Clearly my first attempt to chronicle my time in Colorado fizzled out pretty quickly. When I last posted over two years ago, I was a second-year camp counselor out near Glenwood Springs, CO. As one would expect, life has progressed a lot for me since the then-20 year old version of myself created the preceding post. In a nutshell: I started/finished junior year of college, interned in Houston, started/finished senior year of college, graduated from Purdue, backpacked Europe, moved to Colorado, and started working as an accountant. Obviously a lot more happened during the last two plus years but I can only type for so long.
As the new title of this blog suggests, and the penultimate sentence of my most recently completed paragraph states, I currently work as an accountant. I have seen tons of accountant jokes on television and in movies making fun of how boring life can be as an accountant. In the movie Hook, a still unbelieving Peter (played by Robin Williams) attempts to make sense of Tinkerbell: "You're a... you're a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother and I don't know why you have wings, but you have very lovely legs and you're a very nice tiny person and what am I saying, I don't know who my mother was; I'm an orphan and I've never taken drugs because I missed the sixties, I was an accountant." I do not intend to miss the 2010s (or whatever you call this decade) because of my status as an accountant. Despite this intention, it is not always easy to do. My roommate at one point earlier this year went so far as to write a funny short story about my theoretical fall into the abyss, having no friends because I worked too many hours at work, eventually gaining a lot of weight in the process.
Along with this intention comes the goal to become The Most Interesting Accountant in the World. Though I admittedly don't know much about my competition, I know that I have a leg up on them in the fact that I, 1) Live in Colorado 2) Am still pretty young, and 3) Now have a blog devoted to the topic.
Anyway, I believe I have done a pretty good job thus far in having plenty of adventures and good times since graduation and I will attempt to detail some of them here in the coming days and months, as well as update you on new adventures as they come along. Hopefully I will get some pictures on here as well, if I ever figure out how to really do that. Even if no one reads this, it will at least serve as a way for me to remember details I otherwise wouldn't with my less than stellar memory.
Until next time...
