"Eat vegetable soup rather than duck stew." -- Basho said.

So I just sent an email to my Public Relations boss telling him that I am done with duck stew. I really said that to this guy who I barely know. He knows metaphors, so I am hoping he understands this one. It is, after all the one quote that I want to integrate into my life more than any other. It isn't exactly that I am trying to revert to vegetarianism; they weren't cooking legs of lamb in the office kitchen; the fumes were not getting to me; it is more Literary than that.

If working for Public Relations equates to duck stew, menial labor and poetry writing is the best of vegetable soup. I am not my brother who, when offered a job that would have made him a millionaire, turned it down. But this is my personal microcosm of that perhaps.

I am in this college because it is a happy place to be. Living is being in a place. That is what life is all about.