I come to work all

I come to work all ready to finally sit down and buy a plane ticket for Summer's wedding. And wouldn't you know it, the great fare I found 2 days ago is gone!!! I'm kicking myself for not buying it 2 days ago. I just wasn't ready to spend the money. What's crazy is I have the money so it's not the money that is the problem. It's the mental preparation necessary to spend more than $20 at one time. Pretty pathetic, huh? What can I say? I'm anal about money sometimes. So today I'm mentally ready, I psyched myself up on the way to work and now I'll have to spend a whole $100 more to buy the ticket. I just can't do it. Good thing the wedding isn't until August.

I'm had a number of people tell me they really liked yesterday's 2nd Quote. I think that says a lot about where my friends and I have been. Though sometimes I think I should go back to "the ritual of pharmaceutical usage."

Lunch with Mike yesterday was GREAT. It was so fun to see where he works, what he's working on (a little bit) and to meet the people in his office. God, I can only wish I was working for a company with 8 employees! His boss, Allen, and I talked about IBM; apparently, he "did time" with Big Blue. He said what I've been thinking but never had the guts to say. He said, "Imagine what a company like IBM, who does something like 85 billion dollars a year, could do if everyone actually worked! I've never seen such an inefficient company." I totally agree!! I mean, afterall, my job is pretty much unnecessary and I'm only one ant in a huge ant farm! Andrew, who is a programmer at MarketNet with Mike came to lunch with us. He was very nice. I have to admit though I didn't extend the necessary energy to get to know him. I'll have to go check out Andrew's web page in order to get to know him better. (How fucked up is that?)

It was so fun to catch up with Mike about life and to hear someone else's "coming of age" experience. No, we did not actually refer to it this way, but that's kind of how I'm picturing life right now. The neatest thing was Mike encouraged me to get my portfolio together and just start interviewing for a new job. Duh. Of course that's what I should do! I've been so stuck in the mindset of "I don't know enough yet" that I haven't been focusing on what I DO know. I know art and there's something to be said for that.

Last night when I got home, I started feeling sick very suddenly. So I popped a couple Advil and got in bed. Talked on the phone with Jason for awhile then succumbed to sleep. I expected to be horribly sick this morning but I wasn't. Good things DO happen.

Got email this morning from an old high school friend, Paul. (I would add his last name but I've always had a hell of a time spelling it.) Anyhow, "Paul-E," as we called him in high school, is a good friend of Mike's so I assume Mike sent him the link to my blog. Paul apparently has been keeping one for a year and a half which is why the conversation with Mike came up in the first place. Paul made the cutest comment about online journals - "I find mine especially helpful in remembering what the hell I've done and when I did it." Hmm, sounds like Paul experienced some "ritual pharmaceutical usage." So I haven't checked out Paul-E.net yet, but as soon as I have my bagel, that's what I'm going to do.