good times

So, it's been a long long time since I updated. Work at Blackboard continues to suck even more, as more and more new incompetent employees are hired and left to their own devices to fuck up and provide awful customer service. The student workers are only partially to blame. They aren't full-time, but they're still morons and don't listen to the guidance given to them by FT staff and senior student workers. (Oh, btw, I'm now the only senior student worker, everybody else has either quit or been... ahem... promoted.) Right. Promoted. Or, as I like to think of it, raped up the ass. Those sorry bastards. Anyway... the fulltime staff have absolutely no excuse, they're just fucking morons. They;ve been hired into a position for which they have little or no relevant qualifications, and they sit around and waste my tuition money all day long. Besides the fact that one of them in particular is a stupid fucking cow and gets in the way all the time.

**end rant**

So, other than work at Blackboard, things in my life are going really well. Things with Rachel are up and down sometimes, but overall quite amazing, and I love her more every day. I've been working a lot more at OnLocation, and the FT staff there are starting to appreciate my presence, and enjoy having me around. This is hopefully a good sign about my future with the company. Tommy also taught me how to drive the forklift, and thus also how to drive a manual transmission (they have a manual propane-powered fork at the shop). So, that's pretty exciting.

Other than all of that, it's week 9 of winter quarter. My last winter quarter. Ever. I got my bill for spring quarter today, and that's the very last UC bill I'll ever have to pay. EVER. Kind of amazing, actually. Next quarter is really light. I'm scheduling 30 hours a week at Blackboard and 15 hours a week of paint lab. I should be done with both of those things rather soon, I think, and moving on to Fulltime work at OLLS. That would be ideal. I still haven't heard any details from the folks at Circuit Lighting, so I'm kinda wondering now just how disorganized they really are.

Basically, things are good right now. I hit a really low spot last week, but things have vastly improved since then. And, to top it all off, after a fun day of working at OLLS with Tommy yesterday, we had our 3rd-annual steak night dinner. This year, instead of grilling, we went to Outback Steakhouse. It was Tom, Feig, Bonnie, and Me (the normal folks) plus Rachel, Milena, and Kate. It was great times, good people, and amazing food.

That's all I got for now. Sorry for the sporadic updates, I've been alternating between really busy and really tired lately, and computer has been a low priority for me recently.

Later, fools.

worse

I feel worse than I did before. This weekend sucked. I screwed everything up, and I suck at life. I just want to be done with school. I hate going to class, I hate writing papers, and I hate feeling like this. I just want everything to be ok.

empty

So, it's been a strange couple days. Wednesday night, I shot pictures of Comedy of Errors for Kate O, and that was fun. What sucked was that when I was taking out garbage with Rob wednesday night, I slipped in the ice and fell flat on my back. It HURT so fucking bad... I thought I might have bruised or broken something internal, so I basically stayed in bed all day Thursday, didn't go to work or class. Everything hurt. Friday I slept through Shakespeare, but still managed to get to work, which sucked too. I'm so tired of the people there, and I look forward to the day that I can quit and go work for real money with people who give two shits about the work environment and the service we provide to customers. Everything went to shit when Chris left.

Friday night Rachel came over after work and we had an amazing time together. I love her so much, it still makes me smile every time I think about how amazing it is that we found each other. I screwed up when I set the alarm for saturday, and got her to school like 5 minutes late for her call, which wasn't bad, but I was really afraid she was gonna fail the show. I'm really glad it turned out ok, but I was still worried all day till I heard from her that she was ok.

So, then after my meeting for winter dance, and lunch with some prospies with Kate O, Rachel and I went to dinner with her friend Daniel at Johnny Rockets. The food was good, and the company was great. I don't know what happened after dinner, but Rachel and I both got really quiet, and then when I dropped her off, she seemed really sad on aim. Now, I feel empty inside. I'm worried about why she was so sad and didn't wanna say anything, and I just feel like crap. I dunno. Rachel said it's nothing, but I'm not such a moron that I couldn't tell there was something wrong, and she just didn't want to tell me. So... there's that. I'm hoping I'll get to talk to her tonight and see what's up. Nobody is home tonight, and I'm just sitting alone in the living room, feeling weird. I don't think writing this is helping either, so I'm gonna be done with this post now.

update from work again

So, today started out really well... there was a late start today because of the weather, so I got to spend an extra hour in bed with Rachel, and then it turned out not to matter that I didn't do my Shakespeare paper last night since class was canceled anyway. So, that was all good stuff.

