Running Till We Run Out of Luck.

Yes, I know, this is supposed to be part 3 of the Renaissance Festival, but things haven't exactly gone as planned lately. It's not bad, I must say, but very unexpected.

Next Monday I will be starting at a company called Etech. This is an electronic communications firm. Another way of saying a call centre that makes me a sales person. It will start off full time, from 4pm to 11pm, weekends off. That's for four weeks...minimum wage. It won't be a great deal of money, but it will help. After that I will be part time, with a varying schedule that's a headache to even try to remember. It was supposed to be full time, with weekends off at $9 an hour. That has been battered down to $8 hourly with weekends included. Oh well.

We still have the once a week at Tom's place, kicking back with video games and beer and food. Somehow, despite not having any money to speak of, we all still scrape enough together to make sure we all have fun. In a culture where art is truly disposable in the worst of ways we small group of people take the time to discuss politics, the weather, the latest designs for games and movies, and wonder about the stars sharing any new information we've gleaned. Love my friends; the stupid, irresponsible, people that we are.



On the down side it seems my other 'friend' has outted himself to the world, well his world anyways, and is now comfortably settling down with a new boy that he seems to like very much. Well, perhaps calling it a downside is a bit much, it does mean that I'm going to have to try to find a new play thing, though. Shhaaame on me! But, with it seeming everyone is in a relationship lately things have been gray. This old warrior is having trouble keeping up. My bar hopping, fight craving, booze swilling, violent gaming, braggart friends are finding more delicate distractions. Yet. Love, it seems, eludes me in this part of the world. Oh well, simply means I need to find more to dedicate my time to. With any luck...this Etech will be able to put me onto full time and ontop of my bills so I can mount myself on top of something more fun.



So, a positive experience yet, and more to come. But, as you can see, these weeks have been very surprising and full of turns, indeed.