It's Been Over a Year

I've been dying for another work event.  It's these things that make it all worth it.  I wouldn't go to these places and eat out as often as I do (did) if work didn't cover it.

The team that work with now is completely different from the team that I started with.  It's expected as the turnover rate is really high in my industry.

I rarely get taken out as much because the relationship with my partners isn't there any more.

Random band making noise on stage

Last year I got a little too messy.  But it was expected as we rolled in with a party bus.  This year, it was a calm limo. 

Chowing down

All new faces

I think this photo is charming

Look who I found

It was this event last year that I got really friendly with folks in the industry.  I apparently removed that entry because I was concerned with what I posted at the time.  You know, I think I was wearing the same shirt.

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This event ends September.  And onto October!  September was... surprising.  Surprising September.  It came quick.  At a bar, my roommate talked to me about how I was doing.

"You know when you said that you're happier when I'm happy?"  Ern was referring to when I pointed out that his positive energy was contagious and when he was down, it pulled me down as well.   This is because when he rolls his eyes in annoyance, 5 bunnies and a baby deer dies.  He continued, "...I think it works with you too."

At that point I realized that I haven't been myself.  I haven't gone out so much.  I sleep a lot and all my stories involve the bus.  "I just want to make sure things are okay."

I responded that things were fine, but acknowledge that I was different.  It probably has to do with the accident and that I lost my 2010 moleskine that had these stickers that I've collected and movie stubs and laundry lists...  My memory is so shitty that I depended on that book to document my life before I had forgotten what I experienced.  Thankfully I have this blog.. but this is digital.  Like a digital web album vs. a physical scrapbook.  Different values.

Ugh.  Happy Friday night.  It's 2AM and I'm waiting for Huan to arrive around 4AM from the bay.  He has an interview at Compton.