THEN... my alarm went off, and I had to go to work. That's when the day started to suck. I got to work almost 30 minutes late from sleeping through my alarm too many times, and then it turned out that I'm the only one here for several hours, which sucked, because I was swamped with phones and email. I've also stayed late today, and will probably stay all the way through the meeting until 6pm or so because there aren't any other student workers coming in. Fuckers. I happen to know that two of them live within walking distance, and yet, they say they can't make it because of car trouble.

Yeah, so... tonight should be fun. I'm shooting pics of "Comedy of Errors" for Kate O. The dress run starts at 9, so I should have time to get home and shower before then.

keep your fingers crossed

Also, keep your fingers crossed for a snow day tomorrow. The weather service is calling for massive amounts of freezing rain and wintry mix, and could possibly shut down the city and cause wide-spread power outages. Personally, I plan on putting it in 4WD and heading over to home depot to buy a genny if it comes to that and we lose power for more than a day. But, hopefully it'll just be crappy weather, and school will be closed for a day or two. Heh. I can dream, right?

I keep forgetting to write this stuff down...

So, It's been a long while since my last update. I keep forgetting to write all of this stuff down as it happens, and then I end up forgetting things. This past week wasn't bad. We had some nasty weather early on, but it warmed up a little by the end of the week, stayed in the mid teens and 20s mostly. It got frigid over the weekend, and then I worked my 12-hour assignment on changeover to Full Monty, and that pretty much killed me. I am SO freakin sore, I think that's the hardest I've ever had to work on a 12-hour. I hung the damn HR box boom by myself, and THAT sucked because, as you may be aware, I am *not* a tiny man, and that box boom is a TINY little space to be in.

All was made well, though, because after that was done, I picked up rachel at siddall. Together with feig and rob, we went on a little food-finding adventure, hoping to get skyline, but no such luck. We settled on McDonalds, and then watched cartoons while we ate and then went to bed. Not a bad night. :) Then I woke up just in time to make it to shakespeare today and take my quiz. Now I'm at work, and I really need a shower. I'll be done here in a few hours, and then I can get home, shower, and do my sign language homework for class tonight.

Yup... so that's all I got. See you fools later.

weekend recap

So, the weekend turned out pretty awesome. I spent a good amount of time with rachel friday and saturday night, it always brightens my day when I get to wake up next to her. I also picked up my new xbox 360 on saturday, which was pretty freakin awesome. There was much booze consumed over the weekend, and today was the super bowl! What a weekend, right? Well.. see, the Bears lost. And, to add insult to injury, they gave that no-talent assclown Peyton Manning MVP of the super bowl. What a joke!

Anyhoo... it's late, I got freakin class and work from 9am straight through till 6pm tomorrow, which is suck city, I can tell you that for sure. The good news is, I;ve also been exempted from Drafting II, so next quarter I really just have to take paint lab, and that's it! Yeah-ah! So... goodnight ever'body... see ya when I see ya.

Oh, if you haven't yet tagged yourself in a cat picture on facebook, go do it now.

macbook!!!!

OMG! So I finally got my student loan check cleared to my bank, and I just bought my new BLACK macbook online. OMG OMG OMG OMG. I can't wait... it's gonna be here in about a week...

sweet

So, you all know I have trouble sitting on presents and keeping them a surprise until the day I'm supposed to give them out. So, Rachel got her valentine's day present early last night. I gave her m&ms custom printed with "I <3 Rachel" and "Rachel + Dave" on them. They were packed in a little box with a ribbon on it, and she loved them. I can't wait to give her what I got for her birthday, but at least that's only a few days away, and not weeks.

Also, we had a really deep conversation the other night, and worked some stuff out, and I'm feeling a lot better. I've also become more determined to remember to take my zoloft every day, since when I forget for a couple days, I tend to get all cranky and unhappy.

In other news, I'm sitting here at work, counting down the hours till midnight when I can get out of here and get back home again. Tomorrow I'm gonna GO BUY AN XBOX 360 and go shopping with the roomies for beer & chips n stuff for the super bowl on sunday. I'm sad that none of my favorite teams are in the game, but I'm ok with the Bears, so I'm gonna be cheering for them, even though I think a Colts victory is pretty much inevitable, cause they're basically a machine, ya know? Anyway, there's that.

That's pretty much all I got for ya now... if you're on facebook, you should go check out my cats photo album and tag yourself as a cat. Go now. Do it!