it's times like this i wish i had cable...

I've been lying in bed for like 3 hours thinking about love and soulmates and (im)possibilities after a conversation that just couldn't be resolved. I wish I was the great and powerful Wizard of Oz and I had all the solutions to life's problems in a big velvet bag and I could just hand them out one by one. (I really mean that, even though this website says I'm 60% evil. Fijase.)

We just can't pick who we become attached to. Fortunately - cuz think of all the cool stuff we'd potentially miss out on. But sometimes the people we least expect to hurt us are reckless with our hearts. It's a hard thing to learn. One time Ari and I were talking about break-ups and I said my heart had been broken pretty badly once and she said her heart had been ripped out, broken into a million pieces, stepped on, and thrown against a brick wall. Maybe it all just doesn't get wrapped up into a neat little package like in the last episode of "Sex and the City."

But if I could pull anything out of my wizard's sack, it would be whatever pile of things would make everyone blissful, including Howard Mierzwiak's business card. And I'll gladly transport you to his office; my new car handles 2 feet of snow nicely.

And when it all seems so horrible that you don't know what to do next, drinking outrageous amounts of alcohol and singing unrequited love songs at karaoke does really help.

Text message of the day: "Cu." ---Katie, responding to my "Where are you anyway?" text message, letting me know she was at the Copper Lounge.