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So yea...updating...that thing I don't do very often. I can't remember the last time I updated here and honestly I'm not gonna go look because I was probably sitting in the exact same place doing the exact same thing 6ish months ago and that would just depress me. :P
Life has been mostly uneventful lately. I was in Beloit this last weekend, which was nice. I saw folk again, watched the season finale of Doctor Who. It was great seeing everyone again, even Karis for the whole like 3 seconds I saw her. I miss the place and while it still feels like home more so than any other place does right now, it's not. It was glorious to visit though. I'm trying to keep in touch with people more lately, but it's having mixed results. I hate email and IM for anything but frivolous conversations, but unfortunately many people don't have/are never on Skype and/or don't like talking on the phone. So I'm just having to live with emailing people and hoping that the email I have for them is up to date and that they eventually respond. Also the other real problem with talking on the phone is getting a time where both of you can sit and talk and aren't in the middle of something else.
Anyways the weekend before this one, or rather that whole week, I was in Maryland. My dad hadn't had a vacation since Nick, Claudia, he and I road tripped down to Florida to visit Sarah at Disney, and that was 2 years ago. So we took a vacation. Didn't do anything spectacular, just drove out to the very edge of Maryland. Swam in the ocean for a bit one day, walked a really awesome boardwalk, and ate ourselves sick of really good seafood.
I recently started rereading the Dresden Books, since the new one came out, and by recently I mean while I was on vacation. I'm most of the way through book 4 now and I'm actually enjoying rereading them. I've got a few projects I'm trying to work on here at home to pass the time. I've got a series that I burned to DVD a while ago that turned out all fucked up and I didn't realize it till I went to watch it again so I'm redownloading and reburning that. I'm working on making a staff for a renfaire costume, but I'm making it by hand. I went and found like a 10 foot, relatively straight piece of wood in the foresty marshland, a mile or so from where I live. It seems to be red maple, I think. Unfortunately it's getting a little cold outside to be out there sanding. I cut it down to about 6 feet long, but I've only got the first batch of sanding done on about two feet of it so far. I'm slowly starting to try to work out more. I've started doing sit-ups almost every day, but I don't really have access to any real workout equipment without adding a gym membership to my already large number of bills. I was considering taking up running but it seems a little late in the year to do so.
More importantly however, I am going to have a job soon! And by soon I mean probably sometime in January. I've signed up at UW-Washington County for a Pharmacy Technician program. It's only 6 weeks and should be pretty easy, so once I'm done with that I should be able to find a job with relative ease. The jobs are rampant on every job site I look at in just about every city I look so, it shouldn't be too hard. Not sure where I want to get the job though. Before I found the pharm tech thing again (I had looked into this last spring before I ended up taking the short lived job at Target in Madison), I was considering going and taking classes at either UW Milwaukee or Madison in Comp Sci so that I could find a job that way. But since returning to school full time for comp sci can't happen (stupid rules against getting two bachelors :P), I'm thinking I could work part time/close to full time and go and take one or two classes at a time, but again where. Here at home it would be easy, but to be honest I don't want to be here anymore. Living at home, living with my dad, seeing Laudani and crew once or twice a week is just depressing me. Thing is I'm afraid to move to Madison only to find out that it isn't what I want either. I felt at home when I visited Beloit like I said, but that's a bad idea. As much as it would make me happy for a while, and I feel welcome there, after a while, it would wear on me being there, but being a townie. For now I guess though it doesn't really matter. I've got to finish the program and see. I'm going to try to visit Madison this fall/winter. I'll probably come up with Laura and see everyone. I just don't know when. Hopefully that will help me decide if I want to try to move up to Madison or if I want to try and find somewhere else to go. Though again, if I'm going anywhere, I need to find someone I can room with. Pharm tech jobs pay decently, but not enough to get by working part time, and going to school.
Anyways, that's been my life recently, or at least the interesting/important bits.
Life has been mostly uneventful lately. I was in Beloit this last weekend, which was nice. I saw folk again, watched the season finale of Doctor Who. It was great seeing everyone again, even Karis for the whole like 3 seconds I saw her. I miss the place and while it still feels like home more so than any other place does right now, it's not. It was glorious to visit though. I'm trying to keep in touch with people more lately, but it's having mixed results. I hate email and IM for anything but frivolous conversations, but unfortunately many people don't have/are never on Skype and/or don't like talking on the phone. So I'm just having to live with emailing people and hoping that the email I have for them is up to date and that they eventually respond. Also the other real problem with talking on the phone is getting a time where both of you can sit and talk and aren't in the middle of something else.
Anyways the weekend before this one, or rather that whole week, I was in Maryland. My dad hadn't had a vacation since Nick, Claudia, he and I road tripped down to Florida to visit Sarah at Disney, and that was 2 years ago. So we took a vacation. Didn't do anything spectacular, just drove out to the very edge of Maryland. Swam in the ocean for a bit one day, walked a really awesome boardwalk, and ate ourselves sick of really good seafood.
I recently started rereading the Dresden Books, since the new one came out, and by recently I mean while I was on vacation. I'm most of the way through book 4 now and I'm actually enjoying rereading them. I've got a few projects I'm trying to work on here at home to pass the time. I've got a series that I burned to DVD a while ago that turned out all fucked up and I didn't realize it till I went to watch it again so I'm redownloading and reburning that. I'm working on making a staff for a renfaire costume, but I'm making it by hand. I went and found like a 10 foot, relatively straight piece of wood in the foresty marshland, a mile or so from where I live. It seems to be red maple, I think. Unfortunately it's getting a little cold outside to be out there sanding. I cut it down to about 6 feet long, but I've only got the first batch of sanding done on about two feet of it so far. I'm slowly starting to try to work out more. I've started doing sit-ups almost every day, but I don't really have access to any real workout equipment without adding a gym membership to my already large number of bills. I was considering taking up running but it seems a little late in the year to do so.
More importantly however, I am going to have a job soon! And by soon I mean probably sometime in January. I've signed up at UW-Washington County for a Pharmacy Technician program. It's only 6 weeks and should be pretty easy, so once I'm done with that I should be able to find a job with relative ease. The jobs are rampant on every job site I look at in just about every city I look so, it shouldn't be too hard. Not sure where I want to get the job though. Before I found the pharm tech thing again (I had looked into this last spring before I ended up taking the short lived job at Target in Madison), I was considering going and taking classes at either UW Milwaukee or Madison in Comp Sci so that I could find a job that way. But since returning to school full time for comp sci can't happen (stupid rules against getting two bachelors :P), I'm thinking I could work part time/close to full time and go and take one or two classes at a time, but again where. Here at home it would be easy, but to be honest I don't want to be here anymore. Living at home, living with my dad, seeing Laudani and crew once or twice a week is just depressing me. Thing is I'm afraid to move to Madison only to find out that it isn't what I want either. I felt at home when I visited Beloit like I said, but that's a bad idea. As much as it would make me happy for a while, and I feel welcome there, after a while, it would wear on me being there, but being a townie. For now I guess though it doesn't really matter. I've got to finish the program and see. I'm going to try to visit Madison this fall/winter. I'll probably come up with Laura and see everyone. I just don't know when. Hopefully that will help me decide if I want to try to move up to Madison or if I want to try and find somewhere else to go. Though again, if I'm going anywhere, I need to find someone I can room with. Pharm tech jobs pay decently, but not enough to get by working part time, and going to school.
Anyways, that's been my life recently, or at least the interesting/important bits.