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Thankful Thursday
There’s this person who writes a blog that does the thankful Thursday thing. I don’t think it’s a bad idea, I just tend to not be able to come up w/ things I’m thankful for that don’t sound obvious or cheesy, in which case I dun wanna blog about them. I try to at least think of things I’m thankful for, even on days not Thursday. So, I dunno if this’ll be a regular blog segment, but anything is possible.
This Thursday was the start of my internship, which I am thankful for. I mean, economy is kinda sucky right now, so I’m pretty lucky. I can’t really judge a job after 1 day but I think it’ll be pretty sweet, possibly really sweet. (here’s hoping)
Regardless, atm I’m thankful for the opportunity the internship represents. I feel kinda special.
I’m thankful for many other things [Lauren] but I’m not going to put them in here right now, in case I need material for later.
And remember everyone, thankfulness is a positive and healthy emotion and it should be nurtured.
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NEWS! From the world of ME!
I went to Cheney, again, if you didn’t know. After waiting so long for PNNL to call and tell me when I should start interning I gave them a call. That’s what all the people said I had to do. I was like, “Whatever,” but they were all like, “wooo hoowoi,” so I was all like, “Fine.”
Anyway, PNNL said they were waiting for Central to send them confirmation that I had graduated. I called Central, and they said they were waiting until after July 2nd to send the confirmation because that’s when degrees get processed. Armed with this knowledge I knew I would be safe coming to Cheney to hang out with Pat another week, and to facilitate quickly getting to Sidney’s for the 4th of July party.
So… Monday, in Cheney, I got a call from PNNL. That call when they tell me when to come in. The one I had been waiting for but had recently determined couldn’t possibly happen until July 6th. Yeah. Luckily they didn’t want me to start until July 9th, so the fact that I’m in Cheney was not a problem. However, this does underscore the problem with calling people to get information. The information makes you think you know things, but you can never known anything when dealing with bureaucracy. One should always act like an animal, on instinct. The illusion of knowledge will just get one into trouble.
Yeah, so that’s all settled. I have to show up at 7:45 in the morning for orientation. I love morning!
Pat bought a new mountain bike. Like, it’s his and not his mommy’s. We went riding on a gravel trail thing for like 12 miles. I got a flat that pretty quickly drained my tire… so the last mile was a bit rough. Pat’s bike is fast. He let me ride it for a bit, and life is easy with a bike like his. Fancy.
Today I went to a bike shop to get my tire fixed. It took me like 30 minutes to walk to the place cause I am a meander-er, and I kinda went past it a couple blocks. Then he said it would take him about an hour to get to it, but he didn’t know, maybe more. I decided to just hang out in “downtown” Cheney since I’d have to turn around right away if I went back to the APT. I went to this thrift store that had amazing quantities of junk. It had a book called “False Myths of Same Sex Love” or something like that. I thought about buying it for Aaron, but then I didn’t. I didn’t want the owner to think I was gay.
I wandered back to the bike shop just when he was about to call me, so I have good timing, I guess. He said he found a tiny thorn in it, which is lame. I mean, who puts thorns out in the middle of bike trails? Intelligent design. Phooey!
We’ve yet to try Pat’s bike on a real mountain biking trail… with rocks and tiny paths and sharp turns and stuff. I’m pretty sure Pat has plans to try it out soon, though. So that will likely be an adventure.
Oh, and I watched the entire first season of 30 Rock. Yeah. It’s a funny show. Very funny. Like, way more funny than modern stuff is, normally. It’s odd.
Pat and I did that crazy ab workout thing that Dan taught me. I still lose at the face up part. I don’t think it’s fair, cause my tail bone is jamming into the floor and it’s very uncomfortable. I think I’d do better with one of those gym mats or something. I have a bony butt.
Thursday is when LAUREN! and Yusuke come to get me on the way to Sidney’s. Pat has Friday off, so he’ll just drive up after work, I guess. I tried to make it so we all went in one car to save gas, but apparently that’s super confusing and impossible. Should be a pretty awesome weekend. I’m very much looking forward to seeing Lauren… I mean everyone.
You know what’s cool about Sidney’s house? You can eat dinner, and then, when you’re done, you’re full until dinner the next day. Efficient.
