i'm toast

this may come out more like verbal diarrhea but there's no other way to jam it all into one post...

i'm currently sitting in my new favorite place in the world: a krispy kreme with free wireless internet. you read that right... free. i've also decided to forget about finding a place to live and curl up in the corner of this crack-filled donut and information portal.

seriously though, the apt. hunt has both sucked and been fruitless thus far. darcy was out here this past weekend to help me look for a place and we were both fried and frustrated by the end of it. we did however find one place that was really nice and in the area we're looking. we've applied and are waiting to hear back from the landlord. i'm trying to stay positive but it's just not my style... i doubt we're gonna get the place. darcy agrees.

i'm sleeping at my friend adam's place and while his couch is quite comfortable i'd like to find a couch of my own sometime in the near future. i'm not sure how much longer i can surf the wave of kindness from my west coast friends.

i've recently joined scionlife.com, an online community and message board for Scion owners. I'm hoping to meet some people in the area who are as in love with their car as I am. darcy has made some life-long friends from the forums he belonged to when he owned his Civic Si. we'll see what comes from it...

i'm having poker withdrawl... i watched Rounders the other night and it made me itchy for a game... i played a few hands at a casino for the first time while i was in new orleans and did pretty well but i haven't played a live game since. last night i reinitialized my account at fulltiltpoker.com though. that helped feed the need. hopefully i'll have a table soon though where i can invite friends over for a friendly game of taking their money.

insomnia is evil. my sleeping pattern is so off kilter i'm practically up all night and then sleep into the early afternoon. hopefully when i have a bed and some more stability that will straighten itself out. i hope so.

it seems more and more likely that i might not be able to move in to a apt until march 1st. if that's the case, i'm thinking about driving up to san francisco for a few days to see a friend from high school. that way i'm not on adam's couch for 3 weeks straight. i'm just kicking the idea around for now...

i think that's about it. hobbes and i both need haircuts but that's not particularly interesting...
oh, never get stopped for speeding in North Carolina... stopping for that cop was the worst mistake i ever made. if you're caught doing 10mph over the speed limit they issue you a court date that you either have to attend personally or hire an attorney to represent you unlike every other civilized state in the union that simply tells you how much you owe and that's it. since i obviously can't attend the court hearing, i have to pay a licensed extortionist to appear and settle it for me. talk about inefficient, unaccommodating, lousy, criminal and irrational laws! fuck North Carolina. the Garretts have to come visit me from now on...

that really is about it. hope you're all doing well. and have places to live...