There's something almost cathartic about cleaning out my friends lists. I could be blunt and call it ridding myself of dead weight, but that's quite a bit more harsh than I'd intend. Anyways I removed the people I don't talk to anymore, on LJ, SG, and Myspace. I doubt anyone will notice, but eh just in case if people want back on I guess they could message me or something.
Jared called me sort of out of the blue, and at what was quite possibly the worst time today, right when I'm trying to help someone through a personal crisis. And then my brother starts messaging me, so that's another damn distraction... Guh. Anyways it seems Bridget is pregnant again. There's a shocker. Nothing like popping out more babies you can barely afford to raise, eh. I suppose I should be happy for them, but come on. I need to message Marc next time I see him on, since I had to cut our chat rather abruptly short without an explanation, which is something I normally would never do. Apparently he talked to Joe on the phone recently, and things are pretty much the same with everybody, though it seems Ramen has been fired from yet another job. I don't know how he managed it this time. It's strange that it keeps happening, when you consider his personality and his rather overbearing parents who are always on his case about being responsible etc. I should get in touch with him soon, see what's up. He's always been a pretty great friend, so I'd hate to lose contact entirely.
My little bro Marc is coming to back to Portland on leave in 3 weeks. I'm excited, especially since in theory I might not see him again until his wedding late next year. I'm really impressed with how responsible he is being about his forthcoming marriage, what with the quick engagement and the overall pace of his relationship with Meg. Lets just say that people were laying odds and noone here would have been very surprised if they'd eloped back before he was deployed. Well, her parents probably would have been surprised, but they'd be the only ones, hahaha...
Anyways it will be cool to hang out again like we used to. I'm really looking forward to it. Shame he'll barely be here for three weeks though, since his actual arrival date is still tenuous at best.
I've been trying to practice some free writing this last week or so, at the recommendation of Sadie. I'm hitting something of a snag, in that I keep sitting down and then getting complete writers block, which is dumb for free writing I know, since I'm just supposed kind of do a flow of ideas, but still... I was thinking that I could make up a list of triggers, or like keywords to give me a topic to start on, and then I can go from there. I sent Sadie the first free write I did on my computer. I didn't read it first so I'm not even certain what I said, but she seemed to like it so I guess I did something right. I'd considered posting them as journal entries, but then I decided against it, as I that would cause me to second guess myself when it comes to writing about certain topics of a highly private nature, and censoring myself during free writing almost completely negates the entire exercise. I am enjoying the writing, anyways.
I have a job interview Monday afternoon. It's kind of funny because I don't even remember sending the people my resume, so I'm not even entirely certain what the position entails. If it's the one I think it is, it's from a pretty old post I responded to like 3 months ago, which is weird to me, but I recall that the pay was pretty damn decent, and there were some kind of benefits involved. It's got a convenient location in relation to the area I want to move to, as well. Which would be a definite plus.
Jared called me sort of out of the blue, and at what was quite possibly the worst time today, right when I'm trying to help someone through a personal crisis. And then my brother starts messaging me, so that's another damn distraction... Guh. Anyways it seems Bridget is pregnant again. There's a shocker. Nothing like popping out more babies you can barely afford to raise, eh. I suppose I should be happy for them, but come on. I need to message Marc next time I see him on, since I had to cut our chat rather abruptly short without an explanation, which is something I normally would never do. Apparently he talked to Joe on the phone recently, and things are pretty much the same with everybody, though it seems Ramen has been fired from yet another job. I don't know how he managed it this time. It's strange that it keeps happening, when you consider his personality and his rather overbearing parents who are always on his case about being responsible etc. I should get in touch with him soon, see what's up. He's always been a pretty great friend, so I'd hate to lose contact entirely.
My little bro Marc is coming to back to Portland on leave in 3 weeks. I'm excited, especially since in theory I might not see him again until his wedding late next year. I'm really impressed with how responsible he is being about his forthcoming marriage, what with the quick engagement and the overall pace of his relationship with Meg. Lets just say that people were laying odds and noone here would have been very surprised if they'd eloped back before he was deployed. Well, her parents probably would have been surprised, but they'd be the only ones, hahaha...
Anyways it will be cool to hang out again like we used to. I'm really looking forward to it. Shame he'll barely be here for three weeks though, since his actual arrival date is still tenuous at best.
I've been trying to practice some free writing this last week or so, at the recommendation of Sadie. I'm hitting something of a snag, in that I keep sitting down and then getting complete writers block, which is dumb for free writing I know, since I'm just supposed kind of do a flow of ideas, but still... I was thinking that I could make up a list of triggers, or like keywords to give me a topic to start on, and then I can go from there. I sent Sadie the first free write I did on my computer. I didn't read it first so I'm not even certain what I said, but she seemed to like it so I guess I did something right. I'd considered posting them as journal entries, but then I decided against it, as I that would cause me to second guess myself when it comes to writing about certain topics of a highly private nature, and censoring myself during free writing almost completely negates the entire exercise. I am enjoying the writing, anyways.
I have a job interview Monday afternoon. It's kind of funny because I don't even remember sending the people my resume, so I'm not even entirely certain what the position entails. If it's the one I think it is, it's from a pretty old post I responded to like 3 months ago, which is weird to me, but I recall that the pay was pretty damn decent, and there were some kind of benefits involved. It's got a convenient location in relation to the area I want to move to, as well. Which would be a definite plus.
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