For those of you not following my twitter I made a Sims house with 8 of the B-Podders, Dan, Hiro, Sidney, Naoya, Lauren, Me, Yusuke, and Elisabeth. They don’t let you do more than 8, or I probably woulda killed myself making everyone. Anyway, much of my time these days is spent with at least part of my attention focused on this silly game. If you would like to know details I suggest you ask, as I intend to try and not bore everyone with the details, although I might fail.
IRL I called PNNL and asked them what was up. They told me they were waiting on Central. So I called Central and asked them what was up and they told me that degrees aren’t processed until July 2nd, so they can’t tell PNNL I graduated until after that. So my vacation gets another extension. I will likely go to Cheney with Pat again this week, since I now know I can, as it will be more convenient for attending Sindey’s 4th of July celebrations. Plus I can hang out with Pat more before we are both relegated to work drone-itude.
Lastly, in the course of addressing my computer woes I have found in convenient to use mother’s computer from time to time. As such I have also used IE, a thing I’ve not done often in years. Using IE has exposed me to adds like the one below. Now, I dunno what this is an ad for, although I’m sure it’ s utter crap, but apparently one need follow only “these one simple rule”. /rolls eyes I tend to scorn sheeple, but people are such gibbering morons that if they didn’t have that instinctual herd mentality we never would have made it this far.
Pat’s leaving today (or has left already with my shoes) back to Cheney for another week of working. So that’s somewhat lame. Lauren’s coming to visit for a few days tomorrow, though, so that’s ridiculously awesome. Don’t feel as though the differences in levels of emotion about the two happenings reflect directly an evaluation of worth of the two parties, however. Largely the difference is due to my natural positive bent, and the unexpectedness of Lauren being able to visit as juxtaposed against the well known fact that Pat would be leaving.
So, not much has been happening around here. Mom’s gone, so dad and I just lay around in our respective rooms listening to our respective audio programming. For dad this Father’s Day I got him the gift of not wasting his money, time, or space on things he doesn’t want or need, which I think is what he really was hoping for.
My computer is still blowed up from the malware I got on it. I’m currently moving towards the plan of wiping it clean. I’m more in favor of this plan than previously because I realized that I could put the Windows 7 RC on it and play around with it. So the infection gives way to an opportunity, kinda, I guess. I still have to have the computer working long enough to pull the data I want to save onto an external hard drive, and burn the Windows install disk and stuff like that, which is not working out so well currently. QQ
And now for something completely different.
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Since I’m leaving Cheney in a few hours I figured I’d do an update post explaining a bit of what I did during my week here.
On Monday, Pat’s first day of work, Pat and I did a easy little bike ride, on roads and paths. We went 18 miles out to the lake. It was a good date path. Girlfriends would definitely like it. So, now Pat knows. We saw a couple turtles on the trip. It was cool. Along a long stretch of the path is a little stream on both sides, and they were coming out of there to sun themselves or something. One was covered in green slime stuff. So… that was kinda the highlight of that day. We also fried chicken, and did it successfully, eventually.
Tuesday Pat didn’t have to go into work until 8. Yeah, I know. Awesome, huh. One of these days we watched Crank 2. And we played a bunch of Resistance over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday. We also watched quite a few Project Lore episodes. We went to Subway on Tuesday cause we were missing cooking supplies and we felt lazy.
Wednesday, after Pat got back, we went shopping for a pot big enough to cook our corn, and got some grocery things we were missing. First we ate a Tony’s pizza, though, to tide us over. After successful shopping, except the pot being kinda broken, we successfully made corn. The rest of the day was all Resistance. While the corn cooked Pat and I did this ab work out competition thing I learned from Dan. It was round two. Round 1 on Monday was a sweep for Pat, but I one the face down half of the competition this day. Uh… whoo?!?
Thursday I Skyped w/ Yusuke and Lauren a bit. They were together since Yusuke was going up to Vancouver and stopped for lunch w/ Lauren. Sidney came and got me afterwards and took me to Newport and her house. We hung out with Emily Anne Geddes and their friend Shelby( or Shelly or something), and Pat came up after work. He made it without directions or anything. Instinct. We trampolined, and Guitar Heroed mostly, but most importantly we ate tons of their food. So that was good.
Today is the last day of work for Pat… … … this week. I guess the plan is to jet out of here as soon as he gets home and go back to the Tri-Cities. I bet he hopes to get home in time for dinner.
