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Saturday, August 20th, 2005
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11:59 pm - Vacation updates - Summer is almost over
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I went on Vacation to the Adirondacks, Saturday through Wednesday. Drove back Wed, and promptly left on Thursday for Chicago, where I spent a couple days with Brienne.
Both vacations had their high points, and I'd call both of them very pleasant.
Life goes on pretty smoothly... School starts in a couple weeks, so maybe I'll get around to another update... A couple weeks should bring me not only school to talk about, but some sort of long-term status quo with Brienne.
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| Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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11:44 am - news?
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| Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
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2:42 am - The best relationship I ever had - epilogue
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My wireless router died, so I was at Target, getting a new one.
I look up, and about 2 feet away from me is Traci D'Angelo.
I literally panic, and do everything but practically run away. I mean, really, I spin around so I'm not facing her, I sidle past her, and I walk quickly away in the other direction.
I gather my thoughts, screw up the courage to say something to her, and by the time I start looking for her, she's already left the store.
Story of my life.
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| Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
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1:54 am - consistent eclecticism
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So when I click on my "friends" page to read about all of you, the title bar in my browser says "Joshua's Friends." Seeing it makes me kind of lonely. The last "friend" in my livejournal that I actually saw in person was either Jenn, when I went to Indiana, or Kelly, last time she went into the office and didn't recognize me(And there's no reason she should have.) That's pretty sad. It's been years since I've seen Renee, I never see Andy but he rarely updates, and Lituo, well, there was that one time where I MET her. Oh, right, and how could I forget Saci. Last time I saw her was... well... I look at all the new pictures she puts up, we'll leave it at that, shall we?
But y'know what? I guess "friends" is a word that's open to interpretation. I mean, if I read about your lives, and follow them as closely as this medium allows, and CARE(About some of you), then I think it's fair to consider me your friend. But for YOU to be MY friend, well, that's another matter. But I love reading your entries. I only check twice a week, max, I'd say, and there's always such a consistent eclecticism of posts that I find something new and fresh every time. SOMETHING always strikes some kind of chord.
I suppose I'm only updating because I should be writing my English paper.
So I'm kinda dating two women right now, and because it's the end of the semester, I'm feeling emboldened enough to give my number to a few women at school. Then I went through my phone and found a few numbers of "potentials" in there. Man, talk about women everywhere! And yet, with seeing two women, a third who seems to be clinging tentatively to actually thinking she's in a relationship with me(she's not too bright) I'm more lonely than ever. I think I can chalk that up to end-up-semester doldrums, though. But they must be hitting me hard, since I actually thought about going back to Julie tonight. Hopefully this'll all pass in a week and a half when school is over. I suppose that lethargy might set in, though, since I'll still be working(My shitty job which has lost a good deal of its luster) and won't have anything else to take up my time. I'll burn that bridge when get to it, though, and hopefully I'll "click" with someone of the female sex... That'd certainly help to make the days fly by ;)
So what else? I was going to try and make it to the end of the semester before I gambled again... But I needed to blow off some steam, so I went to the casino Tuesday, and won $700. I went back Friday and won $1100 more. It's stuck in the closet, though, for a rainy day, along with the rest of my cash. I finally paid off my credit card about a month ago, though, for the first time in a year and a half... Ha, I had it for 2-3 years before I used it, and then I used it ONCE, and it carried a balance for that long. I used it more, and never paid it off back down to zero. So yeah, money is one less thing to worry about, always nice. DOES make it hard to work, though, knowing how much I won in a couple hours while having fun, compared to dragging my ass to work for $5 tips. But that's neither here nor there in the long run... I think I'm going to quit and switch restaurants anyway, though... We'll see what summer brings.
