So we’re closing in on a month when my life got flipped turn upside down so I’d like to take a minute just sit right there…and so forth.

My primary thoughts so far can be simply summed in the following statement: where the fuck has the time flown?

I feel like I’ve gone through weekends that have lasted longer than this past month has, and I have little doubt that I’ll wake up tomorrow, look at the calendar and realize it’s 2010.

Things have surpassed the already high expectations I set for myself, and the few hitches that have come have seemingly vanished before they even came.

There were essentially two fronts that had anxietized (my new word) the emo side of my brain–on the social side of things: I was moving to a strange new town in a non-college setting away from the friends I’d come to known and created many memories with. What would my nights and weekends end up being like? Would I be a poor old sap who spends his Tuesday nights writing drawn out, overdramatized blog entries?

On the business side of things then, how were four kids (brought together because one was randomly assigned the other as a roomate, and another who happened to sit diagonally behind the other in a high school science class) who had only recently graduated from college with less than 2 years of “real world” experience be expected to succeed in a world where over 90% of startups fail (presumably run by people who actually knew what they were doing) in a recessitizing (again a new word) market?

As it turns out, these worries were completely unfounded, and things apparently just have a way of working themselves out. On the first front– *pretend I put in some kind of interesting explanation of this here*

And on the second case then, the transition from working for the man while at the bottom of the totem pole to becoming 1/4 of a whole company has proven to be quite the world of paradoxes.

From the transition itself: which has been drastic and rather overwhelming, yet quite seamless even from day one.

Then there’s the high level of responsibility that comes with business ownership, but with that comes ultimate freedom to do what I want, when I want to (to a great extent at least)

The hours are near endless and essentially around the clock–yet they fly by faster than anywhere else I’ve ever been. Instead of counting down the clock come3-4pm, I’ll blink and it’ll already by a quarter to nine.

The tension of having a serious business conversation with crucial consequences is often quickly transitioned into an inappropriate joke that would surely bring upon the HR department and perhaps a pending lawsuit in any “normal”office situation..

It’s been quite the ride so far, like a rollercoaster that only goes up..with no peak in sight yet *knock on wood*

Reflection time over.