Setting the stage (Part 1 of X)
No excuses, I'm just gonna catch you up in a bunch of small posts over the next week. The last legitimate update was... DECEMBER?! Are you fucking kidding me?
OK. So, umm, what's happened since then...
My birthday, I finally go do the trivia night at ABG. I finish second, but the winners give me the prize: two tickets to the next night's Nets game. The Nets being godawful, I am unable to sell the tickets, and that's the first game they win all season. During a snowstorm, I proctor a math competition at BCA, and then go into the city to see Kent and others for his birthday. Plans are made for a locker group New Year's, but no one ever gets back to me, so I spend it was Jen and JD (another person named Jen, I've taken to call her by initials).
With a rent increase pending, the roommates and I make plans to get new digs, and consider leasing an apartment above Allendale Eats in the center of town. But with no one willing or able to co-sign the lease with me, and me certainly unwilling to sign a lease by myself without any steady income, the deal falls through. Krishna has by this time worn out his welcome and is being an all-around dick, and Ali wants nothing more than to move away from New Jersey and bitch about NJ until he does, so the two of them say they'll move out anyway, and with Sven moving in mid-month and reports that someone will replace Ali at the start of February, the rent increase never actually happens.
As I posted, Mr. Holbrook passed away in late January. I attended a grief/planning session at the Academy the day after, a Saturday, and then on Sunday went out with Ralph to watch football at a bar with his crazy rich friend. We went to Ramsey Country Club, where apparently Real Housewives was taping, though Jen was disappointed that I couldn't get any spoilers. The following Thursday, a wake was held, and Mr. Bath got my information to pass on to a girl in Mahwah about tutoring. That night Jen texted me to say she needed to get out of her house and could she come up on Friday night rather than Saturday afternoon for the weekend. I said sure and informed the math team people I wouldn't be able to help out on Saturday morning.
That brings us up to Friday January 29. Part 2, coming soon, covers the ten days beginning with that day.
OK. So, umm, what's happened since then...
My birthday, I finally go do the trivia night at ABG. I finish second, but the winners give me the prize: two tickets to the next night's Nets game. The Nets being godawful, I am unable to sell the tickets, and that's the first game they win all season. During a snowstorm, I proctor a math competition at BCA, and then go into the city to see Kent and others for his birthday. Plans are made for a locker group New Year's, but no one ever gets back to me, so I spend it was Jen and JD (another person named Jen, I've taken to call her by initials).
With a rent increase pending, the roommates and I make plans to get new digs, and consider leasing an apartment above Allendale Eats in the center of town. But with no one willing or able to co-sign the lease with me, and me certainly unwilling to sign a lease by myself without any steady income, the deal falls through. Krishna has by this time worn out his welcome and is being an all-around dick, and Ali wants nothing more than to move away from New Jersey and bitch about NJ until he does, so the two of them say they'll move out anyway, and with Sven moving in mid-month and reports that someone will replace Ali at the start of February, the rent increase never actually happens.
As I posted, Mr. Holbrook passed away in late January. I attended a grief/planning session at the Academy the day after, a Saturday, and then on Sunday went out with Ralph to watch football at a bar with his crazy rich friend. We went to Ramsey Country Club, where apparently Real Housewives was taping, though Jen was disappointed that I couldn't get any spoilers. The following Thursday, a wake was held, and Mr. Bath got my information to pass on to a girl in Mahwah about tutoring. That night Jen texted me to say she needed to get out of her house and could she come up on Friday night rather than Saturday afternoon for the weekend. I said sure and informed the math team people I wouldn't be able to help out on Saturday morning.
That brings us up to Friday January 29. Part 2, coming soon, covers the ten days beginning with that day.