Freaks

I started the book Freakanomics last night. It’s obvious that the author's first passion is Economics, more so than writing. But, like The Tipping Point, the content is so fascinating that I have trouble putting it down. It’s a short book, so it shouldn’t take me long to finish it up.

I read on article last night on the new DCFC album, "Plans". When asked how they got the title for the album, Ben replied that his favorite joke is "How do you make God laugh? Make plans." So I guess God must be chuckling now. I know I thought that was quite clever.

I saw a clip of Cartman, from South Park, doing the aristocrat joke from the new film "The Aristocrats". I didn't find it that funny. Brian saw the film last night and enjoyed it. I think this may be a Netflix for me. I can't justify spending $10 on this film. If anyone else out there saw this, and enjoyed it, please leave a comment and let me know.

This past weekend, my friend Sarah and I had a discussion about why most of our friends are guys. I do have some very close girlfriends: Laine, Sadia, Karla, Angie, my mom, etc., and I think Sarah and I are going to have a great time hanging out together in Chicago too, but the majority of my friends have always been guys. Sarah and I were trying to find a concrete reason why we prefer hanging out with guys more so than women. I think yesterday I found my reason. A brief interaction with a woman I met about 3 weeks ago caused so much unnecessary drama it was ridiculous. There was some definite manipulation on her part, as well as a dash of cattiness and selfishness. It about cost me a friendship with someone I really do want a friendship with, and I am pretty sure it has cost my friendship with her.

I figure (and I know some of you have heard me say this before) there are so many people in this world that would love to see me fail: coworkers who would like my job, women who would like my guy, strangers who would like my parking spot, etc. Why should I befriend people who would also want to see me fail? Friends should lift each other up, support one another, and encourage one another towards success and happiness.

I guess I feel that guys are less likely to be catty and manipulative, because in all honesty they just don’t give a shit. I just hate that women like that give women like me a bad name.

Anyway, so I met up with Rife and Prop at Nevin’s last night. There weren’t any Riffel Towers occurring, but we had fun anyway. Yeah for friendship!

And sorry this post is so boring, but it was a Tuesday and my life can’t be exciting all the time.