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I have this new theory as of this morning that drama is like PageRank, there’s a relationship to those that you network in your life (friends, etc.) that have drama and the drama that occurs in your life.

DramaRank formula:
DR(A) = (1-d) + d (DR(T1)/C(T1) + … + DR(Tn)/C(Tn)) + K

DR(x) is the DramaRank of x (you are A), C(x) is the number of contacts you have with friend x, d is a damping factor set between 0 and 1 and has a relationship to how much that person influences your life (Best friends = 0, not so close friends = .9). K is the amount you have drank that night — as we all know alcohol has a huge effect on the perception of drama!

Your DramaRank is almost completely dependent upon who is in your life, reduced, to some degree, by the total number of people you interact with. A friend in your life will have the highest amount of impact on your DramaRank if:

1) The friend of yours has a high DramaRank (lots of drama in their life).
2) The total number of friends that they interact with is low, for example, they share all their drama with just you. A person with a high DramaRank and a large number of friends can nullify the impact on your DramaRank.

To increase your DramaRank, simply get as many friends with high drama to share their life stories with you, and not share their stories with that many others (this way you get the juiciest drama). Theoretically you can obtain a DramaRank of 100%, but this may cause death. You can also increase your DramaRank by attaining many friends, no matter what their DramaRank, as long as they are ranked.

So remember. Your amount of drama will affect your friends, but this isn’t a bad thing, as we all need a little drama in our lives! So if you want your friends to have a high DramaRank (oh and who doesn’t?!) make sure you create a lot of drama so that you can help add it to theirs.

It got better. The meeting tonight went well… I was so happy what we figured out, I actually felt somewhat useful. It was over Pad Thai that it sort of click the possible solutions needed to patch up IUGA… hopefully the rest of the board will agree. We came up with three opportunities in which we feel IUGA would be able to benefit — err why does this sound like 440 and 380?

Surprisingly enough, Anthony asked me and some others out for a drink tonight and of course I was like “yeah!” Jamie’s friend (oooh and Jake’s.. awww, I miss you Jake!) Irene was going to be playing at 9 at the Rainbow Room. Anyways, not wanting to go home and turn around and come back (since it was like 8:20) and having just dropped of David, I called Anthony, seeing what was up. He invited me over (well, I sorta invited myself saying “uh, whatcha doing? i’m bored.. I don’t want to go home”) and I got the news. We had some “hate the world” bonding time and I think I shed a few tears (just the start of the night). After hating the world some, we left for the Rainbow Room.

Irene ended up not playing until 9:30, but after a G&T and a Long Island, it didn’t matter! Actually, they were kinda fun to listen too, I think we all enjoyed it. Although not many people were there, we were pretty vocal and supportive to the band — making it even that more fun. Unfortunately we all left before the next band played, but had a chance to congratulate Irene on her good performance.

Ryan and Jamie headed home and I started driving Anthony home. Halfway there, we decide to go for a drive to let off a little steam. We both needed it — so we decided to go to Gas Works. Wow… it was amazingly beautiful tonight… shooting stars, twinkling lights… empty! It was pretty nice to just walk around and chat… something (as you may know) I miss fondly. After walking around and freezing our ears, we decided to go home.. or not… lol — we ended up driving around Seattle for another geeez.. who knows… but it was nice. I cried some more and probably freaked Anthony with my tears… but he was a good sport and was like “let’s drive a little more.” Thanks, it was nice to not be alone tonight.

Anyways. Now home, I think how nice it ended up being… friends can be amazing sometimes without even knowing it. At least we can hope we’ll always have this in life to look forward to.

So last night was the official end of quarter for me, and it was nice. Today, however, was the unofficial beginning of the next. After having a huge fight last night (being somewhat resolved), I woke up this morning to meet the president (of UW). That was fine and dandy and then I went to my first capstone meeting with our client.

It went really well and we worked out some confusions — and then realized, yes this is going to be huge. But huge is good!!

After the meeting, Jamie, Rufino & I debriefed and decided it would be good to start thinking about what we need to figure out for Thursday’s database meeting. I’m excited about this section, most likely because I feel the most confident about them. Come on — a contact database system?

After all that Rufino and I went out for Chinese and ending up doing the buffet. Lots of freaking carbs - everything was either breaded & deep fried or covered in a sweet sauce. We were both responsible and ate all our food (as to not get charged for ‘wasting’).

I went to work and got the usual random requests and stuff like that. I then met with Tracy for our every-so-often-bi-weekly meeting. It started off pretty nice and then she started asking me all about when I think I was leaving, when I would find out if I was getting a job elsewhere, reminding me that my employment is somewhat tenative there, etc. etc. Talk about stressful. Then I got to vent a little about my frustrations that I’ve been having the last oh.. two/four years there?

Now I’m feeling very vulnerable.. nothing is extremely stable in my life. Having recent relationship problems, not knowing what I’ll be doing come March, sort of not-really-break start of week– I am now sitting here feeling like I’m going to break down and cry… seriously … all it would take is someone to walk over to my desk and be like “Trevor, you suck.” and I’ll just cry… so embarassing. Thank goodness only 8 more minutes left.

Now off to my next meeting, luckily it won’t be very stressful.

This week has been somewhat stressful, but sometimes it seems for the wrong reasons. It’s frustrating sometimes when you’re working on stuff and you realize it’s not the assignment that is holding you down but life around you. And when I say life, I mean {cough} people. Today sucked a lot, as my presentation in 440 went pretty sour. Luckily Jamie made it better by inviting me over to make cookies for IUGA meeting tomorrow. Ryan ordered pizza and it was all good and happy and Anthony showed up later to finish up a batch. It was nice and fun, as always, making Jamie into a couch and playing a couple rounds of Uno and some bitching about school. All fun must come to an end and walked to Montlake, but thanks “Christian” for walking w/ me… I don’t think that’s gonna catch on Anthony, sorry, but regardless, good talk on the way down.

Now I’m talking to Rufino and Kevin again.. and ugh… I think it’s Long Island specials @ Earl’s. OMG i just got back from there (u-dist), but .. I’m bored and Ly isn’t going to be home for a while… do I go? Eh, I sorta wanted to go to bed early so I could wake up early — does that make sense?! I guess I can go to bed normal time and just wake up a little later, since no one is going to 498 anyways… geeez I’m so easy to get to go to bars. Maybe lots more to write about later.

Why can’t I find it?

Anyways…. I don’t want to “ruin the fun” for Jamie.. but I had a good time tonight. err.. last night.. ugh.. whatever.. Friday, after meeting with my 370 group and eating Ramen and working on whatever i could find to occupy my time, I headed over to Anthony’s.

Ryan, Jamie, and I watched Moulin Rouge and drank lots of wine ( 3 bottles), ate some cheese from QFC and we all got buzzed and Anthony got a little sick (awww, sorry for making u drink more) and Jamie.. damn she’s a drunk.. j/k she drank more than all of us, I think…. Our sobering up (well…. my, cause i needed to drive home) involved watching the 2nd half of Spiderman 2.. then starting the 1st half.. after we realized we needed a little more time.

I hope Anthony feels better…