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Busy day

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I managed to get everything I wanted to get done today done, somehow. I got all the pictures from all the apartments I looked at uploaded and showed them to Sara. Oh yeah, I don’t know why those snapfish links are working in that post below…they were working when I put them up there. Dumb snapfish.

Anyway, I went to Kohls and bought two pairs of kahkis and a work shirt. They had one of those weekends where you could get 15% off if you had a charge card.
Suggested retail price: $99.99
How much I paid at Kohls: $47.57
Savings of: $52.42.
How can you not love Kohls?

I was in and out of Kohls so fast that I decided to stop at Target and get some cat food and litter. Then I came home and started my MASSIVE amount of laundry. At least I don’t have to wear a towel to work tomorrow.

While that was going I worked on my take home final for my class. I just finished that and since class is canceled next week, I’m done with class for the summer! Rock on.

Too bad tomorrow is Monday already. I’ve got to call all of those apartment places…we need to move in in 6 weeks! I need to sign a lease soon. Right now the frontrunner is this little place in Wayne, PA. It’s in a small building with 3 other apartments. It’s kind of small but it’s super super cheap (like $875 a month!!). The only weird thing about it is that there are washer dryer hookups for each apartment in the basement. So there is like a laundry room…except everyone owns their own. If we lived there we’d have to buy a washer dryer, but considering it’s about $225 per month less than most of the places I’ve been looking at, it’s well worth it.

Oh in other news, Sara found a listing for a job in Camden, NJ. It’s a long shot so I’m trying desparately not to get my hopes up. It would be a lot closer than anything else she’s seen so far, but KOP and Camden are on exact opposite corners of the city so there’s no good place where we could live that wasn’t inside city borders. Unfortunately, it looks like the people are looking for someone with experience, so Sara wouldn’t exactly fit the bill.

Well, time to get to bed.

Yay!

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Sara weekend is almost here! I’m only working until 11 tomorrow and then leaving right from there. I’m not sure an 8 hour drive is more exciting than 8 hours of work, but somehow, no matter how boring whatever you are doing is, it’s so much better than being at work. Anyway, 8 hours is nothing to get to spend all weekend with Sara! 😀

She got the tickets to Jesus Christ Superstar!! Most people that don’t know me well don’t know of my deep seated love of showtunes…it’s not exactly one of those things you want to admit. 🙂 JCS is my favorite of all time and I know it forwards and backwards, in 3 languages. Okay maybe not, but needless to say I’m excited to see it. As much as I love it, I’ve never actually seen it on stage, just the movie. Hardest part will be refraining from singing outloud!

My favorite JCS memory…, and I were driving back from visiting Kev in NC and me and Stacy were forcing Stevie to listen to it. Now, keep in mind Stevie has no religious backround whatsoever (which will be obvious in a moment). So it was pretty quiet in the car, but I didn’t think anybody was listening all that intently to the music. All of a sudden, Stevie goes, “Is this Judas guy going to betray Jesus??” The combination of the fact that he didn’t even know who Judas was or the basic storyline and the fact that he was listening to the words so intently was just really funny at the time. Okay well I know it doesn’t sound all that funny, but me and Stacy had a good laugh over it at the time! 😛

I pansied out and didn’t make a decision about the job today. I won’t have a choice tomorrow though. I think I’m going with the job downstairs. Life changing decisions are scary! ::Yipe!::

The final went pretty good tonight. The real final was a lot easier than the practice final. Like, when does that happen??

I should go to bed, if I could just stop staring at this…

Insomnia

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So I’ve been having mild insomnia lately. I walk around all day so exhausted that I can hardly stand up and then when it comes time to go to bed, I just can’t. So I end up staying up until 2 and then getting up at 7 again the next morning and starting it all over again. This might not seem that bad, but seriously nothing like that has ever happened to me before!! I mean this is the guy who had to get tested in a hospital for narcolepsy and sleep apnea in high school on account of all the sleeping, including a little problem I have of falling asleep while I’m driving. The sleep study found that my average time to fall asleep is under a minute. No matter how much stuff has ever been going on in my life, its lights out as soon as I hit the pillow.

