-important, entitled person like me would suddenly find themselves feeling lost and unfulfilled at such a young and tender age when really they should be sucking it up and answering phones and taking messages and making lunch, plane, hotel, and massage reservations and sending out dry cleaning and... ok so I briefly thumbed through that one at the airport on the way home. I knew I would inevitably have to face up to the million dollar question when I got home: What are you going to DO now?

I have been pondering my life path for many moons now, I realize, and I should (by now) have come up with a decent answer or vague idea. At the moment I have been telling people that I want to become a massage therapist, and I am in no way saying this facetiously. However, this answer is not being met with rave reviews. So for now, I am thinking up another one.