Parallel Johnny

Approximately 10 work hours left before I am once again unemployed… but possibly not for long.  I found an open position doing computer work for the school of medicine.  I sent them an email and resume and I got a reply saying I made the short list.

It’d be really nice to get the job.  Theyre only looking for 10 hrs a week.  Thats perfect for my schedule.  Besides at their pay rate, I’ll make as much as a 15 hr week at hollywood.

Tonight is HotSauce’s last Thursday night at Fifth avenue.  Theyre moving on and up.  I’ll be there tonight and so should everyone else. 

Whoa.  I almost went a whole day at work without a post.  I couldn’t let that happen.

Due to a bit of outside motivation, I’m about to revive my podcast.  I know I’m too busy to make it weekly and I already learned that a weekly show dries up my resources way too fast.  I can manage a monthly show and already have my next one in the planning.

I have an interview oppritunity for a Detroit-based duo whose debut album is about to be released (no names yet).  They already approached me about it (I approached them about it first a long while back and had since forgotten about it).  I just need to find a date/place and get an equipment upgrade.

That said.  I got my 10 hours in.  Time to get out of here.

It was a packed weekend.  Friday after work was Sara and Bill’s party at McGee’s I was kinda worried when about 10:45 it was still just Chrissy, Lauren and me.  11 o’clock hit and everyone showed up within minutes of each other.  It was a decent crowd; I’d say about 20 of us.  By the time everyone showed it was too late to get pizza, so half of us ended up at Linda’s afterwards.  Not often do I get to spend time at Linda’s with Adam.  He, Chrissy and I stayed until almost 4AM.  Got to bed around 5.

Woke up the next day to get ready for Kevin and Carolyn’s wedding.  Picked up Lauren and Lisa and got there 5 minutes late, which was about a third of the ceremony.    It ended by 3:30 and we had 2.5 hours to kill before the reception.  We thought about going to Chuck E Cheese, then Chrissy called from the 2001 reunion and asked us to come.  Since Lisa nor I were 2001, we decided to drop Lauren off and get Wally’s custard.  We came back about 20 minutes later.  I got to see Shawn’s baby, Kyra for the first time in months.  We took Chrissy home to get ready for the reception and the four of us headed out (Chrissy and Lisa’s dates were in the wedding party).

Thankfully when we got there we found that all of us were seated together with Mrs. Beltz.  It was a huge relief.  I had a good time.  I had a few shots with Mrs. Seifferlein, then when Bethany came back from putting Xander to bed, I did a few with her.  She went from quiet-in-the-corner to twirling-around-the-dancefloor.  Its been a while since I’ve been on the dance floor with my friends, it reminded me of a high school dance.  Even more so because we got all dressed and up went to Chrissy’s first.  Her parents took pictures before we left.  Then after the reception we all came back, had pizza and stayed up late.  We spent the night and Craig made us pancakes and bacon in the morning.  Just like high school.

Sunday was spent recuperating.  I slept most of the day, watched a movie, played  some warriors, did laundry.  Lauren came over later and we watched some TV.  I didn’t get to bed until like 3AM, hence the office zombie post.  I’m feeling good now after a few cups of coffee and a cup of tea. I’ll probably crash once I get home.

I got a coffee from the cafeteria rather than the machine today.  This is the most vile, horrible tasting coffee ever.  It tastes like my dad’s (I have my own coffee maker, because his is so bad) or Tim Hortons *shudder*.  Its sad to think I’d rather drink instant coffee from the machine.

Why can’t people just support the local and (in my opinion) the best tasting coffee around, Cadillac — made right here in Madison heights, Michigan.

I feel like I am one of the living dead.  Time to go grab some coffee, the elixir of life.  The weekend took quite a toll on me, but thats for later.

This week has been too long.  That’s the worst part of my work schedule:  the four-day week seems really short and the five-day week seems really long.  Actually I could be leaving right now, but then I wouldn’t get any overtime.  With a week left, I’ll grab all the overtime I can get.

Tonight I’ll be at McGee’s like every other Friday, except tonight is a special occasion.  Sara and Bill are having a wedding party.  I’d call it their co-ed bachelor/bachelorette party, but that’s a bit much.  Their wedding is next Sunday (4th), so come out and celebrate with them.  10 o’clock as usual, but I’m trying to get there before then and possibly reserve some tables and order pizza and subs.

