LiveJournal on life support
While I’m sitting at work doing nothing, I realized it’s been such a long time since I’ve posted anything of value on here. Yet, I’ve said that before, as no one tends to use LiveJournal anymore at all. I figure it’s because people don’t put the time in to actually writing anything anymore. A quick tweet, an Instagram picture of one’s breakfast, or the reposting of political memes is about all the intelligence people have anymore. As an avid writer, general social critic, and exploiter of ignorance, I’ve been trying to pull myself away from the online social world-only occasionally logging on to my own Facebook to chat with friends, post my own snide updates, and sometimes well-meaning pictures. I can only hope that someday Facebook will also go the way of LiveJournal and MySpace. Surely though, newer forms of mundane social media will be created and appeal to the lower masses.
I gave up making life updates on LiveJournal, because my life was seemingly stagnant, if not on the decline. I’m continuing to work two jobs, and I’ve been working around 48 hours a week. For awhile, I was working 52-55 hours a week but saw no value in that since it reduced my ability to sleep and, for the most part, eliminated my social life. I only substitute teach 1-2 days a week, because it quite frankly isn’t worth the money. Some weeks, I didn’t sub at all. Long gone are the times where I would sub five days a week with modest enthusiasm as my only source of income, as I scraped and clawed my way up the educational hierarchy at apathetic school districts that should probably be taken over by the state for their absolute lack of value and quality educators. Yet, here I am subbing at this exact moment-having voluntarily taken a night off from my equally-paying midnight job since there was nothing to do there. Substitute teaching has evolved from an attempt to show off my educational skills and introduce myself to varieties of new and unique circumstances into merely a money-making scheme for an extra hundred bucks or so a week for doing as little work as possible and working whenever and wherever I choose. I seek no thanks or acceptance for this job that can barely be considered a valuable occupation.
In whatever free time I have now, I’ve been playing soccer (two nights a week), going to the gym at least 2-3 times a week, and spending as much time as I can with my new girlfriend Wendy (Wenyue 文玥). I’ve known her for almost three months now, and we’ve been officially in a relationship for three weeks. While that doesn’t seem like much, she has become a very important part of my life. I hope I can always make her happy. Considering my phenomenally poor and unsuccessful dating life, having someone as sweet, nice, and beautiful as Wendy has made me so happy. While we typically only see each other once or twice a week due to our busy schedules, I cherish every moment I get with her. We recently spent four days in a row together since she had spring break (and I took two nights off work), and it was one of the most enjoyable weekends of my life. She is a very smart, talented, and caring person who happens to love me a lot. What more can I ask for? I love her so much, and she has made such a great impact on my life already. Knowing I get to see her on the weekend makes the weekdays fly by with anticipation.
While I don’t have a ton of money, I am slowly improving my finances and savings. For awhile, whatever extra money I was making went to a backlog of bills and other things I needed to pay for. Now, my savings account is steadily starting to grow, although other bills still linger that I can hopefully eliminate soon, such as a few small credit cards that I don’t use anymore. Wendy and I have even discussed possibly moving in with each other, although she has obstacles to overcome if she wants to make that happen. Unfortunately, I most likely cannot afford to support our living expenses entirely on my own, and with her school and inability to get a job, finances are on the forefront of things we need to work out should we choose to live together-something we both have said we would like in the not-too-distant future.
I gave up making life updates on LiveJournal, because my life was seemingly stagnant, if not on the decline. I’m continuing to work two jobs, and I’ve been working around 48 hours a week. For awhile, I was working 52-55 hours a week but saw no value in that since it reduced my ability to sleep and, for the most part, eliminated my social life. I only substitute teach 1-2 days a week, because it quite frankly isn’t worth the money. Some weeks, I didn’t sub at all. Long gone are the times where I would sub five days a week with modest enthusiasm as my only source of income, as I scraped and clawed my way up the educational hierarchy at apathetic school districts that should probably be taken over by the state for their absolute lack of value and quality educators. Yet, here I am subbing at this exact moment-having voluntarily taken a night off from my equally-paying midnight job since there was nothing to do there. Substitute teaching has evolved from an attempt to show off my educational skills and introduce myself to varieties of new and unique circumstances into merely a money-making scheme for an extra hundred bucks or so a week for doing as little work as possible and working whenever and wherever I choose. I seek no thanks or acceptance for this job that can barely be considered a valuable occupation.
In whatever free time I have now, I’ve been playing soccer (two nights a week), going to the gym at least 2-3 times a week, and spending as much time as I can with my new girlfriend Wendy (Wenyue 文玥). I’ve known her for almost three months now, and we’ve been officially in a relationship for three weeks. While that doesn’t seem like much, she has become a very important part of my life. I hope I can always make her happy. Considering my phenomenally poor and unsuccessful dating life, having someone as sweet, nice, and beautiful as Wendy has made me so happy. While we typically only see each other once or twice a week due to our busy schedules, I cherish every moment I get with her. We recently spent four days in a row together since she had spring break (and I took two nights off work), and it was one of the most enjoyable weekends of my life. She is a very smart, talented, and caring person who happens to love me a lot. What more can I ask for? I love her so much, and she has made such a great impact on my life already. Knowing I get to see her on the weekend makes the weekdays fly by with anticipation.
While I don’t have a ton of money, I am slowly improving my finances and savings. For awhile, whatever extra money I was making went to a backlog of bills and other things I needed to pay for. Now, my savings account is steadily starting to grow, although other bills still linger that I can hopefully eliminate soon, such as a few small credit cards that I don’t use anymore. Wendy and I have even discussed possibly moving in with each other, although she has obstacles to overcome if she wants to make that happen. Unfortunately, I most likely cannot afford to support our living expenses entirely on my own, and with her school and inability to get a job, finances are on the forefront of things we need to work out should we choose to live together-something we both have said we would like in the not-too-distant future.