I should probably be getting back to this English paper... I'm responding to how "Permanent Midnight" and "Junky" portray drug addiction. I'd've rather found a movie dealing with sexual addiction, but my teacher, Martello, goes in for drugs and prison a whole lot more than sex. So my ass is dragging near the end of the semester, and this paper isn't helping. But I should have a solid A already, so provided I don't bomb the paper, which I won't, I should be OK... but I'd still rather give her the honor and respect of a good paper and not a squeak-by piece of trash. I'd still rather write it on sex, though, instead of drugs. I decided this tonight: It's easier for me to write when I can do it about MYSELF. So much for my fantasies of writing fiction, eh?
Hrm, one might suppose, that if I liked writing about myself, I'd update my LJ more often, eh? Well, fie on you. I write in my journal, my pen and paper journal, every night. But that stuff doesn't go up here, it's more of a day-to-day accounting, and it's safe to say that my LJ takes a longer view. Which is silly, since I don't write either one for myself, but at least here, I know who I'm writing TO. Whatever. It's 2:20, and I'm NOT going to bed until I crank out two more pages for this final paper.
Lots of love in various ways,
-- Josh
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| Monday, April 18th, 2005
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6:38 pm - As prompted
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I guess it's time for a update.
I was actually going to write one at the end of the semester, and send out e-mails to everyone, but I guess this will work too. Well, for those of you who read my journal, that is.
Let's see, so what's up. Looks like last time I wrote was Late January, right after the semester had started.
I can't wait for it to be over! I'm at that point where I'm just into the full swing of things in terms of getting burned-out on school :) But seriously, my classes are going well. English, I've had two major papers due, and I got a B+ on the first and an A on the second. The fact that I'm one of three people who participate in class, and that I've turned in a nice full journal both times it has been due means I should be on track for a strong "A."
In Intro to film, I did miserably on the first test, but I'll get my 2nd test back on Wednesday, and I think I either scored near 100% or over, so that's good. We had 3 movie reviews due today that were a pretty major part of our grade, and I feel good about them. With 1 test left in the semester, it's looking like either a B in the class, or if I do really well on the 2nd test, and get a good score on those papers, I should be able to squeeze out an "A."
Computer Programming is still an instructor I can't stand. I got an 88 on the midterm, but I've gotten 100, 100, 140, and 150 on the 4 labs we've handed in. 1 programming lab left to go, and the final, so I should have an A in the class, and probably a B at worst.
My last class is Interpersonal Communication, and I got a high B on the first test, and I'll get my score back for our 2nd test later today(I'm writing this during my 3rd class, so I have comm next). I expect to receive a very high A on that test, since I was well-prepared. Yeah, I actually studied, very unusual for me. One more test to go, and he drops the lowest of the three test scores, so no worries there.
So that's school. There's nothing else in school worth reporting, really. Oh, except that I have a crush on my English teacher, Martello. There's something with me and English teachers, I dunno, it's just something I find attractive, like an accent or something. She's actually having surgery today but should be back on Wednesday, so I hope she's OK.
Let's see... I'm still working at T.G.I. Friday's, and I still have mixed feelings about it. I think it's just status quo, a common affliction with me. On one had, I don't like it. I could probably make more money at another restaurant, and there's some coworkers I don't like, since they're lazy. Ha, one of my managers and I were talking, and she threw an old cliche at me. "We're a team," she said. "Some players ride the bench more than others" was my reply.
On the other hand, I love some of my coworkers, and a larger number than I DON'T like. They're a great bunch of people for the most part, and they make it fun. The money is sometimes decent, too. I might only make 30-60 bucks during a tuesday or a thursday dayside shift, but I might make 120 on a saturday or sunday. Cash in pocket, that keeps me in gas money and play money, and I'm even managing to put some aside. My dad gives me $400 a month for school, but I'm still taking out loans. When I mentioned I was able to save a bit of money, he said I should be using that instead of taking out the full amount of financial aid loans... I replied that I was using it to pay off my credit card, and he was happy. He's been MORE than fair, it's just that I'm fully and completely mentally prepared to take out the maximum amount of student aid, and simply be in debt for that much when I'm done. But my grades are high(For the first time in my life, EVER) and I'm full-time, and that's MORE than enough for him. Oh, right, this paragraph started out being about work. Well, Friday's gives $1000 of tuition assitance, so if I quit and switch restaurants, it'll be after the semester is over and after I've got that grand :) The "Status quo" for me is similar to one of Newtons laws of motion... Objects at rest tend to stay at rest :) Well, a josh in one situation resists change :) Just imagine how much of a pain in the butt it'd be to switch places and learn a new menu, new people, a new routine, etc! So I'm sticking with TGI's for now.
