So, today was kind of a shitty day. Compared to the many, many other shitty days I've spent at far shittier jobs, it wasn't that bad, but it was a bit trying. Which I obviously shouldn't complain about, given that I choose to get into this sort of work. But anyway.
Two sweet things did in fact happen after work today, which have put me into a positive mood.
1) Hitting up the comic book store, as I typically do after work on Thursdays - "Do you want the free ring that comes with this?" the clerk asked when I laid down a Green Lantern comic on the counter.
"There's a free ring?"
"Yeah."
"Uh, then yeah."
That's right, bitches. Free piece of green plastic, which now means that I'm officially a member of the Green Lantern Corps. Eat it.
2) A girl called me cute, and drew attention to the fact that I had noticed her boobs. Nice.
Alright, that'll do, pig. That'll do.
(not the girl, I mean)
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- kaywhy
- November 8th, 16:36
blah blah blah, H1N1, blahablahaaha, Olympics, blahahjhdayta, cold weather.
And that's my post for November, folks.
- a quick update:
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- kaywhy
- October 17th, 13:45
Ann-Marie and I are done. I'm fine with that fact, and content to be single again.
I still live in the trailer.
Uh...
I thought a little more had happened lately...
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- kaywhy
- September 20th, 15:09
I've made a website, and posted some of my writing online:
http://marginalperformancefiction.tripod.com
And this is a little shameful advertising for it.
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- kaywhy
- September 13th, 21:10
Well, I'm back in Nanaimo. I'm presently living in a twelve foot trailer in my buddy's backyard. I have a job, which started last week, and is alright, but the hours are short. So, we'll see how that goes.
The girlfriend situation is becoming a little stressful. I won't botther going much deeper into that, except to say that we are still together.
Otherwise, I can't complain. I'm actually happy to be in Nanaimo, for once.
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- kaywhy
- August 10th, 7:49
So I didn't update last night.
Anyway.
I've been thinking that if I could find work in Nanaimo, I will go back in September. It seems to make sense. My friends are there, and my girlfriend is there.
Things with Ann-Marie seemed to be going pretty well until recently. To make a long story short, it's just been hard having a long distance relationship, and I haven't really been back to the island as much as she had hoped I would.
Also, I mean, there's a pretty good number of years between us. Our priorities don't exactly line up either. A lot of this seemed to come out of nowhere though. Things were fine, and then suddenly they weren't. It was looking as though we were going to break up yesterday, and I had pretty much accepted that fact. At least the pressure was off, I figured. I didn't have to worry about hurting anyone anymore. But after a lengthy period of stating my case, she felt more inclined to keep trying. And I don't know how I feel about that. It would be pretty lame to end the relationship before it can even really be said to have started, but part of me must have felt releaved to realize I would be single again.
This whole thing kind of took me by suprise, right before I left town. And I hadn't really adjusted to the fact that my previous relationship was over. Since the beginning of March, when I moved out of Shannon's folks place, it feels like I haven't settled down. I lived at Gary's for a bit. I hopped around on the weekends and stayed in random places. I lived with my Mom and David for a bit. Now I'm living at Heathers. I keep having this unconcious feeling that sooner or later, I'll quit doing all of this and that things will go back to normal. But there isn't a normal. Shannon and I aren't together anymore. It's not like we're going to finish up everything we've been up to, and have our old apartment waiting for us.
That must sound like I'm totally pining over her. It's really more the loss of a certain way of life. Living in a certain place, having certain expectations for the future, and joined goals. It had become such a regular part of my life, that I didn't really think it would end.
I have to make a new normal. New place, new situation. New chick too, I guess.
Fuuuck. Anyway. I could have slept more last night. I'm off to brave the rain, and the city transit system in about forty minutes.
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- kaywhy
- August 9th, 9:48
I haven't been LJ'ing much this summer, as my computer is rarely set up. This corner of the internet is something I wouldn't particularly want to share with my family, and as such, I don't want to leave it's history (and existance) on my step-mom's computer.
Anyway, I will be able to get on a bit more this week, so I'll do a proper post later tonight.
Things are going pretty well for the most part. I miss Nanaimo, oddly enough. The relationship front isn't as going as great as it seemed at first, but I'm not horribly depressed or anything.
Anyway, more later. For serious.
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- kaywhy
- July 24th, 22:51
Short entry.
Things are going well. Work is good. Living at my step-Mom's is good. Dating Ann-Marie good.
I actually miss being in Nanaimo. And I miss the people.
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- kaywhy
- June 23rd, 10:35
Well, I'm out of here in less than five hours.
