Why the new Blog? What's it all about?

I have a more permanent blog, I guess you would call it, at corrieroad.blogspot.com. There, I've written about travel, living in a foreign country, reentry,  the illness and death of my mother and some of the aftermath. I've included a few short works of fiction on there as well. At least, I would imagine scripted conversations with a friends' cat would be fiction. So why do I need a new one??

Everyone I know reads it. During my mother's passing it was the best way to communicate updates as well as process what was happening. But that means that everyone who knows me or knew my mother (just about) follows my blog. It's difficult to be honest about things I want to be writing about knowing people at work will read it or my aunt will read it, or my mother's pastor. I'd rather write for myself and if strangers happen to run across it, so be it.

I work as an Assistant for a large Medical Center/University Institution. The whole operation employs thirty thousand people. The Institution is very large and I have a very lowly position. Which is ok. It was what I needed when I moved back to Nashville and was primarily concerned with helping take care of my mom. Now I'm primarily concerned with getting out of Tennessee and in fact, out of the US. But that's a different post.

I literally work in a gray cubicle. I don't hate it, but it is quite fitting for my life. It's staid, boring, small simple. These are not bad things. If someone wants the quiet simple life, that's fine. It's never been what I wanted. I'm not into putting roots down right now and I'm not into spreadsheets and I'm not into meetings on budgets or quarterly progress on development goals or commuting or gym memberships or donuts for breakfast. But it's my life right now. Again, it's right that I'm here, but it's for a season, to use some kind of spiritual speak. It's a specific time and that window is slowly closing. Until then, I plan to hate on it. Basically I'm probably going to complain a lot. And then try to work through the complaints. I post music and YouTube clips. I'm all about dudes with accents. Right now I seem to be all about dudes in general, but that's another post.