Pope disappears for 6 months and the world continues spinning


I don't really have an excuse for not blogging in so long. I can blame it on a little product I was working on in the US, and am now working on in Europe... But it wouldn't really be accurate, because it's not like I am working so much harder now than I was three years ago or two years ago or whenever. Rather, I think that it's a combination of being overwhelmed with things I wanted to do and with a desire not to be introspective.
[Aside, whenever I write "rather," I say it in my mind the way Stefan the Folklorist says it -- "raaaaather". That's all]

Today, I am living in Cork Ireland for the fall, at least. I go home to Austin about once a month, for a week at a time. This last week I made it back to see Ms Pope and Sören and to go to Lake Brownwood with some friends over the weekend. I think it made me more morose than not, seeing my friends and wishing I could stay in Austin right now.
And I am saying this, knowing that my life is really NOT hard. Cork is a nice town, and I have a lot of friends here. On weekends, I get to go off to see other cities around Europe or to go hiking in the countryside, so how rough can this be? But I feel very disconnected from my friends and family back home. As if life were passing me by.
And that might be the reason I have been afraid to write anything on the blog. Whether I am in Austin or Cork or Minnesota... Life is passing.
On Nov 9, I turn 40. Wow.

I'm pretty certain that in the long time of not posting at all and in the months before of very sporadic posts that most of my friends and family who were reading have dropped off... Shoot me a note if you're still around, or post a comment.

Blessings.
- popemark

Posted: Tue - October 2, 2007 at 07:51 AM        

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