I'm ba-ack!
Well, kind of. It's been a long few weeks.
The 5 days I was at home were extremely hectic - trying to build a PC (managed to fuck it up - more on that later), take my sister off to college (that took a whole day), get a car useable for me to take to school, and pack all my shit up. We ended up condemning my car (the drivers side floor was shot), and I took my mom's car to school with me.
Once at school, there was the whole hectic-ness of registration and the first week of classes. To top all this off, my computer wasn't working on the school network. That was fun. I don't really get cell reception on campus either, so I was basically unreachable for the first two weeks of school (by which point my laptop was usable).
The first weekend back, I went to an event where the boat I was on all summer was at - a tugboat roundup. That was really cool. It was about two hours from school, so I left pretty early and spent just about the whole day there. On the way home, my car died. Totally. Luckily, though I was about 30 miles from school, I was right next to a rest area. I pulled in, and started trying to find out what was wrong. Replaced a few fuses, nothing. Opened the hood, and a broken hose on the intake was staring me in the face. I didn't have any tape, so I called my roommate to come with his car (a Subaru Forrester), and some tape. He showed up half an hour later, and we taped that, and tried it again. Nothing. We then jumped it, and it started ok. I then turned it off, and we talked about the route home - when I tried to start it after, nothing doing. We jumped it again, and I left it running and started out of the rest area. I got about 10 feet before it died again. At this point, it's starting to get dark, and is kind of drizzling. Fun.
We decide to tow the car the 30 miles back to school. On the interstate. We end up going about 30mph and traveling on the shoulder. My battery seems to be totally dead - the emergency flashers aren't working so good, and the windshield wipers really aren't working. It's now actually raining. Nice.
We get back to town, and park it off one of the exits that's not complicated to get to the shoulder on (we are off of the highway now). We try jumping the car again, and letting it charge. As soon as we disconnect the jumper cables, the car dies. Now, it is totally dark, and pouring. We go to Wal-Mart, and I spend $60 on a new battery. We put this in, and the car starts right up. We head back to school, and call it a night.
Tuesday after this, I take my desktop pieces (which have the capability to be a fricken sweet computer if they work) to one of the professor's in the department. We spend two hours Tues, and another hour on Thursday, before deciding that the motherboard is shot. This is a brand new piece - never used, never molested. What the hell!! That was depressing. I spent about half of my summer pay on this computer, and now I have to shell out another $200 to maybe get it working. Goddamn.
Then, my workstudy boss has me dealing with these piece of shit PDAs (handheld computers) for the nursing department. Three of the 6 don't work, for various reasons. I'm at work for 4 1/2 hours on a day I'm not supposed to even come in, because these must be done by 8 the next morning. Ugh.
Thankfully, it seems to be setting down in the material stress aspect of things. Drama-wise, though, it seems to be just starting.
Bonobo Girl threw herself at me, on the first day of classes (I stopped by to say hi, and she basically jumped me). That was fun, but . . . I really don't want to get involved with her. As fun as it would be, I have a feeling it would end very badly.
Last night added a whole new dimension for drama. Jill came by with her roommate (Shannon's roommate last year). We hung out for a bit, and then my roommate and a bunch of our friends came back, hammered, and started playing Halo. Jill and her roommate ended up on my bed. They stayed on my bed, and we ended up all trying to sleep in a college twin extra long bed. It was intimate. We really didn't end up sleeping much. Dozing some, cuddling lots, and at about 4:30am, we started getting much more intimate. I kind of got Jill worked up, she started getting me worked up, and then her roommate saw what was going on, and joined in. It was basically lots of groping each other, and making out. Jill and her roommate kissed once, which was cool to me, but ended up being a little awkward. I think that her roommate wouldn't mind them getting together.
I kind of pushed to keep going, and Jill was like "Nope, my pants are staying on, sorry." And so, I took it to be like "Ok, I'm a little uncomfortable, can we stop here?" So, I stopped, and Jill got up and left for a bathroom trip. At this point her roommate gets all sad/depressed and buries her face in her hands and won't talk to me, and then after Jill gets back, her roommate leaves, without saying anything. This worried both of us, and Jill ended up leaving to go after her. She IM'd me a few minutes later saying that her roommate was back in the room and safe. That was good. I talked to Jill today, and apparently everything is ok between them. That makes me feel better about the whole thing. I don't know where things are going to go between the three of us - or any two of us for that matter. At worst, I think it's one of those "One time in college" stories.
This evening, I acted as "bouncer" for a friend's party. I put that in quotes because I think she just wanted to be able to say she had one. I didn't do much. It was a semi formal party (who does that in college?), which was slightly annoying, and it really reminded me why I'm not a fan of parties. I had to escort Panda home - she was truly drunk to the point of losing her verbal filter, and becoming slightly violent without realizing it. Also lots of tears and disappearing randomly. Not fun at all. I should start charging for doing stuff like that.
So that's the summation of my life so far. Woo.
~^~
The 5 days I was at home were extremely hectic - trying to build a PC (managed to fuck it up - more on that later), take my sister off to college (that took a whole day), get a car useable for me to take to school, and pack all my shit up. We ended up condemning my car (the drivers side floor was shot), and I took my mom's car to school with me.
