{ feeling : sickish
{ hearing : keri hilson ft. kanye west & ne-yo – knock you down

I said something dumb earlier and Joe corrected me but the gist of it was that I was trying to say Kanye West is the Lil’ Wayne of 2009.

I think I said T-Pain for some reason and he said Lady GaGa is the T-Pain of 2009.

Anyways, Kanye! I’m pretty sure that part is true just because when we’re sitting in the car, every other song that comes up features him just like how Lil’ Wayne had the same thing going on last year-ish. Not mainly him, featuring him. Hey, I ain’t complaining. I’m in that group that loves him, not the one who needlessly hates him.

Why Kanye has to be my writing prompt two entries in a row? I have no idea.

So, graduating feels like nothing new. It feels like every summer since graduating from high school … And I guess every summer before that graduation from high school, har.

This is probably why I haven’t written since.

Basically, I’ve been in Chicago. I haven’t spent a summer in Tokyo. I haven’t gone skiing. I haven’t gone on a group picnic or wedding. I haven’t gone to Rome or indulged in Apple products or downtown apartments. I don’t like large social situations or drinking so you bet I haven’t been out in the club. I love Chicago and all its ups and downs so I haven’t even been complaining about weather, transit, and the Olympic issue.

I’ve been working and being broke. Whining about my personal issues, not the city’s. I was working pretty damned frequent to cure the broke but then my hours were severely cut due to tight budgets that have lasted seemingly the entire 2.5 years I’ve been at IMAX, Chicago. Now it’s more like … Working a little, searching for jobs that don’t exist due to massive hiring freezes, reading a little, gaming a little … And a little Maury, Cheaters, and every other trash TV show in between.

It’s been slow. I feel like if I come back here, I should have something worth mentioning but so far, nothing.

I finished my first Chuck Palahniuk yesterday? Only me would be pretty proud of finishing a book this week. Fuck it, books are awesome. I’m going to make it so I finish a book or two or three a week. Started a book called Hairstyles of the Damned today by a guy named Joe Meno who I realized only today lives in Chicago and actually works at Columbia as a creative writing professor. Small world, har.