Bon Voyage
Click to viewThe above video is from my roommates Ben and Tara's going away party (also a simultaneous celebration of Tara and my new roommate, Pip, both getting their divorces finalized. The party was hence dubbed, the "Double D"). I drank nearly all of a Heineken mini-keg by myself and got a bit sleepy, going directly to bed after the events in the video :-)
Ben and Tara moved out today and are on their way to Canada, where Ben is going to grad school. Pip has started to move in and at the moment I am alone in the house. My laptop has been giving me all manner of grief in terms of internet connectivity. I've updated BIOS, did a system restore, updated drivers, etc, etc, and yer my wireless capability has mysteriously been shot. We have a new router up, but everyone else has been able to get a connection. Right now I'm using a LAN cable, which had also crapped out earlier before running a system restore. Basically, this laptop has had a shit ton of problems and I think that I may ask my dad for a little help in buying a MacBook Pro. I think I'm going to see if he'd be down to pay for a 1/4 of the cost, since he had offered to help me buy a new laptop when this thing's video card/motherboard crapped out a few weeks ago. I received my severance pay from SCORE! and everything and get paid on Tuesday, so I'll have close to 4K in my checking account, so I could totally swing it and still have a cushion just in case. Plus, I'd have Cait buy it for me to get a student discount (and an iPod touch which I could use or sell) and I'll probably go buy it in New Hampshire so I won't have to pay tax :-D
Anyways, things are all right. Been hating on Boston again and can't wait to move back west, to the usual suspects: Chicago, Austin, Portland, and now Denver, Vancouver, and Los Angeles have been added to the equation for grad school. Philly is in that mix too, but I'm leaning on those 3 right now for communications/digital media studies.
I've been wanting to cook a lot lately. Part of me really wants to go to culinary arts school still.
Oh, and I went to NYC last weekend and I liked it better than I thought. My trip to New York kind of reawakened me to the fact that art still exists (it is fucking non-existent in Boston) and while I was only there for a day and a half, it was a lot of fun. It has left me with the realization that Boston is definitely kind of lame unless you're going to school at Harvard or MIT, in which case it isn't really Boston that is the big deal but your ivy league school.
Work is alright. Customer service is far from glamorous, but it isn't quite as bad as I thought it may be. I want to start looking at jobs again just in case, although our company seems to be doing well, I guess. I'm slooooowly starting to make friends there, but it is a hard process since nearly everyone (myself included) is on the phone all day, talking to customers.
I feel like I should say more, but I feel more like having a conversation than spilling my guts.
So, the ball is in your court now.