Life.. (or, the wheel stops for no hamster)
I've got about 1.5 hours before Astro Club starts but more like an hour before people start to show up, but plenty of time to write a post about what's been up in my life lately.
you don't have to move
you don't have to speak
lips for biting
you're staring me down
a glance makes me weak
Work:
Last week I presented at the OpenAFS and Kerberos Best Pratices Workshop that was behind hosted in Ann Arbor. The down side is that prior to it I started to come down with a fairly annoying sinus infection. Tuesday I admitted defeat and headed onto campus to see the doctor. It was fairley entertaining because she looked up my right nostril and was like "oh wow, that's really red" and then looked up the left one and was like "and that one is even more red and swollen". So I got prescriptions for Augmentin and Vicodin and off I went. Of course, I presented on Wednesday and I still was not feeling that great. Still had a lot of sinus pressure and a minor migraine from it and I didn't want to take a Vicodin prior to presenting. All in all my presentation went well. I forgot to scan the audience for questions in the beginning and was somewhat nervous, but not as much as I thought I would be. I had a good amount of people ask questions and they were generally interested in it, which is a good thing. When I was done presenting, I was approached by someone from one of the sponsors of the project, Sine Nomine. He said that during my presentation he was AIM'ing one of the other guys there about if they should offer me a contract position or not. I was pretty suprised, we chatted it up for a little bit and he said he would send me an e-mail. We've exchanged a few e-mails and I'm still considering it. My main thing is time.. I'm pretty busy and don't want to run myself even more thin next semester. I mentioned it to him and he said he understood and he was interested in having me help out, get experience, and to put a little extra money in my pocket. Really, can't beat that.
That aside, I have a lot of interesting projects I need to get cracking on at work. Being out all of last week makes me feel far behind. Not to mention the fact that this week has been spent interviewing people for our temp position and sitting in on the interviews for our FTE. I'm taking vacation starting next Thursday (the 29th).. but more on that later. I really enjoy our group at work. We have a lot of fun, laugh, joke around with each other, it's great in so many ways. Our latest higher, Steve, fits in with our group amazingly well and has a great sense of humor.
eyes for striking
now im twisting up when im twisted with you
brush so lightly
and time trickles down and im breathing for two
School:
One test left in my online class. I should easily walk out with an A in that class, which is nice. It's been easy, as usual.. They awarded me the Michigan Competitive Scholarship again for next semester, so that's $1,300 less I have to pay which is nice. I'm not taking any summer classes to just get a break from doing school work since I know Fall/Winter will be hard on me again. I'm not going to teach more than 1 Astro lab next semester, two was too much with work and everything else that I do. If I were to get a half time position at umich I may not even teach a lab at all.
squeeze so tightly
i'll be fine, you'll be fine
Life:
Things with Chris C and I are pretty much still the same. I don't know if that will ever change, even if I do want more. You can't force a person to change and I am happy with what we have. I've been spending a lot of time hanging out with him.. hell, we've spent 5 days straight together quite a few times without either of us getting sick of one another. He'll come down and hang out with me and stay at my place while I'm at work.. and I do gotta admit it's nice to come home to him after work and grab lunch with him and stuff. I'm not sure if we'll hang out this weekend or not; if not it'll be the first weekend (minus when I go home) in quite a long time that we haven't seen each other so that feels somewhat weird. When I went home a few weeks ago, I avoided the internet and spent a lot of time with my parents. When I came back that monday he messaged me and was like "So you should come up..." and I was playing around and being like "Why?" and he was just like "because you should". So anyways, I went up there and was playing around with his friends laptop as soon as I got in the door.. well he got on the bed and curled up on to me and was like "I missed you Mikey..!" so it was kinda nice to see the fact that he admitted that he needed/wanted me. Although I've got to admit it gets to be somewhat expensive to drive up there and back often and to buy him stuff..
I've been talking to an old neighbor of mine, which is great because they were the coolest neighbors ever.. but this made me laugh:
7:23:25 PM a88laptop: i cant believe you drink
7:23:38 PM leftyviolin: hehe, just a total lightweight
7:23:39 PM a88laptop: you're shattering all the images of some innocent young kid i have
7:23:42 PM leftyviolin: Dude
7:23:52 PM leftyviolin: You're gay!
7:24:00 PM a88laptop: ... really?!
7:24:01 PM leftyviolin: Our whole family was like.... whoa! didn't see that coming!
7:24:04 PM a88laptop: hahaha
7:24:05 PM a88laptop: really?
7:24:57 PM leftyviolin: Yup! It was the weirdest thing (for about 5 secs) just 'cause, well, we (at least, I) didn't think of you as a sexual being at all. You were MIKEY, for chrissakes! You lived next door! Now, you're a member of an oppressed minority...
7:25:05 PM a88laptop: hahahah
7:25:22 PM a88laptop: yeah, I know, thats why it's weird to think about you drinking
7:25:25 PM leftyviolin: YEah!
7:25:31 PM leftyviolin: 'Cause I was 8 when we last saw one another!
this moment seems so long
don't waste now, precious time
we'll dance inside the song..
Life (Vacation):
As I said above, I'm leaving on the 29th for vacation for about a week. I'm heading up to Chris' cabin in Mio for a few days and then we're heading to Jeff's place for his 4th of July party. I'll also probably take half a week or so off at the beginning of August to go to Beaver Island, but not sure on the dates for that yet.
Misc:
Sucks to be this motorcyclist
This is a good article that I read in The Chronicle of Higher Education at work: The Ins and Outs of the Closet: "That's so gay," the student said. "I mean, weird." He corrected himself quickly, with obvious discomfort. Clearly, he suspected something.
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