News From a Quiet Cafe (not Starbucks)

Have you ever put something off to such a ridiculous degree that you feel like now you don't want to do it on principle? I'm sitting in a cafe tonight (as opposed to watching TV or drinking at a bar) preparing to study. I have to take the audit section of the CPA exam on January 8th. I formally started taking the exam over a year ago. For all of you non-accountants out there, the CPA exam is broken up into four sections. These days in order to pass it, you pretty much cram for each section over a month and then take the exam. I took the FAR section last November, which is supposed to be the hardest of the four sections. And I passed. And I haven't taken another section since.

If I don't pass the other three sections in the next couple of months, I'm going to lose the credit for passing the FAR section. This is the only thing that's motivating me to study. Not the promise of more money. Or a better job. It's the fear of having to re-memorize all the crap I had to learn for FAR.

So tonight is the night that I start studying for the next section. I'm determined to just knock the rest of the exam out so that I can move on with my life, and start drinking on a consistent basis again. Who knows though, I think I may have said the same thing last time when I took the FAR section.

So anyway, I'm telling you this in order to let you know that you can anticipate lots of updates because I'll be marooning myself in coffee shops and libraries for many nights to come.

It's weird to see people sitting around here just chatting and having coffee. It seems so sit-commie.* When I go to a cafe, it's either to get a warm drink to-go or to get some work done. When I want to chat, I head out to a bar. It would never even occur to me to go to a cafe. I'm not sure what that says about me.

*I was going to put sit-comish, but liked the way commie sounded. Sit-commie bastards.

I'm giddy right now. Remember Dan? He just sent me an invitation to his Christmas party on December 16th. I love holiday parties. Actually, I love parties in general, but people have a tendency to invest a little more effort in their holiday parties. Now I just need to find an outfit that shows an appropriate amount of skin, but not too much. It's tough to find the right balance between classy and slutty.

MY ORIGINAL IDEA FOR A POST

Man. I've been trying to upload this hilarious picture for over a week now, and I can't get stupid blogger to do it. I'm not even going to tell you what it's of. You'll just have to wait. All that I'll say is that it could become an internet sensation.

-EEK