How You Like Me Now?

Glad I brought the sweatpants today. It's drizzling and supposedly it's going to be non-stop but I have volleyball tonite and the potential gym session but at least the bike will be dry until 530. From there who knows?

Began reading The Rum Diary today. My interest was piqued when I saw the movie trailer. I knew about this book/movie for some time but since it was Hunter S. Thompson I was skeptical at best. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" was one of those films that one of my high school burnout friends lived and died by (and I know a couple of people since then, too who are like that) and I just didn't enjoy it. This one seems to be more up my alley. I'll give it a shot. It's only 200 pgs. So far it's fine.

Solipsist has 10-15 pgs left. Saving it for Friday's train ride. Will stuff a CD cover in it. My feeling is that this book got really good about 100 pgs in. I don't know if it's because I became numb to the style and the subject matter or because I started to connect to the latter (or both). A lot of times I feel just as alien as he describes (fragments of passages from the book made their way in to my fav Rollins Band songs). I feel totally normal while I'm around my friends at work and some select few others but otherwise, though I admit I want to be liked, I feel I'm on another planet. Sometimes I am still a 16-year-old kid only this time around I know to enjoy it. Other times I know there's an energy inside me that I thankfully pour out at the gym & on the bike.

The Heavy's "How You Like Me Now?" is on. I got a free live download of this popular tune and it's pretty damn good. His voice doesn't hold up as well as the studio version but it's passable. Chickenfoot takes the rest of the ride. Last day while it's still "recently added."

Waiting on a call to figure out what my week will be like. No bike for sure tomorrow as I have my last pair of theater tix. Friday is a possibility...Since this Rollins thing is at 7 it might be to my benefit to just bite the bullet and come in and then save what would have been "that day" and roll it over.

Thank you for reading.