All the time when I’ve been alone has been spent watching podcasts and playing the Sims and chatting with people… mostly Lauren.
We go now.
Lauren has been asked by her parents to read, Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. I was understandably curious so I’ve read the first 5 chapters, but I’ve stopped. I do not wish to go into detail as to my objections with the book, feeling that it is better to allow Lauren to read the book unhindered by the opinion of her new boyfriend, as her parents intend, than to potentially muddle the fairness of the debate going on currently in the Carr home.
Still, I will say that I have good news for you Lauren. It is possible you do not need to read very much. Mr. Lewis quickly lays out his argument for the existence of any sort of high controller being, so if you cannot make this argument make sense, there is no need to go on to hear his explanations of why that being must be the Christian God, born in Christ of the holy virgin Mary and murdered for our sins and resurrected after 3 days then lifted to heaven to sit at his fathers/his own side for all eternity in the Kingdom of Heaven.
I guess I’m warning you to pay attention to the beginning arguments and consider them, before reading on, as one is liable to forget the foundation’s flaws if one moves past them too quickly, hoping to finish the book.
This old post of mine is pretty funny. I don’t even remember writing it.
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Here I sit
So, I’m in Cheney. Pat’s sleeping, hopefully. He has to get up for work in like 4.5 hours. We’re at Holly’s place. She went home soon after we arrived. Her roommate, roommate’s bf, and some unknown other male just arrived and are talking over there to the left in their own section of the apartment. I didn’t know they were gonna be around. /shrug I hope they dun wake Pat.
My computer has contracted a rather nasty virus or malware or something, so I’m typing this on Pat’s laptop. I’m working on fixing it, but I haven’t made much progress. It’s very annoying. I might end up just wiping the drive. I was stupid to contract the thing. I never learn. Well, that’s not true. I learned, and knew there was a great likelihood I was gonna contract something, I just figured it would be easier to fix than this.
I wonder if the roommate is being raped… kinda sounds like it. Maybe not. Probably not.
Sidney is apparently jobless now, which is bad cause she needs money, but good in that I am more likely to get to see her while I hang out over here this week. Yeah? Maybe? Please? I’m fun, kinda… sometimes.
I just pondered the nature of reality. I note that my reality is dependant on what I know, and people control what I know to a large degree. What I mean is those around me can influence my reality by omitting data, or telling fabrications. I don’t particularly enjoy that others have such control over me. However, it cannot be helped. Also, I’m aware of this control, so my reality does take it into account as best possible with uncertainties, but it is unpleasant nonetheless.
Hmm… I’m not making very good sense. I guess I’ll try to sleep.
Update: I didn’t go to sleep and my computer, at least so far, seems to be fixed.
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Back home
Lauren and Yusuke brought me back to Kennewick yesterday. They went home today. Goodbye new girlfriend. *tear* I will miss you. Oh, and seeya later Yusuke.
Kim and Pat hung out with me most of today. We chatted (I was interrogated) and had free food and then we had this brilliant idea to buy an ice cream cake to celebrate Kim’s 1 year of working at Value Village, as no one had yet celebrated it. This is the cake. We are quite pleased with ourselves. I feel it is a great thing. Perhaps you do not understand the subtle humor of the situation, but perhaps you do, so there it is.
There was video game playing later. Coop FPS in the form of Resistance, which was fun. I don’t FPS much but I did enjoy several moments and I don’t seem to suck too terribly.
Tomorrow (actually today) is the day all the Central people leave, except Yusuke. So I hope you guys have good goodbyes, and, ya know, imagine I was there, too. I hope you got the random facts, Sidney. Also, I’m putting in a recommendation for Pat becoming random dude that comes to your house and eats food and stuff.
Hiro, have fun in Alaska. Dan, have fun in on with Sidney. I’ll see ya both on the interwebs. Yusuke, try to be nice for a little bit. It’s not the time for humor, the girls aren’t going to be in the mood. And Lauren, good luck with your family. Sorry for the hassle that I am. Please let me help them understand how we need to visit each other all the time if I can.
Tomorrow (really tomorrow) is the day Pat leaves for Spokane for his new job, so to him I say, take me with you!
Yeah, I think that’s all the goodbyes for now. Kinda abnormal for me to do direct messages in my blog like that, but variety is the spice of life, they say. Seems like they should change up that cliche a bit. The real important thing is, Happy 1 year at Value Villiage Kim.