Flop Flip

Jumping around never ceases to amuse me. Have you tried it recently?

There are a couple of things:

At Coco's tonight, as I'm drinking something called a Heaven's Gate, next to me some dude in a track suit was going on and on (arrrgh, I confuse my tenses!) about Jesus. Hooray for cults? Anyway, he kept repeating over and over again that "Jesus was the master of living" and that he "was better at living than anyone else." Well yeah, being able to heal the sick and blind gives you a bit of an advantage. Unless you're the guy in Illusions. Then he was saying something about how selfish people, i.e. people who always wallow in their own problems, are the ones who end up with depression and mental disorders, whereas people who dedicate their lives to charity (selfless people) never have mental illness. I wonder if that's a fact! It makes sense, though. I don't do shit for anyone else these days, and look at how I usually feel. Of course, the guy himself sounded angry as he was saying all this stuff. It's like, "Love and Peace, God Damnit! Arrrgh!!" Hmmm, those would be good lyrics for a Christian metal band.

Then, during the drive home, I noticed a banana peel in the middle of the highway, and my first thought was "I wonder who the fuck dropped that there." I tried to hop my car over it, but that never works for me, so I hit it and spun out, and went off a cliff (while yelling "O'Doyle rules," of course). Luckily, Lakitu picked my car up and dropped me back on the road, though I lost some valuable time.

If that last paragraph didn't make any sense to you, good for you. If you understood it perfectly, High Five.

Before any of this happened, at work today my boss confirmed that he had sent the request out to find my (permanent) replacement. He says I'll be starting the new job (in Japan) at the end of this summer, but he wants me over there for a few months before then, to work on something else. I told him to give me some fucking specifics for a change ("hey boss, why don't you give me some fucking specifics," I said) but it looks like May or June will be my last month in this country for a while.

Also, I'm thinking of catching Soulfly down in New Orleans next weekend. I'm trying to decide whether to fly (pain in ass), take a train (12 hours each way), or drive (uuuugh). Anyone? Anyone??