A skunk has moved underneath the front porch. I have known this for the past few weeks, but it becomes increasingly more prominent every night I go out walking. Several times now I have had to come in the side door to the house because a cat-sized creature has been hiding in the bushes near the front door. To reek of skunk is not a present desire of mine, so let this be a lesson to you kids, sometimes in life avoiding a problem is the best solution... a vary rare sometimes, but it happens.
My basic comfort level has changed significantly recently, which may have contributed to my not being on line or writing as much lately. My desk chair broke and now I've got a hard wooden one to sit on. It's height is all wrong, and it's stubborn, but its better than sitting on the old one. Somehow I managed to snap the main steel support arm that connects the entire thing together. The chair was designed with a central junction point which connects the arms, the back, the base and the seat... well, that's what I broke. Now sitting in it is like taking my life into my hands as all of those pieces move independently and without support. My biggest fear is leaning back to find no back rest and landing my head on my nice hard oak floor... well I'll keep my fingers crossed.
For those Star Trek fans out there, you're gonna want to check this out.
As you know dear readers, between the last post and this one Valentine's day has passed. Some also know this day as "singles awareness day." I was all messed up since I went to a singles valentine party the day before valentines day, so I naturally told everyone I was busy on valentines, but had my days reversed. The party itself went well, I met some cool people and had a nice time getting to know some old friends better. (This may sound arrogant, but it seems like everywhere I go more and more people look to me as a role model... Please do not do this. If you only knew my personal demons as I do, you would not. I am not a good person, let's just leave it at that.) Just as I was walking out the door my mother grabbed me and decided to dress me up for the occasion. I spent the next two hours mixing and matching cloths, shaving, and saucing myself up with a tie and some aftershave. By the time I was done it looked like a badger had attacked my neck as in my attempt to quickly shave I had cut myself what must have at least been fifty times all over the place. But in the end all worked out well enough and I was told by mom that I looked "party." I guess at least I didn't look "pretty."
On the dating front, as some of you know twice now in the past month I have been stood up, the addition of the second occurred just this week. Oh well, as I have said I plan to take a break from it all (which does not mean become asexual as some may wish to believe) and stop my active search for a bit.
I spent valentines day meeting up with an old friend and watching my little brother while my parents went out. Also I watched the new Liam Neeson film "Taken." It was quite good, decent plot, from what I could tell fight scenes based in real MMA as I recognized some jiu-jitsu, some karate, and even some taequon-do (might have been taijitsu, the taequon-do I learned was not exactly WTF or ITF standard...). The movie made me sad though that such things do exist. I try to not think about the evils of the world, especially towards women as these affect me on an emotional level deeper than most other things. Seeing my old friend was good, its always good to see her. I may have weirded her out a bit though, being valentine's day and knowing she is not dating I gave her a big hug when I first saw her, and a peck on the cheek before we parted. The way I see it every pretty girl deserves at least that much on valentine's day. I'd have gotten her a rose, but I know she would probably have objected more strongly to that than a hug and a kiss. It's odd with some people, the oldest and closest friends feel like family no matter how long or far apart we are, and I'm not sure I would ever tire of hanging out with them.
Falling back in time to friday, I awoke at roughly 5 am as the automated system called me for a teaching position. This would have been cool except for the fact that I had never before heard of the school it was asking me about. I declined and went back to bed... for fifteen minutes until it called again. This exact pattern repeated for 7 more calls going up until 8 am. Eventually I told the system to not call me anymore. As it turns out, there was an error with my information getting into the system and I am signed up to cover all 8 clusters of schools in the county. This does not sound bad until you realize that in high schools alone there are three to five per cluster... Yeah that equals lots of calls from lots of places I have never heard of... Tech support has been notified kindly, hopefully this will be fixed soon. In related news though, this next week I'll be teaching almost the whole week on the Canterbury tales. Fun fun!
Have a blessed day my friends.
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