The reset button

I am here typing this entry at my apartment. After looking at my previous entries I thought, do I really need to say all that I have been saying. And the answer tat pops into my head is yes, but I guess I could maybe enter thoughts and observations with a little more frequency. I don't know. I was reading some other blogs and to me they seem so sinical that the point is lost on me as to what they are doing. I guess that is just where other people are at..making fun of others. Maybe as I get better about posting, I will get better about putting in witty quips.

Anyway, the goal today is to go and a Nebraska driver's licence. This is kind of a bigger deal for me than it probably should be. I have never had another driver's licence other than the one issued in my home state. I probably should have went to get one in Minnesota, but I just never really got around to it. When I first moved to MN, I had a good reason for not getting the licence. The home state needed to have proof of residencey and the drivers's licence was the way to go. With the proof of residencey, I was entitled to a little sum of money that the state gave out. Then it became a matter of laziness. There was always a reason not to go and do it. Grad school...I wasn't ready for the test....Now it has come to the point where I have moved to another state, but this time I actually setting up residence in the new state.

In a way, this is kind of like hitting a reset button on my life. I am actually in a state with no connections to my family. I am living in an apartment no with family conntections. I will be getting married soon and starting life as a husband. I feel like my life is starting over and being able to redefine itself. I don't feel like I have lost any of my ideals and my foundations though. I am not talking about my teaching and research ideals because I know that will change. I guess in a way that is the foundation that I have...that I will listen to the research. After look back over what I just wrote, I don't want to give the impression that I don't like my family. My family is very important to me and I would actually say that this whole breast cancer era has brought us closer together. I will have to think about that...what are my ideals and my foundations.

I am Mr. Peabody and I setting a new foundation.