Okay, had to take a timeout because my cat that was sitting in my lap apparently got fed up with my typing and just sank her teeth in my arm and held on! What the fuck? She got a nice bath with the spray bottle. I’m changing my mood icon.

So anyway…I don’t know if it’s because of the wedding, all the school stuff, the stuff going on at work, or because I’ve been thinking about Stacy so much lately. Maybe I’ve screwed my body up good with the weightless thing. (Side note, lost 7 lbs. this week for a total of 21 in 4 weeks!) Maybe the work with the night school is just getting to me…maybe I just need some time to relax.

Speaking of class, I think did well with the presentation tonight. One more class, then a week off!

I still don’t know what to do about the work situation. I had meetings with both sides today but neither helped make up my decision. Both sides paint the other position as being really unstable. I know it’s just political crap. I hate it. Right now I’m leaning towards going downstairs though, because they stuff they are working on is really cool and they have tons more development coming up than we do upstairs.

I felt lonely tonight, but only for a little bit because I didn’t really have time to be lonely. I’m really glad I’m going to get to see Sara already this weekend. I can’t imagine how great it’s going to be when she actually lives here. Oh wait, yes I can, when we were in college I saw her everyday all the time. 😛

Oh yeah, I just remembered! I think we’re going to be able to go see Jesus Christ Superstar this weekend! TOO EXCITED!

I’ve had some lame mardi gras, but this might take the cake. 🙂 I should think of something to give up for lent. Before tomorrow.

Again, it’s time to go to bed and I’m getting more awake by the second. I guess I have no choice but to go lie in bed and stare at the ceiling.

Boo.

What to do, what to do

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Life decision making time! There’s a lot of back-story on this, and I don’t know how much I want to get into, but basically I had agreed to take this position working with my old Tech Lead and my old cube mate working on new PC GUI development. Those two people are probably my two best friends that I have out here, so as far as who I’d be working with it would be great. Also, the work they are doing is perfect for me. So I had agreed to take this job and then all of these shady shenanigans went down and I ended up not being able to get the job. It was basically a power struggle between my boss and the boss downstairs, with me caught in the middle. So I didn’t get the job. At that point I was just glad to be done with it, because it was getting quite ridiculous. Since that time every person higher than me in management stops by my desk like once a day each to tell me I should stay where I am. My manager has even told me that if I stayed around I could be “a big guy” on an upcoming project. Of course there’s no talk of giving me any more money, even when they were trying to keep me from leaving. Also, whenever I talk to any of the tons of people that I know that work down there, they always tell me disturbing news about budgets running out, lack of direction, etc. The program that I’m on is much more stable. Oh, and just to add one more wrinkle to the whole deal, my manager is leaving to take another position and my other best friend out here has an inside shot at the manager position. Anyway, I was glad that the decision was taken out of my hands and I didn’t have to worry about it anymore…oh wait. 😛 Now they say they have an additional head of funding and they can take me for the job after all. Sooooo…now I’m screwed. On one hand I feel like I had already decided that’s what I wanted to do and it’s the same job with the same people, so I should go do it, right? On the other hand, now that I’ve had a much closer view on the inner workings of things downstairs it seems like maybe I don’t want to go down there after all. They’re so disorganized and unstable…I’d hate to go down there and then have the funding be taken away for the project or something, and then I’m sunk. Also, the manager downstairs has apparently been fighting to get funding for me for months, so I’d kind of feel bad if I was just like, “Nevermind!” I know that shouldn’t matter in my decision, but still. For the record, I love the job I have now and the people I work with, but I just don’t know how much upcoming work there is going to be.

So anyway…I’ve got to come up with an answer by Thursday. I know both jobs would be a good fit for me and I know they both are tugging hardcore on me to go to their respective positions. ::sigh:: I just wish I didn’t have to make a decision this week, with my big presentation for class tomorrow and my final on Thursday and then driving to NC on Friday!

I’ll keep you posted. (Get it? POSTED! 😛 )