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http://confusedbyfiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/most-powerful-people-in-america.html

Read the last paragraph. The woman, Lana Skirboll, is my best friends mother. I’ve met her, she’s awesome. And apparently, she’s one of the most power people in the US. Huh, maybe I should have paid closer attention to what Pat was going on about when he talked about his parents jobs.

Tonight, I have witnessed what I honestly thought I would never see. I wrote the following on May 13th, 2005, when asked by Nicole if thought I’d live to see a black President:

I don’t think so. As much as I would love to see that, I know it’s probably not going to happen in my lifetime. There is still too much prejudice in our society for that. We’ve made a great steps, but if people take issue to me and you dating, how would they deal with a black president.

There are few times when I will ever be more happy, to be so wrong. Tupac, we are ready now.

And although it seems heaven sent,
We ain’t ready, to see a black President.
-”Changes” Tupac

So it’s been quite a long time since I last really wrote anything of substance. And I know that in the past, I’ve given some crazy BS excuses as to why. Well, this time, I actually have some significant reasons for having not blogged. Let’s go through the run down:

• Grad School - That’s right. Grad School. As of today, I have officially turned in my application for the professional masters program in CS at the University of Washington. I’d been doing a lot of thinking over the past six months about how I was wondering what I would do as far as my future career is concerned. After talking with some friends and thinking about it, I decided that I would like to open a bunch of possible doors and the best way to do that would be to further my education. Since UW has a masters program at night for professionals in the industry, and since Microsoft will pay for it…let’s do it. So yeah, I’ve applied to go to school part time.
• I’m leaving Zune - Big thing number two, I’ve left the Zune team. I’m still at Microsoft, mind you, but I’ve left Zune. I don’t want to go into all of the specific reasons why, but I will say, I came to the realization that I was ready to go tackle some new challenges. So where am I headed? Microsoft’s just announced hotness. It’s more cloud/internet/services stuff, but it’s a new thing for MS and it’s a pretty sweet idea. So yeah, after a year and a half, I’m leaving the social for new digs.

So those are the big big changes.
I also spent about five days back on the east coast in NJ/NYC. I was there doing some recruiting stuff and I got to visit Syd and my friend Lisa in NYC. It was pretty fun and I’m really glad I went. I may write more on that later, but for now, I want to get back to enjoying my “staycation.”

…lack the words.

Why does it have to be so easy to make McCain-Palin supporters look and sound retarded? And why did it have to be in Ohio? I’m about ready for this election to be over.

I’m typing this with a cat in my lap. I just read this and I am highly amused. I’ve always been a cat person and never thought anything of it. I’ve had Gin and Meo for almost a year, and I honestly can’t believe I went so long without them. Yeah, I’m a cat person. ^_^