What update would be complete without women! Well I think in my last one I said Julie was Kaput, but I kept "seeing" her even after we broke up. She went into the hospital, though, shortly after the semester started, so then my "seeing" her was limited to just visiting her and calling her. She spent a month and a half or two months in, and I think she only recently got out... And I don't KNOW because she decided about a week ago that she was through with me... And this isn't something I can express well through a livejournal entry, but in effect, she wasn't getting enough out of our relationship. When we broke up but kept sleeping together, I made SURE that she was OK with it, and that I wasn't taking advantage of her. She said she wanted to do it, and was OK with it, but due to our last conversation, I think that she may have been sleeping with me in order to try and get me to love her. She pretty much came out and said that may have been the case. In any event, I told her she'd better do some thinking, and I was as honest as always, which, with her, is very honest. I told her that I still cared about her very much, and I do. She never called back, but I got an e-mail from her mom which was pretty much a dear-john letter. When I was updating my sister on the whole thing, I chalked it up to her co-dependancy issues. With Julie, it's all or nothing. When we were dating, she transferred her entire dependency to me, instead of her mother. Since she was in the hospital for a good 6 weeks and her mother was there every day, even though she's out, it looks like she's not interested in half-assing it with ME. So she's back to NO real friends, whereas with me she at least had ONE who cared about her. If she thinks I was only her friend for sex, why would I have constantly called her and visited her in the hospital? In any event, hopefully she's out of the hospital and over her health issues and she can go back to school next semester. She's still a sweetheart and she deserves to be happy, no matter HOW disillusioned she is about her own health and capabilities.
The closest thing to a romantic interest in my life right now is Jennifer. Yeah, she goes by Jenn... So what is it with me and women named "Jenn?" If I ever meet a woman named jenn who's an English teacher with an accent, I'm done for! Anyway, she works at TGI Friday's with me and we've been talking on the phone almost every day for 2 weeks or so, and we had a date last weekend... Ended up doing dinner and a movie. She moves MUCH slower than I do, so even though we've seen each other several times since we started talking, there hasn't been so much as a kiss. Except for that one during the movie where I just leaned over and gave her a peck by her ear, but it was hardly mutual and was, like I said, only a peck. So Jenn is a paragraph and a half, if you want all the details, and I'm not sure how much I should say... I mean it's not impossible that she might one day read this. So you know how honest I am, but sometimes that isn't the greatest thing y'know? In any event, Jenn is the current interest of mine, but I'm not sure where it's headed... it's far from a perfect relationship. I'm far from perfect, true, but Jenn has her own issues. Like I said, she likes to take things slowly, she doesn't get attached easily, but at the same time, I think she's very lonely and definitely has a void that she needs filled. I've seen a lot of different sides of her, but at the risk of things between her and I going somewhere, I think I'll just leave it at that for now. I can always say more later if there's more to tell.
This is a pretty decent update, I've always liked to be thorough.
Oh, my journals! Right, so we had to write in a journal for English, so I went out and got a nice cheap composition book. One with the black and white cover, only they make them in red-and-white also, and I got the red kind. Anyways, I just filled up all 100 pages, and it has re-kindled my love of writing and journaling, so I write nightly before I go to bed. Don't ask my why this makes me happy, but I enjoy it greatly. It's almost like a sense of accomplishment. Maybe that's because it's WRITING, which is something I've always wanted to do, but could never do successfully. This might not be a book of poetry or fiction, but hey, at least it's WRITING and putting my thoughts on paper. The only other journal I've written was when I was in jail, and that was 1 full notebook, but mostly because lights out was at 10:00 p.m. every night, on schedule, and me being an insomniac that I am, I needed SOMETHING to do since I was never tired. Anyway, I still have over 30 blank ones in my closet. Did you know about my obsession with blank books and journals? yeah, I see ones I like and I buy them, and then don't write in them. I've got some REALLY nice ones, too.
