i always ask, where would you want to live after graduation?  peeople answer texas, new york, california, even taiwan... but i always answer cali.

where's your best place?  go to cnnmoney.com and search

my searches came out as follows: 

1	NY	New York	8,143,776
2	CA	Los Angeles	3,904,507
3	AZ	Surprise	56,487
4	AZ	Lake Havasu City	50,316
5	AZ	Phoenix	1,441,718
6	NV	Spring Valley	162,255
7	NV	Paradise	215,085
8	AZ	Yuma	80,900
9	AZ	Avondale	53,797
10	CA	San Diego	1,289,355
11	NV	Henderson (finalist)	231,457

oh, it makes my heart ache so.

if you stop talking to someone, do they become someone different?  i certainly hope not, but it sure feels like it.  the old dog days are gone, and the new are here.  new crowds--the old and familiar were of yesterday.  or am i merely imagining?  do people stay the same, yet I deceive myself, thinking that they have changed?

tell me otherwise!

this is an old story, but i have to share!

a few Saturdays ago, i was miserably spending my Saturday morning in defensive driving.  there were 6 people in my class, including one other scrawny, little asian kid who'd just graduated from TAMS and would be at UT the following fall.  he was the kind of kid that you had a soft spot for because he looked like the typical victim of middle school bullying.  on lunch break, i invited him to lunch with me and asked him why he was doing d-driving.  he says, nonchalantly, "i hit a tree."  "oh--" i say with raised eyebrows.  "my parents made me," he offered.  i had nothing to say: i'd been caught going 16+ mph over in a 70 zone.

at work: the poor asian coworker can't seem to keep his boss' hands out of his nut jar!while he was gone in Europe, his boss would invade his turf and snatch a handful of cashews, as i watched out the corner of my eye.  and even after he returned, his boss boldly steps into his cubicle, reaches behind the poor asian guy who can't say "no", and continues to take his share of nuts.  the nerve!

anyway, don't be a push over.  JUST SAY NO.