Under Process

So stands the status of the India Visa... does that now count as 4 or 5 Business Days?  How sweet it will be to receive that in hand prior to the scheduled Good Friday departure, or alternatively how crushing to have to cancel the flights...  oh well, nothing to do but wait.  And hope that the longed-for pilgrimmage to the Ganges happens.  That good things do come.  And if not, that there will at least be other randomness as a result that may be yet preferred and for the best.  Following only one path, who can know?

As you sit here contemplating one of the worst weeks in awhile, the sun is shining on a magical Friday afternoon.  The strangest of meetings with a potential agent of Congolese minerals who found you of all people randomly through the Internet, legit and over his head in dreams and cautious... the back-and-forth ridiculousness over litigation discovery, with stubborn parties on all sides... the digesting of the news of other regular work that seems to be drying up, and dealing with inevitable thoughts of escape rather than efforts at reestablishment you promised yourself.  Amidst the back-and-forth over endings and beginnings and endings.  

Funny thinking of a potential career path teaching English abroad for the first time in eons, and maybe wondering about that sooner rather than later following the end of this well paid year.  Worrying about the boat and condo and how to continue supporting the coarse travel lifestyle.

Ah.  Wonder how much will be remembered and how much will be confusing, looking back.  Typing in this suit that insists on being too short in the sleeves, a (happy) reminder perhaps of your poor negotiation skills.  And of the road.  Always the road.  As a means of disappearance/avoidance/etc.  Similar to your use of liquor as an intoxicating substance.  Even amidst the so-called searching and fearless moral inventory, it would be difficult to give either up as a tonic.  At least with what's upcoming there's is the opportunity for a trade...  Can only wait and see how that chronicle of partial rehabilitation holds...