Time
Wow. Has it been thirteen years already?
Time sure does fly by.
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Watch this now or perish.
Gah.
I actually think my birthday this year was the best in years, if only for the fact that it wasn’t a really boring day that I spent sitting around with that hollow feeling that always seems to flood my body every significant holiday.
The night before I was really bored, so I went to bed around 9:30 or 10. I had a great sleep, and woke up really easily, so I had some time to kill in the morning. Turned on the computer to find a bunch of electronic birthday wishes from a bunch of my friends, so that made a nice start to the day. Had an awesome day at work, spending my breaks conversing with a couple awesome people through this hip new thing called <i>text messaging</i>. Got home, talked to friends. Went to my mom’s for dinner, and came back to watch TV before bed. That’s it. It was a nice day.
So then we did a birthday dinner type thing at my Mom’s house today. I asked a few of my friends if they wanted to come, and of course none of them could make it. Yeah, that’s cool. So it was just the family, and it’s not a bad thing. I got to see my nephew. I didn’t get anything – not even a card – but whatever. I’m used to it, I guess.
I took my Xbox with me because afterwards I was supposed to be going over to Patrick’s house to hang with him since he couldn’t make it to the birthday thing, but, as usual whenever I make plans with people, that fell through, too! It ended up with my parents watching me play GTA San Andreas for a couple hours and then me just going home. We’re gonna try to do something tomorrow night, so hopefully that will work, since he’s going back to the army thing Tuesday morning.
So, yeah. Now I’m just sitting here with that oh-so-familiar hollow feeling again. I guess I shouldn’t speak so soon all the time.
really. fucking. long. post.
So I’ve pretty much forgotten about writing anything in these things. I think that’s pretty much because just about everything that I would write is just stuff that’s been going on in my life, and anyone who might actually read this and give a shit about what it says I already talk to on a regular basis. But whatever. I’ve forgot about using the blog for my own archival purposes, but I’m gonna change that right here. You can read it if you want.
In like a week or two I’m finally going to be moving out into a house with Trae. To say the least, I’m pretty excited. I’m also worried though, as I still don’t have a job or a working car of my own. I figured this job thing would be ironed out about three weeks ago after I interviewed at River Valley Technologies.
The interview went suprisingly well, and I thought it seemed like the guy would have hired me right away. He seemed to like me and my resume. I am actually pretty suprised at myself that I didn’t get really nervous and fuck everything up like I’ve always done with “big” things such as this.
But anyway, my would-be-boss is interviewing me and starts to tell me about what I would be doing. I would have been a technician preparing / repairing machines for the customers. The work would either be at the home-building or on-site at the client’s location. That, I’m sure I could handle with ease. Then he starts telling me about how that’s basically only half of the job. The other half would be sales and explains how about 80% of their business is from returning customers. A lot of it is pretty much making small talk with the customers and getting on their good side and making suggestions at how they could improve their situations at the work place. You also have to impress them and let them know that you know what you’re talking about. A lot of this… I’m not sure I could realy do it. I’ve never been too good at just sparking up conversations with people I don’t know.
He told me that if I was still interested then I should e-mail him my refrences. Checking on those and doing a background check and everything would take like a week and he would get back to me fairly soon with a decision. Well, it’s almost been three weeks now and I still haven’t heard anything. I called on Monday to check in with him, but I was told he was out of the office and he would get back to me within a few days. Now it’s Friday with still no word. I think I’m just gonna send an e-mail.
I actually might have another job within a few days here. The temp agency I put in at a couple months ago actually has “lots of jobs” that I could possibly get now that Trae’s Dad contacted the lady they know there and explained the whole money / house situation to her. I went in on Wednesday and the one she told me about that would probably be a good one had to do with “putting electronics together.” It could be cool I think. I hope.
Trae has just been nothing but cool with this whole house thing so far. He’s been buying a bunch of stuff for us to be fixing the house up with and is pretty much going to be the one paying the mortgage for the first month. I feel pretty terrible about not being able to help him at all with it. And now now he’s helping my attempts at finding employment and has said that he would help me get my car fixed. He really wants to get moved in as soon as possible, and so do I, but I honestly don’t think I really deserve it right now. Yesterday he ordered two tickets for us to go see 10 Years and Flyleaf (plus two other bands that I’ve never heard of) in Chicago near the end of May. I really really need to get this job thing sorted out so I can start paying him back already.
Speaking of concerts, two days after that 10 Years show is Wing Ding 2006! I’m also pretty excited for that, too. It’s gonna be 8 bands, which include Tantric, Hinder, and Saliva. I’m pretty pumped. Saliva is gonna rock so hard, and Tantric and Hinder are an awesome bonus! The other five bands, I’ve only heard of one of them, because a month or so ago they started sending Eric and I messages on MySpace about helping them get their song into the playlist for WXRX. I guess they sent it to a number of people around here, and the song is now on the radio… and now they are going to be coming here for Wing Ding, too! It’s a groovy song, I like it. I hope the rest of their stuff is good.
So as a result of them getting on the radio, they’ve started to send Eric ( and apparently others from the area) messages about them wanting to send him a bunch of free t-shirts for him and his friends as thanks for the support. It’s sounding pretty cool, except it’s kind of weird. It can’t really be determined if these messages are coming from a robot program or from the guy himself. Some sound kinda fishy, but others are actually pretty personalized. Maybe it’s a combination of both. Hopefully the t-shirts arrive soon (if they ever actually will, that is!)
The Conan O’Brien shows in Chicago are starting on Tuesday, and Eric, Trae, nor I have gotten a response about getting tickets for it. We sent out the requests way back when they announced it. I would have loved to go to one of these shows.
I got the new Pearl Jam album a week or so ago. Holy shit. I love it. That is all.
I haven’t gone to see my Dad in coming up on a year soon. I’m not particularly happy about that, but gas has been so fucking expensive lately, and it’s quite a drive to get there and back. Hopefully I can get out there soon though. It’s a lot better now that I can drive myself and not have to ask anyone else about it. I just hate that. It took quite a bit of courage for me to ask Jonathan in freshman year and I don’t even know why. I guess I just hate bringing it up with the others. Last year I asked Jake if he wanted to go with me but he said no. I was bummed out. He barely knew him at all so I guess he’d just rather forget all about it or something.
And driving; I guess I may be loosing my license for ~3 months some time soon here. I got a speeding ticket a week ago, and thats #3. Needless to say, I am pretty pissed at myself for just being such an idiot. My Mom said for me to just wait and hope for the best. Hopefully they will never catch up to me about it. I guess they never caught up with Jeni.
Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow! Also tenatively planning on seeing Silent Hill with Eric after we hit up Tomorrow is Yesterday. Hopefully I can get some cash from the parents for it.
