For crying out loud, why have a blog if you don’t use it….

Irony, its a funny thing.  Its kind of like my job and life right now.  “Hey Mark, you got the job! Move to DC and take on this huge project that is destined to fail!  Oh, yeah, about that….we knew it was going to fail and needed a fall guy….” 

Infuriating.  Fear not though, leave it to Mark to find humor in it.  Ready?  Here goes….I got nothing.  Not a single funny thing about it.  As a matter of fact I am pretty pissed off.  Email me, call me, whatever if you want more details. 

I ate dinner and made a few impulse buys tonight and well, in a nutshell the last 7 months have been anything but good.  Still no people I would truly label as a friend.  However, I went out with people for the second time since I arrived here in July.  2 guys from work and their girlfriends.  It was alright.  Stupid movie, ate at Fridays in a mall.  One is a compulsive drinker with a psycho sex crazed girlfriend, the other is a devout calvinist or something and passes judgement on just about everything he sees and only dates asians.  Its funny how somebody who claims to be so full of joy is such a pessimist.  More irony I suppose.  It felt weird to be at a bar that wasn’t my regular one.  Speaking of I am a regular at a bar.  I know the people that sit there and I am on a first name basis with all the bartenders.  They ask where I was if I didn’t come for a few days, its great.  One actually doesn’t charge me for beer.  I never thought I would have come to that sort of status at 25.  Most people, like Eric who is a friend of mine at that bar, don’t even get that treatment.  Its probably a good thing and a bad thing in the sense that I am way too young to be in this position, but free beer is always a plus.  That bar is in a mall though, which just about sums up this area.  I find myself at a lot of malls in my free time.  I love capitalism and people watching, that being said, there isn’t a better place to find both. 

I was going move to a different place up here.  Those plans have come to a halt due to the fact of me potentially getting laid off in 2 months.  See above paragraph.  I am focusing my inevitable job search back home in GA as well as Florida.  The further away I get from this hellhole of a metro area, the better.  Forbes magazine did an article on the richest counties in America.  Fairfax was #1.  $100,613.  Thats the median income around here.  Which contributes to the hellhole comment.  That income is evident anywhere you turn your head around here.  People think they are awesome.  I got news for them.  They suck.  Rude, inconsiderate, incompetent drivers.  Those are a few words that come to mind first when thinking about “NoVa”.  Anyway, I am looking for a job so if you first, still read this, and second, know of any jobs.  Let me know.  My resume in a nutshell: I’m awesome.

Hooray Eli Manning.

 Enough of the downer stuff.  I have been skiing once up here. I don’t go as much as I want to, its not fun by yourself.  But I am going this weekend with some people from church.