Black Sunday

So, it has been ages since my last blog. Not sure why. Busy, I suppose. Too busy to post my pictures from the summer to Flickr and usually that happens before I do my blog so that I can post the link. Well, also because work has been depressing. I usually refrain from any kind of professional commentary on this site, but I have been significantly affected by it. A colleague of mine whom I respected greatly, and whom was both a revered mentor and trusted friend...someone of exceedingly high principles...was summarily fired a week ago. I do presume to lay judgment on certain people for what happened, but not here. Sadly, many a career falls to the knives of the petty schemes of small and spiteful men. The politics of the Executive is something for which I have a certain distaste, but that I will soon need to come to terms with if I am to play at that game. Holding one's nose while partaking of the flesh, so to speak. Oh well, if anything it provided me with the reassurance that I'm doing the right thing to pursue my education and a different career. What is ultimately depressing is that I gave 120% for 4 years...so many evenings lost to work that would have been better spent with friends, at the gym, with my camera...all in an effort to establish a long-term career and prove my ambition and worth...but that was ultimately wasted. The pointlessness of it all is so crushing. Life, it seems, loves nothing more than to crush one's dreams. Well, I'm going to enjoy coming home at 5 every night, assignments be-damned, to play my guitar, work out, and work on my photos. Hell, maybe even a date or two...(yah, right!!!).