Rant: skeeved out by the old bearded white dude who stopped me to ask me random things in the street while I was walking my dog and drove away in his truck as soon as I broke away. He took a left at the stop sign and I took a right, and maybe I am over reacting, but I saw a truck very very similar to his later in the walk pass me by so I turned around and went home. The things he asked me weren't quite right (asking me about my other dog? I'm walking one dog....?) and I dunno. You ever get a feeling when you talk to someone that something isn't quite right?
Rant: A few days ago, I was legitimately excited about a farmer's market. Today, I emailed asking for more work to do. Who am I. What is this. Rave: Basketball's going ok. Playing in four leagues is pretty tough, and my free throw shooting has been shockingly bad, but overall I'm pretty happy with my output. Rant: Still not sure how I'm going to improve enough to play in top-tier leagues. My ball-handling and passing are getting better, but I'm still pretty much faking it as a guard. I'm not big enough to bang down low against huge/strong people, and I'm not one of those guys who just knock down every open shot. Developing an off-ball offensive game and getting better defensively are tricky things to practice in-game, especially when you have winning to also think about. Rave: Taking a ton of layups, threes and free throws. Who says you can't use SABER stuff in your everyday life?
RANT? RAVE? My aunt cursed out an entire McDonald's for not serving her breakfast at 1 PM. It was fucking hilarious and embarrassing all at the same time. She was still muttering and cursing as I wheeled her out the door.
Rave: I might try to find a tDCS device for some n=1 science Rave: Spent an hour yesterday with the girlfriend showing her how to do some basic tumbling in the park. She's an ''artist'' and she never thought she could be remotely close to be able to do a forward roll (took her 5 minutes), I love helping her discover that part of herself and I had a great time. Rant: Can't find a play partner. The girlfriend wants hardcore lesbian sex, and the last girl we found wasn't nearly as bisexual as she thought. Craigslist sucks around here, since French Canadians don't use it. No wonder single girls willing to play with couples are called unicorns. Any motivated Tibettes near Montreal? Rave: Going climbing tomorrow, for the first time in a while.
Rave: On a gorgeous remote beach in Ecuador after an awesome week in Quito. Rant: Despite LAN's best efforts to fuck us up. Also, it's kinda hard to find dinner around here. Even in backwoods areas of the US, I can find a Walmart. So I'm eating ramen and drinking mojitos for dinner. Classy all the way. Rave: I'll be walking out the front door onto the sunny, high 70s beach in the morning and twenty feet into our own little cabana, and then hitting up a SuperMaxxi for groceries when it rains in the afternoon.
Rave: Damn proud of my fellow Okies! Rant: Why do they keep rebuilding Moore? Mother Nature has made her feelings about this city quite plain. Rave: New car! 2012 Chevy Malibu with less than 20,000 miles. Infact 20,000 miles is when my first oil change is due.
Rave: With the minor exception of printing and copying finals, I'm done with prep for the school year. Also, with the minor exception of finals and my 1 non-senior class, I am done with grading for the year. Should be an easy sail to the end of the semester, I hope. Rave: Two job prospects became three today when I went into my old video store and the manager emphatically asked me come back as the assistant. Pros: I'd get benefits. Cons: not teaching. The hardest job for me to get, an actual teaching position, would be ideal, but if I can't get it, I've got some decision making to do. Video store is full time and pays benefits, but I'm taking myself out of teaching, probably for good. Math remediation work is part time, no benefits (though all told pay will be about equal to that of the video store, just sans insurance), but keeps me in the door and at the front of the line for potential teaching jobs. Rave: My daughter took her first steps today. It was pretty damn adorable.
Rave: Had a really awesome night going out after work at one of our usual spots. Met a couple of really awesome dudes and one of them happened to live a few blocks away from me, so I went back to his place to hang out with all of them and it was pretty sweet. Rave: It is now 7;30am,and I'm really impressed with myself for remembering to stop somewhere and get breakfast along the way home. I'm going to be so happy to wake up to this bagel however many hours from now. I have a lovely day off planned, so hopefully I don't wake up at dinner time. Rant: Of course the guys happen to have the most generic names ever so my attempts at finding them on Facebook have been futile. More cool people lost to the wind, I guess.
