Gotta be honest... living at home is driving me a wee bananas.  Today, no joke, my mom told me that I have not been taking care of myself and that I have been in the sun way too much, which she tells me repeatedly all the time, but she now has empirical proof.  That proof, get this, is the excess amount of wrinkles on my knees.....

I used way too many commas.

Currently Watching The Office - Season Three By Rainn Wilson, Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski, Ed Helms see related

I found that texting and drinking are similiar.  You should never do both while driving.  In all seriousness, I was driving to work and this girl was driving in front of me and for some reason she's driving really slow, like 5 car space behind the one in front of her... and she was in the left lane, the supposedly "fast" lane.  I passed that son of a bitch on the right, she's texting....... with both hands!!!!  she was driving w/ her fucking elbows.  That's just not right.  I felt like getting out of the car and smash her windshield and take her phone away from her, call her parents and then throw it away.  JESUS!

All my work related posts at http://mloylo.blogspot.com instead.

Oh, and I love the RSS in Google.  I can consolidate the blogs of all my friends there and stay updated.  Yay!

The Office: Season 3, quite possibly the best one yet.  The first two model too much after the BBC version and was kind of slow and dry...  Love it.  Yeah, I know season 4 is about to start but I don't really let TV run my schedule so I only get the DVD.

Currently Listening The Fragile Army By The Polyphonic Spree see related

I'm really excited about seeing some old friends in the near future before I start working.  Becky is coming up from Sugar Land before she leaves for Yale, Andy is coming through Austin on his way from Lawrence to Tuscon and Jill agreed to come up to meet us as well.  Yesterday I got in touch with Paul (refer to the June 28th post about me stranded in Chicago) and Chandrapal and they'll both be in Austin next week.  Paul is on an engagement for work for the next 6 weeks and Chandrapal is just coming up to visit.

A lot of my friends are all spread out over the country, or this friggin' world for that matter.  Yeah, I knew a lot of people back in college but only a handful that I truly get along with and we'd hang out during our spare time.  I suppose it's a good thing that I'm surrounding myself with successful people or people that are going places but it sucks that they're pretty much all in different part of the world.  It makes me sad, and from time to time lonely.  Licup just recently moved out for his job, Zach is going to Waco for school soon and god knows where Timmy's going to find a job at.  Nien is in China, Jack sells books during the summer and he's busy and gone a lot.  Maybe because losing all these friends that I now tend to not open up take the effort to invest in new relationships... I mean, yeah, by the time I really know the person he/she will probably be graduated and move to somewhere else or I'll take a new job on the other side of the country.

Cindy comes home from Houston on Sunday and my parents come back on Monday.  Finally, the peace is being restored.  I feel like I can exhale now.  I've been holding my breath for about 3 weeks now.

Currently Listening Sound of Silver By LCD Soundsystem see related

Finally get done with Series 7.  I got an 85!  Booyah, proudest 85 I've ever gotten in my life.  They gave me a little statistic print out at the end and the nat'l avg is 73 and only 66% of the people pass the exam, which is 70.  Makes me feel pretty good you know.  All that painful studying finally paid off.  The computer can calculate your score within 10 seconds and it's probably the longest 10 seconds of my life... I actually crossed my fingers and put them over my eyes because I couldn't bare to see it.  I just slowly count to ten.

Whew... now life can go back to normal.  I'm gonna go read, for fun, this time.  Listen to music, especially those that will be playing at Lollapalooza.  Watch my DVDs.  Scrubs and Entourage, what!  I watched Freedom Writers this morning.  It's actually quite good for an MTV Films production.  Oh, you don't know what I'm talking about?  C'mon  MTV is the same production company that brought you Crossroads (why Britney, why?), Aeon Flux, The Longest Yard (Sorry Sowa, I know your boy Sandler is in it but that movie was crap), The Fighting Temptations, All You've Got, Get Rich or Die Tryin', and Pootie Tang.  Pretty much every other movie they do they try to relate to the contemporary teenage crowd.  Case in point: Varsity Blues, Orange County, The Perfect Score, Election (w/ pre-famous blonde Reese).  Now for some reason, maybe this is purely coincidental, but the ones they produce related to ethnic topics are actually pretty decent.  And it's not just me, the movie critics agree as well.  A lot of them were kind of a far reach and you can tell from the movie that instead of being inspirational it came across as a little cheesy.  You see the trailer and you get it, yeah, another one of those ghetto boys can survive stories (Save the Last Dance, Hustle & Flow, Coach Carter).  I was afraid that Freedom Writers was going to turn out to be another example.  It actually reminds me of Teach for America and Rich Reddick quite a bit.  I wonder how many people that are doing TFA has seen it. 

I think I might go pick up a copy of Diary of Anne Frank today.  We actually went to the place she hid in Amsterdam.  It was quite touching.  Yeah, I'm sorry to say I haven't read it.  But I will.  Soon.

I was looking at the line up for Lollapalooza and it's funny, a lot of the bands are the same ones that played at Coachella or will be playing at Ausitn City Limit.  Is there some kind of behind the scene connection in that the people organizing these music festivals all have like the same records or it just happen that these bands are he ones live music fans like and they're Indie so they're trying to get their names out there?