hello peeps! the middle of the week has passed, and it's all downhill from here. feels good.
i had lunch with my best friend from elementary school, mark. he lives in SF, which isn't too far, but i haven't seen him in a couple of years. he's on IM, too, but i hadn't chatted with him in that long as well. strange to be so close, yet so far. but anyways, i finally got off my ass and IM'ed him last december, and it took us three months before we finally met and caught up. it was good talking to him again.
he has this notion of taking long vacations that i just can't imagine. for example, his honeymoon was a six-month (SIX) trek through south america. i can't fathom taking such a long break away from work and stuff. it just blows my mind. i would probably get bored and homesick. i wouldn't know what to do with myself. but anyways, he's well-travelled, and i sort of envy that. he's even stayed at a capsule hotel in japan! (although i don't envy that... i'd probably freak out due to claustrophobia.)
so we were talking, and mark mentioned a friend who went to google pre-IPO. apparently, he's worth approximately $10 million. holy shit! what would you do with all that money? would you work? would you just retire? some people are just fucking lucky, to strike it rich and all that. i had dreams like that before, when i was an innocent engineer just out of school in silicon valley. that's why i slaved away in startups, dreaming of striking it rich. now, i'm just a jaded engineer, resigned to the fact that i'll be working until i'm old and gray. sigh.
and to my commenter, yes, i do confess a lot of things on this blog. but not everything, mind you. i do carry secrets with me, and there are some things that i have done that nobody will ever know. hehe. but it's not really about getting things off my chest or trying to achieve catharsis. i'm just looking for topics to write about.
so it's the girls' turn on american idol tonight. the guys did much better last night than last week. i really like melinda doolittle. she's not pretty or anything, but i love the fact that she's so humble. humility is so underrated. she's a backup singer, and being in the spotlight isn't something she's used to. but she's got good talent, and i think she could go far. but one performance i'm afraid to watch is antonella's. i'm afraid she's going to lay another egg.
did you guys hear about the tennessee/florida men's bball game last night? the women's coach, pat summitt, showed up in a cheerleader's outfit and sang the "rocky top" song. this was to reciprocate the women's game, when the men's coach, bruce pearl, showed up with his body painted orange. i think it's great when the coaches show up with such school spirit. that's pretty damn cool.
i've been taking dumps first thing in the morning. let's hope this keeps up. i like being regular, rather than not knowing when my dump is going to come and being nervous that it's going to happen at a place where there's no bathroom. this eliminates "accidents." there was this one time when i was walking the streets of boston with some of my friends at night, and suddenly, i had this impending diarrhea feeling. i stormed into a mcdonald's, but i had to buy something in order to get a token to use the bathroom. so i bought a cup of soda, but the token got jammed in the men's bathroom token machine, so i wound up using the women's bathroom when a girl came out. it was very embarrassing. ick.
ok. that's it. time to go home.