I don't wanna run feeling this way Yesterday I jogged. It had been 9 days since my last run, so my routine was kinda broken. I had to ease back to a fifteen-minute run. I think part of my problem is that as I get in better shape, I increase my pace instead of my distance covered. It was hot yesterday, too. The sun has come out to dry up all the rain after our weekend flooding.

I did receive some lovely graduation presents last week. Devin sent me a nice Bishop's frame for my degree. The diploma arrived yesterday, so I already put it in the frame; I really did graduate, people - I can prove it! My dad and step-mom sent me a lovely necklace with an amethyst pendant (school colour). Keri and Gina and the kids gave me some new running gear (I'm a runner now, you know). And we all got together for a nice family & friends barbeque on Monday. Dalt cooked up some superb steaks and we had a nice little party. That was fun.

Today I turned down a job offer. It was a solid offer in a national company with good learning potential. But something about it just didn't feel right and I couldn't convince myself that the upside outweighed the downside. Maybe it's dumb, but I'm just not ready to commit when I'm unsure. The law firm I'm temping at is willing to hire me on and will offer a comparable compensation package, so I do have options.

I was thinking of an analogy to a relationship with this job offer thing. I kinda think more jobs should be temp-to-perm. Everybody can try everybody else out and there's no commitment. Because as it was with this other position, I felt like I'd only had one or two dates with them and they were already asking me to move in...! In my current role, each of us is free to walk away at any point and there's no hard feelings and no real ties to cut. But I've been here over a month and we all seem to get along okay, so we're talking about "taking it to the next level" with a permanent position. Who knows, eh.  | ¶ 1:40 p.m.