One month later...what's happening in your life?

Ivy · Post by **Ivy** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:52 pm

security clearance-put down burning man as a hobby

I'd be curious to see what happens with that.

shell'sgrrrl · Post by **shell'sgrrrl** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:10 pm

Hoping that a Mt. Saint Helens eruption will result in no harm to humans but create a dust layer reminiscent of the playa! (I know, I know...its a hassle and fucks up your car but for some reason unknown to me - I'm missing the dust!)

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:32 pm

1) client #2 was at the burn
2) Locksmith at job #3 is DPW guy with 8 burns under his belt
3) owner #2 of job # 3 's mom was at first burn in 86
4) girl that sits next to me in class looked down at my boots and said, "you got playa dust on your boots, did you just get back from Burning Man?"
5) Hippie van pulls up in front of job #3 guy looks at my decal of the Man on the back of my truck and asks if I work for DPW, I say no, "but are you going to the decom party this 10th?" he says "yes" we shake hands
6) suddenly, I'm connecting the dots.....and its getting weirder

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:06 am

cowboyangel wrote: 5) Hippie van pulls up in front of job #3 guy looks at my decal of the Man on the back of my truck and asks if I work for DPW, I say no, "but are you going to the decom party this 10th?" he says "yes" we shake hands

IF that's the SF one look for me!!!

(havent decided what to wear yet, though.)

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:44 am

I know it's late but I'm making an attempt to get there. I'll be working until five the day before, I'd have to go home and sleep a few hours, then jump in the car at 3AM and drive through the night to make it by noon.

Is there going to be an E-Playan hook-up site and/or time?

Not sure what I'm wearing either but it'll most likely be a reprise of my Anubis costume from the Opera, with a top (I went topless out there for the role...yeah, how's that for cross-dressing? ;D)

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:37 pm

It's one month later and I'm still on my way home!

A II Z

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:39 pm

Tomorrow's my one month wedding anniversary!

skypilot · Post by **skypilot** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:26 pm

:D Ivy...........i'll keep you posted on that.i'll save the quote that was spoken to me by my watch commander for a later time.

zeigen · Post by **zeigen** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:11 pm

For me, a month later, the stuff that comes most to mind is body-related:

* All the blisters on my hands have healed (damn rebar)
* The nasty mysterious rash on my neck is healed
* My playa foot is gone and the soles of my feet are smooth again
* Nasty bloody snot no longer comes out of my nose when I sneeze
* BUT my exczema is back (dry playa air does wonders for my skin usually)
* I put back on almost all of the weight I lost

But in my dreams I'm still on the playa.

Flackmaster · Post by **Flackmaster** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:03 pm

yeah gee four weeks ago tonight I was assaulted by some violent asshole who got away with a $50 bike that he just ditched somewhere anyway.

I have a busted left elbow with 13 screws in it and yesterday I was finally able to tie my shoes by myself.

sorry to be a downer, but the subject line asked....

I guess seven out of eight great Burning Man years ain't bad.

Anybody want my percocet? all it did was make me feel like the worst hang over ever all day long.

D

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:17 pm

Flackmaster wrote:...I have a busted left elbow with 13 screws in it and yesterday I was finally able to tie my shoes by myself.

sorry to be a downer, but the subject line asked....

No need for apologies, Flackmaster; that's indeed what this thread is for. We're wishing you well in Seattle...

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:01 pm

Well, uh, I say things like "well, uh" alot. I am lacking motivation at work and I miss building my mutant vehicle. I took the time vault trailer out of storage today and fixed and cleaned things. I think I just wanted to play with it again and look at the pretty lights. I was so focused for five months and now I'm bored and I need a new project.

I'm glad to be back with my family. Daddy learned how to play again, but I still can't role play for more than 10 minutes with the darlings.

Playa foot still got me even though I was the king of foot care at BM. I'm going to a casual decompression potluck next week, I long to commiserate in person with people and just confirm that it was all just a dream. I'm more active than ever here on the E-playa now that I'm no longer a virgin.

