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Holy shit I'm alive. That's right, I'm alive. I know that comes as a shock to the majority of people who will read this, although I can't imagine many people will since I'm pretty sure about 80% of the people I know don't even keep livejournals anymore. But yet, here I am, alive and well. And what's there to do at 3:30 AM but tell stories? I'll start from... well, I'll start from now.
So, I've quit my job, my car broke down, and my girlfriend just to Brooklyn. This makes my life probably the most boring thing in the world. I mean, look at the last time a livejournal entry made any kind of sense. That's the last time I actually felt like I had something to say. Besides, it's only 1AM, and I am just not tired enough to sleep. That means I'm going to post some long ass recap of the last year or two and there's not much you can do but ignore it or see if your name crops up.
It's been over 2 years since I stopped smoking weed every day. It's been about a year since I stopped drinking every night. I've been having sex with the same person exclusively for almost a year. This is pretty much a divergent path from the previous decade of my life and I'm not sure I like the peace and quiet of the simple life. Seriously, when you drink, smoke, lie, cheat and steal for 9 or 10 years, how do you wake up one morning and just decide to stop? I think I just liked a challenge.
I met Amanda at a convention for geeks and nerds about 18 months ago. At the time I was with Katelyn, but already that relationship was getting rocky. She was getting increasingly hostile and I found myself liking her less and less, but I couldn't really see myself without her, even then. I moved into her place for what was supposed to be 3-4 days and turned out to be a couple of weeks, mostly because I lost my job when I stopped hooking up with my boss. The year in New Brunswick, of course, had been like one long night of binge drinking, complete with one night stands, wonderful injuries, and pretty crappy sicknesses. The entire thing had been trying for the two of us and once her general frustration with me turned into little hitting matches and the blame game it was pretty much over.
Kate insisted, from before we even broke up, that I was leaving her for Amanda, and while I had been hooking up with her, it wasn't first and foremost on my mind. The reason I ended up with Amanda is more how she handled me and the fact that she knew I was a lying, cheating bastard when she met me and was kinda ok with that. Looking back at it, I don't know how good of an idea the entire relationship is, but I'm sticking it out. Hey, at least she never sucker-punched me, eh?
Amanda has her own little things that bother me to no end. For one she's contantly doing whatever her parents say. Her father tosses her down a flight of stairs and she moves out to Brooklyn and still can't shake the idea that when they want her to come help move boxes, she has to go help move boxes. She's also a bit paranoid. I guess rightly so. She knew I was kinda a dick in recent history. Beth, for one, put her on edge for a while considering Beth's life ambition looked like it was getting me to cheat for a while. (Yes, I know you're reading this. I don't care. No, she's not still mad about the piercings thing. She trusts me. She just doesn't trust YOU.) Kat kinda got lumped in with Beth, mostly because their names both came up in regards to QXT's and Shampoo.
Anyway, Duck (as I've been calling her) has been pretty chill so while the infatuation has worn off and my mind has started to wonder this is actually the longest I've gone only having sex with 1/the same person and I'm hoping I can set some kind of record, at least among my friends.
Speaking of my friends, at least the "NJ Crew" of WoW, it will be good to catch up with them since I haven't seen any of them since Schreck's birthday or New Year's. I wish I could get in touch with Natalie and Karin and the OG crew, but since Randel and Micah lost touch with most of them and the parties have been out of my ability to make I've missed them for WAY too long. Actually, I think my next goal is to get to an old OG party. God that will be fun.
Speaking of fun and of ways to waste my time, I think I'm playing entirely too much WoW. It used to be FFXI, but ever since my LS (guild for those of you who don't play it) broke up I just couldn't keep in touch with the people I liked and do the stuff that kept me in game as much. I miss it, I miss some of the people, actually, but with WoW I at least know with whom I am playing and that has its advantages. Once football season starts I'll have other crap to do than sit around playing video games 24-7 and once I get a new car I'll have other places to be than home, but until those things happen it's pretty much just WoW and TV for me. Kinda sucks, kinda fun.
Oh, more fun things! I'm going back to school. Hopefully full time. Maybe if I actually walk with a degree this time I can get a job doing something I like a bit more than waiting tables. The money was good, the people were decent, but the work itself sucked. I don't want to get stuck doing something I hate. Hopefully I'll be able to write for a living, or better than that, bullshit people. There has to be an opening somewhere for a guy who is just appallingly good at lying and making shit up on the fly. Unfortunately that catagory isn't on Monster.com. Actually, my writing dried up a bit with my teen angst. It didn't stop, and it's not all flowers and shit, but it's so much harder to actually write something when you're not just spouting cliches to a bunch of 15 year olds. Most of what leaves my head now is politics and life lessons. Still good, though. I should look into a publisher.
I'm not sure what brought on this manic tirade, but I do know that it's 4AM and if I'm going to get to Tully's in 1 piece with the rest of the NJ Crew I damn well better get some sleep. Amanda drives like a woman (because she is one) and so I'll probably end up driving once we need to find our ways.
