“Till I was 13, I thought my name was Shut Up." - Joe Namath
Hello all, how has everyone been? I've been decent, except for my car. My car isn't healthy. Needs the gasket liner replaced b/c it is leaking oil into one of my sparkplugs, and the timing belt is VERY loose, so that too needs to be replaced. I'm not sure how much everything is going to cost yet, but I think I can handle it. Grant's step-father(Larry) may fix the timing belt for me, which would be really cool if mom didn't want to pay him. I mean, the concept is fine with me, but I figured Larry could help me save money by fixing it for free. Now I kinda figure I might as well take it too a mechanics shop and pay for labor there. But the offer has already been set on the table, so I can't take it back, and in the end, I suppose it really doesn't matter, so I might as well give Larry some money instead of some business somewhere. And that conludes my odd thought process.
Now, on the subject of Grant. He has this mondo project for his capstone class at ITT due in 3 or 4 weeks, and I won't see him much until he finishes it. So therefore I won't see him much until he graduates. It bites, yes, but I know he has to do it so I'm not trying to complain, just inform my readers. I've got friends I can visit, and I have my game Black and White too keep me company when I don't have to work.
Something bothered me though when we were having lunch today at Mel's Cafe. He kept talking about his worries of making it in the networking world and his worries about his project - which wall all well and good - but the only things I had to talk about was getting a free make-over with my friend Nisha and my computer games. Made me feel like an un-inellectual yuppie computer-nerd. And then I realized that while I'm still in college and probably still working at Starbucks, he'll have graduated and he'll be on his way to some great job. Now, I knew all this before, but I never realized the gravity of it. Because of his surroundings at work and such, even though he will probably deny it, he will be growing more and more mature and intellegient. I'll be dragging behind him, trying to keep up. I guess I'm a little worried that eventually he will find me not intellectual enough for him, and he'll go elsewhere. Grant will tell me I have nothing to worry about, but how can a person be sure?
Now, on the subject of Grant. He has this mondo project for his capstone class at ITT due in 3 or 4 weeks, and I won't see him much until he finishes it. So therefore I won't see him much until he graduates. It bites, yes, but I know he has to do it so I'm not trying to complain, just inform my readers. I've got friends I can visit, and I have my game Black and White too keep me company when I don't have to work.
Something bothered me though when we were having lunch today at Mel's Cafe. He kept talking about his worries of making it in the networking world and his worries about his project - which wall all well and good - but the only things I had to talk about was getting a free make-over with my friend Nisha and my computer games. Made me feel like an un-inellectual yuppie computer-nerd. And then I realized that while I'm still in college and probably still working at Starbucks, he'll have graduated and he'll be on his way to some great job. Now, I knew all this before, but I never realized the gravity of it. Because of his surroundings at work and such, even though he will probably deny it, he will be growing more and more mature and intellegient. I'll be dragging behind him, trying to keep up. I guess I'm a little worried that eventually he will find me not intellectual enough for him, and he'll go elsewhere. Grant will tell me I have nothing to worry about, but how can a person be sure?