Quick visit with Ann-Marie shortly. We've decided to give it a go, despite the distance. We'll see how the summer turns out, I guess. Not a particularly bright time to start seeing someone, but it feels worth pursuing now that I'm in the situation. Anyway.
I start the new job tomorrow. Nervous, but not too nervous.
- Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
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- June 20th, 17:16
I went out with Ann-Marie last night. I'm not sure what's going to happen from here, seeing as I'm leaving in less than three days. But it was a really fun night. We went out for dinner, and hopped from place to place downtown for drinks (and danced a little, which I typically don't do). People eye-balled us a little, which was kind of funny. A girl came up to our table at the Kat's Lounge and asked us if we were on a date.
"We're out together if that's what you mean," Ann replied.
Then we sat in her kitchen and talked for a couple of hours. At four in the morning, she put on Magnolia (after a lengthy discussion about movies, and John C. Reilly). Then we had breakfast and cuddled up and slept until the afternoon.
I'm going back over to her place later tonight.
It figures I would get close to someone at a time like this. Haha.
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- kaywhy
- June 15th, 0:39
Seems to be that I'm posting on here too often again.
Anyway, here's a situation:
I went to school with a woman a couple of years ago, who I got to know, somewhat. I hung out with her a few times, but nothing ever came of it. I got back together with Shannon, and didn't see this woman much afterward. We kept in touch a little, and ran into each other in passing at the college once in a while. Since I had moved into an apartment and dropped college (for the most part) for a year, she got ahead of me in the program, and we didn't have any more classes together.
Recently, we'd been talking a little more, mostly over facebook. She invited me over for dinner a few days ago, and we had a few beers, and it was an all around good time. It got late, and I live across town from her, so she told me I might as well spend the night. Cool. I spent it on the couch, and nothing happened. At this point in my life, I'm willing to admit that I don't really have a clue when it comes to the opposite sex, but it did seem like maybe she liked me, at least a little. But really, I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
Anyway. She knows I'm moving, but apparently spends a fair bit of time in Vancouver during the summer, and has talked about us hanging out if and when she goes over.
Aaaand. She wants to go out for dinner with me this weekend. And she wants me to go see Up with her and her seven-year-old daughter (who I've met more than a few times, and seems to like me) sometime this week.
And she's sixteen years older than me. So here's where I'm stumped. Is she just being friendly, or does she want the Sam Reid Experience (in all of it's - KD & cereal eating, getting drunk in the woods, premature ejaculating and then making up some BS excuse about how that usually doesn't happen - glory) ?
I figure, maybe she wants to feel young again, and I'm familiar and convenient enough to look past the fact that I have no muscle mass to speak of (seems fairly unlikely, but maybe not completely out of the question).
Or maybe she's just being friendly (probably the most likely).
Or maybe she actually likes me and isn't extremely put off by the age difference (this seems the most unlikely).
Loyal readers (all two of you), feedback would be most welcome.
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- kaywhy
- June 14th, 18:05
* You to must post your current wallpaper on your pc
* Don't change your wallpaper before doing this!
The point is to see what you had on.
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- kaywhy
- June 14th, 11:45
Posting again, because I'm broke, unemployed for the next ten days, smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangeroo.
Part of this new job will involve me bossing some other employees around, which I'm somewhat nervous about. Advice I've been given:
Bryan: "Just remember, it's like prison. Take down the biggest dog in the yard and you're set."
Tracy: "Just follow in my example as a boss."
Me: "You mean make constant sexual innuendo, and slap the employees on the ass whenever the urge strikes me?"
Tracy: "Yeah, maybe that won't go over as well for you."
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- kaywhy
- June 14th, 10:12
I got the job. So it looks like I'm mainland bound in just over a week.
So much has changed in the last year.
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- kaywhy
- June 12th, 13:07
My job interview in Van seemed to go fairly well. Well, actually, at this point being hired wouldn't suprise me anymore than never being contacted by said agency ever again. If I don't hear anything by the end of Monday, I suppose I'll have my answer.
I have also been alerted to the fact that the government is having a job fair at the college in a couple of weeks, and are apparently looking to pick up university types to work processing E.I. claims. Or something. They take smucks with diploma's, regardless of what said diploma's are in. It sounds like an utterly horrible job, but would pay more than I could ever expect to make as a Youth Support Worker. The question is, if given the opportunity, will I sell out? Unfortunately, the answer is most likely 'yes.' It's a good thing I'm not famous.
