Doing the wrong thing

I went to watch Star Trek yesterday and sat next these three irritating trekki geeks who kept making the stupid Vulcan hand sign thing. Everytime it appeared on screen three hands would pop up as if they were giving Spock the Vulcan high five and they kept GIGGLING at every goddamned old school Star Trek reference and the worst was when they giggled during an emotional moment in a lift after lots of people died. Of course I couldn't help but face palm and that smudged my spectacles and I had to clean them which made me miss part of the emotional moment in the lift.

Then the lights come on and I get a good look at them and they're all short and pudgy and ugly as fuck and they look like siblings but I'm sure this isn't some deviant sexual practice, it's just a bunch of losers who are so sad they have to date their own siblings so they won't have to watch the hottest show around right now alone.

Then this morning I had to wake up at 6am to see my parents off at the airport. There was this long queue at the check in counter but my parents had done an internet check in so they went to the counter right next to it labelled "QUICK BAG DROP". There's this stupid woman in the long queue and her eyes just pop out of her head when she sees my parents using the quick bag drop counter and she's like, "I did an internet check in too! They didn't make it clear!" Woman, the counter says "QUICK BAG DROP" in large letters. What the fuck else could it be for other than quickly dropping off your bags? And then as if to prove her stupidity she continued queueing in the long queue even after my parents were done and the quick bag drop counter was empty.

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There isn't really a point to this entry but I feel I need to state out loud any small improvements because I'm on the verge of giving up.

2 lessons on I'm breaking even, which I guess is an improvement on losing.

After a hand I can usually see what I should have done, so I guess there's some improvement there.

Some changes I think could help is to maybe cap my play time at 1.5 hours... I notice that after a while I start to zone out a little and that's bad.

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So Rockman was nice enough to school... uh... coach me. I'm really having mixed emotions right now.

On the one hand he's a fantastic teacher and I can feel some improvement after just one lesson. I've never been more hopeful that I can move up.

On the other hand I've been stuck here forever, and all it take is one bad hand to give me a crisis of confidence and make me wonder if maybe I just suck too much to ever progress.

Not counting the hands I played while being sweated, I'm down over 3 buyins over about 4k hands and I keep having visions of breaking even forever and ever, just like I was before coaching.

I'm trying not to go all Oprah Winfrey right now but damn, I really want this to work out.

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