Holy shit... I'm alive. And tired now. G'night everybody! That didn't even begin to cover my shit, but maybe it won't be another 2-3 years before I post another update. Maybe.
So, I've quit my job, my car broke down, and my girlfriend just to Brooklyn. This makes my life probably the most boring thing in the world. I mean, look at the last time a livejournal entry made any kind of sense. That's the last time I actually felt like I had something to say. Besides, it's only 1AM, and I am just not tired enough to sleep. That means I'm going to post some long ass recap of the last year or two and there's not much you can do but ignore it or see if your name crops up.
It's been over 2 years since I stopped smoking weed every day. It's been about a year since I stopped drinking every night. I've been having sex with the same person exclusively for almost a year. This is pretty much a divergent path from the previous decade of my life and I'm not sure I like the peace and quiet of the simple life. Seriously, when you drink, smoke, lie, cheat and steal for 9 or 10 years, how do you wake up one morning and just decide to stop? I think I just liked a challenge.
I met Amanda at a convention for geeks and nerds about 18 months ago. At the time I was with Katelyn, but already that relationship was getting rocky. She was getting increasingly hostile and I found myself liking her less and less, but I couldn't really see myself without her, even then. I moved into her place for what was supposed to be 3-4 days and turned out to be a couple of weeks, mostly because I lost my job when I stopped hooking up with my boss. The year in New Brunswick, of course, had been like one long night of binge drinking, complete with one night stands, wonderful injuries, and pretty crappy sicknesses. The entire thing had been trying for the two of us and once her general frustration with me turned into little hitting matches and the blame game it was pretty much over.
Kate insisted, from before we even broke up, that I was leaving her for Amanda, and while I had been hooking up with her, it wasn't first and foremost on my mind. The reason I ended up with Amanda is more how she handled me and the fact that she knew I was a lying, cheating bastard when she met me and was kinda ok with that. Looking back at it, I don't know how good of an idea the entire relationship is, but I'm sticking it out. Hey, at least she never sucker-punched me, eh?
Amanda has her own little things that bother me to no end. For one she's contantly doing whatever her parents say. Her father tosses her down a flight of stairs and she moves out to Brooklyn and still can't shake the idea that when they want her to come help move boxes, she has to go help move boxes. She's also a bit paranoid. I guess rightly so. She knew I was kinda a dick in recent history. Beth, for one, put her on edge for a while considering Beth's life ambition looked like it was getting me to cheat for a while. (Yes, I know you're reading this. I don't care. No, she's not still mad about the piercings thing. She trusts me. She just doesn't trust YOU.) Kat kinda got lumped in with Beth, mostly because their names both came up in regards to QXT's and Shampoo.
Anyway, Duck (as I've been calling her) has been pretty chill so while the infatuation has worn off and my mind has started to wonder this is actually the longest I've gone only having sex with 1/the same person and I'm hoping I can set some kind of record, at least among my friends.
Speaking of my friends, at least the "NJ Crew" of WoW, it will be good to catch up with them since I haven't seen any of them since Schreck's birthday or New Year's. I wish I could get in touch with Natalie and Karin and the OG crew, but since Randel and Micah lost touch with most of them and the parties have been out of my ability to make I've missed them for WAY too long. Actually, I think my next goal is to get to an old OG party. God that will be fun.
Speaking of fun and of ways to waste my time, I think I'm playing entirely too much WoW. It used to be FFXI, but ever since my LS (guild for those of you who don't play it) broke up I just couldn't keep in touch with the people I liked and do the stuff that kept me in game as much. I miss it, I miss some of the people, actually, but with WoW I at least know with whom I am playing and that has its advantages. Once football season starts I'll have other crap to do than sit around playing video games 24-7 and once I get a new car I'll have other places to be than home, but until those things happen it's pretty much just WoW and TV for me. Kinda sucks, kinda fun.
Oh, more fun things! I'm going back to school. Hopefully full time. Maybe if I actually walk with a degree this time I can get a job doing something I like a bit more than waiting tables. The money was good, the people were decent, but the work itself sucked. I don't want to get stuck doing something I hate. Hopefully I'll be able to write for a living, or better than that, bullshit people. There has to be an opening somewhere for a guy who is just appallingly good at lying and making shit up on the fly. Unfortunately that catagory isn't on Monster.com. Actually, my writing dried up a bit with my teen angst. It didn't stop, and it's not all flowers and shit, but it's so much harder to actually write something when you're not just spouting cliches to a bunch of 15 year olds. Most of what leaves my head now is politics and life lessons. Still good, though. I should look into a publisher.
I'm not sure what brought on this manic tirade, but I do know that it's 4AM and if I'm going to get to Tully's in 1 piece with the rest of the NJ Crew I damn well better get some sleep. Amanda drives like a woman (because she is one) and so I'll probably end up driving once we need to find our ways.
Holy shit... I'm alive. And tired now. G'night everybody! That didn't even begin to cover my shit, but maybe it won't be another 2-3 years before I post another update. Maybe.