Sol (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} solfood) wrote,@ 2007-09-24 10:30:00 |
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the sleeper has awakened
Ah livejournal, it has been some time since last we spake... For some reason it was much easier to write when i was still in school. Nevertheless i am still quite alive. For anyone who might still read this and wonder, "gee, is sol dead?", FEAR NOT!
So just to bring you up to speed, i shall now dictate a brief synopsis of major events that hath transpired thus far this year.
January/February: Working long hours at Epic
March/April: Disgruntled with job, unable to focus. Several epiphanies about job and life, including a very poignant one while on a trip to Colorado
May: Vacation to meet my brother in Hong Kong and spend 10 days seeing Japan with him
June: Serious job burnout; start looking for work in Chicago
July: Quit my job in Wisconsin and accept new job in Chicago
August: Stay at my parent's place near St. Louis hanging out with my brothers and X
September: Move into new apartment rooming with Will, start new job. I live in the city!
okay okay, i know that's a pretty basic overview, but to go into detail would consume a large amount of space, and while 1's and 0's on some LJ server are cheap, I figure your time is not. gotta keep the interest of the reader. you are mesmerized...dun dun dun... i mean if you have read this far already i figure i can keep you around a bit longer, right? don't you quit me now!
so what does sol do once he moves to the city? why, play games and watch sci-fi of course! what a silly question that was that i just posed to myself. what sci-fi you might ask? the answer to your well-timed question is Stargate SG-1. Stargate has been a sort of mythological sci-fi in my mind for years now. I believe it has gained this status by the haphazard way in which I first saw the show: a random episode here, some Teal'c awesomeness there, a one-liner from Jack cracking me up. The disarray of plot this causes in the thinky-organ inside my skull creates a sort of mystery mythos, as if I were an archaeologist slowly uncovering the secrets of some ancient culture (ha, get it: stargate... archeology. i...er...that was sort of a lame joke. i apologize). In addition, I missed the final 3-4 seasons in their entirety due to limited access to the sci-fi channel during college.
In any case, my friend Rob wanted to watch the show, so months ago we agreed that if I moved to Chicago, we would watch all of the Stargate franchise from the beginning. I am rather experienced in such activities, having managed Farscape and other shows similarly. In fact, at the time of this agreement I was in the midst of re-watching the entire Star Trek: Voyager series in about two months. It's interesting to do so as you end up seeing long-term character growth and series development quite clearly. Rob's girlfriend Hannah jumped on the bandwagon as well, so now we are about three quarters through the first season of SG-1. Sadly they are noobs to the whole fandom/i-am-addicted-to-this-show concept, so it is slow going. I'm eager to get back to Atlantis when they start up again.
There have been plenty of video games being released to occupy time as well. Some noteworthy titles include Bioshock and the upcoming Halo 3 and Half-Life 2: Orange Box. There are many others which I will not go into at this time. I am also playing Final Fantasy VI co-op with Will, which is pretty awesome. I am trying not to become too ensnared to gaming however, as I do intend to make some changes in my life in moving to Chicago. Finding the right balance and having the will to change yourself is difficult at best.
God's been shooting some arrows at my heart lately, coming from different sources but aiming at the same location. I'm not sure what it all means yet, but I can say I am very grateful He is still with me. I've said some mean things to Him over the course of the last 3 years and I pushed Him pretty far away at times, but that's only shown me how persistent He can be, and how much He cares. I killed my own heart to avoid pain, and that's only shown me that love is not based on feelings and emotion, but something much deeper. I tried to barter with Him and it's only shown me that a gift is better than anything you can buy or trade for.
In some ways I feel like I've been navigating the narrow road with Christ for a long time, but in other ways it's as if I had just set out across the Shire at the beginning of a grand journey. The strange thing is that I think that both are true, in that deep paradoxical way the Lord likes to use (I chuckle whenever I think about this, as i tend to see a sort of cosmic humor emanating from His smile as He does these things).
That is all for now, for although there is plenty more to say about work and life, the coffee i drank this monday morning seems to be losing it's grip on me, and i can feel my thoughts once again dancing twixt the dual worlds of the waking and the dreaming...
