the beginning

so, i guess y'all should know--i just got fired. beyond the initial shock, it's not so bad. not nearly as bad as nationals 2003 or not making nationals 2006. the closest previous experience i've had is being kicked off the cross country team my senior year of high school (i was really close to lettering, and the coach said i couldn't race with the team b/c i wasn't practicing enough with the team. um...hello? running is not a team sport. as long as i'm running every day, why should he care when i do it?).

anyways, the rejection stings a bit...but i know it's not in my control. i mean, it's not really a reflection on my performance. and i guess it doesn't hurt much b/c this thing was never mine to begin with. i fell into finance haphazardly, and now i've fallen out of it. the scary thing is: now i gotta figure out what to do with the rest of my life. i get all these resources from HR, and my manager has offered me tons of contacts to find another finance job (along with 6m severance pay tax free). but do i want to? for the first time in my life, i feel like i have the freedom to do whatever i want. go to culinary school? med school? law school? journalism? travel journalism? housewife? i could even go back to mit and get my m-eng (it's deferred indefinitely).

i was lucky to find that job. it took me to hk, allowed me to travel and eat and eat. and i met jon. too bad it ended before i got the frisbee house. maybe i'll be a carpenter and build it for yall anyways :-).

haha, and now i can finally add all my friends from work on facebook. sweet!

and get a motorcycle license!!!!!

and maybe a trihawk?