Tonight I planned on writing about the #99 movie on my top 100 list, but since the only posting I have in the last two weeks is about basketball I thought I probably should give you an update on some things that have been bothering me lately and also some general catching up.

 

As I mentioned in my last post I took last Thursday and Friday off from work.  Four day weekends are great, but the alarm clock on your first day back to work is like a punch in the stomach.  Also in those four days you forget about some of those things that really piss you off about the work week…

 

I generally don’t mind taking the bus to and from work.  It gives me time to read, listen to music or just zone out rather than having to drive myself through what can be some really frustrating traffic.  The bus is no quiet paradise though.  You have to deal with the inevitable strangers.  Those people that you don’t know that live by a different set of rules than you do.  Most people on the bus are respectful of those little things that keep your ride pleasant.  Some are not.  It absolutely drives me crazy when people talk on their cell phones on the bus.  It makes it next it impossible for me to concentrate on whatever it is I am reading.  Even if I’m not reading it kills me.  There are some exceptions.  Say you are about to meet up with somebody and you need to call them to see where they are so you get off at the right stop or you need to let them know you are running late.  Completely legitimate.  Maybe there was an important email you forgot to send out at work and you need to call the office and have a coworker take care of it for you.  Totally understandable.  It’s the douche bag talking to one of his buddies about how wasted he got last night that really pisses me off.  Even worse is the guy who talks extra loud to make sure that everyone on the bus hears his conversation, like he’s bragging about something.  “Yeah, I have to take the bus to work this weak because the Benz is in the shop.  It’s cool though, because I’m not spending 40 dollars a day on parking I can go to One Market or the Salt House every day for lunch.  Not like I don’t anyway,” as he laughs like Stiffler from American Pie.  I don’t mean to be sexist but the worst offenders are the females. Sorry, it’s a fact.  They just sit there and chat at the top of their lungs for the entire ride home.  It may be about a new purse they like or some new guy they or their friend likes.  But it’s usually about some other chick they don’t like.  How they can talk so much shit about someone without any sort of caution or regard for who is around them is beyond me.  The other day I seriously heard this one woman talking about having acne on her back and how Chinese food gives her diarrhea.  Is this seriously something that I or anyone else on the bus needs to know about?  Have you no shame?  Another thing that some people completely disregard on the bus is how close we are forced to be to one another for that 20 or 30 minute trip to work.  So take it easy on the perfume and cologne.  I swear I have almost been knocked out by people wearing too much of it.  It gives me killer headaches.  One last thing on this and then I’ll move on.  If the bus is packed don’t jam yourself in it.  Just wait for the next one.  It’s only going to be 5 or 10 minutes.  We are all strangers; I really don’t feel comfortable having our bodies touching.  I was standing on the bus once and my ass was touching some other guy’s ass for the entire time because he wedged him self in to an overcrowded bus.  I never want to go through something like that again.

 

As I said before, I work at a financial services company.  My coworkers are all college educated and seem to come from pretty good backgrounds.  Basically I am saying that they all appear to be clean and professional people.  So why is it that there are so many of them that don’t flush the toilets and urinals and just let their pubes spread around all over the bathroom?  I walk into toilet stalls all the time at my office and see piss and pubes all over the seat.  I gag every time.  Or some time the paper toilet seat covers are just wadded up laying on the ground or something.  The poor guy that goes into clean the stalls up has to pick up this piece of paper that has touched someone’s butt.  This is unacceptable to me.  Also I have noticed that there are certain people who don’t use soap when they wash their hands, two of which being a couple of the bigger boss types in the office.  With all of the piss, pubes and used toilet seat covers lying around you should want to disinfect yourself as much as possible. 

 

Has anyone seen the San Francisco Giants team slogan this year?  It is “All Out All Season”.  It’s totally the slogan a team that is really going to suck would come up with.  They should just change it to, “At Least We’re Gonna Try”.  It means basically the same thing. 

 

I saw a really funny movie the other night.  Death At A Funeral.  It’s the funniest movie I have seen from 2007.  Funnier than Super Bad and much funnier than Knocked Up.  I was laughing hard for the entire 90 minutes.  Check it out.

 

Did anyone happen to catch the McDonalds All American Game the other night?  If you did and you are a fan of the Arizona Wildcats, you are pumped up.  The most electric player in the game was Brandon Jennings who will be a freshman next year at UofA.  He’s like Kenny Anderson with hops.  Aside from the fact that he’s an amazing player, the kid is old school.  Check out his hair.  It looks like Posdnuos  from De La Soul during the Me, Myself and I days.  I love this dude already.

 

Lastly I mentioned in my last post how I turned 31 last week.  There are a few things happening to me physically that are making me feel older.  First, I have been getting random hairs in my eyebrows that are thicker and longer than the rest.  They are also kind of curl at the end.  It looks really bad and hurts when I yank them out.  I get all kinds of out of nowhere pains in various parts of my body.  I used to be able to suck down pop tarts and burgers like it was my last day on earth and gain zero weight.  Now my girlfriend is about to start charging my belly rent.  I got new glasses about 4 months ago and I already feel like I need a stronger prescription. I don’t even want to get in to how bad my heartburn is.  I’m blowing my entire savings on Rolaids.  The worst part is that it’s only going to get worse.

 

Well that’s about all I have time for today.  Thanks for stopping by.  And remember March just ended, so now only 9 months left with George W. Bush.  Get excited.