Echo

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/10/news/companies/airline_woes/?postversion=2008041014

http://www.slate.com/id/2188745/?GT1=38001

most of us are ghosts.

you’re only not if you’re rooted to one place and maintain the same circle around you for your entire life, never venturing out past the torches of the village into the darkness.

try to project a balanced reality. you get penalized with bad surprises when you go too far in either direction.

we count our feelings in yesterdays
–shea seger

don’t worry about things that don’t exist yet.

prepare to handle it, but don’t worry about it.

rjd2 has beautiful hands.

i learned a lesson this week.

sometimes people concentrate too much of their energy on jealousy. they’re so angry at the things other people attract into their lives that they spend themselves focused on hate and being fearful.

i think that was my biggest change in life. being able to see people have more than me, have better things to me, have bigger achievements, yet feel indifferent to it because i know that when i find the thing that i do best, i’m going to be really happy with it. the excitement of the mystery keeps me intrigued and i’m usually too busy hunting for the clues to my own life to worry about what other people are doing.

i think if people didn’t take other people’s accomplishments personally and just kept that energy focused on finding their own path, they would actually end up having a life that makes them happy. these things will probably even surprise them if they allow them to.

now listening to: royksopp – melody am

okay, back to work. i’ve been slacking off, getting too into the physical side of life.

i need a job that exposes me to the maximum number of people, but allows me the choice in who i interact with.

one thing i liked in amsterdam was these food carts that sold hot dogs or fish sandwiches. they would set up in these major tourist crosswalks and be able to see everyone walking by. i loved that. if i could have their vantage point and cover, i would be able to grab all the interesting people and get into their minds.

but then there’s this thing called pride.

how the fuck do i explain to my friends and family that i ran off to amsterdam to go work in a fish sandwich cart.

but i am realizing how happy something like that might make me. to find that there are people in this position, who can hang out and see people who are coming and going, be able to grab and have connections with the interesting ones. i think this would benefit me.

i’ve got to stop my nonsense issue about money. it’s irrational and i’m going to waste my opportunities.

i enjoyed office life only in the aspect that i could hide in my office and mindfuck these detached voices without faces calling in in a way that things out of the ordinary happened and suddenly i was making so much money for the company.

that’s why i got so pissed when i left. i did something really special for them and they couldn’t understand what it was.

but every single person who meets me can tell, i’m someone who really needs to work for myself.

so i’m trying to create my own reality. imagining a situation where i can see myself really being happy, so that i have a goal to work towards, a projection to be painted and brought to life.

and honestly, when people aren’t giving me too much pressure, it’s been a lot of fun.

so okay, the idea of being exposed to people. i need to be at a vantage point where i can safely observe people without them noticing. i want to see them in their natural form, as who they really are.

the position should also be one in which i can easily establish a friendly, warm rapport that asks nothing of each person but honesty and good faith. selling food is an easy one because food makes people happy and tends to attract a great deal of traffic.

i would want it to be something that can be quickly served so that the register area doesn’t become energetically anxious.

staff members would need to be able to mingle.

guests should be encouraged to stay as long as they would like, but the customer base tends to be gracious about giving up room for incoming guests.

it is a place where people seem to really see each other, and find people they have chemistry with. it’s known as a place where good things just seem to happen.

it will be shaped as an O

and i think those are just the first details.

you can’t create a shitstorm, and then be upset that now there’s a shitstorm. can you, julia?

brian walks into my office.

‘you know what else is your problem,’ he says as he rubs lotion on his hands.

‘what?’ i swivel my chair around to look at him.

‘the guys who come after you…it’s like they turn into chicks. because normally it’s the girls who obsess and put up couples pictures on their messenger, but these guys are saying i love you in the first five minutes and worrying about marriage like they’re women. I don’t know what’s with these dudes.’

he finishes rubbing his lotion, turns and leaves.

i think about it. it’s true.

my magnetic power turns men into lesbians.

fuck. fuck fuck fuck.

half of me needs to grow a spine.

half of me needs to stop being so nice.

half of me needs to get my head out of my ass.

looks like i’m off to london in exactly one month.

it’s like this:

you chase a rabbit into a hole, you might discover something wondrous.

you chase a dragon into a cave, you’re going to get fucked.

really think about it.

ghosts aren’t known to lie.

great article on joey dorsey:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=3308176

the only thing that bugged me was he misuses saturnine. joey dorsey is nothing like someone ruled by saturn. a better description is mercurial. but it cracks me up how joey’s a classic sagittarius. they’re so freakin’ honest.

here’s another victory:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23973513/wid/11915773?GT1=31037

oh, it was such a lovely day today. from beginning to the end. everyone was so beautiful today.