Lift-off

so for all my old readers (i'll let you know personally...) "Using Words As Blunt Instruments" seems to have run its course... this, is the new and better blog! well, its new... if you've stumbled here, you already know the address is mangoplant.blogspot.com. if you haven't, well, that little bit of information is just stupid and useless.

about me: i'm your basic abnormal soon-to-be graduate student. living alone in austin, texas. in a new little apartment he's just leased. currently unemployed. attending AA with a vengeance.

about that...

yes, my name is Satchel Pooch, and i'm an alcoholic. i have just over two months sober at the moment. i didn't have a terrible bottoming out, nor was i drinking overly long. this is what we like to call "preventative maintanence." i am a pain in the ass for my sponser, who has been heard to remark, "you can't be too stupid for AA, but you can be too smart. and you, my man, are on the cusp of being too smart for this program." i do take a sick sense of pride in this. but mostly, i just try to remind myself to be stupid. stupidity is the path to progress, at this moment in time...

so this blog might not be fun. it will mostly, i'm sure, be mental masturbation; a safe place to spin my wheels and just vent. vent and vent and vent and vent until i'm all blown out and gaspy. and sobriety seems a little easier for a little while.

and the name is for the mango pit i'm growing on my back porch. the little guy just sprouted up yesterday, and i want more than anything, to care for that little sprout, and nurture it. i want it to thrive.

are you sensing a metaphor? maybe i just have gas...

welcome back, guys...

i hope i grow to be better than ever.

that we might all reap the benefits.