Thanks but no thanksgiving

Thursday I have a TV meeting and then a business trip. Enjoy your day off, bastards.

UPDATE

- 12/24: Arrive in Boston around 3PM, take Concord Trailways up to NH for some delicious Christmas Eve hors d'oeuvres, which I insist that you join me for. Egg .. nog?

- 12/27-29: Probable Philly trip (via Amtrak) to buy some fucking clothes and hang out with Mike T. and Yakasaki-san and possibly some other people, depending on their schedules.

- 12/31: Millenium Mile.

- New Year's Eve/Day: No idea! Anybody??

- 1/3: Allston.

- 1/4: Early morning flight back to Japan? What the fuck?

So I get 10 or so days total, and that's even using up 3 vacation days .. bunch of heathens in this country, let me tell you. The fact that the company's paying for my plane ticket helps quite a bit, and parallels the fact that I hate being at work all day but feel pretty good about having money in my bank account for a change. Then I feel bad about trading so much of my time for money, then I think about the fact that not having to worry about money leaves my mind open for other things, then I think about studying, and in studying I learn that man is mortal, so I put the poison as far from myself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

Ahem.

Other than work, I've been doing the usual: running at 1AM or so every night, reading these damned addictive Haruki Murakami books, going to small-ass shows (last one had a DJ throwing in tracks by Sepultura, Carcass, At the Gates, and Slayer .. \m/), breaking up the occasional fight at a club (done by stepping in between and simply looking at both parties), hanging out with Sadahiro from work and Jacqui from .. Toronto, and listening to this insanely cool Oceansize album. Prog-rock GET!

I'd also like to mention that there are a couple of long-overdue personal projects I'm actually making some progress on, but that sort of claim probably bounces right off of you at this point. Boyoyoyoying!