FINISHED!!!! I finally finished 24 and damn, that was a good ending! I was up til 3AM last night watching it because I couldn't stop. The show was perfectly cast too, even the guest stars. I don't think anyone could have done a better job in those roles. I never thought I would like Kiefer so much either. (It's not as bad as liking Nicholas Cage) He sorta became a nobody after Julia Roberts broke off their engagement but now I like him better than I like her.

I also caught the repeat of Sex and the City. I kinda knew it would happen but ... BLAIR!!! I know Miranda loves Steve but Blair is perfect!! If she doesn't want him, I'll take him. He's a doctor for the Knicks too... I loved last week's episode when he offered Steve the courtside seats and Steve turned him down because of pride - "Naw, I like sitting up in the nosebleed seats."

Is $10k more a year worth a commute from West LA to Pasadena?? I'm so used to my five minute commute to work, to not having to work hard, to having lunch with Dante every day... but Debbie IMed me yesterday telling me that she left Deloitte to work at a mid-tier firm, they're hiring like crazy over there, and she has lunch with the recruiting manager all the time. It's a tax position and it's a better career path than I'm on right now. (I don't know if they'd hire me because I don't have the relevant tax experience though.) I like what I'm doing now, but business management for celebs won't get me that far later on. Jay told me this when I almost left to go work with him last year. I'd have to get my own clients if I wanted to make it big. Eileen has been here for 8 years and she doesn't make that much and they're not gonna make her a partner here. I've reached as far as I can get at this company also and I've only been here 2 years. I'm in charge of a couple client accounts. Whoohoo. We have an incompetent assistant here who would probably be given my job if I left. Hmmm... thats scary. I don't know if I can do that to my clients. :) But anyway, at a mid-tier accounting firm, you move from staff/associate to senior to manager and maybe even partner with time. You can even go into the private sector after working at these places. I'm not sure about mid-tier firms, but the Big 4 accounting firms give you laptops, meal expenses, pay for your travel and all these extra perks. I'd have to work harder but thats what I thought I would be doing at this age - work my ass off so I can make more $$ later on just sitting on my ass and bossing people around. We'll see what happens. I don't want to get my hopes up.

My brother was in a car accident this weekend. He was sitting in the passenger seat of an BMW M3, it was 12 midnight, they were driving 120 on the canyon roads in OC. They hit a water spot, the car went out of control, flipped a couple times and landed upside down. My bro and the driver (19 year old white guy from a rich family) were just lucky to be alive but my bro has scars on his face from the glass and the driver got this huge gash on his head (you could see his scalp). My brother did tell me something funny though - he said when they were telling the cops that they smelled gas so they hurried and got out of the car and ran, the cops told them, "You guys watch too much TV." In every movie/TV show, cars explode after they crash. You come to expect it. Anyway, I'm just glad they're ok. If anyone out there races, DON'T DO IT!!! Its SO not worth whatever high you get from it. We knew a guy in high school whose brother died while racing one of my mom's friend's sons. The mom's friend's son just left the guy there too and drove off and I can't remember if they charged him with anything but the mom of the guy who died had a nervous breakdown. Just not worth it.

There's this girl who Mike doesn't like talking to but who calls him all the time. He complains to me on AIM that she's on the phone yakking and how the hell can someone talk so much! I told him to come up with a list of excuses to get off the phone, like Seinfeld did. He came up with, "My pimp is coming over, gotta go." I told him, "No NERD!! You're the pimp!! You're supposed to be the pimp! You're supposed to say, 'My hos are coming over, gotta go.'" Hmmm... I wonder if anyone remembers the sweet old Lucy from high school and college. I've changed so much.