A post made all the more difficult by the presence of an angry cat
I guess I should go ahead and do what amounts to a real update about my life, rather than some sort of random ranting or screaming. After all, it's not like I have anything else to be doing. Needless to say, life in Tacoma now that everyone has left is exactly as I expected- tha is to say, completely uneventful. Case in point: I've spent the vast majority of the past two days in bed- that is, when I haven't been at work- surfing the internet and watching episodes of Scrubs and the Muppet Show on my laptop. Likewise, when I've gotten home from work, Chuck and I have done absolutely nothing, just sat in the living room playing on our laptops until all hours of the night. At this point, though, I really don't mind, since I can go to work and get plenty of stimulation there, so I don't feel like I'm going completely stir-crazy like I was when I was unemployed. Now that is something I hate. Speaking of work, it's going well and all of that fun stuff. I think it's a sign of how much I enjoy it that even though I've worked the past 6 days in a row- and still have two more to go, including tonight when I work 7pm to 3am- I'm happy to go to work. Although I have found that it's a fundamental rule of work that even if you absolutely love your job, it's still a challenge to get yourself motivated to leave the house to go to it. But really, it's hard to not like this job, since virtually everybody who works there is incredibly nice and fun, almost all of the customers are happy to be there- even on days where they had to stand in line for 20 minutes or more, I only had to deal with maybe 5 cranky people, and most of them warmed up eventually- and there's enough variety in the work itself to keep it interesting. I may change my mind in a couple of weeks/months, but as it is right now, I love it.
As for other news from Nate-land, I guess there really isn't a whole lot, ultimately. Random tangent, but my iTunes just started playing a song from Stunt by Barenaked Ladies ( I lost my copy and burned it from my sister and never took the songs off of iTunes, though I really haven't listened to it in probably 4 years) and wow, that brings back memories. I was obsessed with that album senior year of high school and into freshman year, so whenever I hear a song from it, it all comes back. Which makes me wonder what songs are going to do that for right now, since I really don't do the whole album obsession thing any more. Anyway, that was pointless. Yes. I think probably the best thing that having a job has done for me is that it's gotten me out of me out of my head, which is a very scary place. I now have things to think about other than the post-college existential crisis and my post-break-up wallowings, both of which are fine for a while, but definitely not for as long as I was sticking to them. I'm still not feeling 100% great about either of them, but I'm not obsessing, they're just at the normal level of 'still there, still dealing with it, almost over it'. But enough of that.
Moving on to happier news, I go home in three days. It's been kind of weird- okay, really weird- to not have any sense of the Christmas season. We have no decorations in the house, work hasn't really acknowledged it, and the weather isn't what I associate with Christmas- that is, fucking cold and snowy. So when people say something like "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas", I still have this moment of "Wha? Isn't that a long way off?" It doesn't help any either that I really haven't done much shopping- read: any- since between my work schedule and my complete lack of funds, it just hasn't happened. i still have no idea what to get my dad, though I have my mom and sister covered (at least in theory), and pretty much everyone in the house got mix cd's this year (which reminds me, Cam, if you've read this far, I'll have a cd for you at some point, so merry christmas). It makes me kind of sad to think that this is more or less how Christmas is going to be for the next several years, at least until I start a family of my own- though I suppose in grad school, I'll still have a break this time of year, so there will still be the option of going home at some point. Also, though it may not sound too exciting, I'm really looking forward to going to Kentucky. For one, it's a new place, with cool people- two that I know of at least- and it's not home for New Years, which is huge (especially considering that last New Years consisted of me, my mom and my sister watching the ball drop on tv, then going to bed- incredibly exciting, that). Plus I get to hang out with three beautiful women, potentially in a hot tub- who am I to complain?
Anyway, I've rambled far too long and about mostly boring/inane shit. That's what happens when I have nothing better to do and decide to update my lj.... And now I'm off to watch Scrubs.
As for other news from Nate-land, I guess there really isn't a whole lot, ultimately. Random tangent, but my iTunes just started playing a song from Stunt by Barenaked Ladies ( I lost my copy and burned it from my sister and never took the songs off of iTunes, though I really haven't listened to it in probably 4 years) and wow, that brings back memories. I was obsessed with that album senior year of high school and into freshman year, so whenever I hear a song from it, it all comes back. Which makes me wonder what songs are going to do that for right now, since I really don't do the whole album obsession thing any more. Anyway, that was pointless. Yes. I think probably the best thing that having a job has done for me is that it's gotten me out of me out of my head, which is a very scary place. I now have things to think about other than the post-college existential crisis and my post-break-up wallowings, both of which are fine for a while, but definitely not for as long as I was sticking to them. I'm still not feeling 100% great about either of them, but I'm not obsessing, they're just at the normal level of 'still there, still dealing with it, almost over it'. But enough of that.
Moving on to happier news, I go home in three days. It's been kind of weird- okay, really weird- to not have any sense of the Christmas season. We have no decorations in the house, work hasn't really acknowledged it, and the weather isn't what I associate with Christmas- that is, fucking cold and snowy. So when people say something like "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas", I still have this moment of "Wha? Isn't that a long way off?" It doesn't help any either that I really haven't done much shopping- read: any- since between my work schedule and my complete lack of funds, it just hasn't happened. i still have no idea what to get my dad, though I have my mom and sister covered (at least in theory), and pretty much everyone in the house got mix cd's this year (which reminds me, Cam, if you've read this far, I'll have a cd for you at some point, so merry christmas). It makes me kind of sad to think that this is more or less how Christmas is going to be for the next several years, at least until I start a family of my own- though I suppose in grad school, I'll still have a break this time of year, so there will still be the option of going home at some point. Also, though it may not sound too exciting, I'm really looking forward to going to Kentucky. For one, it's a new place, with cool people- two that I know of at least- and it's not home for New Years, which is huge (especially considering that last New Years consisted of me, my mom and my sister watching the ball drop on tv, then going to bed- incredibly exciting, that). Plus I get to hang out with three beautiful women, potentially in a hot tub- who am I to complain?
Anyway, I've rambled far too long and about mostly boring/inane shit. That's what happens when I have nothing better to do and decide to update my lj.... And now I'm off to watch Scrubs.