In which I am alone.
So here I am in Washington. I start work next Monday. Brian is gone for a week and a half, home for a day, then gone for another week and a half...soooo essentially will be gone for three weeks, with a day break in the middle. Yesterday (the day he left with his mom) was the hardest. I pretty much let myself do whatever I wanted, which meant I played video games all day until I got tired of them and went to bed. Today was...well, a little different. I felt better getting up, going on my own schedule and doing such things. I mean, still pretty lonely, but I kept pretty busy. Which meant I did chores and errands and then played video games in the evening.
It's hard to keep myself from going to bed out of boredom. I have some interactions with people (ie going out for errands) but...I've been here for two and a half weeks. I don't know anybody. I don't even know where to go "hang out." So it's just me and Bonnie. At least we get along okay.
It's not so bad. I made chili today which was pretty cool. And I even did some writing. I'm terrified about getting to my new job. I'm excited for Brian, he's really stoked about this trip (a hiking/camping deal), but it kinda sucks he won't be here to see me off for my first day.
It mostly sucks that, after less than two years, the tenacity I had at moving to a new place and conquering the shit out of has pretty much disappeared. I moved to Radford and it sucked for a while but I got my own friends within a couple days and found my way everywhere I needed to go and pretty much rocked the shit out of it. And then I moved to Buffalo and it was a big scary city and I learned how to use the buses and how to get to classes and I got myself a freaking job and learned how to get around the city (or at least where I needed to go.) I made friends with the cleaning ladies and found a nerd club to belong to and dealt with a shitty roommate and once again rocked some hardcore shit. And then I go and find a dude who's pretty awesome and is a really awesome support system and then he leaves for a measly couple of weeks and everything goes to hell. Phooey.
So anyway I have to navigate the bus system here for my new job on Monday. Here's to hoping I can figure it out.
Soooo I'm pretending I'm a grown up and we'll see how it goes. Hello, first day of the rest of my life. Mneh.
It's hard to keep myself from going to bed out of boredom. I have some interactions with people (ie going out for errands) but...I've been here for two and a half weeks. I don't know anybody. I don't even know where to go "hang out." So it's just me and Bonnie. At least we get along okay.
It's not so bad. I made chili today which was pretty cool. And I even did some writing. I'm terrified about getting to my new job. I'm excited for Brian, he's really stoked about this trip (a hiking/camping deal), but it kinda sucks he won't be here to see me off for my first day.
It mostly sucks that, after less than two years, the tenacity I had at moving to a new place and conquering the shit out of has pretty much disappeared. I moved to Radford and it sucked for a while but I got my own friends within a couple days and found my way everywhere I needed to go and pretty much rocked the shit out of it. And then I moved to Buffalo and it was a big scary city and I learned how to use the buses and how to get to classes and I got myself a freaking job and learned how to get around the city (or at least where I needed to go.) I made friends with the cleaning ladies and found a nerd club to belong to and dealt with a shitty roommate and once again rocked some hardcore shit. And then I go and find a dude who's pretty awesome and is a really awesome support system and then he leaves for a measly couple of weeks and everything goes to hell. Phooey.
So anyway I have to navigate the bus system here for my new job on Monday. Here's to hoping I can figure it out.
Soooo I'm pretending I'm a grown up and we'll see how it goes. Hello, first day of the rest of my life. Mneh.