Life down here in Florida is quite good. The weather is more like Spring/ Summer Year around. Still, I would not want to go swimming in November but the water in the gulf is warm as bath water in the Summer. The year around there is always a lot to do on the beach area and in town. The southern hospitality is well and strong down here, where your neighbors wave to you and talk to each other. This is such a big change from New England and the Yankee’s cold ways. Now we must understand that I am a Yankee born and bread and lived in New England for a good part of my life. I remember one account while living in Danvers Massachusetts, in the Spring in 2006 I was out in my yard and my neighbor was out in his yard across the street. I waved to him and said HI to him. He gave me this cold look and did move at all. It was like I just gone after him and his whole family with a chain saw or an axe. He never did say a word and just turn around and went on walking into his house. People in Massachusetts and New England is known to be cold and unfriendly; I am not saying that everyone is like this but they are known to be snobby and unfriendly. Maine was a little bit better but where I was living it was pretty much up in the sticks and a lot of country, woods and farm land - not being a country boy at all and like city life, it was not for me. Jobs in Maine are low, only if you want to work in the building trades, lumber jack, work on a farm, pulp mills or fishing industry. I did not live in Maine for long and this was my second time and last time that I would live in Maine. I lived in Massachusetts for years, from 1982 to 2004. Boston is a great Town and has a great new England feel to it. I do miss Boston and the feel of Boston.
So now I am down in Florida, where so far the nights and days are 57F/82F Degrees and it is still pleasant. The only drawback is the Hurricanes, but they told me the last one that hit in this part of Florida was in the 70's, most of then ver off to the east or head to Mississippi. As I said before, the water is warm as bath water in the summer. Up North the water in the summertime is still very cold even in the heat of the summer, so the weather is still not to bad at all here in the Sunshine state. I guess I won’t need my Snow shoes and X-country skis down here. Yes I still have them but maybe I will go up North to use them or down to the beach in the sand - they would put the net over me and lock me up.
School is going well for me and this class is a lot better then the last one. I am in a speech class now and I am not having any trouble at all in this class. It is hard to believe that there is only about a year and half to go before I am out of school. This degree is a four-year program. It seemed to be lasting forever at times and seems to be speeding up other times, but in many ways I am not looking forward to finish and move on. I don’t know why or how to put it into words, but some how it is going to be hard to leave school. I know that might sound odd but that is how I am feeling right now. It will be exciting to go out and work at a studio and work on film projects and animation but leaving school will be hard. In all, school has been a mix of good and bad times while I have been attending this school. Well I think that is it for now and I have said everything that I wanted to say for right now. Stay tuned for more in the up coming weeks.
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