I'm pulling a 16 hour shift at work tonight. The first eight hours were fine. Busy enough to not think about how boring my job can be at times. The second eight? Not busy enough to realize I ought to be reevaluating my life. I feel like I should be painting some walls or constructing a bookcase or cooking steaks on the grill or kissing some woman who didn't know she wanted to be kissed by me. But I digress.

I happen to be eating the oddest looking banana I have ever seen at the moment. It's kind of.... square! Like someone put a sturdy little oblong wooden box on the vine and the banana just sort of filled itself in. I know, not particularly interesting, but that is what I happen do be doing at the moment.

I was supposed to have gone to Canada for a couple of days this week. I was really looking forward to it. I've not seen my friend there for at least four years but it may be longer. And I enjoy Canadians in general. It just seems easier for some reason to strike up a conversation with random Canadians as opposed to random Americans. A Canadian, for instance, is much more likely to remark that the spring bloom should be full this year. Or that the mother of one of the Bare Naked Ladies used to patronize his gas station. Or that chocolate chip cookies taste better with nuts. You get the picture.

Really though, I'm dying to see my buddy 'cross the border. He's close enough I'd love to be able to visit once every month or couple of months. Alas, unforeseen circumstances intervened and we were forced to postpone until another time. His record collection and Jack Daniels will just have to wait.

It's funny, though, that all of my friends seem to be singular entities. I mean, I think I have some good friends. Quite a few would make room for me if I called them up and told them I'm going to be there tomorrow. But if they were all in the same room, what the hell kind of music would I play? Rock? Country? Classical? Techno? They come from nearly every imaginable background and philosophy towards life. I should make this happen. It would most definitely be interesting. I think I have enough A-type personality friends that everyone wouldn't sit there looking at each other like Sarah Palin at a PETA rally.

I've never had much of a group mentality, but it's always nice to have. I think bonds are sometimes easier to form in groups. Well, maybe not easier, just different. Oh, I don't know. I suppose I really don't care.