2006-08-02 - 2:01 p.m.

Free at Last

As I mentioned to some "friends" the other night, the hoops I've had to jump through the past few months honestly seem like a trifle. The business of living life and trying to make it all work is a much more challenging proposition than any of the temporary stuff I've had to deal with.

Still, it's nice to be.... er, unencumbered.

Plans?

Having a celebratory drink and some tapas at Caf� Buenos Aires with Jodi & Bob. Then Viva la Fiesta Peque�a! at the Mission, and some after-dinner churros.

Simple.

"My idea of success," he said, "is personal freedom."

� "Freedom? Freedom from worries?"

"From everything�from money, from poverty, from ease and anxiety, from all the material accidents. To keep a kind of republic of the spirit�that's what I call success."

~ Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905