Into (and out of) the Narrows (and back)

What a crazy little treat these past few weeks have been?  Despite the intensity and the long hours and the unconsciously suicide-esq Scotch tasting, what a window into the characters behind historical Canadian efforts...  nation-building and all.  As the quotes and moments build up.  The bizarreness of the strategies and dynamics and such.  How sweet the view out of Signal Hill on these crisp clear days.  Fun to be working toward concrete things.  Fascinating and incomprehensible, at times, but without question an experience.  A bit of a shame that it occurs amidst the scepticism, amidst the same well-worn comments, so predictable at times, about the certain way of doing things, of old habits and personality clashes, assumptions about the professionalism of others, and lack of enjoyment of the file.  The sense of tiredness and superiority rather than enthusiasm.  The obviously being phased even while stating the opposite.

Always the Douglas Adams - Don't Panic.  Always the Killers - Open up your eager eyes... It is superior to the PhD path, that's for certain.  But it is something else, the window into the career path of the lawyer as forever in the thrall of the client, forever the service provider, forever doing (quite literally) someone else's work.  The incessant, "relentless" chase, watching bemused at the powerlessness of the powerful over their own destiny.  I have never seen it lasting, and not sure I do now, but for the moment there is a comfort in having the next big project, and time to settle in.  Still need to change the old impossible routines.  Never a better time for resolutions, although isn't it just like that to be the case.  Only to go back through the years on the blogs and see the same thoughts and dreams and sighs and take solace in them. 

Can you make a change?  Or mock the inevitable?  There are so many sides to this MFP story.  So happy that fortune again provides the ability to slide in at the right time, at a point where the tedium is not so overwhelming and yet the stage is set for the start of a new and intriguing act.  Ready to start, eh?  For a few months.  Until I find some conspirators for the road again.  Seek them out, my boy.  Seek them out...  That - that - is the change you need.  Along with glorious pilgrimages back to places where you can stare away the blue-sky afternoons at sights like Signal Hill, of course.