Anyway, the family is still the same... Avery just turned 14, we had a dinner birthday party last night... Abbie is dating a guy from J-Date, which are online personals for Jewish people, and she likes him a lot... It's been maybe a month or two for them, I guess... Not sure exactly, but the point is that she's still looking for her special someone, like the rest of us. (Well not YOU, Jenn, since you FOUND yours, but you know what I mean!)
I'm still in love with my car, I'll spare you the details :)
So it's school three days a week and work the other four. Mon and Wed I'm at school until 10. Tues and Thurs i normally work dayside(lunch, not dinner) and chill out during the evening. Friday I only have a morning class, and I go home and putter until it's time for Magic night, which is a dorky card game that's nerdy and I love it :) I play Fridays at the comic book store from about 5 or 6 until midnight, just like i did when I was in high school, only then it was from 8 until midnight. So yeah, there're kids there, but there's also plenty of people my age. We all go next door to Applebees afterwards for their half priced appetizers. Its fun, just being with a group of people I get along with. I guess it's just nice having a group of friends I see regularly and "bond" with. Anyways, they're a good group of guys. and it's my regular one-night-a-week of FUN instead of WORK. Saturday I guess is a free night, although I always work either Saturday lunch or dinner shift, and then Sunday is work dayside and head to Dad & Ginny's for our usual Sunday night dinner.
I'm taking the summer off from classes, and dad approves... Yeah, I'm trying to graduate as soon as possible, but getting burned out just isn't worth it. So no classes this summer, and it'll be great to have it "off." I'll still be working, of course. I'm going camping in june with the Michigan/indiana Stealth/3000gt people for a few days, and in July i'm planning a big vacation for the national gathering. So summer can't get here soon enough for other reasons than just school, of course :)
Went to the casino up in Detroit a couple months ago...won $500 in 3 hours, then turned around and came home :)
Hrm, guess that's about it, in terms of updates :) I still read my friends' livejournal entries, including of couse yours, Jenn. Maybe once a week, or a little less often, but I keep up :)
Oh, and one last thing... I'm flattered you cared enough to ask for an update :) It makes me feel good to know you care and you were thinking about me, so thanks :)
-- Josh
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| Friday, January 21st, 2005
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12:31 am - update
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The "age of Julie" is over, we've officially broken up. Yeah, it was long overdue.
Classes started, here's a rundown after day one:
English: Not Mrs Martello, or Ms Martello, just... Martello.
What are we, a shakespearean character? She was slightly subdued, as if highly medicated or lightly tranquilized. But it was OK, she's the typical English teacher type... Just maybe a little like Alanis Morissette on pot crossed with a monotonous hippie. She's the only cute girl in that class.
Intro to Film: Cancelled, teacher had the flu. But, Ilana is in the class! For those of you who don't know, which should be all of you(Yeah, all three), Alana used to work at T.G.I. Friday's... She was in the orientation group before mine, but we met at work and hit it off pretty well for a couple weeks until she quit because she wasn't making enough money. Anyway, she took my phone number with her when she quit, but never called. She had, and still has, a boyfriend, unfortunately. Darn, she's cute & funny and intelligent. Anyway, at least I know someone in the class.
