10th Jan 2007
Belated Holiday Letter From the Bruner/Haspels
A friend sent an annual holiday card today, noting that, yes, it’s fairly well past the holiday season, but so what. I wrote her a reply with an update from our family. I figured, since I don’t post often enough to this blog, some of you might also enjoy it.
I’m still at DoubleClick and loving it. [I wrote more stuff about my job in this section, but I don't like to blog about my job, so I'll just skip that, but it was all good. I prefer to keep the blog to fart jokes and sexual innuendos so I can maintain some sense of professionalism at the office (by contrast).]
Meanwhile, Adi has been pursuing a career as a film editor the last few years, which is a long slog, lots of dues to pay (literal and figurative; she joined the Editor’s Guild union last year). She’ worked on interesting projects, tho, including assisting on a feature by Ethan Hawke and editing two short films that are likely to do well on the festival circuit. She’s also working with some underground film artists, which she’s loving, namely Nick Zedd and Nate Hill.
With no kids of our own (we love kids, especially the part where they go home with someone else at the end of the day), I have the spare time to pursue various hobbies. Lately these include (don’t laugh) unicycle riding (I can go a hundred feet or two, but I’m still kinda wobbly; seemed like a fun thing to learn after 40 tho), ukulele playing (no, it’s not all stuff with “U”s; I like to sing and wanted something to accompany myself on, and it’s small and cute and easy to take on biz trips), and photography. Plus other stuff. 2007 plans include lessons in the following:
- Ballroom dancing
- Cooking (I love to cook but am pretty much self-taught)
- Magic (studied as a kid and can still amaze with a few card tricks
but want to learn a few more) - Improv (figure it would be good for biz skills to think on my feet, as well as indulge a youthful fancy: acting)
- and a few other equally ridiculous things that I forget at the
moment but have written down in a notebook.
That’s about as close as I came to resolutions this year. I recently clipped out a cartoon from the New Yorker and hung on the fridge that says, “Honey, do you think we’ll ever regret having two houseplants and a bowl of pebbles instead of kids?” Somehow I doubt it. Besides, we also have two charming kitties.
[In retrospect, this seems like a bad idea to post. We, or rather I, sound like a ridiculous looser. But, when it's all you got and you got a blog, the truth beckons.]
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