Shady’s back – tell a friend.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m back. After a long blogless stint, I admit desperation in wanting to write about something (or anything) and here we are. Its an hour past midnight on Christmas; I’m at my cousin’s crib in San Jose by myself with a bottle of Blackstone; I can’t even connect to the Internet and I’m typing my blog in Word to upload it later, when I can. Typing blogs offline = intense. Period. Talking about comebacks, Jay Leno recently said that the only comeback that Britney ever did was to come back from a buffet. Hilarious =] Moving on, my Dec 07 in a nutshell….

California love.

Christmas weekend 07. I’m here in California primarily to interview with a startup firm and also for a family rendezvous. Thoroughly enjoyed a whole day of interviews (8 different people interviewed me between 9.30 a.m. and 4 p.m.) and at the end of the day, I actually celebrated a recent success of their sales team (folks were toasting while I was downing champagne) and I thought to myself: “good shit”. I don’t have an offer yet but things are looking positive. This is huge because if it all works out, after 7 long years in Chicago, I’ll be gone. Poof. On the family front, meeting my folks (especially my nephew Shash) has filled up my tank with pure joy!

Birthdays and shots.

December 8^th, 07. Here’s the thing about birthdays and shots – sometimes you get completely drunk, get home, wake up with a bad hangover, call your friends, joke about it, thank them for joining u, eat chinese food and go to bed. There’s also times where you don’t get home and instead you end up in ER. Two of my friends celebrated their birthdays the same night, both passed out and we took both of them to ER the same night. Here’s the twist - my close friend and I had a blast hangin out with their friends while we were waiting for them at the hospital and now, I think I have a bad case of Nimania (not Pneumonia). Don’t ask, don’t tell =))

Self-centered pig.

December 1^st week, 07. I hooked up with this girl (let’s call her…Julie) through my family (typically referred to as an “alliance” for whatever reason) and I thought we got along pretty well. There was a huge language barrier (She’s very Northie and I’m very Southie, if you know what I mean) which she was unhappy about (so was I) but when I asked her if anything else bothered her, she said that our conversations had totally been about me and I hadn’t asked her anything about her work or her family. Thinking back, I have to admit that she’s right. Whilst I kept yapping about myself (she kept asking things about me), it didn’t occur to me to I should return the favor. Have I just become a self-centered, attention-craving pig? (It’s a rhetorical question, answers are not welcome :P) I hope not. Anyway, good for her and good for me, all it took was 4 phone calls to move on (which is great!).

I'm goin to Vegas for the new years (ha!) -> blog updates next week. Come back soon :)