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"Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. ... I felt
very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."
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"On the surface, it sounds irresponsible, but to flourish in a rapidly changing world, you actually need to make more mistakes. Fail quickly. Fail often. If you do something and it
doesn't work, just recover in a hurry and try something else. ... Help develop a culture that is willing to fail its way to the future."
-- Price Pritchett, Culture Shift |
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"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction -- every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour."
-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar |
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| Monday, May 18, 2009 |
Today was Day 1 of Birthday Week, and traditionally, on each night of Birthday Week, I go and get myself something that is itty bitty but also delicious and/or fun, that I would not get on a normal night. It can be anything from a banana split to an electronic goody. It amounts to my own personal Hannukah, except that the only candles I light are in the bathroom, and I can still eat anything made out of a pig.
Tonight I got hung up on phone calls, e-mails, and Garmin research, and I have not yet retrieved my Day 1 treat. I will think of something good and let you know, maybe I can find a good song download on Amazon that I don't have yet. Maybe I can find a hot fudge sundae from someplace that's still open past 11 p.m. Maybe that hawt girl from my Intro class will let me have sex with her!
I'd really like one of these, but I think my chances of having sex are quite a bit better, to tell you the truth. That shit's almost $400. I know girls who would sleep with me for half that.
Two weeks from now, I will be hangin' with my wee nephew, my sisses, some cousins, and enjoyin' a week off work. Can't say I'm dreadin' the thought of that. More to come as Birthday Week continues, let's get through that and then we'll talk about TX, right? :)
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