This One's for Charlynn

This morning I woke up at 7:30 after snoozing my alarm for nearly an hour. I finally rolled out of bed with just enough time to pull on clothes and pack my lunch before my ride to work arrived. I was pretty tired and kept nodding off on the drive up to Marin. Once at work though, I pretty quickly got into the swing of things. I had seven interviews scheduled, but only ended up conducting five of them since two candidates needed to reschedule. They were actually all decent interviews, and I found myself really enjoying the conversations I got to have. After work, I got dropped off at home and was intending to go the gym and then catch up on some work projects I brought home with me but got derailed by a phone call from my brother and a TiVo'd episode of House. I re-heated some leftovers from yesterday, sat on the couch with my food, and enjoyed a fairly indulgent evening in front of the television, first on my own and later with my roommates. Now I'm writing this post. And that was pretty much my day.

So here's the deal: Charlynn told me the other day how much she dislikes blogs that are about inane day-to-day details rather than the blogger's thoughts. And I thought, wow, what a perfect way to knock out an easy post.

But here's the other thing: as much as this kind of post is not what I think this blogging exercise is about for me, I have to admit that today was a very pedestrian day and that I enjoyed it for that very reason. Nothing spectacular happened; I had no great epiphanies. In fact, I somewhat purposefully let myself veg out in front of the TV most of the evening and ate more than I should considering I didn't work out. Sometimes it's nice to check out for a night and not have to analyze and over-analyze and find some sort of deep meaning in everything. Sometimes I need to live in my life without thinking about it too much. Sometimes my brain (and heart and soul) needs a mini-vacation. And this act is blog-worthy, I think, although probably not as interesting to some of you. Sorry, Charly. :)