is the glass is half empty or half full?

well, it's 2008. so far the most significant thing is that when i went out for dessert at my friend's restaurant, our waiter was also a model who is on the cover of the newest sharper image catalog. it was a brush with greatness, i tell you. he had a funny pink mark on his forehead and the story came out that it was a rug burn suffered on the losing end of a wrestling match on new year's eve. passed an agreeable evening shooting the breeze with the friendly barflies. good times. seems refreshingly uncomplicated to the chaos i will no doubt return to at my job. i don't know ... sometimes i feel more like i am living a christian life in simple conversation with these "unchurched" people over beers than i am when i am planning the onerous details for an event that kids only sign up for at the last minute when they haven't found anything else cooler to do, or putting kids to sleep on a sunday morning when i stumble over words in an attempt to teach. no no, it's not as bad as all that, and God's ways and thoughts are much higher than my ways and thoughts. try as i might to expand, my perspective remains woefully narrow. as for 2008 and beginning a new year, i remain unexcited and unispired, and i wonder, when did i become such a pessimist? sorry for the downer posts - i'm trying to turn things around.