Still Life Talking

The past couple weeks have been pretty subdued. To be honest, I've really been in a bit of a depressed funk to have come down from what an incredible high I was on for 3 months and back to the reality of work and a 'normal' life. I'm still a bit down, but there may be a light at the end of the tunnel, for now.

My primary focus for now is on finding a place to stay. With all due respect to my dad and family, living here for even just a few weeks has been a somewhat detrimental arrangement. To go from such a ridiculous level of independence to living back under a parents' roof is a very jarring adjustment, nevermind the fact that I'm working from here, I have a step-sibling who is home most of the day, and I really don't even have more than a bed to call my own here. My bags are still barfing their contents on the floor where I dropped them three weeks ago when I got back.

So, to expedite improving my situation, and to allow for the possibility that settling back in Michigan isn't quite something I'm as ready to do as I had long imagined, I've decided to put off buying a house just yet and rent for 6-12 months and see where I am then. There's still questions to answer...roomates vs. no roomates, apt. vs. house, in town vs. out, etc, but I hope to start resolving those pretty quickly over the next couple of days and ideally will have a lease signed by the end of the week. That's the first and most important step to trying to get back on the happy side of life.

Of course, trivial pleasures will always help as well, and tonight came a pretty big one that'd been long-anticipated, but never quite certain until now: the commitment of the star of this highlight video to be a part of Michigan's incoming class of football recurits next fall. He's been quite the internet sensation for several months now with highlight videos that have been the most eye-popping thing since those that floated around of a pint-sized high schooler named tearing up the competition in upstate New York four years ago. (You might've heard of that kid, too... Mike Hart, anyone?) But for now, ladies and gentlemen, I present, the newest Wolverine, Sam McGuffie: