sugardeath

Looking for Love on the El

(To self: You're doing it wrong)

I started work last Thursday and have just been kinda sitting and watching one of two of my three coworkers that knows what their doing (the third started a week before I did).  It's really boring, but got slightly better today when I was given some work to do.  It's nice to be able to do things.  I need to bring a bigger lunch and caffeine.  I honestly think that, save for parking, driving to form work would be cheaper than taking the El.  It's $2 there, $2 back.  That's $12 a week.  I could partially fill my tank up for $20 and it would last me more than a month.  The place is only about ten to fifteen minutes driving from campus.  It's straight up State Street.  Fifteen minutes driving is.. what, two miles at most?  This is a wild guess here, but I'd put my mileage at about 20 to 25 miles per gallon.  Sure the lights along he way will hurt that, but still.  Twenty bucks would be almost five gallons, more or less (heavy on the less).  That could definitely last me a month or more of just straight driving to/from work.  Definitely cheaper than public transportation (unless my tired brain is doing something wrong here).

The commercials for the new Dragonball Z game that involve a bunch of random, ordinary people yelling "KAMEHAMEHA" while doing whatever they do amuses me greatly. 

Yeah, I definitely think I might be coming down with the oral death again.  Kind of makes sense, though.  New environment at work.  Keyboard and mouse (especially the keyboard) are dirty and probably germy as fuck.  Last time it was.. two weeks? after Nicole and I started going out.  Introduction of someone else's germy germs into my system would be a good reason for these assholes in my throat to try to kill me.  (I believe the tonsils are related to the immune system in some way) The first time I got tonsilitis?  I don't recall anything that could have introduced foreign contagions into my body at the time.  If this goes real, becomes legit (damn you Joy!), that'll be three bouts of tonsillitis within six months.  That's pretty terrible.  Fuck you tonsils.

Ugh...  I don't really feel like writing up a ton of stuff about the past two and a half weeks of class.  Basically: Prof K. is as terrible as ever.  Can hardly follow his own code.  Reads directly from the API without expanding upon it.  The Prof for Science and Belief is pretty damn awesome.  She is in about her sixties, I'd say, has some sort of European accent (maybe?), and can be pretty damn funny.  I think most of her funny is unintentional, but that only makes it better.  She let one of the girls in class bring in an episode of South Park (that related really well to the material we were talking about, actually) without prescreening it.  Today we're watching Contact.  It's a really nice class, I enjoy it.

You can find some really pretty girls on the El platforms/trains (I don't usually look around while walking, but sitting on/waiting for the train is boring so I like to take in my surroundings; it's also fun to look in windows as the train whooshes past apartment buildings).  It's a shame that American society is so closed that just trying to strike up a harmless conversation would be seen as weird and creepy.  How did people meet each other in the past?

Swallowing is... fun...  :neutral:

KAMEHAMEHA-cough cough cough cough cough cough :sad:

Despite my previous post lamenting my lack of social interaction with former work buddies, I do enjoy it in the city.  I love riding the train between the tall buildings.  I love walking through the crowds, becoming just another face in the crowd.  It's very awesome.  I don't see how people wouldn't want to live here.  There's... so much to do, so much going on.  It's awesome.