Pardon the Expression...

..but real life kinda blows.  I've known this for quite some time, but it seems that with age you acquire deeper and more profound versions of this sentiment. 

Job (the current-please-dear-God-let-it-be-temporary one I've got): blows
Job searching:  blows
Living situation:  blows
Relationship status:  Single, which has been for quite sometime something I've enjoyed and still do to some degree.  But I think the risen urgency in my mother's comments about getting married, along with every other person I see who I haven't talked to in a while has driven me to think KOST 103.5 is a cult radio station and everyone is drinking relationship kool-aid.
 The other day I was working at my mother's office and her friend walks in with her daughter and a friend and her two daughters.  Immediately she gets to trying to hook me up with one of the three young women as if our holy Jesus Christ were about to pass judgment upon us if she didn't get me betrothed that very instant.  She then requests from me a piece of paper and pen and not-so-subtly forces one of the women to write her name and phone number down.  Oh and email too!  Korean mothers know about these now.  Anyway, I don't really plan on calling her because I don't feel compelled to chase every opportunity to have a relationship and I really don't feel all that bad about being single.  BUT, I guess I'm feeling a little bit more open to it.  The urgency surrounding me causes it to be a frustration at times.

Reality Bites.  I love this movie but it's come be associated, for me, to unhappy endings of various sorts because of a somewhat unhappy experience from several years ago that had involved this movie.  Maybe it was an omen.  Maybe I'm self-fulfilling prophecy because I liked that movie to begin with. 

There's still lots about life that's good too.  My golf game has made significant progress (Doug, when I come to Denver I'm gonna make you cry!)  I've done a good amount of reading this summer and not all of it was mindless crap :)  I'm planning some trips over the next couple months, which is something to look forward too.  Overall average isn't bad, actually slightly positive so...pardon the (negative) expression.