Application Process

  "I believe that anyone that wants to wear a thong should have to go through an application process."

  – Bill Engvall

  Good day to all.  I’m here at the office again.  My birthday is coming up next week, but I don’t know what to do.  I’ve hardly looked forward to my birthday.  Even as a kid I didn’t really look forward to it.  I liked the presents, but that’s not all a birthday is.  My parents always tried to make it seem like a big thing.  And that’s nice to do and all.  But I just never had many friends and when someone tries to make something a big thing in that case all it really does it emphasize that its not.  I don’t even know what to do. 

  Here at work they want to take me out for lunch (since my b-day is during the week).  That’s a nice gesture and its not that I don’t appriciate it.  I just don’t know where to eat.  I guess I also feel self-concious.  Alot of the people who work here are of the more cultured type I guess.  They know about wine and enjoy their brussetta (or however you spell that) and all that sort of thing.  The places we’ve gone to eat in the past for other people’s b-day or other functions I always have a hard time ordering.  I’m always trying to find something on the menu that I actually recognize.  And while I can converse well enough in "high society" situations, I just feel kind of akward about picking a place to eat.  I don’t know about anything like that and if we go somewhere I’d like to know that the rest of the office will enjoy themselves there and aren’t just doing it for me.  After all, things are a whole lot less fun when you’re the only one who enjoys the place where you’re going and everyone else is just pretending to with varying degrees of success.  I talked to my sister about it and she said maybe I should just name a few different places and see what everyone else says to my choices.  That might be safest. 

  Then my family wants to know what I want to do for my birthday.  I don’t know what to do though.  I can already tell my parents want to make it my "special" day, but I say woopie do.  I doubt I’m getting laid on my birthday or even a bj so I doubt there’s going to be much to shout about.  Hehe, that was kinda awful, but oh well.  Anyway, one of my sisters suggested the movies, but there’s nothing I want to go see.  We’ve seen the movies that I’ve been wanting to see.  I figure we’ll go out to eat at one of the usual places.  I don’t know what else to do, I don’t even know what else there is to do.  This city isn’t the most exciting of places to be.  It would be great to have a birthday with all my friends there, but most of my real friends are scattered over the country or out of the country, so I know that’s not happening.  I know that I’m bitching and moaning about my birthday, but there’s not many birthdays that I look back on fondly.  *sigh* Well, this entry didn’t do much good. My apologies to all if you’ve read this far.

-Damien