Intro to Programming: Oh my god my teach is a dinosaur. He's been at CSU for 29 years (Yeah, really) and he had this little headset microphone with a portable amplifier/speaker thing so we could all hear him... But keep in mnd it was a normal sized classroom. He wheezed for breath in-between every other sentence. He had trouble putting the end of a sentence on the front of one and making them match. He complained about having enough time(in his 2 hour class, on the first day) to finish the first set of power point presentations he had, and then immediately embarked on a tangent. He used terms that I knew from dabbling, but no introductory-level student in computer programming should EVER be expected to know, and he fumbled with his electronics equipment, including his own laptop and projector. But the little bit of Java that I got to see was exactly what I expected, so teacher aside, the class might be fun. 1 cute girl, but she's got a boyfriend... I asked her where I recognized her from, and it's because she was always in the lobby outside the math classrooms last semester, since we both had math at the same time. She's taking the class I took last semester, so maybe I can help her with her homework. Ssshhh... don't tell her boyfriend, k? I also met Rochelle, who is ALSO taking that math class with Candace(Mom's name, that a good sign or a bad one?) and happens to run the communication dept, which is cool. She gave me a heads up on my next porfessor.
Interpersonal Communication: My teacher is blind Her seeing eye dog is named Jep, and he knows the word "Apple" because he likes them so much. She seems cool, I'll do fine in the class but it'll be a lot of work, I can tell already. She likes me already because I'm vocal and not shy, and I introduced myself as the class clown. Yes, I made a fool of myself. There's like FIVE pretty girls in my communications class, so I've got my work cut out for me. After class, I worked up the courage to ask Erin why she looked familiar, and we came to the conclusion that we were in the same math class last semester... She just went to it once or twice, which was why we weren't sure right off the bat. We talked for a few minutes, so I'll try and strike up another conversation on Monday. I have all my classes Monday and Wednesday, and English on Friday's as well.
I spent $20 on school supplies after work today... binders, paper, folders, y'know. Fun stuff.
Consider yourself updated on all important aspects of my life, eh?
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| Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
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11:40 pm - The usual random update
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I just got done reviewing a week-and-a-half of all my friend's updates, and this was by far my favortie, inexplicably:
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talented mr wrigley (Written by Calculoid)
hey remember when bubblicious was the shit?
I bought some strawberry flavor today
(it still is)
although when I was 8 or 9 my parents bought me some grape bubble tape and my sister, who was 4, some regular flavored bubble tape and we thought that was really cool, and we'd trade flavors
then in middle school gum was banned because kids would leave it stuck to things, like the floor
except we'd chew it on the dl, just holding it between our teeth and cheeks until the bonds broke and the gum dissolved into a goopy mess that we'd swallow
and all the preppy bitches chewed the chartreuse flavor of extra
for halloween people gave out gross double bubble that had the texture and flavor of talc-coated rocks
after that gum only played the role of presex breath freshener
I think that's pretty disgusting; I would rather brush my teeth
now my jaw's sore and I still don't know what the point of gum, or life, is
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That's why I read her journal. She comes up with totally awesome random shit. Matter of fact, I think I'll invent a new word for it. awedom. yeah, that works. (Awesdom?)
I was going to just cop out of doing a real update by posting her little monologue, there, but as usual, now that I'm here, typing, writing, I might as well mention a few other details about life.
I just passed the 3 month mark with Julie... I decided, on the spur of the moment, to have one of those deep down intimate discussion with her, when she called today on the phone... Turns out she loves me, and is OK with the fact that I don't love her. (Technically, there's a "yet" at the end of that sentence.).
What brought this up is really rather personal, but hey, when have I kept secrets from my LJ? She got Depo (Provera), and we're ready to take the next step... Being the guy, my interet in condomless sex is purely physical (Well, I suppose that statement is misleading, since it isn't ALWAYS, but I'm maybe 80 to 85 or 90 percent sure it is in THIS case), and I wanted to make sure that she was interested in that as well, and she wasn't pinning high hopes and serious emotional intimacy on the event of having sex in a more intimate manner for the first time.
Yes, it was a run on sentence, and yes, I'll go back and re-read it to make sure it makes sense.
Close enough.
