i was talking to josh when the servers were down and he said i should update the killoggs as to my whereabouts, so here goes.

i'm living in a different virginny suburb now, more suburb than ever before, and working for a big, ugly, evil conglomerate of a media company. it's hellish and i've handed over my life in the shape of 14-hour days and always on-call evenings during which i just mostly get drunk to deal with the depression. it sucks, yes, but i also have money to afford sexy, sexy shoes, and you know, if you look at enough $600 pairs of prada, $50 for a yellow pair of sam and libbys is totally reasonable. or so it seems. it's an ugly paradox to compare your free time to gorgeous shoes, but i do it with gusto.

so. yeah. i wear very fun shoes now, if there's any real notable difference. i traded sneakers for stilettos and i can't really complain, as i have flabby calves.

luckily! i still drink! constantly!

the only other big thing is the poker, which is the main thing josh thought i should write about. i play poker all the time now, which makes sense as texas hold'em is pretty much everywhere. i grew up playing cards, my dad had taught me how to play poker before i could read, but he tends to be kind of a jackass as he deals from the bottom of the deck, counts cards, and in general cheats like a bastard. i'm not saying i don't do those things, i just try to pick my battles, and i try to be discreet about it, even when playing against family members.

right now, i'm saving up enough money ($10K) to enter the 2005 world series of poker. i have built up a somewhat decent reputation in this area, last week i was invited to play in a $3K tournament, but i chickened out. i had the starting cash, but if i lose i'd have to push back my world series entry to 2006, and i don't really want to do that. would anyone like to sponsor me? even finishing fourth in the wsop would be something like $60k. if i win anything, i'm going to open a shoe store slash bar, where we sell shoes until 2 a.m. to all the drunk girls. CLEARLY, this is gold. perhaps i can also sell the waterfall skirt. work on this, people.

i think that's it. i am drunkenly losing money in an online poker room at the moment, so now i will go pay attention to that.