Where’ve I been?

This is a question with a very uninteresting answer: Right here. Problem is, I’ve had nothing to write about for a while, so it’s been easy to neglect my memory-keeper. Lately, I feel like a jolly little elf counting the days until Christmas, until something happens. Except for me, Christmas isn’t about hopping in the sled with Santa and slathering the earth with cool stuff and good wishes, it’s about totally overhauling my life. Not that I feel my life is in need of an overhaul–I’m a college kid with more free-time than I know what to do with and I often find myself too short on energy to even sleep the days away–but a drastic change is inevitable. I think I’ve spent a lot of my free-time trying to cope with what will surely be a “quarter-life crisis”, as John Mayer calls it. I don’t deal well with transition and I doubt I’ll be very sporting about moving across the country and crunching numbers forty (or so) hours a week. Update on that in six months or so.

Poker

I haven’t played much lately because there just aren’t many people around. But I have been reading about the game and trying to figure out if I think it’s something at which I could succeed if I tried. Right now, I’m reading Doyle Brunson’s Super System, which is an excellent tutorial on all kinds of poker and Mike Caro’s Book of Poker Tells, which has been very useful that past few times I’ve played. I’m looking forward to maybe trying out a few home games in Texas if I end up moving to Dallas. It could be a good way to pass the time as I try to find a way out of spending the rest of my life as an engineer.

Be back in a month or so…