Long time, no post... a "John Black" update.
The last several months have seen a dramatic reduction in the number of posts I've made. I just haven't been feeling like writing, and that leaves me feeling a little sad. So here are a few things that have been going on in my life, in reverse-chronological order.
Sunday I and another un-named person were walking around town, coming back from a movie. As we were begining to cross at the crosswalk (we had the light) a small silver truck pulled into the crosswalk, blocking damn near the entire thing. Now, they had a few seconds to back up, get out of the way... there was nobody behind them blocking them, but they stayed put. The person I was walking with opted to walk in front of the truck, as there was almost enough room for them to squeeze by without stepping into traffic. I went for the more direct route, and went over the hood of the truck. Let's just say I left quite an impression on the driver, and on his hood as well. Yeah, I could of walked around. Yeah, he could have had a gun and shot me dead. I honestly didn't care. My main thought was "You are in my way!!!".
Saturday the wonderous Byrdie and I ended up working at the Vendor Fair at the Wetspot. Yes, I know we don't volunteer anymore, and we weren't. You see, here's the thing. We both shop fairly often at a store called "Wild at heart", a sex-positive store similar to Lover's, except privately owned and (in my opinion) better. The host classes and workshops, have all kinds of guest presenters come in and in general is a pretty awesome place. Well, Byrdie (and myself a little) has been trying to convince them to attend a Vendors Fair at the C.S.P.C. for over a year now. She came up with a list of things that would make for good sales, brought up the idea of having a map on hand to show customers how close the store is to the C.S.P.C. (around a mile away) and in general just schooled the hell out of the whole situation. Well, they finally aggreed to do it, but they wanted her to run the booth. And since she was running it, you know that ment I was going to be there lending a hand. Well, the event got of on a minor hitch due to a misunderstanding about the start time, but after that things were fine. We got the booth set up, wares displayed and in general all the stuff squared away. Over the course of the day we did very well in sale. Well, Byrdie handled the sales part, I mainly talked up the customers and helped them test items like the stocks. Byrdie had also brought some luch meat and tortillas, so every once in a while she made up snacks. All told it was a wonderful day, and really made me realize how much I miss being social. I'm still not ready to be social again, but I do miss it, which is a bit of a step.
A while ago Byrdie had, at my request, put dreadlocks in my hair. I liked them... but my hair didn't. They started to unravel, and eventually I decided to undo them the rest of the way. Washing out all the wax was a total pain in the ass, but with enough HOT water and shampoo, anything is possible.
I've been getting depressed a lot lately. Not like suicidal, but just massively bummed out. A few months back my job at the plant changed, and my new job had me getting soaked head to toe in water for significant portions of the day. Combined with little sleep and poor diet... I started getting sick. A lot!! In the last three months I've missed about a month worth of work, and maybe ten days of school. I've managed to make up some days of school, but the work.. that can't be made up. So in addition to the sick is the stress of bills, and just a general feeling of "I don't give a rats ass.". I'm doing a bit better the last few weeks, but it's like crawling out of a pit. You make some progress, then you backslide a bit, then a bit more progress.
School has been... interesting shall we say. The extreme amout of days that I've missed has made it very hard to catch back up. I have, but it's not easy. And I have a load more to do. Thankfully I'm still on track enough to continue gettign finacial aid, and I'm registered for Winter quarter. So with any luck I can pull myself out of this slump and make a good show of it my last two quarters.
On a final note, as I mentioned before, Byrdie and I are no longer volunteers at the Wetspot. Our Site co-ordinator saw fit to resign, and we saw no reason to stay after he left. So, no more getting up at 7am damn near every Satyrday. We also stopped helping out for the pool parties, so no more getting up early every third Sunday either. So more time for sleeping and being with Byrdie... YAY!!
So, that is my last three months in a Highly condensed nutshell. So you see, I'm still alive.
John Black
Sunday I and another un-named person were walking around town, coming back from a movie. As we were begining to cross at the crosswalk (we had the light) a small silver truck pulled into the crosswalk, blocking damn near the entire thing. Now, they had a few seconds to back up, get out of the way... there was nobody behind them blocking them, but they stayed put. The person I was walking with opted to walk in front of the truck, as there was almost enough room for them to squeeze by without stepping into traffic. I went for the more direct route, and went over the hood of the truck. Let's just say I left quite an impression on the driver, and on his hood as well. Yeah, I could of walked around. Yeah, he could have had a gun and shot me dead. I honestly didn't care. My main thought was "You are in my way!!!".
Saturday the wonderous Byrdie and I ended up working at the Vendor Fair at the Wetspot. Yes, I know we don't volunteer anymore, and we weren't. You see, here's the thing. We both shop fairly often at a store called "Wild at heart", a sex-positive store similar to Lover's, except privately owned and (in my opinion) better. The host classes and workshops, have all kinds of guest presenters come in and in general is a pretty awesome place. Well, Byrdie (and myself a little) has been trying to convince them to attend a Vendors Fair at the C.S.P.C. for over a year now. She came up with a list of things that would make for good sales, brought up the idea of having a map on hand to show customers how close the store is to the C.S.P.C. (around a mile away) and in general just schooled the hell out of the whole situation. Well, they finally aggreed to do it, but they wanted her to run the booth. And since she was running it, you know that ment I was going to be there lending a hand. Well, the event got of on a minor hitch due to a misunderstanding about the start time, but after that things were fine. We got the booth set up, wares displayed and in general all the stuff squared away. Over the course of the day we did very well in sale. Well, Byrdie handled the sales part, I mainly talked up the customers and helped them test items like the stocks. Byrdie had also brought some luch meat and tortillas, so every once in a while she made up snacks. All told it was a wonderful day, and really made me realize how much I miss being social. I'm still not ready to be social again, but I do miss it, which is a bit of a step.
A while ago Byrdie had, at my request, put dreadlocks in my hair. I liked them... but my hair didn't. They started to unravel, and eventually I decided to undo them the rest of the way. Washing out all the wax was a total pain in the ass, but with enough HOT water and shampoo, anything is possible.
I've been getting depressed a lot lately. Not like suicidal, but just massively bummed out. A few months back my job at the plant changed, and my new job had me getting soaked head to toe in water for significant portions of the day. Combined with little sleep and poor diet... I started getting sick. A lot!! In the last three months I've missed about a month worth of work, and maybe ten days of school. I've managed to make up some days of school, but the work.. that can't be made up. So in addition to the sick is the stress of bills, and just a general feeling of "I don't give a rats ass.". I'm doing a bit better the last few weeks, but it's like crawling out of a pit. You make some progress, then you backslide a bit, then a bit more progress.
School has been... interesting shall we say. The extreme amout of days that I've missed has made it very hard to catch back up. I have, but it's not easy. And I have a load more to do. Thankfully I'm still on track enough to continue gettign finacial aid, and I'm registered for Winter quarter. So with any luck I can pull myself out of this slump and make a good show of it my last two quarters.
On a final note, as I mentioned before, Byrdie and I are no longer volunteers at the Wetspot. Our Site co-ordinator saw fit to resign, and we saw no reason to stay after he left. So, no more getting up at 7am damn near every Satyrday. We also stopped helping out for the pool parties, so no more getting up early every third Sunday either. So more time for sleeping and being with Byrdie... YAY!!
So, that is my last three months in a Highly condensed nutshell. So you see, I'm still alive.
John Black