I wanna be your superhero
Friday there was an exec speaker over in my old building. Afterwards I hung out for a bit with Monika, Luke, and Aju. It had been a month since I’d been there to hang out. I miss it. Its so great to just sit back and talk about whatever random crap pops into your head. I had seen everyone on Monday at lunch but lunch is an entirely different animal. You have to eat, there are all sorts of other people making noise, you don’t want to offend any of these other people, and you need to get back to the office so it doesn’t throw off the schedule for the week.
Aju asked me if the full-time MBA plan was still my current life goal. It is, but it made me think. Its been a long time that any idea has stuck with me for more than a week without me changing my mind. With this job I am not sitting around all day. Before I wouldn’t have any distractions and would think about during the things. This was not a good thing, especially the first month of work. My thoughts would change every five minutes. Now with other stuff going on I don’t have time to think and my thoughts don’t get a chance to change. It could be all that fluff or that fact that I’m kind of excited when I think about going to Harvard and living in Boston.
I still want distractions to keep my mind from wandering to places I would rather it didn’t. However, I don’t want to get stuck. Distractions alone aren’t really want I want. I want to be entertained, I don’t want to waste my time.
Back to the TRC … Luke fired up some helicopter game. He got 3845. He fell on the floor and didn’t get up for about 30 seconds. Travis’ record is 3866. At least, that’s what Luke said. I am doing some research for another idea of mine and quickly browsed through the emails this weekend and found that when Travis left he mentioned his helicopter record was 3844. I feel some controversy.
Friday night I went to Helium, the comedy club in Philly. Elane and I took the train and met up in the city with Lindsay, Meghann, Shaun, and Tim. I was really pumped for the show. I haven’t been to a comedy club before. I saw Seinfield and Dane Cook but both of those shows there were a couple thousand people. We got there early enough to get a close table. There was the MC, 2 comics, and the headliner: Nick Swardson. Everyone was really funny. I’d share some jokes but that would take all day. One thing I will mention, this one is for Jess, is that one of the guys asked what a Flyer was. No one had any idea. Just check out their myspace pages, they might have some funny stuff there:
http://www.myspace.com/dixonmatthews
http://www.myspace.com/patrickkeane
http://www.myspace.com/davidjamescomedy
http://www.myspace.com/nickswardson
One odd thing … there is a 2 item minimum in the showroom. You can choose between drinks and food. We all ordered something to drink and the waitress never came back to ask if we wanted anything else. I think we all wound up getting only 1 item and nothing was said about it. It wasn’t like we were trying to avoid it. I was starving and was pretty excited about spinach and artichoke dip.
Their upcoming schedule isn’t all that great. That really just means that none of the headliners coming are any of my favorites. If you were to go to any of the shows I’m sure it would be a great time. So go! Also, they have open mic nights each week. Maybe if I go once and realize the large majority of the people suck then I’d get up there someday.
Line of the Week
Thursday I took a 2 hour lunch to watch the USA/Ghana game at Fox & Hound with Mike. While we were there Mike said, “I can’t wait until Salsa dancing lessons are over.” It came out of nowhere and I was unaware he was even taking Salsa dancing lessons. I might have to sign up for the next round. With Jodi gone I guess Luke and I are never going to get those hip-hop dance lessons.