“Live everyday as if it were your last”. While I understand the idea behind it, this saying never really resonated with me. If I knew today was going to be my last day, I’d probably be pretty depressed and try to spend time just with family. I probably wouldn’t get the laundry done.

Perhaps, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life” is a better way to get the idea across. Yet today, the last day of November, I am thinking in terms of last days. Today is the last day before I start a new job. There are so many things that I need to clean up and straighten out before tomorrow comes, and I’m kind of thinking that tomorrow will be the first day of the rest of my life.

That said, I also recall listening to a psychologist talking to the incoming freshman class when I started college. She spoke about how every year a new group of freshman come in, determined to turn over a new leaf and it rarely happens that they really do turn over a new leaf. I look out the window and see the piles of leaves that have fallen around here and I think about my new leaf. Will my new job be simply another leaf turned over into a large pile of leaves, or will it be something different this time? We shall see. I’m optimistic.

What will all of this mean for my other projects? Well, I suspect I’ll not have as much time to play with Drupal or the Nokia N900, although I’ll probably still have some blog posts up about it. In fact, I am not sure if I’ll be able to keep up my pace of daily blog posts. I suspect it will also mean that I’ll spend less time surfing blogs than I have recently and may cut back in my interaction in some of the blogging circles. I am also talking about what happens with my column for the Bethwood Patch.

All of this said, my new job is about social media, so I’ll still be very involved online and I have to figure out how the job and my blog will relate. More on this later.