January 14, 2004
Routine
Well, kind of anyway. I'm finally starting to settle in down here in St. Elmo. I get up at about 6AM every day to be at work on time by 8:00 in Hixson. That means I head to bed by 11:00 at the latest, normally by 10:00. Still, the lack of a car means I'm bumming rides from Mesh (blessed be he) most of the time, which sucks for both of us: I can't go anywhere, and Mesh has to get up at the butt-crack of dawn. Fortunately, I get my car back tonight.
Other than that, I'm getting back into some kind of normal schedule. I got a new router to replace the one broken on its trip to Dayton, OH, so my computer is finally back up and working almost normally. I still have to connect my file-server, so I've been music-less for almost a month (*sob*).
Though my life is slowly taking on some regularity, it's still pretty tough. I'm still pretty nonplussed about some of my more significant relationships, and these past two weeks haven't really helped much. I'm in a position where I really need people, and the people I would like most to turn to are, well, kind of inaccessible right now. It's just the way it goes.
Transitioning to post-collegiate life is also a bit of a stretch. Even though I'm living with one of my best friends, it's pretty lonely. He's already well-connected with the thriving downtown group, and has been for as long as I've known him. I barely know some of these people, so I'm kind of an outsider. Even if I weren't, the time constraints placed on my by both work, lack of a car, and getting my life together mean that I'm a lot busier than I've ever been. I like it a lot, and really don't want to go back to school, but it's an adjustment. Unlike in college, where when 9:00PM rolled around it was time to get the evening's activities started, today I start to think about going to bed.
I'm still hurting for employment. My temp posting at Memorial North Park will almost certainly be completed by Friday or before, and I've got nothing lined up after that. I asked my supervisor at North Park to put in a call to their HR department, recommending me as a decent human being, but we'll see how that goes. I also have an interview at Coptix, a computer firm just down the street where a lot of really great guys work. I'm a bit apprehensive about that, as I don't know if my computer skills are adequate to the task, but it would really be great if I could land that position.
As it is now quarter past seven, I need to go pack my lunch and go to work. Right.
I highly recommend working for Jeff, and I'm sure it's even better now that there are all those cool folks there. If he was gracious enough to give the likes of me a shot to work for him, you probably have a good chance.
Posted by: bobw at January 14, 2004 09:17 AM