From an email last year to one of my old roommates, who said something about searching for ways to regress, I think because I jokingly had said something along the lines of how we should all move back in again together, for old time’s sake:

bq. Ha ha, I don’t think we’d really have to “search” for ways to regress. It probably comes quite naturally. Anyway time does seem to go pretty quickly, these days. Although, I find rate of time flow is inversely proportional to amount of “mixing it up” I do. I.e., changing environments, jobs, making new friends, doing interesting things, travelling, and so on. It’s when things are the same that times seems to go by pretty fast… that’s what happened when I had a rather monotonous 9-5 for a couple years. Where’d those years go? So at the moment I have a freelance computer business, which has been working out pretty well. Pays the bills. I plan to go back to school eventually, though, and become some sort of professor. Or maybe not.

So I’m working full-time again, and almost another year has passed. This job, though, is very interesting and I’ve learned / grown a whole lot. I’m having doubts about the “going back to school” idea, too. Why not take a year off, and study or do what I like, instead of incurring debt to be told what to study? On the other hand if I did go back to school, I would put a lot more effort in and consequently get a lot more out than I did in the past. The working world has taught me that much, at least. And school needn’t mean an elimination of savings; with a TA-ship it ought to be almost or even completely subsidized. Food for thought.