I've been woefully absent from SG lately. My apologies. My life has hit a sudden upswing and I find myself away from the computer more and more often.
I met someone, and we're dating now. Or seeing each other. Or whatever. We're consciously avoiding labels and categorization in favor of having fun and doing whatever feels right. She's great. She's smart, funny, open, honest, direct, witty, sarcastic, and sexy. She likes me for who I am and I don't feel like I have to hide anything from her. We spend more time talking than we do fucking, even though the sex is amazing. We have just as much chemistry outside of the bedroom as we do in it, and we have a lot of bedroom chemistry. We started seeing each other Valentine's Day weekend (weird, right?) and we've seen each other almost every day since. We make conscious efforts to chill out a little and give ourselves days apart, but more often than not one or both of us buckles and we see each other anyway. We genuinely like each other, and the more we learn about each other the more we like. It's a kind of mutual affection and appreciation that, honestly, I'm not used to.
I got a job recently, and that's going well, too. I worked there about two years ago and expressed interest in coming back at the end of last summer. The company is very small and tight-knit, and it took until a few weeks ago for someone to leave and a spot to open up. I left the company on very good terms; I was a great employee, I was liked by everyone, but I was offered more money elsewhere and I was sad to leave; and so when a spot opened up, they just called me in and had me fill out the paperwork. It's a five minute drive from my house and a ten minute walk from some of my favorite delis, restaurants, and coffee joints in Reno. When I go to get the mail, I walk 15 minutes to the downtown branch of the Post Office, along our very pretty and scenic Truckee river riverwalk. It's quite a nice, leisurely job. I enjoy it and the people I work with.
In a month I'll be in Boston at PAX, which is something I look forward to every month of the year. PAX really is a phenomenon that's hard to explain. Either you get it or you don't. I know plenty of people who don't understand what the big deal is, and trying to explain it to them is like trying to explain a math joke to an English major. It just doesn't work. But for the people who understand, and especially the people who have gone, PAX is an almost transcendental experience. You really are on another planet when you're there. You're completely removed from the world of mundane, day-to-day, routine experiences. Every second of that weekend is fun. You don't really see anyone but other PAXers; 60,000 people descend on a convention center, fill up every hotel within 10 square miles, and pack every restaurant, bar, arcade, theater, and inch of sidewalk to its full capacity. PAX is to the nerd/gamer community what Burning Man is to the... whatever community Burning Man appeals to. I am counting the days until I get to go.
So, yeah. I'm in a very, very good place right now. I'm content with my life in a way that I haven't been in a long time. I'm having money problems right now and I'll probably never graduate college, but I don't care. Things are great.
I met someone, and we're dating now. Or seeing each other. Or whatever. We're consciously avoiding labels and categorization in favor of having fun and doing whatever feels right. She's great. She's smart, funny, open, honest, direct, witty, sarcastic, and sexy. She likes me for who I am and I don't feel like I have to hide anything from her. We spend more time talking than we do fucking, even though the sex is amazing. We have just as much chemistry outside of the bedroom as we do in it, and we have a lot of bedroom chemistry. We started seeing each other Valentine's Day weekend (weird, right?) and we've seen each other almost every day since. We make conscious efforts to chill out a little and give ourselves days apart, but more often than not one or both of us buckles and we see each other anyway. We genuinely like each other, and the more we learn about each other the more we like. It's a kind of mutual affection and appreciation that, honestly, I'm not used to.
I got a job recently, and that's going well, too. I worked there about two years ago and expressed interest in coming back at the end of last summer. The company is very small and tight-knit, and it took until a few weeks ago for someone to leave and a spot to open up. I left the company on very good terms; I was a great employee, I was liked by everyone, but I was offered more money elsewhere and I was sad to leave; and so when a spot opened up, they just called me in and had me fill out the paperwork. It's a five minute drive from my house and a ten minute walk from some of my favorite delis, restaurants, and coffee joints in Reno. When I go to get the mail, I walk 15 minutes to the downtown branch of the Post Office, along our very pretty and scenic Truckee river riverwalk. It's quite a nice, leisurely job. I enjoy it and the people I work with.
In a month I'll be in Boston at PAX, which is something I look forward to every month of the year. PAX really is a phenomenon that's hard to explain. Either you get it or you don't. I know plenty of people who don't understand what the big deal is, and trying to explain it to them is like trying to explain a math joke to an English major. It just doesn't work. But for the people who understand, and especially the people who have gone, PAX is an almost transcendental experience. You really are on another planet when you're there. You're completely removed from the world of mundane, day-to-day, routine experiences. Every second of that weekend is fun. You don't really see anyone but other PAXers; 60,000 people descend on a convention center, fill up every hotel within 10 square miles, and pack every restaurant, bar, arcade, theater, and inch of sidewalk to its full capacity. PAX is to the nerd/gamer community what Burning Man is to the... whatever community Burning Man appeals to. I am counting the days until I get to go.
So, yeah. I'm in a very, very good place right now. I'm content with my life in a way that I haven't been in a long time. I'm having money problems right now and I'll probably never graduate college, but I don't care. Things are great.
VIEW 8 of 8 COMMENTS
jane_m:
Yeah, I'm going to try to get into it a bit more, but I wish I would have done some research before just buying the game with the most epic looking cover.
rexall:
eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww <3