2004-11-01 - 10:19 a.m.

i am chock-full of happiness today.
today is the first day of the rest of my life. i have 15 days left until i leave my job.
the resignation went quite well, thank you very much! in fact it was quite flattering and there were lots of nice things said, the best of which was, "look yi shun, i have to be very blunt with you. i've never used these words before with you. i just have to say that you're a writer, you'll always be a writer, and you need to go do that."
well OK! that's far better than, "well, you sucked at the job anyway."
:)
it does feel a little funny hearing that from someone you know doesn't read a whole lot but i guess i might as well just take whatever compliments i can.
friday was just plain giddy. the weekend flew by really fast and here we are at monday, which is the first day of national novel writing month, during which we spend the month of november writing like crazy. 50,000 words, to be exact. no one says that i am not allowed to write all sorts of nonsense but i hope i will not do that.
in fact i think i might start with my resignation. only i will call it a firing, because firings make for much better stories. and somehow, i see myself as the type that regularly gets fired anyway. not that that actually means anything. i just think that people who get fired regularly are more interesting people.
my halloween costume this year was a killer bee. i bought some wings and a striped chest piece and some antennae and a stinger. and then i zip-tie'd a large serrated [plastic] knife to my stinger and added some plastic squirt guns and another large knife and made a foil tazer-looking like thingy to my antennae and pow we were off!
good fun. jim's costume was loads of fun too. he was a headless thingy. i can't even describe it. there will be photos soon i'm sure.
last night we saw lauren perform at a nice little place in brooklyn and thoroughly enjoyed myself. i am very lucky to have friends who can entertain me in ways other than telling jokes and funny stories!
erm. what else...nothing else. that's it.
blissful, stupid happiness.

 

 

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