August 31, 2023, Thursday night, 7:26pm, pacific standard time, hotel in Bakersfield, California, USA. I need to find something like being the chaplain without actually going back to being a chaplain. Something that feels challenging yet balanced. Of course the let down after my chaplain career was excruciating. Maybe I should be careful what I ask for. This job is fine. It is terrifying and exhausting. That is why I like it. Feeling like everything could implode at any moment and the rush of adrenaline when it doesn’t. I must be a little sick in the head to keep doing this but I can’t really imagine anything else.