**update…. holy crap, josh was on TV! what a travel nerd!**

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damn, yesterday was such a monday. i’m not usually a whiner about getting up and going to work because i love my job. but sometimes you get there and realize your brain is just not fully with you on this adventure, you know? i like thinking. contributing. being productive. but sometimes the circuits just don’t cooperate, as if they have their own agenda.

that’s why it was extra crappy that yesterday we worked a 14-hour day in preparation for one of those Very Important Meetings that happen every now and then, and i felt so bad. not because i didn’t want to be here, but more because i was guilty that i was so out of it and probably much less helpful and cheerfully positive than the brian my friends and associates have come to expect. it was a damn shame.

then to top it off in another ‘i’m not mad but this just sucks’ moment, my roommate kept me from crashing out to an episode of six feet under because he was watching a movie with our buddy josh when i got home. that could have been perfect — come home at 11, halfway through a decent flick, half-pay attention until you get sleepy, then nighty night. but it was war of the worlds. eeww.

i was forced to read my recent bane, the self-assigned, masochistically-900-page classic don quixote instead, ending up on page 226 after my fifth or sixth week in the undertaking. why do i have this odd compulsion to endure classics that i won’t really enjoy just so i can have them on my bookshelf without the fear of having to answer to the dreaded question, ‘did you read this?’ and having no intelligent response to its follow-up, ‘what did you think?’. my academic pride is so annoying sometimes.

luckily today it is beautifully sunny, i am prepared for as many hours as may be required of me (it always helps when you know it’s coming too, so you can be mentally ready not to go home during single-digit hours if necessary), plans have already surfaced to fill the upcoming holiday three-day-weekend, and i am wearing a purple shirt. i say, bring it on.