2ndclepunkbuddha

I had read in a David Sedaris story years ago, appropriately enough called "Naked" in a collection of short stories by the same name, that it is disconcerting to be talking to someone on the phone knowing they are naked.  Circumstance sometimes interferes with things, as he referenced when they say "You caught me on the way to / as I was just getting out of the shower".  In this instance, he was talking to a man at a reservations desk at a clothing optional resort in which he was about to make his reservation for a stay there.  Of this I have no immediate plans to do so; but, as I have been looking at the proverbial Bucket List (although I hate that term for a goal list) as of late since I am staring at age 40 on the horizon, I began to think of nudity and situations in which I have been. My experiences with nudity have been few and far between, most certainly, outside of the ordinary situation.  Though I have a few friends who enjoy going to pagan nudie ...

After six years, I have at last come to the end of my time at Cleveland State University (or CSU as it's known), and I will have that degree coming in the mail soon.  It's been a long road, no question, full of many twists and turns.  I changed my mind a few times about the direction I wanted to go in, I questioned the universe, I had many doubts and insecurities, and I even considered quitting at some point or another.  But no, like everything else, we push on.  It's been a rough road, and yet it was one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. I had many doubts when I started down this path in 2008.  I was 34 years old, I was too old to go back to university life as a full time student, I thought.  But no, I realized that I was given a message.  The old career had bottomed out completely as it was populated by losers who didn't bother to learn their jobs and business and industry (what there is left of it now) had become a hostage crisis....