830 bucks in an hour and 5 minutes of working this morning.
Not a bad way to come back after a 5 day vacation. Not a bad way at all.
I told my parents this weekend that I'm going to be a professional poker player the rest of my life. Even though I am getting my degree, I will not use it. What is 2 more years of school, especially when grades don't matter? My parents looked at me with that skepticism, the same I get from Liz and pretty much everyone else I try to talk to about my job being a career. They are still going to pay for my schooling and give me money for rent/groceries/bills. They told me I could just look at school as a job they are paying me to do. That was pretty cool of them, I have to admit. It will be nice not to piss away hundreds each month on bills for the next 2 years. They really are all right sometimes. I make a lot more per hour than my dad does and he is still taking care of stuff. He's a cool guy. He makes 160K a year and he still puts himself last. A few months ago he FINALLY broke down and bought himself a big screen tv. He makes 160K a year and waited all this time to buy himself the one thing he wanted (well, he used to 'only' make 100K a year, though)
In July, I move into my new apartment, and it will be BITCHIN'. I plan on buying a huge, widescreen tv with hella surround sound. I have a modified xbox with a 250 GB hard drive which will serve as our all-purpose entertainment machine, with hella cd's, movies, and games burnt right on the hard drive. I will have emulators for every video game system pre-PS2 (NES, whoop whoop bitches) and life will be hella tits. I will have my hetero-lifemate with me, a nice, clean place, and enough money to be a little capitalist pig and buy anything I could possibly want.
Life being this good has really put things in perspective for me. Even though I still have hella insomnia, I can't believe how amazing my life has become. Other than occasional bouts of not sleeping for a week, I wouldn't change a thing. Everything has worked out so well for me. People tell me I am lucky, but fuck that. I worked hard to get where I am. I deserve this. Hopefully, this year I will find hella cool people to be around. That has been my one complaint with IU, I can't find crazy/amazing people to be around.
If I do well enough to get on TV and get recognition this summer at the World Series of Poker, I think I am going to write a book. I want to write about how horribly depressed I was, and how I got through it to attain the life I have today. About no matter how down and out you think you are, there can be a future for you. It will also contain hella poker stuff.
I wake up almost every day grinning like an idiot, and that is saying a lot for a person who was suicidal for 2 years of his life.
Not a bad way to come back after a 5 day vacation. Not a bad way at all.
I told my parents this weekend that I'm going to be a professional poker player the rest of my life. Even though I am getting my degree, I will not use it. What is 2 more years of school, especially when grades don't matter? My parents looked at me with that skepticism, the same I get from Liz and pretty much everyone else I try to talk to about my job being a career. They are still going to pay for my schooling and give me money for rent/groceries/bills. They told me I could just look at school as a job they are paying me to do. That was pretty cool of them, I have to admit. It will be nice not to piss away hundreds each month on bills for the next 2 years. They really are all right sometimes. I make a lot more per hour than my dad does and he is still taking care of stuff. He's a cool guy. He makes 160K a year and he still puts himself last. A few months ago he FINALLY broke down and bought himself a big screen tv. He makes 160K a year and waited all this time to buy himself the one thing he wanted (well, he used to 'only' make 100K a year, though)
In July, I move into my new apartment, and it will be BITCHIN'. I plan on buying a huge, widescreen tv with hella surround sound. I have a modified xbox with a 250 GB hard drive which will serve as our all-purpose entertainment machine, with hella cd's, movies, and games burnt right on the hard drive. I will have emulators for every video game system pre-PS2 (NES, whoop whoop bitches) and life will be hella tits. I will have my hetero-lifemate with me, a nice, clean place, and enough money to be a little capitalist pig and buy anything I could possibly want.
Life being this good has really put things in perspective for me. Even though I still have hella insomnia, I can't believe how amazing my life has become. Other than occasional bouts of not sleeping for a week, I wouldn't change a thing. Everything has worked out so well for me. People tell me I am lucky, but fuck that. I worked hard to get where I am. I deserve this. Hopefully, this year I will find hella cool people to be around. That has been my one complaint with IU, I can't find crazy/amazing people to be around.
If I do well enough to get on TV and get recognition this summer at the World Series of Poker, I think I am going to write a book. I want to write about how horribly depressed I was, and how I got through it to attain the life I have today. About no matter how down and out you think you are, there can be a future for you. It will also contain hella poker stuff.
I wake up almost every day grinning like an idiot, and that is saying a lot for a person who was suicidal for 2 years of his life.
xox.