Green Day got it right...

There are SO many things wrong with this.
1. Going off on vacation to Hawaii makes no sense whatsoever? It's not enough that he grew up there, and his grandmother, sister, and other family live there?
2. Really, you know Hawaii is a state? Because it sure doesn't sound like you do. It's been a state for the majority of your life!
3. Hawaii is foreign and exotic? Oh gosh darn, is it because there are a good number of "brown people" there?
4. Where the hell is Myrtle beach? I guess it makes a lot more sense to fly your own private jet and condo in Myrtle beach to go vacationing instead of visiting your GRANDMOTHER in the state that you grew up in (which is also a state that many of us lowly middle classers vacation in)!
5. There are four other people sitting at that table, and they all agree with her comments.

Senator Akaka's response
Opinion from SFGate

Sigh.

daydreaming

I was driving home today from work on auto-pilot, daydreaming away, when I looked up and realized I had missed my exit.

These times fly by so quickly.

an update

The next morning after my last post, I was presented with an opportunity at work that allowed me to switch teams and begin an entirely new role. How funny is that? I accepted, of course (even though I made mgmt wait an entire day for my response). I had been increasingly despondent at work, even to the point where I was actively searching despite everyone's warnings about our uncertain economy, unemployment rates, and lack of security at a new job. Anyway, so the good news is that I start tomorrow! I've been pretty happy for the past week, basically handing over my current duties to someone else... woohoo! But we'll see if this is just delaying the inevitable or if :::gasp::: I can actually enjoy my job. I am predicting the former - sorry, more of a skeptic here than an optimist!

So the BROWN SHOES have not been out in a while, but the brown sandal has...


You can't really tell, but this was taken in Portland, Oregon (haha). I was there last week visiting some family - and I have a LOT of family up there. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to explore the city like I'd wanted to, but I did eat dim sum quite a bit. And trust me, MPK is 100x better - not that you would have ever thought Portland could be!

Yummy yum yum

Kinda funny and sad, depending on how you look at it - when you're landing at PDX the first thing you notice are the buildings interspersed among trees, but when you land at LAX, you notice trees interspersed among buildings...

What else have I been up to? Several baby showers... all for girls (where did the boys go??), and babies (pics not to be posted w/o permission of the doting parents!).

Amongst other things I am now too tired to write about... but I leave you with a clip from strange fruit performing in downtown LA:

Ok forget it... for some reason, blogger won't let me upload videos. booo