So I got a job offer, and it's everything I wanted. More money, more power, more creative freedom. I'd even have up to five people working under me, and you know how much I've always wanted underlings. One catch -- I need to move to freakin' JAPAN! The job is the V.P. of Marketing and Promotions for SLUSHO! brand "happy drink." Apparently it's all the rage in Asia. I'd be part of a team tasked with replicating the drink's popularity in the Western world. Here's a link to their most recent TV spot:
http://www.slusho.jp/contest/sample/medium.html Bizarre, I know. I'm sure
Hud would love it. They want us to come up with a more accessible angle to hook an American audience.

When I said I'd be willing to leave NYC for the new gig, I was thinking maybe Chicago or Toronto, maybe L.A. Japan is a whole other extreme. I'm not a particularly worldly fellow, and I'd definitely be in store for some major culture shock. But you know what? Maybe this is exactly the jolt my lame little life needs. A fresh start, and all the clichés that go with it. I'm cautiously psyched. I told them I needed the weekend to think it over, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna take it. I mean, I can't think of a good enough reason not to.

It's time for a change. I'm officially launching into a full-blown job hunt. I've been putting the feelers out for the past few weeks, but now it has become abundantly clear to me that I need to move on and try something else. I've put in a lot of time and effort only to be continuously misinterpreted or altogether unnoticed. I'm not opposed to leaving New York, if that's what it takes. Don't get me wrong -- I love this city. But there are certain elements that I need to get away from before I lose my mind. I'm sick of being the overlooked guy. Sick of being pigeonholed as one thing, when if you would just give me a chance, I know I can be so much more.

You know how you can get totally absorbed with something, and because you are so focused on that one thing, you miss out on other opportunities? I now realize that's what has been happening here. Or maybe I've known it all along and have been living in denial, clinging to that empty hope that things were going to get better. That certain things were meant to happen. Well, whether those things were meant to happen or not, they didn't. Not for me, at least.

Sometimes, you need to give up.

My boss went out of town and gave everyone the day off. It feels like when I used to get snowdays all the time in school. And you know what? It's still just as awesome as it was when I was 10. I need more days off like this to enjoy the city. I checked out the MOMA for the first time in years. I feel all cultural. I never get there since I'm always working during the week and it's such a mob scene on the weekends.

I was reading that in Finland, workers have 44 days off every year. 30 paid vacation (which is mandatory) and 14 paid public holidays. That blows my mind! I bet the Finnish people are much happier on average than Americans. We have no law requiring employers to give a minimum number of vacation days and holidays off, paid or unpaid.

Maybe I'll spend the rest of this time off stirring up the Vacation Day Rebellion.

Or maybe I'll just watch sit around in my boxers playing XBox.

Viva la Vacation!

i have been sitting here doing nothing but reading local forums and attempting to comprehend programming diagrams i will need come springtime. too bad i barely understand anything.  

i need a pet. or someone that will make me change my ways. 

i wish i coulD surf

I need to Buy a video camera

goodnight.

Well hello there my inquisitive little radish. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but this isn't a blog. Well, technically, this IS a blog, but this blog is only here to inform you that there will be no blog. I won't be signing on here to tell you about my day, or cut and paste song lyrics that mean something to me, or post photos of my cousins' baby. Let's be honest, you don't really care about any of that, do you? I certainly don't care about your trip to Vancouver or your latest episode of drunken revelry. So let's spare each other the mundane ramblings that pollute this once majestic internet community, shall we?

Oh but before I go…

Look at how cute little Dominick is getting! I think he may be intoxicated there. He's def a Hawkins.