I sit before the computer a bruised man. My heart aches and the word “Please” has become my internal mantra for the day.
This entry is not about love lost or even anything mundane or trivial. Indeed, this is a big deal, but at this point, I don’t feel much like discussing it. I shall distract you and myself by telling you about my grown-up life.
Much has changed since August. I have moved into my new apartment with my new roommate. Both are better, though the apartment is a tad smaller. The day before I moved in I called Comcast to get our Internet and cable set up, and our appointment was somewhere near September 10th. This was a bad news story for us. Luckily, my roommate (Bill) has a girlfriend that lives in an apartment complex right nearby, and she told him that Comcast was poaching around the complex in their trucks, so Bill went over and asked them if they could come to our place - they said yes, and the next day we had HD cable with a DVR and a wicked fast Internet connection - observed speeds up to 3 Mb/s down. That is the fastest connection I’ve ever had, so I was pumped. I was also able to finally get my Media Center PC up and running thanks to Ed (my roommate from last year) and a lot of tinkering. It is awesome. Our place came with almost all the furniture, so we had to buy very little, and it made life so easy. I have a meal plan, so I can eat at the DC 6 times a week, which is clutch. This way I don’t even have to make dinner anymore- I just gorge myself at the cafeterias on campus.
Class is going well. Both are worlds easier than Organic Chem, so I’m happy.
And jobs! Oh jobs. I am working for IT at my school 20 hours a week. I still work at that electronics store, but I’m done. As in, I have shifts this week that I’m not showing up for, nor calling in about. Now, I know this is a bad idea on several fronts, I’m burning my bridges and so forth, but honestly, I don’t give a shit. The job sucks, and I was only there for a few months, and I wouldn’t want to put that on my resume anyway - “HEY I SOLD COMPUTERS AND SHITTY WARRANTEES FOR A WHOLE SUMMER”. Besides, they were completely inflexible when it came to hours - I had to change my availability THREE TIMES because I wasn’t available to work enough on the weekends (first I was just doing Sunday, then Friday/Sunday, then all three, which is absurd), and they wanted me to work 24 hours over the course of the weekend. Not wanting to kill myself with stress or the inevitable gun I’d buy at the nearby Dick’s Sporting Goods, I decided to be very passive and just stop showing up. I have never done this before in my life, and I think now is the best time ever to do it. With all the management floating around in there, who gives a shit anyway?
Well, that certainly took my mind off things for a little while. I shall be working Monday through Thursday, so you can probably expect some entries in the near future. Maybe even more than one a day.
To those that read this blog regularly (or semi-regularly), I hope you don’t think that I am a whiner. I think I’m dealing pretty well with most things now, so I think I’ll be ok. There is only one major thing in my life that is bothering me immensely at the moment, but I do believe it will be sorted out soon. I can only hope.
Please.
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