Crumpled Notebook

So, I somehow happened upon this blog post. It was an interesting read, as I just got through reading something that said the average woman kisses 79 men before she gets married. 79! Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not by any means a prude and have on a few occasions been called a kissing slut (or whore, whichever you prefer), but my number is nowhere near that. However, reading this article, made me feel like I was way behind, as my number was more in the ballpark of the number that she said match.com averaged (like I’m gonna tell you my number–I will tell you this. It is NOT 29 as the article averages. I won’t tell you if its higher or lower). Lets just put it this way though. I had my first kiss at 14 I think. I’m 28, so I’ve been kissing for 14 1/2 years I suppose. If you average it out, it’s not really that bad.

Granted, I’ll give that I’ve toned it down the last couple of years, but still, even if I hadn’t of, 79 is a lot of kissing. Anyway, this led me to make a list. Albeit I’ve done this before and always forget someone, but close enough I guess. It’s amazing the people you forget. First names. Last names for sure. Is that bad? Is having a number near the 29 (or heaven forbid, 79) just wrong? I always felt like it was as I know a lot of people who’s number is in the 5 ballpark, some even like 1-2. Anyway, just curious if anyone wanted to share their ballpark number to see if I’m on track or not. I do have to say that I find kissing very fun. It’s one of my most favorite things to do. So the fact that I haven’t had any recently, saddens me, but I guess at this point I’m looking for a bit more than a good kisser, and don’t want to waste time progressing a relationship that I know ultimately won’t work out. Two Month Rule :-)

Keep in mind here, I’m just talking about kissing only. And by kiss, I mean in general, open mouth, real kiss, kind of thing. Oversharing? Probably, but who really cares anyway, huh?

I will go ahead and over share just a little more. Maybe it’s the idea of it, but I don’t think so. My first kiss is still probably the best kisser, or at least in the top 3. Heh, I’m sure he’d love to know that.

An office prank to make even me proud! Reminds me, I need to search for pics of my pranks. Nice job Jeff…and good sport Scott!

So, I’ve not been feeling great the past week. You know, the headaches, tiredness kind of stuff. Maybe the flu, I don’t know. That isn’t the sick I’m talking about right now though.

Last night I watched A Clockwork Orange. It was interesting to see how the “therapy” they tried on the main character made him physically sick when he had thoughts of “ultra-violence.” What was kind of funny was that recently I’ve had some similar reactions to things (no, I haven’t been having thoughts of violence).

I’ve kinda been looking around at jobs lately. Nothing real serious, but there are a couple of jobs I’ve came cross that I have pretty much been crazy not to apply for. It’s been really hard for me because  I love where I work and my life here in Monterey (not that some of the jobs I looked at haven’t been in the Monterey area). Yet, I see these and they’re just almost perfect for me. It’s interesting though that anytime I’ve seriously sat down and looked hard for jobs and thought about about whether I really wanted to leave my current job or not, I have gotten physically sick to my stomach. Very few things have ever made me that sick before. The first couple of times it happened, I just chalked it up to stress from work. However, at this point, it is almost every single time I start looking or start thinking of working on the resume, etc….

I’m not quiet sure what to make of that. I mean, nothing in inherently wrong with me looking for even applying for jobs. I know it was take a lot for me to leave. Yet every time I do it, I want to vomit. As soon as I stop, the feeling goes away. The only other times that has happened is when I’ve considered doing stuff that I knew I should do, but really didn’t want to for whatever reason. See, I’m looking at it like that. Not, “oh, it’s making me sick, so it’s not right.” I see it as just the fact that in the past, it’s doing the things I know I should do, but can’t. I’m not saying that all of those things are necessarily right, but it’s the logical thing to do in my mind.

Anyway, just knowing the right time is the key here I guess. I mean, I can’t do what I’m doing forever, right? I just don’t know if I’m cut out for social work. I mean, it really never was what I saw myself doing. It just kind of happened. But if I leave it, I feel like I’m cheating, that I’m putting myself and my own needs above helping others. I definitely have skills in other areas that I could use to find a job that isn’t in social work or non-profit. Is it wrong that I want a job that I don’t have to be so emotionally involved in?

So this week, Sally and I have been packing up our offices at Good Sam (no, I haven’t gotten fired yet!). We’re actually moving over to the main campus to a couple offices in a building over there. We’ve been “moving” for almost 6 months now. I’m excited it’s finally happening. I’ll finally get some peace and quiet in the morning (which will be shattered by the screaming kids in the afternoon, no doubt).

 Anyway, point being, I really hate packing. We’ve been packing bit by bit all week. It’s not so much the packing I has as much as the unpacking. We have a lot of stuff.

So yeah, as of sometime Friday, I’ll be in my own office (albeit surrounded almost entirely by glass). Very cool indeed.

So, Google recently launched My Maps. Oddly enough, I was just thinking the other night they should offer a mashup service. Basically, where you create your own maps. Say I want to make a map of all the best places to eat in Monterey. Now, in the past, unless you knew how to write the code and get the API for google maps, you were stuck. There are a couple sites that will do stuff like this with Google maps that are pretty good, but why not just do it directly from Google?

So basically, I put in the addresses of all my favorite resturants here. I give them a title and description and save it. That’s it. Now I can make it public so that anyone can see it, or I can save it just for myself. If its public, you can send a link of those things to all your family and friends who are coming to visit. Or whatever.

It’s just funny. It seems Google has this trend of, right when I start really thinking, “why don’t they do this?”, they go and do it. As indicated here.