quippy alternative acronyms for YURP*

BURP - Branded Urban Rebuilding Professional
MURP - Massively Underpaid Rebuilding Professional
SLURP - Single Literate Urban Rebuilding Professional
TWURP - Totally Wholesome Useless Rebuilding Professional
H-BOTS - Here Because of the Storm

*Young Urban Rebuilding Professional (TM).

Many thanks to BG, who suggested Branded, rather than Boring for the first one.

new

changing jobs. more work. more cash. more rigor. less bullshit. more sleep. less drinking. no smoking. new car. clean clothes. more meetings. more learning. less wallowing. more bitching. less boredom. more responsibility. more tolerance. less worry. more worry.

i will be utterly perfect soon. as soon as i turn 30. right? what is adulthood?

as my mother refuses to let me forget, my first words were "my do it". i have kind of done it. but we will see if I can sustain. anyway. it is new, and there is something to be said for that.

i like to contemplate the sea, but waves make me uneasy

when i was in college, i made a wood-block print of some waves. when you make a woodblock print, there is way to do it called a suicide print. the reason for this is that, for example, is that if you have 3 colors that you want to use, you have to carve out whatever you DON'T want to be dark blue. then after you do the first print of that, you take the wood block and carve out everything you WANT to say dark blue, because you will layer another color over it. if you fuck up, by carving out these small and intricate lines, the print is ruined. intense, great, direct and beautiful.

needless to say, I loved doing these prints. i loved carving out the wood, using small Japanese tools that I was very proud of. the waves print (hanging framed in my parent's house now) was really great. you can see the grain of the wood and the small carving mistakes. i printed it on some gorgeous rice paper.

i did the print after a month in a buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, and named it after a famous song my Milarepa. the sea is the basic state of the mind, and the thoughts are the waves. the song is about meditation and relating to the basic nature of the mind and not getting caught up in the thought processes. they come and go. sometimes they are tumultuous, sometimes they are calm and soothing. they change all the time. but it still the sea, fundamentally.

i like to contemplate the sky, but clouds make me uneasy.