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MADISON, WI - What follows is a personal email sent recently to a lovely lady in Spain. Names and places are omitted to protect the innocent and not so innocent.

Subject: Fuck brevity

Hey...just got done reading your email...only took me all week, but some things are worth the hassle. Fortunately, after sifting through the massive amounts of fluff contained in your most recent diatribe, I've come to the conclusion that opening emails from ----- will be worth the font induced headaches that will inevitably accompany them.

Smugness aside, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your daily adventures. I would pay money to see your overtly animated body language those little Spanish kids get to see for free!

Speaking of overtly animated and other self conscious self indulgent tendencies, if you don't already, you should blog. If you do, I can't imagine the readership reaching high volumes, but then again such evocative wit usually flys over the collective heads of the mainstream. Your way with words puts a smile on my face. It's like I found the female ME, only I already found her in ME! What the hell does that even mean? I don't know and I don't wanna know. But instead of frantically hitting the backspace button I'll let that comment stay and see what comes from it. Probably a bad idea, but fuck it...

So after spending three long paragraphs talking about you, you managed to tack on a pity paragraph about me. I feel so wanted!

-----....yeah, I've been working with them in some capacity for the past 3 years, so in a sense they got the world's first fully interactive resume. Why or how that got me this job, I'll never fully know, yet alone accept. Did they steal me? 'Steal' implies a burning desire on ones part to acquire a forbidden object...so steal certainly is not the right word in this context. Rather, I think they needed an Asian guy to fill out their diversity quota and story of my life, wrong guy, right place, right time. How's the saying go?...two wrongs don't make a right, but two rights and an Asian make due? Something like that anyway.

----- was surprisingly supportive of the move and claims he saw it coming (although we had just spent the previous two hours laying out the extensive marketing plan he had for ----- that I was to oversee - a task that would suggest otherwise on his claims of intuition, but...) I think he was more complacent with the announcement for either two reasons. One, he was tired of my high maintenance ass or two, he took pride in my growth and development. Seeing how I would've never been even considered for my current position without his mentorship, his stake in my success or eventual demise is justified. I'd like to think that's the case, but like yesterday's news, maybe it was my time to hit the curb.

Wisconsin weather has been great of late...sunny skys, mild temps. We're getting an extension of summer today, the last day of summer, with highs in the upper 80's. Cold is on the way, but I'm enjoying it while I can.

So the long pointless dribble continues...monologues that should turn into dialogues. Don't know what your phone situation is like, but if you'd like, call me some time @ 608.---.----. You can get these half-assed attempts at cleverness and charm in audio as well. Plus it's more satisfying hanging up on someone, rather then hitting the DEL key.

Take care,
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P.S. - Memento is bad ass. For something entirely different check out Half Nelson.