What else? I spent much of last night helping to assemble a shelving unit for someone I went to school with. The forty year old I incidentally have a bit of a thing for. She made a comment about her neighbours at one point. I can't remember what it was exactly, but she made mention to the fact that they were young, like me. Her seven year old daughter then broke in with "Sam's not young. He's like you." Haha, ouch.
I have to be the bloody Kangeroo tonight. If I wasn't so desperate for hours, man. Last week, I nearly passed out in that frigging suit. Not kidding.
Anyway. Hanging out with Shannon in a bit, going to Rathtrevor (sp?) Beach.
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- kaywhy
- June 8th, 11:24
Sorry to Bogart your friends pages, but I had to share this. It bears striking similarities to my last relationship. The only real difference being that the girls probably wouldn't have thought me old enough to be the father of a teenager.
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- kaywhy
- June 8th, 11:16
So, I'm headed to Vancouver for a job interview tomorrow. Working with inner city kids. Pretty stoked.
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- kaywhy
- June 4th, 11:00
I had a dream last night that I had a son and a daughter, and I loved them more than anyone or anything I had ever loved in my life. For a split second upon waking, I wanted to cry because it wasn't real. The funny thing is, I don't even want children.
- "I used to say that I'd never stay, but I'm rotting here today"
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- June 1st, 13:16
"Just talked to this girl,
used to live, yea, on my street. (woah-oh-oh)
After all these years you're here,
and you remember me. (woah-oh-oh)
She said her old boyfriend
packed up and headed back east.
But she always knew some day...
he would go.
She just got a new job
and she's down to her last. (woah-oh-oh)
So let's take a drink and never think, yea
here's to the past. (woah-oh-oh)
She said its so funny,
how life runs out so fast.
It's just another wasted day."
-- History of a Boring Town
- Less Than Jake
I'm posting again because I have some time to kill.
The job hunt is getting painfully dubious. I spoke to someone about a job with the city this morning and was promptly told that there was nothing available, and that I should check back with him next week. He told me to check back in two weeks, two weeks ago.
I have a meeting with a woman who holds some high position in the school district in a couple of hours. She just so happens to live next door to my folks, and agreed to try and point me in the right direction.
And now, I'm once again loitering around the college, despite the fact that I no longer have any real business here. I've been coming here a lot lately, mostly as a means of getting out of the house. Six years of dropping in and out of classes, one diploma, and two grueling years of security work here has made this the one place in town I feel most comfortable.
So, and update on my bland little life:
I may or may not move into a trailer for the summer. Woot. Or I may or may not move into a house somewhere near the Old City Quarter, also only for the summer. A woman I used to go to school with offered to let me stay there if she decides to go back to work on Cortes Island.
I'm still working at JJ's, but hours are short on account of the weather.
I'm still single. I actively like three people right now, but likely won't say or do anything to any of them, for various reasons. Primarily because I'm a gutless little shit.
One of them is a girl I used to work with, who seems the most likely to be interested in me. But, she's only eighteen, and I can't help but feel a little creepy about being with someone close to six years younger than me.
One of them is a girl I met through a friend. She's interesting, and quite intelligent, but I can't imagine she would be interested in someone as mild mannered as me.
And the third is said woman who has potentially offered me her house for the summer. She's probably the most intelligent of the three, and also the most odd. But she's forty. Hot forty, not regular forty. So the odds are that if she was going to become involved with someone so much younger than herself, he would have to be a hell of a lot more attractive than me. Bummer.
But it's all pretty inconsequential. I'm still reeling from Shannon, and hate to admit that I miss her.
I'm thinking of submitting some stuff to the online CYC newsletter for the fall, or maybe the Relational Journal of Child and Youth Care. One of my teachers has been on my case about writing for both publications for a while. Her confidence in my writing has to mean something. And it's heartening to think that this field I'm trying to break into leaves room for my long running dream of being a writer.
I went out on Friday night and kicked it like it was 2006. I worked in Cinnabar that afternoon, and was invited to a co-workers house for drinks afterward. I had had more than enough at that point, but decided to keep going after being dropped off back in town.
Teus, a guy I know, organized a show at a club downtown. I'm generally not into that scene, but decided to go for lack of anything better to do. It was also Kathy's (Dann's girlfriend) birthday shin dig that night. Once I got to the venue, all comprehensible story telling completely broke down. While I don't remember much about the rest of the night, I did recall horrifically the next day (dressed in a giant Kangeroo mascot outfit while working at an outdoor fun fair in 23 degree heat) why I had cut down on drinking so much in the first place.
Christ.
Anyway, I think that's it for now.
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