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Bored at Work

Tuesday Jun 28, 2005

Each morning the haze burns off slowly as the cold desert night makes way for a sunblasted dry and temperate day. My office window over looks the intersection of Cahuenga and Sunset and from here I can view such famous landmarks as Amoeba Records, The Hollywood Sign, and of course Jack in the Box. Actually I can't really see the Jack in the Box but I thought mention of such would make for good comedy. I can see the CNN building however. Whatup Larry King!

The beginning of July has unfortunately become one of my least favorite times of the year. I used to love summer. Biking to the pool. Video games. Time with friends. Lightning bugs. But then as years went on it became early morning metra rides to the city sporting a shirt and tie. Mosquitos. Bees. And sadly loss.

Yet why should I dwell on the negatives? Sure I'm infuriated with a certain someone for making zero contact and leaving me with nothing but worried thoughts and unsteady sleep (I'm not going to name any names, just follow my eyes children). But I'm going on my first vacation of the year starting Thursday night, I have a show tonight, and life is going pretty well.

The following is a list of things that I miss from childhood in no particular order:

1. Slap Braclets
2. Super bouncy balls
3. Marbles
4. Darda Cars (hotwheels with engines)
5. Super Nintendo
6. Nintendo
7. Enjoying the Disney Channel
8. Being afraid of the dark
9. Not shaving
10. The Noid
11. Conference calls (Nichole, Sam, and I engaged in one yesterday and it was PIMP)
12. Butterflies in the stomach before, during, and after a date
13. P.E. (gym class)
14. Math Class
15. Chemistry Class
16. White Sox Home games
17. Attending college football
18. Alvin and the Chipmunks
19. Anticipating Back to the Future II
20. Anticipating Mac and Me II with optimism of its existence
21. Prepared meals
22. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the cartoon)
23. Denver the Last Dinosaur (the cartoon)
24. Playing baseball
25. Milk costing 5 cents
26. Making up books for book reports to avoid reading
27. Making up quotes for debate class to avoid research
28. Not buying books in college, knowing that I would not use them
29. Video game tournaments
30. Caps tournaments
31. The Highschool marching band drum core playing on a cold saturday morning as we warmed up for the big game
32. Wearing sweat pants, hypercolor, tye-dye and being stylish
33. Trying to make money by selling lemonade, walking dogs, babysitting, and other unsuccessful entrepeneurial efforts
34. Making up lyrics to video game music (ie. my song about jack the ripper to F-zero board 3 circuit 2)
35. Apple IIE
36. Delicious microwavable snacks and breakfasts (Sunrise three pancakes and two sausages and pizza/taco foldovers)
37. Fall
38. The first day that its warm enough to drive with the windows down
39. Sneaking out to: sled, hook up in your girlfriend's basement, go cruising
40. Taping late night porn
41. Carebears
42. Carebear Cousins
43. The Muppets
44. Bill Clinton!
45. Grades
46. Rankings
47. Musicals (performing and seeing)
48. Not knowing how movies were made and finding them purely magical
49. Playing football
50. Eating anything and everything and never having negative results

Okay, back to work. Show tonight, Thursday to Chicago. Peace hommies.