Okay… I am completely smitten by Erynn, and it is dangerous to keep talking about it to my friends, family, co-workers. It's just not good practice.
Erynn is a woman that I met in my Economics class this term (Summer B 2004) at FIU. With her beautiful, full, long hair; her deep hazel eyes with the saucer-sized pupils; and her gorgeous, luminescent irish skin (irish meaning lightly freckled, and near perfect), she is extremely pleasant to look at. Add to this the fact that she has a smart head on her shoulders, with designs on becoming a foreign correspondant for a news service, or at least travelling to places most Americans would shun just out of practice, and you have a woman who has really got me wondering what more lies beneath the exterior.
She has spoken to homeless people for hours at a time, just to get to know them. She works at a catering company, and knows the value of hard labor.
I've fallen hard for this 19- or 20- year old. Harder than I have for any woman in recent memory.
My marriage is not in jeopardy, because I truly love my wife and would never do anything to hurt that marriage; but I need to note this down, and get it out… because I just need to share it and keep it… so that I can remember this fondly in the future…
No matter where life takes me.
What do: “Not a finger!”, “…and another thing, Vonnegut, I'm gonna stop payment on the check.”, “Yes Brother Thaddeus.”, and “He'll keep calling me… he'll keep calling and calling and calling.” have in common? They're all quotes from movies that I have watched and, probably nearly memorized. (see the end of the post for the respective movies)
Tonight I'm with the boys while is at the barn mucking stalls, and we have “Toy Story 2″ on TV. As it's playing, what can you hear coming from Donovan's mouth, but quotes shortly before they come out of the speaker on the TV. It took me some time to realize what exactly was going on, but now that I know that he's predictively quoting the movie, it's quite amazing.
Movie quotes, in order: A Christmas Story, Back to School, Heaven Help Us, Ferris Buehler's Day Off
It is the end of the day… Ahhhhhhhh…. But I just got hit up for another report. This one is simple enough to run, though… Web applications, you gotta love them. This is about web session issues… My boss got a bug up her uh… well, you know… and thinks that session issues are a major problem.
I personally think that the bigger problem is that the university changes things arbitrarily and doesn't let anyone know.
I'm sitting in my office, and Neelima, one of the student workers on the Account Management team, walks in and says: “Sean, there's a Steven May to see you.” So I walk out, and there is Steve, along with Enrique Rios and a coworker of theirs. I worked with Steve and Enrique at StrataSys Group, LLC, a company that went belly up, not because of a bad business model, but because of a CEO and partner who had the unethical practice of lying to their bank about where the money the bank was lending was going.
Anyhow, it has been close to 18 months since I have seen either of these guys, and them walking into my office was like a blast from the past. A good blast from the past. It was refreshing. I say this because to date, I had been dreading ever running into any of my former coworkers again… wondering how it would be, what would happen, etc. Why would it be bad? I don't know, I just had pictures of it being unpleasant. Maybe it has something to do with something I did shortly after I left StrataSys… but all is fair in love and war, right?
We all have seemed to come to the same conclusion that StrataSys was the best company we had ever worked for, and then became the worst company we had ever worked for.
In any event, it was a pleasant one-hour conversation. I think maybe I'd like to do some business with these guys. I hope they send us info!
This morning I had to get gas in the car because, well… because it was empty or nearly so. The nearest gas station to our home is Murphy Oil at Wal-Mart. They also happen to sell the cheapest gas in the area at $1.79 ($1.76 if you pay with the WalMart Rechargable Gift Card)…
Anyhow, this morning, I'm dragging a little, even though I'm feeling very refreshed because I decided to drive in rather than commute, which allows me to sleep an extra hour or so. So, because I'm dragging, I decide that I need to buy a diet coke for my drive in; therefore, rather than pay for my gas at the pump, I pay up at the window (For those of you not familiar with Murphy Oil, think Bank Teller Window).
As I'm paying for my diet coke, I look through the window at the pills that the place sells. They're selling Tylenol, Bayer Aspirin, BC headache powder, a choice of ephedrine products (ostensibly to keep people awake), and Sta-Max. That's right, ladies and gentlemen… For only $1.99 and not a penny more, YOU TOO can be the proud purchaser of STA-MAX - For Maximum Sexual Satisfaction.
Now, this package contains two tablets of a blue color (evoking memories of Viagra, I'm sure), 500MG of a “dietary supplement” (it says so right on the package), made of… what? Now mind you, I'm not about to ask the clerk to let me see the package, no matter what… I see this person on a weekly basis, and I have my reputation to uphold!
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