Tomorrow is Kevin and Carolyn’s wedding…no comment.  I think I might get a new shirt and tie tonight for that.  Before the wedding, Lauren has a class reunion picnic…Oh, that’s why Bobo is in town….Sorry, I like to type my thoughts out.  I saw Bobo (Greg) who supposedly lives in Denver at the EDHS opening game, last night.  I thought it was odd to have seen him three times this summer already, but Greg would drive 10 hours just to go to a picnic.

Anyway, this is just rambling on.  Go to McGee’s tonight.

Brian:  get a haircut.

12 days left of summer. I’m half ready. Part of me wishes I had more free-time to go somewhere. Knowing me — even if there was another month to go — I’d still spend it trying to get in at least 40 work hours a week. Another part of me wants to go back and get out of there as soon as possible. Its so close; 36 more credits, 32 if I can convince them my internship is worth a 4 credit elective. My class schedule is quite nice this semester. Monday/Wednesday 3:30 - 10, Friday 12 - 5. I set it up to give me time for a job, only I don’t have one set up yet.

I’m not looking for anything special. I just need something that I can put up with for 10-20 hours a week, preferably not one that has me working weekend nights *cough* Hollywood Video *cough*. If I could find something that pays for my day-to day expenses (gas, food, etc…my weekly McGee’s tab), I would be so grateful not to dip into what I’ve saved this summer. The scholarship money helped a lot in my savings goal. I plan on putting most of it in a CD. I always thought those had a better ROI, but they’re only about 4.5% APY, but I guess an extra $10 a month isn’t bad.

This concludes my mini blog-out-of boredom marathon. I’m out of here in a few minutes, Going to Lauren’s for dinner then to EDHS’ first home football game.

Random fact: I have a huge craving for pierogi and crepes right now.

I have a bug every year to do something time-consuming when I really haven’t the time; be it read a book for leisure or get hooked on a video game. So I try to fulfill my need before school starts. I didn’t do much summer reading, but I did decide to buy a game last week. Let me say The Warriors is everything I expected and that is awesome. Rockstar (Grand Theft Auto series) made it, so I knew it would be worth while. Who better to make a game based off a movie about fictional 70’s New York street gangs? Besides the story mode, it has a rumble mode where you can brawl 9 on 9 between gangs. Even better, you can unlock the option to create your own gangs. I’m about halfway though the story mode, so hopefully I can finish it before school. I don’t need to be slacking off once classes start. Who wants to ‘bop’?

Is it lunch yet? I forgot about this time last year at work. With a little more than a week left here, I’ve pretty much finished my work. There’s no time to start anything new, so what do I do? I basically go over what I’ve done and try to improve it…every day. I wish I could just space out or kill hours at a time online, but I’d feel too guilty. I managed to listen to two audio books — Harry Potter, Books 5 and 6 — and I’m about to move on to the H2G2 series, or maybe the BBC radio episodes. I’ve been on a comedy binge this week. Lewis Black, Dane Cook and my newest favorite, Daniel Tosh. I heard him a while back, guest hosting Loveline. The guy is hilarious, so I found his album True Stories I Made Up.

The Detroit Pistons verses the Pacers, the big brawl. If you could promise me that every game would end like that, I would be a season ticket holder in a heartbeat. “Are you serious? I’m gonna have to fight at the end of the game? Lets go, sounds awesome.”

This is actually just the beginning of a very long post I wrote out of boredom, but since I know the attention span of most readers is 10 seconds, I’ll break it up.

I love off Fridays.  I got to spend the first part of the day being lazy as all hell, watching TV.  Then then I spent a few hours being productive before I go out to the bar for the night.

I played plumber today.  My sink drain hasn’t been working right for like a year now and it was getting to the point that the washing my hands was a task.  So I sagged my pants a bit took a wrench and had at it.  Its now working better than before, plus I fixed the plug which was wrong since it was installed.

After playing plumber I switched over to Cinderella and got on all fours to scrub the floor.  It hasnt been done in forever.  A wet Swiffer just can’t do it right.  Now my floor is back to the shade it was when first tiled.

Tomorrow I’ll finish the bathrom.  I need to recaulk the shower, another thing I’ve meant to do for months.

Now its time for dinner then off to McGee’s.  Come on up.  I haven’t been there in weeks.