So I had this strange urge to update my crazylife. And I may or may not continue to do so. Though I think if I do, it will become, perhaps, more journalisitc and reflective (dude, it’s an online journal…. that’s what it’s supposed to be like). So it’s mostly for me, but if people read it for whatever reason they choose…. so be it. I’m not in this to have other people tell me how to live my life, but I certainly won’t ignore comments. Read or ignore as you see fit; it’s my life.
Category Archives: Life Musings
Update
Hey, so people complained that I didn’t update my crazylife. So here’s an update 😀
Very bad day
Hmm, I shoul;d’ve posted yesterday. I had the topic line still set as "Today was good." Well… today wasn’t.
Um, bad typos are blamed on the bandaiud on my index finger. Anyway, let’s just talk about the whole day.
Morning. First thing… I realized I forgot I had like $6000 of stuff checked out from ITC, so I had to drag that over there before my exam ’cause I had to be to work right afterwards and then all day. So I got hot and sweaty doing that, and I got to my exam just as it was starting, so I had no chance to review anything. Then…. again since I had no time the night before, I just assumed the green route was coming by at 9:32, since I knew it came by at 9:52. So I left the exam ten minutes early to catch the bus so I wouldn’t be late to work. Well, they’re on 30 minute intervals in the morning…. so my bad. Missed 10 minutes of an exam I needed, and still had to walk to work.
Anyway, first 5 hours of work went mostly well, until I got really behind on a red trip because several genious drivers were turning left in a construction zone where they weren’t supposed to. Took me like 10 minutes to get from Beach to Elwood. Then at City hall, workers had fifth all blocked up; I couildn’t even go straight across on the irght side of the road. SO I was late, and then on top of that the dispatcher who was mobiling trying to help me kept cutting herself off, and then started gettingmad at me because I wasn’t responding. At least I got some sympathy from the other drivers that rode back to base with me ’cause they heard the whole thing.
Um kay. Did a brown extra. Fun. Relaxing actually. After that…. joy…. I had a chance to go get my car. Surprise…. last night’s hail totally shattered my back window. And of course this nice new car that I got last month only had liability. So I was really grumpy about that.
Go back to work. Cover one orange run for another driver who was running late. When I try to ask him what the trip code was (since he had it right in front of him) he said "look on the codes chart." I was like, "the last 4 times I’ve tried to do that my bus was missing it. Just wondered if you could tell me." But he said "well then go back to base and ask someone there." So I did. But ended up complaining to like 3 dispatchers, a supervisor, and a few coworkers. It wouldn’t have been so bad had I not been in such a lousy mood. I was not happy.
But then I did 4 hours of green and relaxed a little. That was good. Went out to Perkins with a friend afterwords. That was good. Duct-taped my back window and sliced my finger in the process. That wasn’t good.
But I just got a phone hug from Russ, so that was really cool. And now I’m going to go to bed becaujse I’m on-call in < 6 hours. Night….
Summer Updates
I think I WILL update over the summer. Should I? Somebody respond and say yes, otherwise I won’t.
The good, the bad, and the painful.
My laptop’s here!!!!!! I am going to get absolutely NO sleep tonight thinking about it. I’m kindof upset that I didn’t stop by and check on its status earlier today ’cause I could have picked it up…. but maybe this means I’ll get some studying done for physics….
Which brings us to the bad. Yeah, I have a physics exam tomorrow night at 8 which is not going to be pretty. I think I understand the general concepts…. but that always tends to blow up for me with physics. Oh well, let you know how I did tomorrow night…. NO! I’ll be playing with my new toy!
The Painful
So I lost a filling today. It hurts when I forget about it…. and it’s really weird to move my tongue around in my mouth and feel a gaping hole…. Anyway. I suppose I should get it fixed soon.
Ah, off to physics now I guess.
Learning to cope
Well, I slept in past my alarm ’cause I forgot to actually set it last night. Er, I had it set but didn’t turn it on…. or something. Anyway, I needed to catch an 8:30 bus to get to a computer lab to do homework….. as I don’t have a computer of my own anymore… I woke up at 8:20 but then the bus didn’t come ’till 8:45 so I guess all was good. Kay that was rambling….
Anyway, the homework wasn’t bad… unlike physics will be tonight. It’s hard having to keep up classwork worrying about this whole situation.
…and being told I can’t talk about it. Even in places like this 🙁 Maybe I’ll actually start keeping a hard-copy journal.
Well I’m off to more exciting classes now…
Long Time no Post
Hey, it’s 2003. Maybe I could try this crazylife thing again. Heh…. maybe.
Well anyway, the last week has been pretty good. I’ve gotten to do a lot of things with friends, and, while I’m still bored a lot…. it’s been helping to curb the down times when I’m not working (most of the time).
Unfortunately my personal life is getting complicated. But I plead for more "thinking" time before I post that on here.
Friends are cool
I feel kinda bad. I know when I started this I was thinking that it would be really good to have an online journal thingy… or a window to let the world see into my world a little bit, but like I said in the beginning, I’ve never been consistent. Still…. doing a better job that anytime before.
Actually! I guess part of the reason I haven’t been updating daily is that I’ve been so busy this summer! In a good way! I came here planning to work 40 hours a week for these two enginnerring professors; probably keep myself locked in my room and watch movies all the time I’m not working. Instead, I ventured out and popped in on Corwin’s show at KURE and met a few new people. Then came the bonfire, and BOOM. It seemed like all of a sudden I had friends who didn’t want to use me or really hated me. I started eating with others at the dinner table instead of by myself; I started hanging out with others more and getting out of my room; and for the first time in a really really long time, felt accepted.
My life has changed so much this summer, and I really hope this continues on throughout the school year. So thanks to all of you: those who hang out with me, and even those who just see me on campus and say “hi.” You really don’t know what a difference that’s made in my life.
Friends are cool 🙂 y’all are cool. love ‘ya!.
stuff to do…
Finally. Some things to do. Might get to go bike-riding with Tommy after dinner (though Mother Nature doesn’t seem too keen on that idea). Then I’m going back to Barbershop chorus practice. Dunno why, but I’ve always felt better getting together with a group of people and singing/having fun. Even when I’ve been having a really lousy day, it takes my mind off tings. Probably a good thing I’m joining the ISU Singers this fall.
Oh, hey, looks like I may be going to the Tim McGraw concert at the end of June. Hey, I live by country music. I’ll listen to anything, but I DO like country. Deal 😛 So if anyone else is going or wants to go, let me know. I’m probably going only if an old friend of mine can come though, but if other people were iterested… it’d be better than going alone
Well, I have officially not worked at all today. Suppose I can try again tomorrow, but today I’m giving in to the glow of my computer screen and the resistance of the gloomy weather outside.
Original First Post
To "paraphrase" from Dean Koontz (I think):
"He found one of those ‘personal homepages’ where people let the whole world have a glimpse into their own private life. Why would anyone want to do that?"
It’s paraphrased ’cause I read that book like 3 months ago, and since books don’t come with a "Search feature," I can’t quickly find the quote. But it went something like that.
And now here I am putting even more details of my life on the Internet? Why? Do I think somebody will care? Nah. I guess it’s just something for me to do. I always wanted to write a journal, but could never keep up with it. Maybe if I have one online, I will update more often. Guess we’ll find out.