So anyways, I pretty much "balked" on the phone and pulled a typical Josh move that I tend to do when I'm worried a woman is getting more attached than I am... I basically let it be known that I don't love them. Which is pretty shitty on my part, but since i'm not in a particularly apologetic mood, we'll just call it one of my issues and let it be. It's just an issue that I have that I don't always fall in love, and I'm a jerk enough to say "I don't love you." Understand, PLEASE, that I don't come out and say it like that, but at the same time, I somehow let it be known in the conversion if that's the case. Well this morning on the phone(Yeah, on the phone of all things) I let it be known. In a sensitive manner, of course, as much as one person can let another person know that in a sensitive way.
Now, Julie said she was fine with it, and I'm not really SURE she was, or if she was just saying that to make ME feel better. She's INCREDIBLY selfless in respects like that.
In any event, in order to avoid having sex without a condom with her, I've arranged to stall... With an AIDS/HIV test! Y'know, just to be on the safe side. So my reasons are two-fold... (I'm summarizing, just in case I've lost you, up to this point.) 1, to not have "unprotected" sex because I'm worried that it'll be making a big emotional leap forward on HER part and I was/am worried about her getting too attached, and 2, that I suppose there IS an infitesimal(ooh, don't think I've ever actually USED that word in my writing before) chance that I could be HIV+ or have AIDS. I mean, I could and not know it, even though I personally don't think there's a big chance or possibility. (Knock on wood, eh? no need to jinx myself.)
Well, THAT was heavy. On to lighter stuff... Thanksgiving is here at Mom's, it'll be small... dessert afterwards I'll be driving out to Julie's house to see her and her parents, as well as meet Grandma(I've met Mom & Stepdad several times, now, they love me, and I met Sister once, too(Yeah she loves me too)).
School is still going well... winding down though. A and an A- in 2/3rds of my math class, I can expect another A for the last third. Communications I'm on track with a 95% so far, with the last (of three) tests, and then the final... So I SHOULD have an A, B if worst comes to worst.
Signed up for classes for next semester, and it's looking like a really busy schedule between work & school... sounds like a good thing, but let's see if I get burned out or not.
Work is getting better... not having ANY waiter experience and jumping in was a much bigger deal than I thought it would be, there was one really hairy time, one minorly hairy time, and by now I'm pretty much taking it in stride, although I don't have all the experience I'd like to have... when 6 months rolls around, I won't even be batting an eyelash, but as I am now, I can comfotably blink. And when I take analogies THAT far, it's probably time to end the update.
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| Saturday, November 6th, 2004
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| Monday, October 25th, 2004
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12:05 am - uh huh.
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I'm still here. I still think about all of you. In fact, I still keep up with all of your journals. You are not forgotten.
The old "golden rule" and a "we always give what we want," eh?
I'll stop myself from rambling before(Or shortly after) I embarrass myself.
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| Wednesday, September 8th, 2004
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12:44 am - blah blah
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I'm still alive.
Classes started at CSU. Communications looks easy, calculus looks hard.
Julie is the latest & greatest. Want more? E-mail or call.
-- Josh
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| Friday, August 20th, 2004
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11:29 pm - random update
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Oh my livejournal friends,
What would I do without you? You give me things to read when I'm bored off my keester. So bored, in fact, that I would stoop to using the words "kiester," and "stoop." Even an alternate spelling of Kiester.
Life goes on, with me. CASE classes start Monday, which meant this week at work was full. I think CSU Classes start in a week or two, I suppose I should go buy my book and get parking squared away. I'm taking a math class and a communcations course. The math class will be hard; it's the next one in the sequence of what I started last semster. Knowing it would require a ton of effort, I wanted something else simple... hence communications, which will fulfill some kind of general education requirement.
Apparently the Communications course is filled with such difficult topics as: "The difference between verbal and nonverbal communication" according to what my advisor told me. So the risk here is that I'll be SOOOOO bored with my "easy A" that I won't do any work. So I'll have to be careful.
Unfortunately, I'll have to buy a book for it, which I'll get out of for math, since it uses the same book as last semester. hrm, I suppose I'd better go find that in my closet.
