So it's been raining for a good week now.

So it's been raining for a good week now. OK, not a week straight but the weather has been quite moist, to say the least. Not bad really--it's been mild in the temperature department and I haven't had to struggle to keep myself hydrated. Still humid but hey, ya can't win everything now, can ya?

Not sure if I mentioned, but I've been at the post office for three months now--actually hit that mark about three weeks ago. Ha! That means I am official and am off my probationary period. It was quite anti-climatic, really. I am supposed to be able to order some uniform stuff, which is cool--there is this awesome mock-fur winter cap I want really bad. It'll be so awesome-looking to wear, come winter (or whenever it gets chilly out). Gotta get some rain gear, some new shoes, and a buncha new shirts as well, specially since mine are getting grimy. I heard bleach is a good thing to use to cut out the grime, but I'm afraid to use it just in case it turns my postal clothes all funky.

Other than that, postal life is treating me well. Looks to be I'll have a downtown route for most of this week and next, which is nice. Not sure if I mentioned how nice it is to deliver downtown Bloomington before, but it sure is nice. Being in all the hustle and bustle, talking to shop owners, and getting coffee--all things that make delivering mail downtown fun.

Speaking of downtown Bloomington, here is one of the main streets I deliver on--I am currently standing next to a candy store on the second floor of a business on Kirkwood Avenue.

The job blues still sets in now and then though. The humid weather doesn't help--I hate humidity. But like I said before, what are ya gonna do? Just gotta bear with it till fall season comes.

Naw, I think it is being settled down that gets me time to time. It's nothing big right now--just a little prick in the side--but sometimes I want to go off adventuring. I've done it before--last was my trip to South Korea almost two years ago--and I'd like to do it again sometime. Not now, not in a few months, maybe not in a year or two, but eventually. Eventually I'd like to do something big again.

The thing is, I like my job. I really do. But for me to do something big, well, I'd have to take off a lot of days, which is HIGHLY unlikely, given my work position I am in--that and being on the very low end of the seniority totem pole.

That's what jobs do though, isn't it? They restrict you, in a sense, from going off on adventures. Yes, every day is an adventure for me, to some extent. But to hear people's plans to travel--to go to foreign countries--to go on a three-day road trip--it gets to me sometimes.

It's like by accepting this job as a mailman, I've voluntarily agreed to stay in Bloomington and restrict myself mainly to living my life in Bloomington.

Now is this a bad thing? I have a steady, well-paying job. I live in Bloomington, after all, a city full of wondrous places to eat and many things to do. I live with good friends and have good friends in the vicinity. So yes, life is good, and no, this really isn't a bad thing.

It's also about growing up--realizing that you've had your adventures and now you need to settle down, in a ways, and contribute to the workings of society. Someday my day will come and I will be able to go on an adventure again, so I guess I will just have to settle with that. Also, some people have never gone on adventures or will never be able to do so--therefore I should be thankful for--which I am--the adventures I have gone on throughout my life.

Still sucks hearing about other peoples' plans on going places though. I guess that's something I will just have to learn to deal with, knowing that even though I am working more than full-time now, does not mean my life will be bland and boring.

Anyways, long story short, I do love my job. It's tough at times. It restricts me from making big plans and trips. But it pays well. Bloomington is awesome to live in, too, with all its eateries and activities.

So yeah, life is good and yadda, yadda, yadda :D