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Jul 18, 2006 01:25

I always check my friends page and always feel bad when hardly anyone has updated. So, because I've decided to take a more pro-active role in my life, I'm updating. I've realized that people don't have long attention spans when they're reading online blogs (there's still some hope for us after all), so this is my valiant and most likely unsuccessful attempt at "keeping it short."

Summer has been good. I was really excited before it started because, hey, I had three months off and it was going to be awesome. It's funny how kids look forward to summer almost every school year, but then manage to complain about being bored at some point every summer. I guess there's just a point when everything becomes stale and you need to feel like you're doing something productive with your life again. That's not to say that we aren't doing productive things with our time, but seriously, who thinks their summer job is that worthwhile? Unless you have a big summer internship for, I don't know, a Senator, you probably don't feel like you're accomplishing much. Regardless of how much you get paid, you still have the rest of your life laid out in front of you and calling old people, writing postcards and knocking on doors in an attempt to take down a six-term incumbent in Congress just won't cut it later on. Welcome to my life...minus the part about getting paid.

There are a lot of nights when I just lie in bed and worry about the future and how the hell I can compete with everyone else for what I want. Let's face it, there are a lot of smart people out there. We have Harvard Scholars, Rhodes Scholars, Fulbright Scholars, Putnam Fellows, Fields Medalists, Nobel Laureates, and Pulitzer Prize Winners running around. Then we have me, Ed Cao: high school graduate, college student, prominent LiveJournalist. What. The. Fuck. But as much as I worry, I always remember what Helen Keller said: "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged." So maybe I wasn't lucky enough to be born with a box of 128 crayons. I feel like it's safe to say that I have at least 64, and that should be enough. See, even my metaphors are second-rate, but you still got it, right?

I went to Pittsburgh to visit one of my college friends/witness the All-Star break first-hand. Pittsburgh is an awesome city if anyone was wondering. While I was there, I "tackled The Roethlisberger," got my name on another hot wing "Wall of Flame," gave the Ed Cao-Greg Crapanzano rendition of "Wind Beneath My Wings," and signed my future roommate up to sing the uncomfortably gender-specific "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" at a karaoke bar full of people who already thought he was gay due to a small comment I made. I also met some guy who just introduced himself as the owner of a fish shop in town. It wasn't until I was driving across one of Pittsburgh's many bridges that I saw a building with a giant fish and the name "WHOLEY" under it that I realized he owned most of the fish shops in the entire city. All I could say was, "Wholey shit!"

...Puns are awesome and you know you enjoyed that one.

Since my future roommate gets to be part of a story, my old one has to make the post too. I went to the driving range with Flip the other day. The cart is so much harder to hit when you're actually aiming for it. If that wasn't immature enough for you, we went to Chuck E. Cheese's afterward. Here's what I learned:
- Being a college student does not mean that children's games won't confuse you
- There are alarms on the machines and punching the games to get extra tickets is frowned upon
- Two seemingly rational people will spend 10 dollars each in order to get the tickets needed to "buy" toys that are worth 50 cents
- You can't put a price on fun!

I lost my copy of Garden State a week ago and I'm still upset. Now I have a DVD case and all it holds are tears.

Someone very special to me *wink wink* has a birthday coming up and if any of her friends who still read this have good gift ideas for an idiot, drop me a line. My screenname is Japa China and you can e-mail me at eyc7c@virginia.edu. If you have a birthday coming up and suspect this is about you, please disregard. For serious.

Well, that's my life. How have you been?
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