Home At Last
Mar. 9th, 2005 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackofallgeeksUgh, so tired. And so busy. Work tomorrow, then home to switch cars and get mail, then Cryptography (which could be a mess). Down to Virginia Beach for Time with Leslie on Friday, hopefully including Sushi dinner (which would be doubly-nice as I am trying to abstain on Fridays for Lent, and be that good little Catholic boy I always pretend I am), and hopefully a full day of Leslie (perhapse with a sprinkling of Carrie-Anne?) on Saturday, though my sister (and other relatives) wants me to help out with her move that Saturday and Sunday, and I need to get up to Contra on Sunday... And Traffic Court next Tuesday... and glorious, glorious Ohio the weekend after next...
The Move thing is a bit of a dilemma. Because, yeah, Jenny needs to move, and it'd be great if I can help her, and I really want to, and I plan to really try, but... They may claim I can see Leslie "any time I want", but the fact is I can't. If it were that simple, we'd have seen each other more often. But we both have busy schedules, and as much as I may pretend, a 4-hour drive is nothing to sneeze at. And I really have to get to Contra, for me. Not just because I like to dance, and it'll sour my whole week if I miss it. But I really need to get things sorted out over there. Meghan and I need to discuss what our relationship is and where it may or may not lead. And so do Suzannah and I, though that may be a more difficult subject to open, and a more painful one to endure... And I do appreciate the comments from Jenny and Christina on my last post, my passive-aggressive snip was in reference to how no one ever says anything about Girls, even though it's obviously a big deal in my life. Sometimes I think I can anticipate everything everyone would say, but even at that... -shrugs-
Monday night was my last night at Monterey, and I got an interesting chat in with Dan, my second host and the one I got to chat the least with over the weekend. And it's funny, too -- we got to talking about how he got into computers in the first place, and all of that, and we actually have very similar histories. In fact, if anything, I may have a foot up just from having worked at SPAWAR and NRL. I mentioned how I'm doing well here -- and that I may be one of the best students in my class -- but that I'm afraid it may be a "big fish in a small pond" thing. He said he felt the same way when he applied, but that he wasn't as overwhelmed as he feared he might be. So, that makes me feel a little bit better.
I also finished "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" yesterday on the plane, and I really liked it. In fact, it's the first book ever that I've wanted to sit and highlight lines, because it just had a bunch of really meaningful quotes, almost right from the first page to the last. But it wasn't my book, so... When I told Anastasiya this, though, she said I could keep it! So now I need to read through it and highlight it all. Though, I think I may want to have one of my other friends read through it first, just because I think it has a lot of good material in there, and i'm afraid the impact is lessened if things are pointed out rather than simply discovered... So we'll see...
Now I need a new bok to read... maybe one of those hardbound classics I got. Or Good Omens, since Chris wanted me to read it and Nifer thinks I might like it...
The Move thing is a bit of a dilemma. Because, yeah, Jenny needs to move, and it'd be great if I can help her, and I really want to, and I plan to really try, but... They may claim I can see Leslie "any time I want", but the fact is I can't. If it were that simple, we'd have seen each other more often. But we both have busy schedules, and as much as I may pretend, a 4-hour drive is nothing to sneeze at. And I really have to get to Contra, for me. Not just because I like to dance, and it'll sour my whole week if I miss it. But I really need to get things sorted out over there. Meghan and I need to discuss what our relationship is and where it may or may not lead. And so do Suzannah and I, though that may be a more difficult subject to open, and a more painful one to endure... And I do appreciate the comments from Jenny and Christina on my last post, my passive-aggressive snip was in reference to how no one ever says anything about Girls, even though it's obviously a big deal in my life. Sometimes I think I can anticipate everything everyone would say, but even at that... -shrugs-
Monday night was my last night at Monterey, and I got an interesting chat in with Dan, my second host and the one I got to chat the least with over the weekend. And it's funny, too -- we got to talking about how he got into computers in the first place, and all of that, and we actually have very similar histories. In fact, if anything, I may have a foot up just from having worked at SPAWAR and NRL. I mentioned how I'm doing well here -- and that I may be one of the best students in my class -- but that I'm afraid it may be a "big fish in a small pond" thing. He said he felt the same way when he applied, but that he wasn't as overwhelmed as he feared he might be. So, that makes me feel a little bit better.
I also finished "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" yesterday on the plane, and I really liked it. In fact, it's the first book ever that I've wanted to sit and highlight lines, because it just had a bunch of really meaningful quotes, almost right from the first page to the last. But it wasn't my book, so... When I told Anastasiya this, though, she said I could keep it! So now I need to read through it and highlight it all. Though, I think I may want to have one of my other friends read through it first, just because I think it has a lot of good material in there, and i'm afraid the impact is lessened if things are pointed out rather than simply discovered... So we'll see...
Now I need a new bok to read... maybe one of those hardbound classics I got. Or Good Omens, since Chris wanted me to read it and Nifer thinks I might like it...
