Now's As Good A Time As Any

Sometimes I feel like I should give up and go work at WalMart like everybody else.

Thanks to my brother for this, which I’m listening to right now: a radio documentary from BBC Radio 2 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Bohemian Rhapsody. You can listen to it too!

I wonder how many hours a week I’d be working by now if I’d gone into investment banking after college. Maybe only 80? And I wonder how much money I’d be making. I don’t know, but certainly more than I’d have time to spend.

Lest I forget…at least one of the dumb things I gotta do will have an impact on three other people’s grades. Maybe I should do it first and then throw everything else together at the last minute.

When you don’t have to do anything or go anywhere for five days straight, it’s kind of hard to force yourself to get anything done, especially when you think it’s worthless crap. Well, I did finish building a bridge out of balsa wood…that’s something! Sort of!

I’m leaving the country in not much more than three weeks, and I have so much stupid crap to do for school. I’m contemplating how much of it I can blow off and still pass my classes.

By the way, I already failed at not buying anything today: I got some Enchildas Rancheras at El Acapulco AKA Mom ‘n’ Pop Mexican Restaurant (where I wussed out of practicing my Spanish).

Did I already tell you there’s an Argentine Queen cover band that’s going to be playing while I’m in Buenos Aires? I’m so psyched!

I don’t usually buy anything on Buy Nothing Day, but it’s not an ideological thing…it’s just that I’m tired from turkey and travel and I’d much rather sleep the day away. I might cheat today, though, because the Tough & Lovely are playing at Skully’s tonight, and I think I’d have to buy a ticket to see them…unless somebody’s willing to comp me, for old times’ sake.

I’m going to miss Thanksgiving in Cleveland for the first time in my life this year because of the rotten weather. I’m also not going to get to meet the new baby. Jon will get pictures and will connect us telephonically for thank-yous.

I don’t know what kind of recurring dreams you have, but I keep seeing scenes from the second season of the Muppet Show on DVD.

ВЎY va a oscilar mi asno apagado!

Arriving in Buenos Aires on 12/13…taking the fancy buses across the country…departing from Santiago on 12/29. ВЎГ‰ste va a ser estupendo!

“There will be a lot of No. 10 jerseys and a lot of kids on Thanksgiving weekend trying to make those moves in a pile of leaves.” — Coach Jim Tressel

It’s been a while since I’ve cheered at my TV at the end of an episode of South Park (but it’s certainly happened a few times).

Hmmmmmmm…travel travel travel…

At the store the other day, I saw Thanksgiving greeting cards. I found them really weird, because I’m always with all of my family on Thanksgiving. Plus, it doesn’t seem like a greeting card kind of holiday.

If you see me, you’ll have to tell me if I’m sunburned from today’s game. I haven’t looked in the mirror yet. But it was way sunny.