keep it like a secret

Friday night I learned that Scattergories is much more complicated/potentially violent than Hasbro would have you believe...and that playing this game makes some girls go CRAZY. This is exactly why I'm a Cranium man myself. Chris, Marcus and I headed to Athens Saturday to check out Twilight Criterium and an acoustic set from a band that I'm sort of into, which was absolutely amazing. It was nice to see them have the chance to let their lyrics rush to the forefront. Isbell is gone [the amicability of the split is in question] but I still love them and I've got another great band to go see now. The price of alcohol at Athens bars never ceases to amaze & delight me... Sunday brought a day of attempting to take full advantage of the beautiful weather w/ my favorite Athens attraction and then being lazier than I have been in a very long time, however forced it may have been - not too bad though, esp. considering that apparently I'm not too old to sleep in my truck aft...

I work here now Over the course of two hours today I got three jobs [on top of everything else that I'm already doing] this should be interesting...

I'm getting paid to go to Bonnaroo...and I sang 'islands in the stream' [if you don't know that song then I don't think we can be friends] karaoke-style last night, straight out of Mean Jeans backseat in the 80's - she would be so proud. I'm switching sides on the whole 'apostrophe for possession' issue. - that's all :)

I love the atlanta film festival - docs rock - and good friends. You really can't beat an evening of watching some great shorts, having a beer, and discussing anything that pops into your head while sitting outside a pub in the middle of the city [at least on a Tuesday]. I need to start getting some more stuff down in here, this whole job thing is just making a lot of stuff seem pointless. I'm def. doing things my way and I think I'm doing a pretty good job handling it all [both financially and mentally] but it's got to work out for it all to be worth it. If things don't come around soon I'll just look [or continue to look] like a self-absorbed, idealistic sloth. It's just crazy frustrating to have the 'perfect job[s]' dangled right in front of your face, just close enough to keep you hanging on...eh, 'so it goes' - we'll get there

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar...and the beer. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes." The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effecti...