I've been apartment sitting Ab's for the past 2-3 weeks, which has been nice, and at the same time... disrupting. I like not having to be around Mom & Ken, but the whole disruption in my normal routine is never fun. All said & done, I'll be perfectly happy to go back home. And then I'll probably get there, get nagged & annoyed by mom, and run into a drunk off his ass Ken and wish I was right back here. Such is life, eh? It goes on.
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| Wednesday, August 4th, 2004
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1:25 am - back in the saddle again?
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I wrote a "love letter" tonight. Isn't that just a great feeling?
I'll be using the old "Leave it on her windshield" trick.
Here goes nuthin'
-- Josh
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| Monday, July 12th, 2004
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11:35 pm - Stolen from Jenn, who stole it from Kurt
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"This is the problem with LJ, we all think we are close, but we know nothing about each other. To rectify this, I want you to ask something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.
Post in your journal if ya like."
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| Wednesday, June 16th, 2004
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12:17 am
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I've got a date on Friday with Corey. Maybe I'll tell you more about her if it goes well. It's keeping me interested.
I also got a gmail account tonight, and since Josh was too short, and Joshua was taken already, I got it under my NEW "handle." C'mon, a new persona is a big deal!
No, silly, I can't tell you what it is! This is my Ankerdust persona! Bad mojo to mix 'em.
But I'm jazzed to have one before it's open to the public :) Makes me feel all special and elite.
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| Sunday, June 13th, 2004
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11:24 pm - No Ticket
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Here's a copy/paste from 3si, since they get all the info about what's up with me:
I was on my way home from JeffMeden's, where we put on my 3kgt exhaust so I could have duals.
I was cruising on home, speeding a BIT, and I come up on a state troopah after cresting a hill. I "oh, shit," apply firm and smoothe brake pressure, and change lanes to the middle after passing him. (from the left lane)
Sure enough, he pulls out and catches up to me. He tails me for 30-45 seconds before turning on his lights. I signal right, pull off the road an take my time about it, and start pulling out my wallet, sure I'm getting a ticket.
Well, the normal "sit and wait 5 minutes" period didn't happen... the trooper got right out and came up to my passenger side window. I had my wallet out, in prep to hand over license/reg/proof of insurance.
Well, the first thing I notice about the tropper is that she's a GORGEOUS blonde.
"I clocked ya doin' 81" she says in a voice that makes me realize that at least this will be the most pleasant ticket I'll ever get, even though I'm about to pay out the ass for speeding.
She asks for my license and I fork it over.
She asks if I'm the registered owner of the vehicle, and I say "yes ma'am".
She asks if I've had any violations in the past year, and I say no.
She uses her handheld radio mic and talks to HQ or whatever... All I catch from the sqawk of it is "94 two-door coupe plates/tags expire june '04 no outstanding warrants or violations."
She reminds me my plates/tags and license will expire on the 25th of this month, and I say "Yes ma'am, on my Birthday."
She reaches into the car, hands me my license back, and says "OK slow it down and have a nice day."
I'm like... "What? you're not going to give me a ticket?" And she says "Well, traffic is moving pretty quick today, at 65-70, so 70 or 75 is OK, but 80 is pushing it. Just slow it down and I'm letting you go."
I was like "Um, thank you?" just like that.
Haha, she let me go! Just turned around and walked away.
Talk about lucky. I put it on cruise control and stayed in the right-hand lane for the rest of the trip home ;)
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| Tuesday, May 25th, 2004
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11:19 pm - yay for bookstores
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My plan, should I win the lottery, stands firm:
Go into seclusion for an entire year and do nothing but READ.
Hit the bookstore tonight, and managed to limit myself to 2 books... "Ringworld," by Larry Niven, which is a veritable staple of Science Fiction that I've never read, and a book on reading & writing Sci-Fi, Science Fiction 101.
This is in-theme with my latest kick on being a writer. A long-time dream of mine with several roadblocks... Getting up the "oomph" to do it, lack of what I consider worthy ideas, being a natural procrastinator, etc etc etc.
