Ebbs and flows seem to appear in every aspect of my life. The last few months have been event­ful and tran­si­tional with so many new and inter­est­ing things hap­pen­ing, that I have neglected to acknowl­edge how won­der­ful the hum­drum can be. Moments of ‘silence’ really do help me appre­ci­ate the ‘sound’, and they offer more clar­ity of pur­pose and mind to digest the ‘sound’.

I tend to iden­tify myself—as I think most peo­ple do—with the stages of my life that are filled with change and ignore the times when monot­ony dom­i­nates. But, just like the chang­ing times, the monot­ony can be filled with pos­i­tive experiences. So how­ever bor­ing or short this next por­tion may be, I thought I’d high­light the sim­plic­ity of my life right now.

8:30 wake up and get ready for work
8:50 ish leave for work — I walk every day
9:15 ish arrive at work
9:30 emails have been checked, daily sched­ule estab­lished, and I’m ready to get started
12:00–2:00 i usu­ally have lunch between these hours, it varies every day
6:30–7:30 head home from work. this also varies
6:45–7:45 arrive home, give Austin a kiss and hug
the rest of the evenings are usu­ally filled with mind­less activ­i­ties like watch­ing movies, cook­ing din­ner, maybe meet­ing friends if it’s closer to the week­end, play­ing games, and read­ing about type. (I still can’t get away from that part of my nerdiness.)

Jenny would prob­a­bly call me ‘borarlo’, which trans­lated means bor­ing arlo. Which reminds me, I have a whole series of adjec­tives that apply only to peo­ple named arlo, I’ll have to post that another day.

And there you have it, my hum­drum life.