Thinking

[unbound_spirit]

-My younger cousin Jonny starts his Master's degree in Astro Physics this fall at Cambridge University!  Maybe he'll get to attend some Hawking lectures!  Maybe I'll have to go visit him.

-Last Saturday I was hanging out in Chelsea with a friend of mine from college and some of her friends from MIT.  They all work in the stock market or in these high-pressure finance jobs.  And after work and on weekends they spend their time getting drunk at places that resemble college bars.  One of them got on my case about not drinking.  He was like, "If you were one of my friends from work or something, and I knew you didn't drink, I would never invite you to come hang out with me," as if that would be such a horrible thing.  As if I should want to spend my free time hanging out with drunk guys in pseudo-college bars, which are environments I never cared for, even back in college.  Um, no, sorry, I actually have a life.

That also got me thinking about somthing someone on here posted from Donald Trump, and how he said one secret to success is doing a job that you never want to take a vacation from.  My career as a musician is a job I never want to take a vacation from.  I don't feel the need to get drunk and escape from life.  Well, okay, I do sometimes, but for other reasons, not work related.  I never want to retire.  I'm always thinking about work because I love it.  I'm an artist and I always have an inclination to do art. 

-I'm lining up a lot of auditions...

Comments

"This guy totally had a chip on his shoulder."

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

There is a school of "thought" which says that, since pretty girls are used to guys being ever so NICE to them, that the way to get "noticed" is to be an ass toward them. So maybe his comment was, in some weird way, a compliment of sorts.

Which doesn't necessarily make him any less of a jerk -- it just means he was a deliberate jerk instead of an accidental jerk (which, imho, is actually much WORSE, in that everyone is an accidental jerk SOMETIMES).

Re: "This guy totally had a chip on his shoulder."

[unbound-spirit.livejournal.com]

I don't think this guy was doing it with that in mind. He was serious. He was a little weird in general. We shared a cab on the way to Korean food after the shady bars and my friend was talking about how she's moving to China soon and how she's scared about meeting new people there, and this guy was just like, "You should never trust anyone, ever." I was like, hey, way to be positive and give people the benefit of the doubt!