Ah livejournal, it has been some time since last we spake... For some reason it was much easier to write when i was still in school. Nevertheless i am still quite alive. For anyone who might still read this and wonder, "gee, is sol dead?", FEAR NOT!
So just to bring you up to speed, i shall now dictate a brief synopsis of major events that hath transpired thus far this year.
January/February: Working long hours at Epic
March/April: Disgruntled with job, unable to focus. Several epiphanies about job and life, including a very poignant one while on a trip to Colorado
May: Vacation to meet my brother in Hong Kong and spend 10 days seeing Japan with him
June: Serious job burnout; start looking for work in Chicago
July: Quit my job in Wisconsin and accept new job in Chicago
August: Stay at my parent's place near St. Louis hanging out with my brothers and X
September: Move into new apartment rooming with Will, start new job. I live in the city!
okay okay, i know that's a pretty basic overview, but to go into detail would consume a large amount of space, and while 1's and 0's on some LJ server are cheap, I figure your time is not. gotta keep the interest of the reader. you are mesmerized...dun dun dun... i mean if you have read this far already i figure i can keep you around a bit longer, right? don't you quit me now!
so what does sol do once he moves to the city? why, play games and watch sci-fi of course! what a silly question that was that i just posed to myself. what sci-fi you might ask? the answer to your well-timed question is Stargate SG-1. Stargate has been a sort of mythological sci-fi in my mind for years now. I believe it has gained this status by the haphazard way in which I first saw the show: a random episode here, some Teal'c awesomeness there, a one-liner from Jack cracking me up. The disarray of plot this causes in the thinky-organ inside my skull creates a sort of mystery mythos, as if I were an archaeologist slowly uncovering the secrets of some ancient culture (ha, get it: stargate... archeology. i...er...that was sort of a lame joke. i apologize). In addition, I missed the final 3-4 seasons in their entirety due to limited access to the sci-fi channel during college.
In any case, my friend Rob wanted to watch the show, so months ago we agreed that if I moved to Chicago, we would watch all of the Stargate franchise from the beginning. I am rather experienced in such activities, having managed Farscape and other shows similarly. In fact, at the time of this agreement I was in the midst of re-watching the entire Star Trek: Voyager series in about two months. It's interesting to do so as you end up seeing long-term character growth and series development quite clearly. Rob's girlfriend Hannah jumped on the bandwagon as well, so now we are about three quarters through the first season of SG-1. Sadly they are noobs to the whole fandom/i-am-addicted-to-this-show concept, so it is slow going. I'm eager to get back to Atlantis when they start up again.
There have been plenty of video games being released to occupy time as well. Some noteworthy titles include Bioshock and the upcoming Halo 3 and Half-Life 2: Orange Box. There are many others which I will not go into at this time. I am also playing Final Fantasy VI co-op with Will, which is pretty awesome. I am trying not to become too ensnared to gaming however, as I do intend to make some changes in my life in moving to Chicago. Finding the right balance and having the will to change yourself is difficult at best.
God's been shooting some arrows at my heart lately, coming from different sources but aiming at the same location. I'm not sure what it all means yet, but I can say I am very grateful He is still with me. I've said some mean things to Him over the course of the last 3 years and I pushed Him pretty far away at times, but that's only shown me how persistent He can be, and how much He cares. I killed my own heart to avoid pain, and that's only shown me that love is not based on feelings and emotion, but something much deeper. I tried to barter with Him and it's only shown me that a gift is better than anything you can buy or trade for.
In some ways I feel like I've been navigating the narrow road with Christ for a long time, but in other ways it's as if I had just set out across the Shire at the beginning of a grand journey. The strange thing is that I think that both are true, in that deep paradoxical way the Lord likes to use (I chuckle whenever I think about this, as i tend to see a sort of cosmic humor emanating from His smile as He does these things).
That is all for now, for although there is plenty more to say about work and life, the coffee i drank this monday morning seems to be losing it's grip on me, and i can feel my thoughts once again dancing twixt the dual worlds of the waking and the dreaming...