The writers market is on my Amazon.com wishlist, for instance, so that Ginny can get it for me for my birthday in June. I've decided that for the family vacation in July, to Dewey Beach Delaware, I'm brining a laptop. And I'm writing. That's my ultimate, final goal deadline... have SOMETHING finished by then. I'd like to get something out before then, but who knows.
Maybe I'll just keep reading a lot :)
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| Wednesday, May 12th, 2004
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10:41 am - let's be honest, here....
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I undid all my "Friends-only" setttings.
Why? I'm not sure.
But if you're not on my friends list, and you care enough to find my livejournal, then you can be rewarded with something good to read, I guess.
I realized, upon reviewing all the entries since I made it friends-only, that I kind've "glossed over" a few details that were going on in my life... Like KATIE. Oh well, I mentioned the tail end of it. In any event, if one REALLY wanted to keep up with what was going on, and they tried to do it through my LJ, well then they have only themself to blame :) A concerted effort would involve daily monitoring of AIM profiles as well as e-mail :)
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| Monday, May 10th, 2004
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10:11 pm - whee, I'm on a roll!
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Josh met Holly today, and gave her his phone number.
Josh and Holly have a date on Wednesday.
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| Sunday, May 9th, 2004
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10:56 pm - Swimming around that dating pool
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Joshua hates to buy presents. Both the act of shopping itself and the search to find the proper gift. Mother's day presented a particular problem, then. Josh's real Mother was taken care of... Because they had a stand-up refrigerator, the freezer was often crammed to overflowing after a shopping trip to Sam's club, so Josh's mom Candy wanted a meat freezer for the basement. She made this clear in no uncertain terms. Josh contributed money and labor to that project, and mom was happy.
Josh's stepmother, however, Ginny, is a very difficult person to shop for. Josh wasn't going to get her anything, since she's very aware of his feelings on obligatory gifts.
Well, Ginny was having her parents over for lunch, which is always very time consuming and takes a lot of effort. So, knowing she'd be bushed, Josh figured she'd want a low-key evening, and NOT have to make a dinner, like she normally does every Sunday, for Josh and his sister Abbie. Abbie suggested that Josh just bring dinner over as the gift, and Josh knew that was a great idea. So Josh's dad ordered from Aladdins, and josh went to pick it up. It wasn't ready when he got there, so Josh decided to run up the street to Target to grab a few things.
A pair of sunglasses, first. It's summer, the day was gorgeous, and Josh has contacts now, for the first summer in 18 years. Meaning sunglasses were now an option.
Also, a book. Sure, Josh was supposed to be saving money for college, but books are books, and he wanted to reward himself for finishing classes atCSU this semester.
So first he found a suitable book... Thick, hardback, under $20, and the first of a trilogy.
After that, he found the sunglasses counter, which he walked right past one the way in, since he was busy looking at the woman trying on the cute pink hat.
He was the only one shopping in the sunglasses area for about 5 minutes, and was fretfully trying to make up his mind when a nice looking, pretty brunette walks up and start trying on sunglasses! Hello!
He asks her which pair looks better, and they start chatting.
She just graduated from Kent, her name is Katie, and I now have her phone number.
mouhahahha.
Too bad I never heard from Bobbie(Barbara), the girl with the mini cooper... I think she could've had potential. (I never really told you all about meeting her, but she's the one that got the e-mail in the last entry.)
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| Friday, May 7th, 2004
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2:04 pm - An e-mail I sent today.
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Hi! Hope you remember me :)
Is your Mini blue? A really nice, light-colored blue? If it is, I think I saw you yesterday :)
Anyway, I'd love to talk, but I didn't get your number... I only gave you mine! I hope you haven't lost it and you've just been too busy to make the call :) You've probably been going crazy between the end of finals and packing up to go home, so I can certainly understand if that's the case.
In any event, I hope to hear from you soon!
-- Josh
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