This is, as they say, overdue.
So here's the writing that I'm doing that I promised I would do, and I didn't plan on it being posted so late, but here it is.
I am currently sitting in the Washington D.C. Dulles airport. My flight here from New York arrived at 1pm and my connecting flight to London doesn't leave until 6pm, so I purchased time on the airport internet and here I am. It's funny how you sit in an airport of a certain city, but you don't feel like you're in any city. I don't feel like I'm in D.C. To me, all US airports are the same. I just realized I haven't eaten all day ...
I don't remember when I last made a real "update" in here (man i hate that word) but I know it was before school started, so if I'm going to make a brief complete history of what I've been doing, I should start there.
Andy/Robert and I moved into the new apartment in mid-August. It was older, but wasn't bad, just that the landlord never did anything to fix it. It took a month of me constantly calling to get him to clean the basement, and when he did, it looked great. My favorite part of the whole place was that it had a washer and dryer in the basement that wasn't coin-operated. I think I mentioned that before.
Robert and I broke up late August. Our entire official relationship lasted one year, eight months, and one day. I would be lying if I said I didn't see it coming. The decision to break it off for real was during a night he brought a new friend home before I got back from work, and when I got there, I tried to catch up with their drinking, and at some point, I tried to kiss the boy, and he saw. Even though I knew I wouldn't be spending my life with Robert, I didn't want it to end that way. Still, we continued to live together. Throughout the semester, it got progressively more and more awkward between us, as it was pretty much me turning my attention to my school work, and him acting as if we were still together (or so I felt) but still managing to find a new boyfriend (within a month). Then, seeing that his new boyfriend was disturbing me and that I would barely look at the fucker, he kept trying to console me. His bf broke it off after two weeks because he felt I was getting too much of Robert's attention. Then Robert tries to talk to me about the break up, and I just don't want to hear it. Within the next few months, he slowly learns that I have no intentions of getting back together with him, so he goes into a sad phase, while I, who have already gone through my sad phase and gotten over it, again don't have time for him. We fought a couple of times, and sometimes it was vicious, and the last fight we had, I made him realize he has nothing left in Point, and asked him to leave. So, he packed up all his things and left.
I guess the main thing about Robert I feel now, is how much people still mention him and talk about what a bad guy he was. I never bring him up. Although I don't feel like I have to defend him, I still don't like people talking about it, becuase to me it's an attack on me. I believe I am the only person who ever saw any good in him. It's totally not my fault that he always guarded himself, but I still don't want to hear about it, especially because he's no longer part of my life, and I'm ready to move on.
School this past semester was the hardest it's ever been, but I don't know why. I finished all of my theatre courses, and I was in the players show in december, which took a lot of my time, but was really fun. There's nothing really else to say about school, except that I'm glad I am over with it, for the most part.
In planning my trip to London, I decided that I'd give myself another vacation and spent a week in New York with a friend. It was great, I had a blast, and I never even saw half of the city within the five days that I was there. We went to a bunch of movies (Children of Men, Little Children, Dreamgirls, and The Good Shepherd), a Broadway show (The Vertical Hour with Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy - I loved it), an off-Broadway show (Tennessee Williams's Suddenly, Last Summer with Blythe Danner, Carla Gugino and Gale Harold), and a couple of neat restaurants and last night a few bars.
Now I am on my way to London. The biggest hassle of going to London was trying to find someone to take over my lease back in Wisconsin. I still technically haven't, so now I have to call my landlord up and say, "hey, sorry, but i'm really not going to be able to pay the rent because I'm IN LONDON." I had two different people come look at it, say they totally loved it, and then back out. I was so pissed. The one girl didn't even bother calling me back. So now I'm stuck in this predicament. One funny thing about it is how I got a call this week from my landlord's secretary, which went something like this: "I got a letter from the electric company saying that you switched the utilities back in our name??? They said you were moving out???" I don't know, to me it's funny.
Anyways, that's about it for what I have to say, but I think I will have internet in London. Needless to say that it's not like I'm going to be on it constantly, but it will allow me to stay in touch. Actually, I don't even know if I'll have internet, because wireless is always iffy anyway, but the internet in England is different anyway. The guy who sold me this laptop said that it would work over there, but then again, he is a salesman trying to sell me a laptop. Oh! For my birthday I bought myself a laptop and an ipod because I knew that I would want them for the trip. I also thought I would get about three thousand more dollars for my trip, but turns out I can't get any more financial aid because I'm "at budget." Whatever that means. What it means to me is that I'm not going to be able to stay any longer in London after April, even if I chose that I wanted to. So I'm probably coming back April 23.
I will try to keep updates on here - that is, if I know people are reading them - but my family keeps asking for emails, so I think I will have to write a few of those too. I'm also supposed to take a lot of pictures, but ... I don't know. I'm not much of a picture guy. Not to mention that my grandma, who hinted she was getting me a digital camera for christmas, turns around and buys me a camcorder the size of my big toe. I'm so afraid I'll break it like a rabbit in my Lenny-ish hands, so we'll see how many photos I take.
