To be or not to be...

... a tourist. Am I going to be one of those poker nuts that goes up to every "name" player and asks for an autograph? After pondering this for a long two seconds, I have decided that no, I will not be going up to other poker players for autographs so I can show them off. I don't see poker as a profession that contributes to society, so I'm going to make these people my idols.

Honestly, I'd rather be doing almost anything else besides playing poker. I don't take pride in sitting around a table, 90% of which are usually dudes, for hours on end not knowing whether I'll win or lose, when I could be out with friends, exercising, watching movies, you get the idea. So why do I play so much if I make it sound like I hate poker? There'$ a $imple an$wer to that que$tion... and I use it to have more fun when I'm not playing poker.

When I play online, it's not fun for those around me either. Who wants to be around someone that won't respond since they are too busy concentrating or someone that sits there and spurts out random curse words and gets angry during bad sessions? I have lived with and been around a number of friends, and here is a list of them who enjoy my company when I play:

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For those of you who don't speak English, here's that list in Spanish:

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One more time in Chinese:

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(by the way, I stole that from Bill Simmons, the Sports Guy on ESPN's page 2)

(wow, something from school rubbed off there, works cited, annotated bibliography, something like that)

14 hours 'til I'm on the plane...