i’ve actually been kind of productive tonight, if you measure productivity in the number of news websites i’ve been catching up on after work. although, i did manage to get some of my taxes done — whenever i can get my hands on the turbotax release for the year i get almost obsessive-compulsive about getting my taxes done as soon as i can. turbotax actually makes doing taxes kind of fun, even when i end up having to pay, and then it only becomes irritating since it’s not exactly turbotax’s fault i had to pay.

i realized earlier that i don’t even really get this worked up about reading books nowadays. but doing my taxes? that’s like those old choose-your-own-adventure books: what’s going to happen when i click to the next screen?? will my payment increase or will my refund go down?? i need to know if this story has a happy ending!

so far this “story” isn’t going as well — i was able to get my business tax info in there, and it’s helped me out with figuring out what business expenses i can deduct (i’m suddenly not that annoyed at having to pay monthly fees to paypal for being able to take credit cards just like a credit-card swipe machine). but right now this story has me having to pay $272 to the feds for my photography income, and i haven’t even gotten to the chapter where i pay the maryland state taxes. but i’m not that concerned… i heard there’s a great plot-twist coming up shortly where i get my W-2 form in the mail!

i’m also doing some poking around with my profile on linkedin… i figured it could use some updated info, especially since i got my new title the other day:

i also saw the section where it tells you how many people looked at your profile recently, and the last one made me literally laugh-out-loud:

it made me think for a moment, and then after a quick google search i found this which was even more hilarious (because there was a guy in high school named cecil batts who loved to say “hey young!” a lot).

eta: i should make this my linkedin profile image, lolololololol…