<div class="floatleft">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/00ba/vc6ophhbbqkqlrh6g.jpg)<br/><div align="center"><strong>Rested Courtney</strong></div></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">No more coffee for Jaclyn. One cup a day? I'd die!  <br/><br/>*giggle* "Irish coffee then?" I tease. <br/><br/>I take a seat and watch as Jaclyn mixes some yogurt in with the berries in a bowl. Yum! She doesn't dish any out though, and instead starts talking of the goddess of nature and how she acknowledges her and how she gets her by ... Ok ... sooooo ... do I bow my head? Pray? Say some words of thanks? Stay respectfully silent? <br/><br/>"I've always believed in a higher power. I mean we have to hope there is one right? Otherwise we're just random bits of stardust wandering around with no purpose, no reason for being. It's pretty bleak to think that all we are is highly advanced chemistry."<br/><br/>"I mean there was one guy who put it pretty eloquently, I guess, forget what his name was. Said something like: 'We are just the universe experiencing itself.' I mean that sounds a little better but ... I refuse to believe that's all we are. I'd say if this goddess helps you get through the day, that's as real as anything that we experience."<br/><br/>I take a bowl of my own, but opt for a different tactic. Instead of mixing, I simply dollop a couple of spoonfuls of yogurt into one side of my bowl ... wait, do bowls have sides? ... and set the berries on the other. I simply dip the berries into the yogurt one by one, and savor each and everyone. I look up at Jaclyn, realizing how tedious this must look.<br/><br/>"This is so good, I just wanna enjoy every single bite. Silly, I know, but doesn't hurt to slow down and enjoy sometimes. Then again, I'm not a jet-setting CEO."<br/><br/>"I mean I do have a job and commitments, but not a crazy schedule like yours. If I can ever get my life sorted out, I'd like to have more of a career. Miss Kat is a great boss and all, but do I really want to be a receptionist the rest of my life?"<br/><br/>"I dunno. Maybe it would be ok. Maybe finding happiness in a career is the wrong way, <strong><em>for me,</em></strong> to go about it. I just want a direction of some sort ... any sort. You know? Figure out what I want, and run with it. Sorry, I know I'm rambling."</span>