Ok, so I am getting hungry, and my battery is getting low, so this is the end. No grand denouement, just the end.
I am currently sitting in the Washington D.C. Dulles airport. My flight here from New York arrived at 1pm and my connecting flight to London doesn't leave until 6pm, so I purchased time on the airport internet and here I am. It's funny how you sit in an airport of a certain city, but you don't feel like you're in any city. I don't feel like I'm in D.C. To me, all US airports are the same. I just realized I haven't eaten all day ...
I don't remember when I last made a real "update" in here (man i hate that word) but I know it was before school started, so if I'm going to make a brief complete history of what I've been doing, I should start there.
Andy/Robert and I moved into the new apartment in mid-August. It was older, but wasn't bad, just that the landlord never did anything to fix it. It took a month of me constantly calling to get him to clean the basement, and when he did, it looked great. My favorite part of the whole place was that it had a washer and dryer in the basement that wasn't coin-operated. I think I mentioned that before.
Robert and I broke up late August. Our entire official relationship lasted one year, eight months, and one day. I would be lying if I said I didn't see it coming. The decision to break it off for real was during a night he brought a new friend home before I got back from work, and when I got there, I tried to catch up with their drinking, and at some point, I tried to kiss the boy, and he saw. Even though I knew I wouldn't be spending my life with Robert, I didn't want it to end that way. Still, we continued to live together. Throughout the semester, it got progressively more and more awkward between us, as it was pretty much me turning my attention to my school work, and him acting as if we were still together (or so I felt) but still managing to find a new boyfriend (within a month). Then, seeing that his new boyfriend was disturbing me and that I would barely look at the fucker, he kept trying to console me. His bf broke it off after two weeks because he felt I was getting too much of Robert's attention. Then Robert tries to talk to me about the break up, and I just don't want to hear it. Within the next few months, he slowly learns that I have no intentions of getting back together with him, so he goes into a sad phase, while I, who have already gone through my sad phase and gotten over it, again don't have time for him. We fought a couple of times, and sometimes it was vicious, and the last fight we had, I made him realize he has nothing left in Point, and asked him to leave. So, he packed up all his things and left.
I guess the main thing about Robert I feel now, is how much people still mention him and talk about what a bad guy he was. I never bring him up. Although I don't feel like I have to defend him, I still don't like people talking about it, becuase to me it's an attack on me. I believe I am the only person who ever saw any good in him. It's totally not my fault that he always guarded himself, but I still don't want to hear about it, especially because he's no longer part of my life, and I'm ready to move on.
School this past semester was the hardest it's ever been, but I don't know why. I finished all of my theatre courses, and I was in the players show in december, which took a lot of my time, but was really fun. There's nothing really else to say about school, except that I'm glad I am over with it, for the most part.
In planning my trip to London, I decided that I'd give myself another vacation and spent a week in New York with a friend. It was great, I had a blast, and I never even saw half of the city within the five days that I was there. We went to a bunch of movies (Children of Men, Little Children, Dreamgirls, and The Good Shepherd), a Broadway show (The Vertical Hour with Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy - I loved it), an off-Broadway show (Tennessee Williams's Suddenly, Last Summer with Blythe Danner, Carla Gugino and Gale Harold), and a couple of neat restaurants and last night a few bars.
Now I am on my way to London. The biggest hassle of going to London was trying to find someone to take over my lease back in Wisconsin. I still technically haven't, so now I have to call my landlord up and say, "hey, sorry, but i'm really not going to be able to pay the rent because I'm IN LONDON." I had two different people come look at it, say they totally loved it, and then back out. I was so pissed. The one girl didn't even bother calling me back. So now I'm stuck in this predicament. One funny thing about it is how I got a call this week from my landlord's secretary, which went something like this: "I got a letter from the electric company saying that you switched the utilities back in our name??? They said you were moving out???" I don't know, to me it's funny.
Anyways, that's about it for what I have to say, but I think I will have internet in London. Needless to say that it's not like I'm going to be on it constantly, but it will allow me to stay in touch. Actually, I don't even know if I'll have internet, because wireless is always iffy anyway, but the internet in England is different anyway. The guy who sold me this laptop said that it would work over there, but then again, he is a salesman trying to sell me a laptop. Oh! For my birthday I bought myself a laptop and an ipod because I knew that I would want them for the trip. I also thought I would get about three thousand more dollars for my trip, but turns out I can't get any more financial aid because I'm "at budget." Whatever that means. What it means to me is that I'm not going to be able to stay any longer in London after April, even if I chose that I wanted to. So I'm probably coming back April 23.
I will try to keep updates on here - that is, if I know people are reading them - but my family keeps asking for emails, so I think I will have to write a few of those too. I'm also supposed to take a lot of pictures, but ... I don't know. I'm not much of a picture guy. Not to mention that my grandma, who hinted she was getting me a digital camera for christmas, turns around and buys me a camcorder the size of my big toe. I'm so afraid I'll break it like a rabbit in my Lenny-ish hands, so we'll see how many photos I take.
Ok, so I am getting hungry, and my battery is getting low, so this is the end. No grand denouement, just the end.