I'm not going to plunge into something that I don't love professionally and not going to enjoy.
It took guts to leave the comfort and safety of a well-paid job to plunge into something completely different after so many years.
Outside the stadium, beyond the police guards poised on nearby towers, the reality is that Afghanistan remains a poor, turbulent, chaotic nation that, some fear, may plunge into something even worse as its army confronts the Taliban alone without international support, as outside aid money dwindles and as warlords jostle for supremacy.
Before you plunge into something headfirst, remember that enthusiasm needs to be tempered with wisdom.
After the 100th candle, the room was plunged into darkness and something spooky was supposed to happen.Such ghost-revellers would have expected to see a scowling, long-haired woman in a white funeral gown and with no feet the classic image of the wife who, betrayed and murdered by her husband, returns from the dead to punish her tormentor.
The steam, at times, made them invisible, or half covered them, or silvered them, or plunged them into something like a dream.
Eager to get going and do at least something, I plunged into a two-day application training offered in a publication by the "Hochschulteam --and again postponed my final decision on wHochschulteam --and knowledge.
Walking along a dirt trail at one point, I told Ryan that it felt great, after our first day of imagining and reliving Escobarian excess, to plunge ourselves into something more wholesome and organic.
The tougher American response came nine days into the Libyan crisis and six days after Colonel Qaddafi's security forces first opened fire on protesters at a funeral in Benghazi, plunging Libya into something close to civil war and igniting worldwide condemnation.
He wasn't going to plunge headlong into something faddish like the Internet or something ultra-high-tech like silicon wafers.
