btw for anyone who's interested, living vicariously does work, not long after my vicarious complaint, the universe decided that it would heed my compliant and throw a life my way.. or at least 2 hours of it. So i went to karaoke yesterday afternoon with two japanese students from Kyoto University and one of them was actually cute.. whoo hoo. yay for eye-candy. Unfortunately, now its back to the daily hum-drum of life :-p