We're in Illinois

We're at a Budget Express Inn in Joliet, Illinois. We have free wi-fi internet in the room, and that's all I care about - well that and the fact that this room is one of the cheapest clean ones we've seen.

Not much to see yet. We passed through New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Tomorrow we go through Iowa.

Hasta.

My ultimate roadtrip begins!

We now begin our week-long cross-country drive to Nevada! I'll tell you how it goes and I'll try to update every night - from a different city each time, no less.

Hasta!

Funnily enough...

My horoscope for the month reads:

"Now is not the time for mulling over. If there was ever a moment to believe in the Carpe Diem cliche, it's now. A little bit of trepidation is natural, so just fake it until you make it. Act as brave as you can until you've fooled yourself. Don't worry, your self-serving lies are for a higher purpose and they will not lead to you to hell."

Of course, mine is not the conventional astrologer, obviously. Funny advice, yet strangely comforting.

On another note, is Google really, as John says, on the path to evildom? Are the boys of Google really starting to sue people over the use of the "Google" as a verb? Oh say it ain't so. I like Google, I like them Google boys, and I REALLY like their "Don't Be Evil" motto.

Life, the universe, and everything.

We're moving to Vegas in about 3 weeks. Yep, moving from one insomniac city to another, except this one's a lot less hipster geek and a lot more party tramp. Sin City, here we come. Life throws some strange curve balls, doesn't she?

I had a nice long post all ready to go but it got sucked in the vortex of lost code and wandering links. I'm still waiting to see if the blogspot gods can get the internet to regurgitate enough of it for me to piece together. A wishful thought? Maybe. Naivete sure looks good on me though.

So what have I been up to lately? Mostly just earning as much money as I possibly can. Life's expenses are catching up with me and I find myself desperately treading the big sinkhole of my finances, kicking and flailing around like a maniac. So many things to pay for, so little money to pay with. I have to get my butt to Manila for Pat's wedding in October. There's the new furniture to buy and paint to purchase. There's bills to pay and school debt to take care of. Then there's the little stuff I need to keep me sane: books, pretty dresses, exotic (but relatively cheap) backpacking trips, and the occasional bottle of wine. Hah, the life of a twenty-something post-grad in America. Great as a slideshow, extremely pathetic as a spreadsheet.

But hey, I do what I gotta do, right? Well, okay, 60% of the time.

So it's back to stringing words into sellable sentences for now. Dreams and visions and fairytales have to wait. At least until tomorrow.

And I'm out.

Because I acknowledge genius in all its forms... and colors...

If you went to college in the Philippines, then you will know what this video is about. If you went to either the "green" or the "blue" school, you will REALLY want to watch this video. It's really funny. Catchy too.

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Found it at Quark's blog, and this is what our favorite director (who is Atenean, btw) has to say about it:

i believed, in my previous post, that i had found the greatest Filipino video of all time. but no, the web just keeps giving you bigger and better things. witness, my friends, brilliance in its most real-time and easily downloadable form

it's a music video for a song called "I'd rather be green than blue" and oh God i just sat in front of the screen with my mouth-agape look breathing out in stacatto in the way one might find himself not knowing whether he wants to laugh or cry in awe.

i don't know who's more brilliant; the director of this video that includes a rotoscoped shot of a BLUE MAN trying to punch THE GREEN MAN WHO STOLE HIS GIRL then missing and falling down, or the writer, who wrote such brilliant lines as...

"if i were to live my whole life again, i'd still want to be a la sallista pa rin!"

"huwag kang magtataka kung bakit binaril si rizal .... atenista kasi"

"mestizo man o hindi, pandak man o kirat, pagdating sa entertainment La Sallista ang hot!"

Behold the power of the green man's skin, as he dissolves the blurry blue cast on everything he touches! Open your mind to the singular vision, and its provocative interpretation of our national history! And stand in awe of the magnificently composed lyrics, a mind-boggling mix of languages and tenses!

Haha, but it's all good. We all have a sense of humor, don't we? This is a school zone - no violence, no wars. Peace!