Parallel Johnny

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.