lafayetteproulx

I've been undergoing some serious life changes lately. I uprooted my life in austin (and stosbet's entire life) to move back to Memphis to be closer to friends and family. I'm trying to lose the 50 pounds I've gained in the past few years. I'm trying to take the first steps of shifting my photography from hobby to potential career.

There's one thing I need...
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I get(ish) it. I pumped my swing at six
so hard my sneakers toed the sky.
You know, don't you,
what happened next?
After the swing set's stiff legs rocked thrice -
but before I hit the ground -
I flew.

Beth Ann Fennelly
Say You Waved: A Dream Song Cycle

My debt is going to be the death of me.

Currently I'm sitting on 16,000 dollars worth of debt (that's counting my car, which at 282 dollars a month is a huge hole in my wallet). I have two credit cards that have been maxed out for 3 years now that I'm paying mostly for interest and overdraft fees and virtually nothing on the balance...
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Boudou had noticed this about adults. They want an awful lot, but they don't always want what they have. Something dreadful must happen between eleven and twenty. Like you reach a certain height or something and your body releases the chemical of discontent.

-John Dufresne
Deep in the Shade of Paradise

By time you're reading this it'll be my birthday...so yeah...what's up with that? I was totally not done being 24, now I have to start being 25. Almost 30, halfway to 50!

For my birthday I already have planned....work. Yeah, working on my birthday sucks. Friday Stosbet, me and a bunch of our friends are doing something. It's still in the works. I do...
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So it's been another week and work has been going fine. It's been pretty slow but that's given me time to learn how to do things around the office. Mostly I just drink enough coffee to stay awake and refresh Google Reader until someone calls in or submits an application so I can't really complain about my job at all. The only complaint is that...
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Here's a quickie for you guys:

Started my new job doing recruiting for a trucking company here in Memphis. In short, loving it. I'm finally not working customer service anymore which is a nice change from my past 5 years of customer service work. I went and interviewed for the job and less than 10 minutes after the interview they called me to say I...
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Three more weeks! Three more weeks!

So in three more weeks I'm finally going to quit my job and move back to Memphis. I think turning in my two weeks notice on Tuesday will be the best thing I've ever accomplished at Blizzard. It'll be nice to get back to my friends and family so I can have a good support system around.

Austin has...
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I wish I could quit my job and do something I love.

I survived another week of work and another week of sobriety, go me!

I am having a bit of a mind crisis about my job. I really like working for a video game company, but there's a huge difference between making video games and working in a call center. I work in a call center, for call center wages, with all of the problems that...
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It's been a rather interesting week, I can say that much.

Thursday morning I had a meeting with a psychiatrist after Lexapro didn't work out for me. Turns out I'm bipolar type II which my primary doctor was leaning toward, he just wanted the confirmation. Now I get to go back next Thursday and get put on some anti-psychotic (That's a horrible name for that...
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