Archive for September, 2006

• Cali Trip + Lazy Writer

  Date: 2006.09.21 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

  I took a trip to Cali.

  It was awesome.

  Read what Munns had to say about it here.

  Look at pictures here.

  They had a bridge:

  

  I’m done.

• re: lonely

  Date: 2006.09.15 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

  So I posted last October about being lonely in NC.

  Almost a year has passed and I feel pretty much the same way.

  I looked back on that post and realized that three good female friends of mine commented on it.

  Then I look back even further and I sort of always remember being lonely at times. Maybe it’s part of the human condition. Maybe it’s because I go through big periods of time when I’m feeling anti-social. Tough call.

  I do rememeber a period of a few years in college when I always had someone to talk to and was in constant communication with friends and others.

  I think that’s what I miss.

  I need to spend less time at work stressing out about work, and more time chatting it up with friends and doing random things.

  Here’s a typical re-enactment of an outing with friends.
  —–
  Waitress comes to table.

  Me: I’ll have a Killian’s
  Brendan: Can I get a Yuengling
  Marv: Guinness
  Kaufman: What do you have on tap?
  Waitress: Answers.
  Kaufman: Hmmmm… how about…

  Waitress walks away..

  Silence ensues..

  Lauren: Silently thinks “Man I love New Kids on the Block”

  Me: How bout that crazy work thing.

  Everyone gets excited and animated about crazy work things for 3 minutes.

  Silence

  Drinks Arrive

  Silence

  More drinks

  10PM rolls around..

  Me: Man I’m tired.. work is killing me.
  Kaufman: I’m gonna go home and play WoW
  Brendan: I’m going to bed
  Kurt: Silently thinks “mmmmm bed with Lauren”

  Exit.
  —–
  I think working form 9:30 – 7 puts a huge drain on the social life. Most days I go home and just pass out and do nothing until it’s time to go back to work.

  Where am I going with this you ask?

  The point here is I need to adjust my work life balance.. make more time for being around people.

  I can hear Heather saying now:

  “It’s people time now Jason!”

  Probably true… so maybe if I stop spending so much time at work, or home alone, things will start looking up.

  I think the secondary point is that more of those girls I mentioned at the beginning of this post need to come to Raleigh, NC for a visit.

  The tertiary point is that even with the friends I have now I miss having a sidekick. I think everyone needs a sidekick. This doesnt have to mean dating or anything like that… just someone to talk to who really understands things. Someone to confide in, and someone who confides in you.

  I feel like I had one or two at some point.. and now I don’t. I can’t really define it more than that.

  I am much too tired to be posting. That will probably all sound ridiculous when I wake up in the morning and read it.