Once at school, there was the whole hectic-ness of registration and the first week of classes. To top all this off, my computer wasn't working on the school network. That was fun. I don't really get cell reception on campus either, so I was basically unreachable for the first two weeks of school (by which point my laptop was usable).
The first weekend back, I went to an event where the boat I was on all summer was at - a tugboat roundup. That was really cool. It was about two hours from school, so I left pretty early and spent just about the whole day there. On the way home, my car died. Totally. Luckily, though I was about 30 miles from school, I was right next to a rest area. I pulled in, and started trying to find out what was wrong. Replaced a few fuses, nothing. Opened the hood, and a broken hose on the intake was staring me in the face. I didn't have any tape, so I called my roommate to come with his car (a Subaru Forrester), and some tape. He showed up half an hour later, and we taped that, and tried it again. Nothing. We then jumped it, and it started ok. I then turned it off, and we talked about the route home - when I tried to start it after, nothing doing. We jumped it again, and I left it running and started out of the rest area. I got about 10 feet before it died again. At this point, it's starting to get dark, and is kind of drizzling. Fun.
We decide to tow the car the 30 miles back to school. On the interstate. We end up going about 30mph and traveling on the shoulder. My battery seems to be totally dead - the emergency flashers aren't working so good, and the windshield wipers really aren't working. It's now actually raining. Nice.
We get back to town, and park it off one of the exits that's not complicated to get to the shoulder on (we are off of the highway now). We try jumping the car again, and letting it charge. As soon as we disconnect the jumper cables, the car dies. Now, it is totally dark, and pouring. We go to Wal-Mart, and I spend $60 on a new battery. We put this in, and the car starts right up. We head back to school, and call it a night.
Tuesday after this, I take my desktop pieces (which have the capability to be a fricken sweet computer if they work) to one of the professor's in the department. We spend two hours Tues, and another hour on Thursday, before deciding that the motherboard is shot. This is a brand new piece - never used, never molested. What the hell!! That was depressing. I spent about half of my summer pay on this computer, and now I have to shell out another $200 to maybe get it working. Goddamn.
Then, my workstudy boss has me dealing with these piece of shit PDAs (handheld computers) for the nursing department. Three of the 6 don't work, for various reasons. I'm at work for 4 1/2 hours on a day I'm not supposed to even come in, because these must be done by 8 the next morning. Ugh.
Thankfully, it seems to be setting down in the material stress aspect of things. Drama-wise, though, it seems to be just starting.
Bonobo Girl threw herself at me, on the first day of classes (I stopped by to say hi, and she basically jumped me). That was fun, but . . . I really don't want to get involved with her. As fun as it would be, I have a feeling it would end very badly.
Last night added a whole new dimension for drama. Jill came by with her roommate (Shannon's roommate last year). We hung out for a bit, and then my roommate and a bunch of our friends came back, hammered, and started playing Halo. Jill and her roommate ended up on my bed. They stayed on my bed, and we ended up all trying to sleep in a college twin extra long bed. It was intimate. We really didn't end up sleeping much. Dozing some, cuddling lots, and at about 4:30am, we started getting much more intimate. I kind of got Jill worked up, she started getting me worked up, and then her roommate saw what was going on, and joined in. It was basically lots of groping each other, and making out. Jill and her roommate kissed once, which was cool to me, but ended up being a little awkward. I think that her roommate wouldn't mind them getting together.
I kind of pushed to keep going, and Jill was like "Nope, my pants are staying on, sorry." And so, I took it to be like "Ok, I'm a little uncomfortable, can we stop here?" So, I stopped, and Jill got up and left for a bathroom trip. At this point her roommate gets all sad/depressed and buries her face in her hands and won't talk to me, and then after Jill gets back, her roommate leaves, without saying anything. This worried both of us, and Jill ended up leaving to go after her. She IM'd me a few minutes later saying that her roommate was back in the room and safe. That was good. I talked to Jill today, and apparently everything is ok between them. That makes me feel better about the whole thing. I don't know where things are going to go between the three of us - or any two of us for that matter. At worst, I think it's one of those "One time in college" stories.
This evening, I acted as "bouncer" for a friend's party. I put that in quotes because I think she just wanted to be able to say she had one. I didn't do much. It was a semi formal party (who does that in college?), which was slightly annoying, and it really reminded me why I'm not a fan of parties. I had to escort Panda home - she was truly drunk to the point of losing her verbal filter, and becoming slightly violent without realizing it. Also lots of tears and disappearing randomly. Not fun at all. I should start charging for doing stuff like that.
So that's the summation of my life so far. Woo.
~^~
posted by The Wookie | 2:34 PM
2 Comments:
I hate to hear about the car. Think of it this way, when you graduate and land a sweet job you'll really appreciate the first nice ride you can afford. Sucks for now though. :(
Seems like things are just like you left them at school.
Two girls at once huh? I can't say I'm not a little jealous. Oh to be young again with all options open. Enjoy it while you can , it don't last forever like that ;)
Wookie your back! It's been ages!!!!
Sounds like you are having fun, what more can I say?
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