Rant If your coffee includes whipped cream, chocolate, sprinkles and a cherry, it isn't coffee. It's a milkshake. Just like cooking cocaine in a spoon doesn't mean you're a freebaser. You're a crackhead. Stop hiding the identity of things to give it a cooler image.
Ravish: Went for a six hour bike ride on accident. We took the wrong trail and ended up VERY far away from home. It was fun the first four hours, trails were flooded and a blast to plow through two feet of water. Homeless people were cheering us on, which validated my existence. I can hardly walk today though. Fuck.
Rant: I'm innocently taking a shower this morning when I turn around and there's a spider. In the shower. With me. I freak out and spend the next several minutes throwing water at it trying to wash it down the drain. I'm finally successful but then I'm afraid to close my eyes because I've convinced myself it snagged on something and will crawl out of the drain and attack me. Spiders. I hate them.
Rave: Just choked up like a motherfucker. Read a story about a police officer attending a DUI on the 19th of this month, who was struck and killed by another vehicle. It was his 5 year old girls graduation from kindergarten the other day. Some of the officers in her dads precinct had planned to attend to let her know that even though he wasn't around anymore, they were still there for her. Word got around, and over 300 officers turned up. Awesome.
MEGA FUCKING RANT: Friend of mine is getting bombarded with death threats by MRAs and neo-Nazis due to no fault of her own. Thanks, internet.
Mega Rave: Finally got a job in the field of what I've wanted to do since Freshman year of college. I've been doing Search Engine Marketing, which is an off-shoot of advertising. It's all Microsoft Excel, humping numbers, finance and accounting. Now I'll actually be doing real advertising: branding, digital advertising, social media advertising/messaging, and also some website design. Plus it'll be a slightly smaller place where I'll be able to make a lot of decisions and affect what is really going on. Minor basically nit-picking rant: New location is just super inconvenient to get to. My commute went from 15-20 minutes on a perfect day, to 35-45 minutes on a perfect. In Chicago, there are rarely perfect days, so it'll be a huge pain.
RAVE: Homemade beer! I found a Mr. Beer kit several weeks ago on clearance for 10.00 at K-mark and just tried it out tonight with dinner. Patriot Ale is quite tasty. And it was fun to make. RAVE: I can grow weed and brew beer! Mr. Beer kit picture spoilered because I like spoilers
Mega Rave: New job is going well, hoping to pull a promotion in record time. We'll see. Rant: If you're going to act embarrassed about sleeping with me then stop texting me at 2 am about your penis. Oh you've been drinking, classy. Heres my final answer " Go fuck yourself, because thats what I had to do after you left."
Rave: My aunt got her Shirley Temple doll today and her face lit up like the White House Christmas Tree. She clapped, cooed and spent the next half hour stroking the doll's hair and fixing her little dress so everything was just right. It was a wonderful peaceful moment, kind of like the eye of a hurricane. Rant: An hour later I was a "Dumb ass" and "Full of shit" because she was babbling something incoherent and I made the mistake of asking her "What?" Fuck Alzheimer's. Fuck getting 2-3 hours of sleep every night. Fuck changing adult diapers. Fuck changing and washing bedsheets 3 times a day. I've been around Alzheimer's patients before and I've never seen it progress so quickly. Every day the confusion, paranoia, and anger goes to a whole new level. She's not going to be among the vertical much longer, I'm guessing maybe a month and then she'll get to see grandma, her siblings, and not be prisoner to a body and brain that have so quickly betrayed her. When that day comes, I'm going to hop in my truck and head up into the mountains for a month or so and let the whole world go fuck itself.
RAVE People have recently been taking the time to complain about how stressful and difficult their lives are going for them lately. Regularly. "So much uni work is due" "I have no money" "work sucks" etc. This is particularly the case with one of my closest friends, and its been going on non stop for quite a while now. On one hand, its understandable, because she's had a lot going on and there's been some drastic changes in her life, but now I've reached my limit, and I've had enough. Things will work out, you've just happened to have 4-5 major things hit you at once. It will get better. It's killing my buzz, which has no reason to exist because I honestly don't have much to be buzzing about, but silver lining and all that. This is a rave purely so I don't look like a hypocrite.