Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.

There was an office sale notice sent to our department. This is the first paragraph:

Large town with diverse patient base and a wide range of large retail stores (Best Buy, Sears, Home Depot, Office Max, etc.)

Oooh! Let me the first to make on offer! Is there any place without those types of stores close by? Even bumblefuck towns aren't far off from that. Maybe if there was a Wal-Mart, I'd be more interested.

The last few days have been fucking insane. Well, not really, but busy. I think I just studied on Wednesday, then came home and made myself a shitload of food and forced myself to eat it all...

Ryan K.'s Annual St. Patty's Party was Thursday. He cooked up a ton of food.

After a shitload of conversation, and a ton of corned beef and cabbage, and potatoes, too, of course, and six or seven drinks, I hauled my ass home for a little sleep. I hadn't seen Ryan or Les in a long time, and it was good to hang out with them.

Of course, it can't be Irish(-American) without soda bread...

...or Guinness.

You can sequentially watch Les devour meat




And here's an unfortunately blurry picture of a Green Guinness Waterfall. (Best shot I had.)


Anyway, I felt mildly hungover all day yesterday, but things went well. I didn't start feeling normal until I'd wolfed down about three thousand calories or more. I told myself I was going to go to the Big D/Anti-Flag show, then come home, shower the stink off me, and sleep. Well, I did go to the show, and it was a blast. Big D played mostly ska songs off their new album, which I dig much more than their old stuff. We did a long-ass interview with them...it lasted almost all of Anti-Flag's set. Dave said it was fun, almost like a free-jazz interview style. Let's hear it for my lack of professionalism! Anyway, as soon as it was done, I ran up into the middle of the crowd for the last five Anti-Flag songs, and still got hot enough to have to take my shirt off for most of what was left.

I hit Delilah's on the way home to rinse the two MGDs I'd had during the interview out of my mouth. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that I've started to become one of the guys hanging out by the front door. I didn't leave until one o'clock, when I decided that my increasing exhaustion would counteract any sobering up I had yet to do. Came home, crashed, slept 10-11 hours, and crawled out of bed around 1:00pm.

I borrowed Coupland's Girlfriend In a Coma from Ryan. He told me he didn't really like it. I read several chapters in it this morning while summoning the will to leave the bed. There were several great lines, and overall the book is pretty good so far.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.