Not really a post but a brief aside

I'm alive, dropped Booz off at the airport 3 hours ago. Very very tired. I'll see if I can take some time tomorrow to type out what all happened over the weekend, but right now I just really want some sleep.

I'll post a picture to... I don't know, make myself feel better for being lazy.

Battle of the Birds

2049 6-24-10

Chirp chirp chirp chirp… CAW FUCKING CAW!!!

Snapped awake from the fog of death's kinder sister, my mind searches
for a grasp on time and soon finds it coming to grips with the 4:00am
mocking pixels playing across the screen. The mystical fog still
swimming amongst my brain's wrinkles and the mental energy needed to
come to grips with this reality send a series of dangerously combined
synapses into a fully fledged firing squad.

Whether by the Force or by sheer physical exertion, I find my katana
reassuring my palms that the world was still definable. Launching
myself off of my balcony, to hurtle towards the fine green fingers of
the foliage beneath me with my loyal Scooby-Doo boxers fluttering in
the moist morning air, however, was not part of the definition that I
had been trying to grasp, but the show must go on.

And the show landed me in the thick of Triad Grackles. A little slow,
my mind paused to ponder why these birds were smoking and wearing
smart suites. My hands never were good at pondering and since idle
hands are the Devil's play thing these righteous hands set to work.
Grackles generally get a bad rap, but this group was quite generous,
for they let me borrow all that was theirs. I borrowed their beaks,
their claws, their wings, and what they had for dinner the night
before. But it wasn't until I was back in the kitchens that I truly
appreciated their hospitality, for their newly laid eggs, and their
juicy hearts were the perfect way to start the day. As I sat enjoy
the meal, I reflected on what I had learned about myself this day:

Anything that wakes me up at 4 is expediently processed into the "I
wouldn't mind if you ceased to exist" category.

I would later paint Mr. Wong.

Painting My Peanut

2105 6-23-10

So some people when they're bored use that time to be productive.  That's fine for them, but for me, well… I like to paint peanuts.  So most of the day was spent painting my peanut, and it was a long arduous task indeed, for it took quite a few strokes.  I also talked to Deanna and Hanna, and then whipped out another profile picture of myself.

sssllloooowwww day

2016 6-22-10

Wow it was a really slow day today.  Even Niko said that it was unusually slow.

Also Trent figured out why I'm waking up so early.  I forgot all about daylight savings time, so now that the sun is coming up really early I'm waking up at the same time.

Let's see spent some time planning things with Booz.  Sadly both of my Chinese friends (Yiyi and Leo) are really busy this week and can't hang out with us which rather sucks.  But we've made plans to go to an art opening and will probably go hang out with the Frenchies at a club the same night.  We'll also be going to the Expo on Monday.  And I'm sure we'll be doing all kinds of other crazy crap as well.  I'm looking forward to it.

Relaxing

2034 6-21-10

Did stuff today, pretty unexciting.  I've started working out every morning (I desperately need to, I've grown way to soft, and I'll be starting an intense workout schedule when I get back to Hendrix), it's pretty easy, just wanting to get back into it: 175 jumping jack (75 at the beginning, 100 at the end), 15 push-ups and 30 sit-ups.

So confirmed with Boos on his plans, he'll be coming this Friday evening, super excited.  We're going to have a blast.  I need to start setting up some stuff for us to do.  Some of the Frenchies are getting plans together as well so we may tag along with them.

I also talked with Deanna some today.  She was studying for a Chem test, but we still had a lot of fun talking.  I even taught her how to convert [HO-] to pH!!  Man… all of those years of Bullshit Training finally paid off.  So I felt pretty proud of myself.  And before you get all smartass on me, yes it was the correct way of doing it.  So that whole business is going well enough.  There's certainly potential here, but there would be certain logistical business that would need to be dealt with.  All in due time I guess.

The weather has steadily started creeping up; it'll probably be in the 90s sometime this weekend.  I'm wearing my long sleeve shirt for like the last time I think.  Maybe I'll drag Boos into a brief shopping trip while he's here cause I'm lacking t-shirts.  ^_^

My Life is Simple

2157 6-20-10

So listening to other people's problems has made me realize how simple I've made my life.  There aren't any skeletons in my closet (they usually chill in the hot tub), no love triangles, no weird midgets with meth problems that happen to have very awkward photos of me, and no complicated relationships.  In short I avoid complication like the cooties of old.

The name of the game today was applications.   I spent a lot of time cruising websites and submitting applications to a few companies.  Of course I probably should have realized that on all of these applications I have my cell phone number on them, and currently it's sitting turned off somewhere in my room.  I'll have to go back tonight and contact them and say to please put a note that I won't be able to answer my phone for another month or so.  Hopefully it won't be too big of a problem.

One company that I was really surprised that I started applying to was Luckeed Martin, which is a massive weapons and space development company for the government.  But they had a ton of financial analyst positions specifically for recent grads, and several of them even required top secret security clearance… which is kind of cool.  Though I never really ever pictured myself working for the government, but I guess it really doesn't matter much.

Anyways I'll be largely holding off on sending out any more out until I get back to Dallas.

Consulting Lecture

6-19-10

I was up at 4 am… again.  Essentially that's 8 hours of sleep in 48 hours.  :(

Went to a lecture today by one of Rollin's MBA professors and former McKinsey manager, over all it was pretty good, though no really new information, except for reinforcing the fact that I definitely am going to need a plan B.  Afterwards the Frenchies and I shared a beer or two with him under the Mao Statue.  He'll be around for a couple of weeks so maybe I'll take him out to dinner and pick his brain sometime.

Anyways I'm out.