Music is more important to me than ever. I'm pulling out the old LP's and burning them on to CD's for my own pleasure.

It's a good thing I have another vacation coming up or my clients will know what a slacker I have become! :shock:

Anybody else the mayor of slacker city?[/list]

Petalford · Post by **Petalford** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:44 pm

came back "glowing" husband sez... having surgery Oct 4th...finished BA degree, starting M.Ed. In Jan...still seeing burners coming back on the freeways....planning next year....BOK!

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:45 am

hmmmm. what am i doing...

all the same stuff as before...
getting ready for winter... but not by storing nuts
getting ready to buy a used potter's wheel and kiln
thinking about costumes for next year
rest, i am attempting rest.

fuckartdamntheman · Post by **fuckartdamntheman** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 6:23 pm

i have done nothing with my life since burning man! it always happens, i go to burning man and have the time of my life, then when i get back to reality i always say, im gonna do things right, and i never do shit. oh well its just a matter of time before we drink our selvs into oblivion again. :D

notthat1 · Post by **notthat1** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:35 pm

I'm *still* adjusting. It's been kinda hard. I really, really just want to be around other burners. It's been very difficult for me in the "defult world". It's like i have all this energy, and don't know what to with it. I want to create, built, do something artistic. I want to give, share, expecting nothing in return. I want to cuddle, hug, kiss, ( all positive touch) . I want to feel the freedom that i felt on the Playa. It's just been hard, and when you *try* and tell people( close friends, family) the "camping trip", they just don't get it.

The Event has changed me, or maybe i was *already* changing, and the event just comfrimed i was going in the right direction. Whatever the case may be, i'm trying to live my life in a more freer way.

diode · Post by **diode** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:38 pm

Burning Man totally changed my head around. Now I'm like really cool and all the hot chicks want to do me, and like I can score the best weed whenever I want plus I dream in these wild technicolor visions, plus I'm almost over my overdose out there and my car dropped its engine on the way home, but I was picked up by a bitchin' rad chick who is in some kind of twelve step program, so like she's turning me on to osho and things like that...geez can't wait till next year to hang out with all the kewl burners....

cornelius · Post by **cornelius** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:49 am

SPARKLETARTE

I have been thanking the Universe for all the fantastic things I have in my life. I just got offered an awesome job in my field for more money than the crappy mind numbing job I've got now, I'm gonna quit tommorrow!

I have been dreaming of various interdimensional BurningMans, if you will, every night. No kidding. Every night I go to a differnt event in a different location. Last night it was happening next to a DizneeWorld type thingee. The event was hidden next to the theme park and my mission was to sneak into the park and scope out interesting looking / acting individuals and sneaking them away from the cameras and secret security police of D-World. It was fun. Like refugees or something. The "underground" railroad of the dream world. Ooops...dreaming of BM...wrong thread...

_tears_ · Post by **_tears_** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:48 pm

I have watched my mother slowly slip away and fight for her life, only to pull through and slowly start to recover.

I have found courage I did not know I had. I have held down a home, and a job, taking over as leader of the house. I have moved a whole family and home into another location and still going strong.

Have yet to decide if i will make the trip to BRC again next year, or possibly take a year off to fix everything and get my mother healthy again.

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:37 pm

And that, boys and girls, is Sensei's 'Post of the Day'.

_tears_ wrote:...I have found courage I did not know I had.

Yeah, but I think most of us knew you had it. Keep up the good work, _tears_.

M Joe Boss · Post by **M Joe Boss** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:00 pm

Finally becoming me again, though, a little better version.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:51 am

notthat1 wrote:I'm *still* adjusting. It's been kinda hard. I really, really just want to be around other burners. It's been very difficult for me in the "defult world". It's like i have all this energy, and don't know what to with it. I want to create, built, do something artistic. I want to give, share, expecting nothing in return. I want to cuddle, hug, kiss, ( all positive touch) . I want to feel the freedom that i felt on the Playa. It's just been hard, and when you *try* and tell people( close friends, family) the "camping trip", they just don't get it.

