Nantucket, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

The title says it all - we've had a good run, but I gotta get the fuck off this rock.  I've had an unnecessarily dramatic last couple of days, and I've only left my house two times, one of which was to pick up burritos.  I decided to go out for drinks last night, which was a total drag - ended up putting up with useless bullshit, dealing with local drama, and spending money that I could be using much more productively.  I go to these bars and I see the apathy in these people and it makes me sick.  Maybe not sick as much as sad.  To me, it's sad that these people have never cared enough about anything to pursue it with their entire being and try and do something great.  Or if they do recognize their passion, they are too afraid to put their ass on the line and just go for it, and settle for living within these imaginary boundaries that society has established.  Its total dogshit.  People are capable of so much, yet so many settle for such an average, unsatisfying lifestyle, and it really blows my mind.  Paint a portrait, write a novel, run a marathon, take up scuba diving...find whatever it is that makes you happy and fucking do it!  Christ, life is so short - do what you love.  Ok, enough preaching - here endeth the sermon.

So yea, as far as poker goes, things are going well.  I've been trying to put in as much time as possible in the cash games, while still trying to play a few mtts when possible.  I won a seat to the Sunday Million today, so I'll definitely be playing in that tomorrow, along with a few other assorted mtts.  As far as the cash games go, here are my results for the past couple weeks or so:


Nothing crazy - I'm actually not thrilled with the results. 8bb/100 hands is beating the game pretty badly, but there were one or two sessions thrown in there where I really feel I didn't play my best.  I'm  sure if I keep my shit together, I can get my winrate up a bit.  Honestly, I feel the most interesting stat on there is the rake.  In just under 15k hands, I paid $825 in rake!  Thats pretty incredible, and makes me think that its probably time to start playing on a smaller site where I can get a good rakeback deal.  Overall, though, I'm finding the cash games to be incredibly boring, and really hope that I'll eventually be in a position to play mtts full time. Hopefully I'll take down the Sunday Million tomorrow and I'll be all set.  Ok, I have to get some sleep - Stephanie (my Dad's girlfriends' granddaughter - totally rad 7 year old) has her first swim meet tomorrow, and I have to be there to threaten the parents of the other kids.  Goodnight.