MUSINGS:

1) Riddle me this Batman...why is it we can send man to the moon and build a bigger bomb but we can't solve traffic!?!?

2) I live in a world where "unfriend" was chosen 2009 word of the year by the Oxford Dictionary. What this means, I'm not quite sure.

3) Twitter?? Really?! No one cares what I have to say on Facebook and I know those people!!! So why should I suppose that Ashton Kutcher or Larry King even bat an eyelash?!

4) Words or phrases that I don't get...
ANYWAYS - no such word exists
NOT GOING TO LIE - does that mean you were going to give me the heads up when you were?
PREFACING A SENTENCE WITH HONESTLY - don't we just assume you were telling the truth?

5) I recently purchased my first blackberry. I feel as though my eyes have been opened to a whole new world of PIN'ing my friends when I could have just texted them anyway or...wait for it...wait for it....CALL THEM...GASP, being notified the second someone pokes me, and squinting to Google meaningless crap. Sadly though, it hasn't elevated my social status like I thought it would. I am still stumbling along with the bourgeoisie.

6) Alas, there is no more Grissom. CSI will never be the same. In a perfect world he would have eloped with Lady Heather and had to change his Facebook status to married because, really, Facebook is life. That's where we get all the important dirt on our friends.

7) While doing some shopping recently, waiting ever so patiently in line, I noticed someone wearing sunglasses indoors. And I said to myself, 'Self...Am I missing something? Are they shooting movies in here? Does doing so up one's cool quotient? Should I look into this?'

Now on with the rest of me...

This past year has been one of change for me. Most notabably the size of my clothes. I became a runner through some sick twist of fate and dropped 45 lbs in the process. And while I think this runner's high thing is total bogus I do enjoy it nonetheless. I don't think I'm wired to experience this purported high. Next year's goal is triathlons.

I'm a baseball addict - have been since I was a kid. I coached a team of 11 & 12 yr olds this summer and had the best summer I've had in years doing it - incredibly rewarding. I'd love to have kids and a family of my own one day and this represented the best chance to approximate that experience. I can't see any reason why I would ever give up coaching after the summer I had.

I am a reader. I much prefer to do that over TV. Chapters/Starbucks is my home away from home, due in part, to my caffeine addiction. I do park it on Thursdays though, they are my TV night. And even that is waning. First they took a part of my soul when Grissom left, then ER. They did however fill the void The OC left with The Vampire Diaries. If given the chance though I would much prefer to see a live show of any sort. There is something about the live experience that trumps the tv or going to a movie.

I'm not really one for nights that end when the next day should be beginning. Somewhere along the way reading or watching something semi-educational on a Friday night actually became appealing. That said, I think too much time to myself is selfish and time wasted. I volunteer whenever I can because of this.

I am a listener and a thinker. I have a different take on things sometimes. I will challenge you with questions and would expect you to do the same of me. The goal in a relationship is to make each other better, not blindly walk hand in hand down the path of least resistance. Love will always be a verb.

OK. Enough about me. I'm tired of using the word/letter "I" to describe myself. "They" really gotta come up with something else.

first date or first interview? aren't they interchangeable terms?