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Game Set Match

I went to see "Match Point" tonight. I set out to see "Brokeback Mountain" but it was sold out. Can I just tell you right off that Scarlett Johansson is a smokin' hottie. I think I like her so much because she reminds me of DubDub.

I thought this was going to be a completely different movie -- one driven by Scarlett as a vixen in a love triangle. Instead it was a tense drama driven by some smarmy guy. For once that I can remember, Woody Allen didn't have a cameo in his own movie.

I miss DubDub. I'm going to try and call her tomorrow and see if we can't get together. I play this little game to see how long I can sustain myself without something... nothing dangerous, you understand. I think my time is coming close to being up with DubDub.

I'm tired of leaving my house in the morning, working and then returning home. How am I supposed to meet someone that way? I'm just frustrated, looking up at the light from this hole that I've dug myself into. In some ways I want things to change without changing them myself. Life just doesn't work that way.

I need to stop pushing my own buttons, setting myself off and just making myself angrier. I need to do whatever it takes to get what I want out of life with the time I have left (hopefully another 40 to 50 years, or so...)

Match.

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