The Event has changed me, or maybe i was *already* changing, and the event just comfrimed i was going in the right direction. Whatever the case may be, i'm trying to live my life in a more freer way.

Raised Catholic, I am no stranger to guilt. Your post, notthat1, rang true for me too with a big guilty slather on top for not being more productive at work because of it. The cherry on top is that I'm leaving on another 10 day vacation on Tuesday. I've never experienced a true Autumn before so I'm taking my family to New Hampshire to stay at a resort and be "leaf peepers". There's a resounding voice inside that it is too soon and I don't deserve another vacation. How do I let go of the guilt before I split?

Flackmaster · Post by **Flackmaster** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:54 am

Mister Jellyfish Mister wrote: Raised Catholic, I am no stranger to guilt. Your post, notthat1, rang true for me too with a big guilty slather on top for not being more productive at work because of it. The cherry on top is that I'm leaving on another 10 day vacation on Tuesday. I've never experienced a true Autumn before so I'm taking my family to New Hampshire to stay at a resort and be "leaf peepers". There's a resounding voice inside that it is too soon and I don't deserve another vacation. How do I let go of the guilt before I split?

As a recovering Catholic myself, I highly recommend Guilt Reduction Surgery

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:55 am

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As a recovering Catholic myself, I highly recommend Guilt Reduction Surgery[/quote]

Thanks, but I don't want those priests to touch me.

poosie_kat · Post by **poosie_kat** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:14 pm

Well, much like you Jellyfish, I've been quite the slacker at work. I've been (slowly, but surely) working on getting a party/event going on here in my town. Been working on BM related projects, but never feeling like I'm really getting anywhere with them. Keeping in contact with a few of my fellow burners and vowing, almost daily, to get ahold of the ones I've been neglecting. Worrying about my boss, who has cancer. Healing even more after a bad break-up pre-burn. Trying to get rid of the last of this damnedable playa lung. Reconnecting with friends and family. Dreaming big, living life one day at a time (which is a lot harder for some than you might think.) And smiling a whole damned lot. Meeting new people here. Sharing ideas, hopes, dreams. Reading a lot of books. Wishing I were back out on the playa, but damn happy that I'm not. Now I'm off to either reply elsewhere on the eplaya, or go into la-la land for a little while. We'll see.

wovenone · Post by **wovenone** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 4:17 pm

I've also come to realize that I want to get in touch with more tribal elements of myself! i stretched my first ear piercing with 12 gauge sterling spirals. i want to wear long curly bone carvings in my ears when they're healed, and i'll stretch my second holes with the sterling when i can put bones in those first holes.
every once in a while i walk outside with my practice poi - made at one of the playa workshops this year - and twirl them novice-like until they tangle. it feels supreme even though i don't know about any workshops around here to actually learn some moves and techniques. i arrived late to the playa workshop and so spent the teaching time still working on making the poi.
i am 30 and died my hair honey blond for the first time before bm, and now it's red. these just feel good to me. i sort of missed out on all of this kind of thing in high school, and my hair is really short anyway, so what the hell. last week i managed to go dancing five times! usually it's just 80's night once a week. dancing is maybe my most tribal outlet for self expression. i'm changing my appearance to reflect more of what's inside -maybe i'll be recognized by my people more.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:58 am

I'm vacationing in New Hampshire. Wish you were here, Poosie Cat. We could seek out some good java together. I went to buy some fireworks and set them off in a parking lot at night to the delight of my two daughters. Feeling guilty about taking time away from work so soon after the burn and I remind myself that this is a rare and special family time. Since I know that next year I will be even more worthless after the burn, Maybe we should take the family time then and chill out in Hawaii or something immediately following the burn??

Today we rest and I let my wife drag me off to something historical tomorrow. Thank heaven for my new ipod. I've got some Alan Watts Zen lectures on it and my wife prefers to drive!

One month later...what's happening in your life?

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Vacationing