LancesWorld.com Journal

Well, this was a very new and interesting week in the Life of Lance. In the past seven days there have been some substantial changes:

1) I moved into a new apartment with Mike and Donny Osmand (real name Don Homewood) here in San Francisco. It is actually my first ever apartment, strange as that may seem. I have lived in dorms, in-law units, houses, shared studios and all other manner of dwelling places, but never have I had my own apartment, so that is a big new change in and of itself.

2) I started a new job, nay, a new career. On Monday I started work at UC Berkeley in with Business and Administrative Services, Financial Planning & Buget. It has been over three months since I last worked, so it was pretty strange to get back into the working world. The hours, clearly, are nothing like I was working in the film industry, but the whole getting up to an alarm thing is pretty annoying.

3) I turned 24 years old. Actually, that happened today. Indeed, today is my 24th birthday. Someone told me last night that I have now entered my mid-twenties. I don't really know that I care too much about that. The older I get, the less age seems to matter and the more each birthday just becomes another day. In truth, when you consider leap years and the like, a birthday is actually some arbitrarily chosen date that we celebrate ourselves.

This weekend, sadly, isn't going to be very relaxing. It should be fun, but certainly not relaxing. Tomorrow I am booked all day. I have a planning meeting for the National Catholic Young Adults Conference from 10-1230. I am totally unprepared for it. I haven't done my work for it at all. I have been so busy with the St. Dominic's retreat that I haven't devoted sufficient (read: any) time to the NYAC. After that I have about 2 hours of downtime before I head downtown for the Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt which will take up about 5-6 hours.

Sunday morning I am going to help Mike and Donny Osmand move the last of their things from Bernabe Refugee Camp to the new apartment. I have to come up with a name for the new apartment... "my apartment" just doesn't sound cool. I have friends that live in places like "Priory West" and "Bernabe Refugee Camp" so we definitely need a cool name for our place.

Sunday evening I have a St. Dominic's Retreat meeting, mass (where I will be making the Young Adult announcement at the end of mass) and then my small faith group. I fear that Monday will come too soon.