retirement mode

it is only the middle of my first real work week since june. and i am already dreaming of retirement. it's not that i do not enjoy what i do for a living. when i'm inside the classroom everything is, in fact, so okay that, after classes, the shock of being outside the world, waiting for a ride by the pavement, or snaking my way through traffic, only intensifies. these retirement thoughts usually strike when i get home from work, especially on my m-w-fs, when my classes end at 1130am. as soon as the bell rings, i am off, barely able to contain my eagerness to be home, to be in this, my corner, by the window, with the comforting shelves of books around me, and husband weng in his corner watching his films (if not playing that goddamn xbox!) and, sometimes, my brother, derek, in his own corner, strumming some unknown song on the guitar, evoking images of the sea and the sand, of palm leaves swaying, of tanduay being poured for the nth round, under a moonrise. ahh... retirement. ruby, jet and i often talk about this. we keep thinking up schemes to support our plans of having very early retirement, like, say, in our late 30s or early 40s. and i think we've come to the conclusion that at the rate we're going, we might not yet have enough to retire on, before we actually become senior citizens. ang tagaaaal pa nun. now na, sana. haaay.