My grandfather from Northern Ireland had a million great sayings, but one of my favourites is “Apathy is the key to happiness”. He didn’t mean it literally; i think it was his was of saying that if you are an asshole then you can experience the shallow euphoria that only idiots who don’t give a shit can feel. People who are decent human beings sometimes have to take their turn carrying the weight of the world around for awhile…but that’s the price you have to pay for caring about things and other people. Typically the ones who are the worst/best at this do everything in extremes; they work too hard, drink too much, smoke too much, and care too much. Maybe I’m way off with what he meant because he would say some pretty profound shit after half a bottle of Bushmills and was not always easy to follow.

Can I just take this and paste it into my blog Kim? I am totally feeling this post. It’s like summer ended and I got hit by a steam roller.

Yeah- that’s exactly it- steamroller!

I miss you too, lovebug. xoxo

If you mix Xanax with the beer, then you’ll be in REALLY good shape to take on the world. Good luck with your work shit.

Hey there Kim - I can totally relate! Too much work, and I’m not visiting my pals nearly enough, either.

Looking forward to the travel journal excerpts. (Which takes my mind of my own crazy work stuff!):)

Yeah… blogging apologies don’t really work, unless accompanied by scandalous pics to prove you’ve really been up to greater things.

That is a superb idea (however, Steve would kick my ass!)

Looking forward to more “Dear Asshole” entries…my personal fav. By the way, if anyone understands what I wrote up top there I’d like to know (I don’t remember taking acid that day but…)

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Don’t worry Brian- there will ALWAYS be “Dear Asshole”
Always!

Okay, Kim, c’mon. You never, NEVER let your boss know you can do the work of your three coworkers in half the time. Of course you can. And do you know why? Because they’re spending half their days blogging and you should do the same.

Pace yourself. Never set the expectations too high. That’s a good way to make other people look bad.

hahahahha! I ALREADY spend half of my day surfing the web!

No one even phones me anymore because I’m so freaking BUSY trying to sort out my life over here, and the steamroller has hit and I’m a freaking pancake without spine or muscle. So very tired. I think the baby Jesus likes it when I get my ass kicked. I used to be completely prolific and on top of things, and now I’m just drowning. Ack.

But this thing makes me smile…