Honesty

Sometime in college I decided that being honest was funny. It worked for a while, then it gradually became apart of the way I act all the time. Sometimes something mean will just slip out. As a result, I had this exchange today after running into a girl I used to work with after two years:

Girl: So what are you doing now?
Kevin: I work at Connected Ventures, Collegehumor
Girl: That sounds fun!
Kevin: It is. What do you do?
Girl: I work at an investment banking firm
Kevin: Oh, that sounds boring.

By far the best thing I've ever said to anyone happened when I was still in high school (and it had nothing to do with honesty). I was at the beach with friends. One of my friends had started flirting with a very cute girl and it was going well. My group of friends and hers were meshing a bit and I was kind of keeping to myself because I'm shy or something. The cute girl my friend was flirting with came over to me and we had this brief conversation:

CGMFWFW: So, why are you so quiet?
Kevin: I'm scared of you.
CGMFWFW: Scared of me? Why?
Kevin: Because you're so ...

We need to pause here. Now, I was clearly joking from the beginning. Right here I was searching my mind for a word that meant muscley. I was stumped for a minute, then I thought I had it.

Kevin: Because you're so butch.
CGMFWFW: Ugh!

I immediately realized that tough and butch were not the same thing and tried to correct myself, but it was too late. My friend never heard from her again.

That One's a Keeper

Justin at CV has been taking incredible pictures of everyone at work (like this one) for a project he's doing. I love it! Ted and I need to start a band now so we can use this.

Rock and F-wording Roll

I got a new guitar today! It's a Gretsch Electromatic hollow-body electric. I've yet to name her.

Nerd Alert

I'm currently reformatting my windows PC for the sole purpose of running Half Life 2 better. I know how cool that sounds.

Also, in the most recent edition of the CV inter-office newsletter I included this joke, which I don't think anyone got, but I think is really funny.

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(click here for online decoder pin)

Aftermath

Today's Bet on Vimeo.

The diabetes I was referring to in my last post was after I completed a bet involving eating a half pound of a 2 pound orange, milk-chocolate pumpkin for $50. Four CVers attempted it, I was the only one who didn't puke.

Ow, my kidneys

I never believed it was possible to get "sugar high" until right at this moment. I hope I don't get diabetes.