this is what we’re gonna do

 So my first blog was a purge, a semi-drunken rant fueled by listening to The Jack Kerouac Collection while writing late at night. I had to get it out of the way, had to spit out that cud I’d been chewing for ages. I used to write with much more frequency than I do nowadays, but that was in the 90’s. I’ve really let myself go, and hope to recoup that which I’ve been missing lo these many years. I’ll eventually figure out what I’m gonna do with this, and I’ve got some ideas as to what I want this to be- a diary, a sounding board, a complaints window, an easy-bake oven, a boot, a flagon of meade. I work at Walt Disney Records in Spain. It’s an easy job, I’m an assistant in the production department, but significant for me as it’s what got me my legal status here in Spain, and for that I’m quite grateful. I’m at the office as I write this, so there are times, especially in the afternoons after the DHL delivery truck comes to pick up our outgoing deliveries, where there are lulls in the job. I’m trying to fill it in productively, as I’m listening to my beloved NPR podcasts and flitting between having an afternoon coffee and archiving CDs. I must go brush my teeth now, as I’ve got coffee breath. Later on I’ll figure out how to outfit this blogspace.

~ by Mike Slichenmyer on 18 October 2007.