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Catching Up
Oct. 21st, 2002 10:34 pmOkay, I haven't posted in almost a month. Deal with it.
The longer I wait to write, the harder it is to get over the inertia. So I'm writing, maybe more often and maybe not.
How's school, Charles? Thanks for asking. I'm studying beginning HTML, intermediate PC hardware, and LAN fundamentals. The HTML class is embarassingly easy, the hardware class hasn't yet had an exam, and the LAN class is mostly memorization-- except that today we finally got around to making a cable. Eight tiny fiddly little wires that have to be in exactly the right sequence inside an RJ-45 connector-- and then do the same thing again on the other end of the cable. (My small motor skills suck, did you know that?) I was the last one finished, but the thing worked. Yay.
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angilong and I have been talking. We've also been saying some very hateful things to each other. It's marginally better than angry silence, but not by much.
I have no job, and I must scream. Unemployment runs out real soon, and there isn't a part-time position in sight. Angi's Insignificant Other recommended both of us to his employers for customer service jobs, but that was weeks ago with not a peep from them. I might qualify for a phone job at Starbucks, but I'd have to drop out of school to work there.
At least my "Commissioner Approved Training" was... umm... approved. That means I don't have to look for a job in order to continue collecting what little unemployment I'm entitled to receive, so long as I'm a full-time student. Big whoop. Oh, and the college will cover my first quarter's tuition and books in full; I'm still waiting to hear whether my retraining grant proposal will be approved. If not, then I'll be a Community College dropout.
What bothers me most, I think, is that it all looks downhill from here. This is as good as it ever will be again, and today my life feels as though it sucks pustulent goat scrotums.
But I've been chatting online with friends and acquaintances. which helps somewhat. Whenever I think I've got things bad, I consideraladriana and marvel at the way she keeps her head above water despite troubles a myriad more trying than mine.
I miss many of my departed friends, and some who used to be in contact but aren't any more.luvlyrita, where are you?
The longer I wait to write, the harder it is to get over the inertia. So I'm writing, maybe more often and maybe not.
How's school, Charles? Thanks for asking. I'm studying beginning HTML, intermediate PC hardware, and LAN fundamentals. The HTML class is embarassingly easy, the hardware class hasn't yet had an exam, and the LAN class is mostly memorization-- except that today we finally got around to making a cable. Eight tiny fiddly little wires that have to be in exactly the right sequence inside an RJ-45 connector-- and then do the same thing again on the other end of the cable. (My small motor skills suck, did you know that?) I was the last one finished, but the thing worked. Yay.
On the home front,
angilong and I have been talking. We've also been saying some very hateful things to each other. It's marginally better than angry silence, but not by much.I have no job, and I must scream. Unemployment runs out real soon, and there isn't a part-time position in sight. Angi's Insignificant Other recommended both of us to his employers for customer service jobs, but that was weeks ago with not a peep from them. I might qualify for a phone job at Starbucks, but I'd have to drop out of school to work there.
At least my "Commissioner Approved Training" was... umm... approved. That means I don't have to look for a job in order to continue collecting what little unemployment I'm entitled to receive, so long as I'm a full-time student. Big whoop. Oh, and the college will cover my first quarter's tuition and books in full; I'm still waiting to hear whether my retraining grant proposal will be approved. If not, then I'll be a Community College dropout.
What bothers me most, I think, is that it all looks downhill from here. This is as good as it ever will be again, and today my life feels as though it sucks pustulent goat scrotums.
But I've been chatting online with friends and acquaintances. which helps somewhat. Whenever I think I've got things bad, I consider
aladriana and marvel at the way she keeps her head above water despite troubles a myriad more trying than mine.I miss many of my departed friends, and some who used to be in contact but aren't any more.
luvlyrita, where are you?
