A Lazy Wednesday...

Well it has been all of two days off of work and it's official: I am bored as shit. Not that I want to teaching/taking classes again so soon but I always would rather be doing something productive as opposed to sitting around hanging out all day playing video games. What makes Fort Worth so fucking hard to take is that all my friends are like 100 miles away, and I don't really hang out/like/deal with my hometown friends. All my hometown buddies are married with kids, or hooked on drugs and each comes complete with its own baggage/bull shit I don't want to even begin to try to deal with.

I will say this, though. I have lost ten pounds on C-Dog and T's patented "drink yourself to death" diet. I think it was all brain wieght though so I am not sure how much good it really did to lose that ten pounds because I definitely do not believe it came off my waist. This is a list of Things to do in the next few days to alleviate boredom:

• Play with Lilly Bloom. She is my minature daschund puppy. She is by far the cutest and best dog ever. Please do not post with an argument about how cute/cool/better your dog is. I am really not interested in a discussion because honestly: Your Dog Sucks. It is no contest. I mean it is always a contest with me, but really, it is never really a contest.
• Look for a bookshelf. Difficulty: I am broke. Even More Difficulty: Like $20 to my name broke. However, I really really need a book shelf to take with me to Indiana so I have find one, and the cheaper the better. I really do not want to have to resort to the "bricks and particle board" book case. I will, and I am not hating on the "bricks and particle board" book case, but I do not want to have to resort to this. It will be hard enough convincing Indiana intellectuals that I am not white trash without the particle board bookshelf.
• Go see Goose's show tomorrow with J Rod. If you have not heard of
• Read another book. I am not sure what yet, but I am going to read something. I think I am finally going to start Gravity's Rainbow. BBBBAAAAHHHH! JUST KIDDING!!! That book breaks my patented "I don't read shit over 250 pages rule." This is a recent "grad school commandment" brought on by burn out but I have become a firm believer that every novel should be less than 250 pages. If you don't agree go ahead and submit a book you think should be allowed to subvert the 250 pages rule, and if I have read the book I will tell you a section that is shite, and why, and where they should have cut it down. Those of you in American Renaissance may remember this as the "Let's kick every author/book in the nuts this semester and see how that goes" game I played most of the semester. I think I actually turned my mentor against me with this game. It was fun, though. Especially when he looked at me like, "You are Dead to Me," when I said American fiction sucks before Frank Norris, and he responded to that by saying, "What about Mark Twain?" and I responded by saying, "I stand by my statement." Classic.
• All kidding aside I think I am going to either read "McTeague" again, or try to finish Second Hand Smoke for the upteenth million time. I wish I had remember to bring Dave Egger's What is the What or A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius home with me. That would make this whole reading dilemma much easier.

Anyway, that is it from here. If you have any ideas for summer fun stuff to kill boredom remember to send those ideas along. Remember that I am broke so it has to be "free fun." PS: Don't send me any of those "Begin working on your novel" ideas. I am on top of that. It needs not be stated.