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Name: Tyler
Country: United States
State: Florida
Metro: Orlando
Birthday: 8/27/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: Blah blah blah.
Let's pretend I'm a doctor or an underwear model.
Industry: Media
Message: message meEmail: email me
Member Since:
11/14/2004
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| New rule: I'm not writing about work on here anymore. I won't answer questions about work. I won't comment on it. I won't give opinions about things that are printed in any of our publications. I will exist only as Tyler, not as Relevant Tyler. (Who am I kidding? I don't write on this thing at all anyhow.) | | |
| Madeliene and I got married! It's sweet.
(That's all. Now I will disappear for another 3 months.) | | |
| Well, it's been a few weeks. How've you been?
I just found out that my co-workers have been reading this. Therefore, I'd like to say the following:
I love my job.
I love my bosses.
I love my coworkers.
Let's move forward: The last few weeks have been very busy. I truly enjoy my new position at work, but it's a lot of work. While I always feel extremely busy, I have yet to feel like I'm drowning. Hopefully, that will continue to be the case.
I have realized that I am blessed beyond description. I really have little right to complain about anything about my life...but my pettiness always seems to amaze me. I am only 24, and I have the exact job that I wanted.
The problem: Where do I go from here? This was the goal, and there's a whole lot more life to live.
The solution: This job has taught me not to let me job define who I am. I have a cool job, but that doesn't make my life and more fulfilling. Your value is not in your job title, salary or contacts. Thus, my current job has told me that I can do whatever I want after this. It doesn't need to be impressive or note worthy. It can be something with little glory but a lot of substance. Find something you love, not something that other people love.
This autumn I've managed to disconnect myself from non-RELEVANT people. That is not a good thing. I need to get more plugged in with my church again.
49 days until the wedding. | | |
| It just got back from Pittsburgh. It was my last business trip for a
long while and possibly my last Christian conference ever. Here are
some highlights:
1. A drunk guy told me that I look like Carson Daly.
2. Several sober people mistook me for Matt Theisen, lead singer of Relient K.
3. I--and 14 other people--spoke with Tony Campolo for about 3 hours. I love that man. He's my role model.
4. Two separate people told me that they have the copy of our magazine
with Toby Mac on the cover. The problem is that we have never had Toby
Mac (nor any other former dc Talk member on our cover). Perhaps they
were mistaking him for Moby. (Moby Tac, perhaps?)
5. Outside of the Hard Rock Cafe, some drunk guy started shoving me for no reason.
I was minding my own business, and he started shoving me. He then
proceeded to call me a fag. His friends started calling me a fag as
well. I would have defended myself, but I was too busy having sex with
another man. (Sorry, I couldn't resist. Please forgive me.)
**If you want to make unprovoked, homophobic and baseless slurs as
strangers in public, that's your problem. But don't touch me. Seriously.
6. My hotel room was larger (and far nicer) than my apartment. I guess
it makes up for all of the EconoLodges that I've stayed at.
7. I downloaded the episode of "Lost" that I missed for $1.99 on my
computer. Thank you, Steve Jobs. I apologize for speaking poorly of you
last January.
8. The waitress at a diner that I ate at addressed me as "Good
Lookin'" on multiple occassions. I was flattered until she called the
guy across from me the same name. If she's just going to throw those
compliments around, they're going to lose their meaning.
9. I don't think I like Family Force Five. I saw them twice last week.
The first time, they opened for our friends The Myriad in a small club
in Orlando. Three days later, they played for a few thousand youth
pastors in Pittsburgh. I don't think that they get their own joke. They
take themselves to seriously. But, hey, that's just my opinion.
(They're going to sell millions of albums, so they certainly don't need
my approval.)
10. I developed a new personal catchphrase: "What I lack in brawn, I make up for in heart."
Discuss...
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| I've been on the road for the last week and a half. I leave for Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
Somewhere in the middle of all of that, I was named the new managing editor of RELEVANT magazine.
83 days until I get married. It can't come fast enough.
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