Gotta Steal to Eat, Gotta Eat to Live

Within 24 hours I’ll be in possession of an M.I.T. identification card that’ll have a picture of my face on it. If that isn’t the coolest thing you have ever heard of, please hit the “Back” button on your internet browser and stop pretending to take further interest in my life by reading anymore of this blog. Because if you think that, you clearly don’t matter to me.

Now some of you might be thinking “But Andrew G. / Geno, you never went to M.I..T.! You received your bachelor’s degree from Emerson College, and never pursued a post-undergraduate education! Saying you have an M.I.T. ID is misleading to those not familiar with your educational background!”

Yup.

Seriously though, it’s my first day at my new job -- my fourth total since I’ve graduated -- at the M.I.T. Graduate / Transfer Admissions office and I can tell it’s going to be a sick gig. I practically have my own office, a MacBook Pro all to myself, and -- as you can see -- the freedom to be silly instead of productive when there’s no work to do, and that brings me back to this blog.

A lot has changed since my last blog post. I’ve been prostituting myself to the workforce with various temp jobs, moved in with JC, and hopefully did that gay learning and growing as a person thing that everyone keeps talking about.

Happy about this new job though. After experiencing the superficial prison that was CORT Furniture, and the crazy person’s lucid dream* that was Bernette Research, it’s real nice to be involved in an environment such as M.I.T. Feels like I’m actually in a place that’s positively contributing to the world, rather than leeching off of it. Which of course, makes working a lot more fun and enjoyable.

*descriptive phrase stolen from Zack Lonberg, but still appropriate nonetheless.

I have plenty of things to write about for future blogging sessions, which I promise will become a regular thing once again now that I’m in a working environment that will allow me to do so. For now though, here are some random thoughts.


Random Thoughts:

-Fun weekend as numerous friends from home came up for a few days. Went with Langone and Australian Beth to Top of the Hub and had fancy martinis. Felt like Beantown gods. Although the elevator ride was really fast and it took awhile for my ears to pop. But other than that, GODS.

-Speaking of home, nice to have Matt G. also livin' the big city life as he studies the Litigating Arts at Boston College.

-Very pumped to hear that Noonan picked up Lewis Black tickets for this Friday at Northeastern. Me and Matt G’s run-in with the comedian outside the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom is one of my only memorable celebrity encounters, which I am admittedly very short on.

-I was very close to a nicotine relapse as my cigar intake over the last few weeks had been high. Still cigarette-free for over a year now, but my body had a seemingly found a loophole. So I’m cutting all of that as well. No more cheating.

-Ugh. Weezer. Tried really, really, REALLY hard to like their new album Hurley but just couldn’t get passed River Cuomo’s retardedness. Ugh. Blue is still to this day the greatest rock album ever made by anybody, but it's unfortunate to see Weezer fade away like they have been doing lately.

-The lyrics “Gotta steal to eat / Gotta eat to live / Otherwise we’d get along” kinda sound like a Tupac song but it’s actually from Aladdin. So does "One jump ahead of the lawmen"

-Fagan.

-Here’s wishing my brother’s friend Joe Gawlak a speedy recovery and hopefully he’ll back to his bouncin’ self once his tibia AND fibula are 100%


To the two or three people that have supported this blog throughout its hiatus, I thank you, and I plan to write tons more in the coming weeks.

Until the next time kids.

-Andrew G. / Geno