The Daily Slacker

And yet again life gets crazy.

My life the last month has kinda lived true to the old cliché: “That which changes oft remains the same.”

So many things from this year have come to an end: Summer, That Great Job, Kickball, My patience with Cute Paramedic, My dislike of coffee and most recently my will to have fun.

It’s now most definitely Fall here in good old Minnesota. Mother nature painted her great fall colors, but they’re slowly bleeding off to leave a dull brown canvas. Gone are the days of “God, what a BEAUTIFUL day!” Now in their place is “God, it’s f#$%ing FREEZING out there!” Don’t get me wrong, your Chief LOVES a good snowball fight, but yeah, warmth is nice. What’s worse, this also marks the end of skimpy clothes season completely. Regardless of what magazines may have you believe, that whole hot women wearing a bikini under their parka thing… Never. EVER. Happens. Maybe in like Veil or something, but Minnesota women are far to smart for that. You can tell I’m still living in denial over summer being gone since my air conditioner is still in my living room window. Come on, there could be a heat wave in November right? Shhhhhhh!! Delusions are fun.

So yeah, the great new job I found? Bye, Bye. Between my bad luck away from work and their lack of money, The Great Job has come to an end. The last two weeks of silence were a product of job hunting and not being uber-busy at work as was the case previously. That puts me back where I really dislike being: hunting for a job. I am currently writing from a temporary job I accepted just for the sake of actually having an income. The Temp job is fair lame compared to previous. Instead of design medical devices that save lives, I’m helping design and document the displays and shelving for all the new Sephora stores around the country. (If you don’t now what Sephora is, you’re A. not female, B. Not trendy with make-up and smelly-good products.) Walk in to any new Sephora store or in-store Sephoras in JCPennys and the Black and Off-white displays you see were built by contractors looking at the drawings my company made. There’s very little creativity involved so, despite being a huge slacker, this is definitely not the job for me. It does however pay the bills and the job was accepted on the condition I am allowed to take time to go to other interviews. I have so far turned down three interviews because the jobs would be obviously be bloody-freakin-boring. I’ll definitely keep you all up to date on the new job hunt.

The Summer/Fall season of Kickball has come to an end as well. My team, the Gym Class Legends, well, sucked. In the field anyway. We went 0-7-1 on the field, but managed to come in second in both of the Flip-Cup tournaments during the season and usually dominated the flip-cup at the bars. As with the Spring season, this one was remarkably dry as far as the dating front goes, but I really wasn’t trying either. I’m definitely in the “don’t care” stage of the dating cycle. Despite being fairly terrible on the field, we had a fun team and it sounds like we might be getting together just for the heck of it on Thursday and/or Friday. Should be fun!

Speaking of dating, Cute Paramedic popped up again. As per usual, I fell into the trap of actually being hopeful. She randomly messaged me asking what I was doing for the Halloween weekend and said we should find something fun and Halloweeny to do. Since a friend of mine had invited me over to a party at her place I invited CP along. We chatted quite a bit during the week on the phone and via text message up until a last text message Saturday afternoon. Come party time though? Nothing. Unfortunately there’s nothing since either. While I most certainly hope all is well with her and her family, the lack of respect is fairly glaring. To quote another cliché: “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” Well, we’re now on to thrice (or possibly what four version of that is) so I do believe I’m thoroughly exposed as being an idiot when it comes to women. Shame on me indeed.

That being said, the snafu with Cute Paramedic has actually led to encounters with a new member of the female species. I have yet to settle on a name for her (some options: Nessie, Snake Dancer, Dr. House Fan) but I shall decide soon. Anyway, I flew solo to the party and mingled a while and eventually got talking with who, like me, knew very few people at the party. After some talking we ended up having quite a bit in common: Friends who tend to disappear for lengths of time, a love for House, being recently unemployed and others. From further conversation I found out she worked as part of the entertainment for Renaissance Festival doing dance and such. Since CP knew a large portion of the entertainers from Ren Fest I asked if she knew of her. Turns out She Who Shall Yet Be Named is fairly good friends with CP’s sister!  We talked and realized a decent possibility for CPs absence may have been due to a surgery within the family so she worried and immediately called CPs sister to check in. This did make me feel a wee bit creepy though since she enquired about the status of CP as well. I definitely didn’t ask her to call or to check on CP, but it still left me feeling slightly stalkerish. Post phone call we returned to chatting and found that we’d both be uber-nerds the next day and would be watching the House Marathon on USA. Ten hours of House M.D. Gotta love it! I also invited her over for scary movie night on Halloween since she said she wasn’t doing anything that evening. She left the party on the early side, but texted me later with her number and we got talking about Hugh Laurie (House!) being on Saturday Night Live and the missing the glory days of SNL. The next day there was some texting about the House Marathon and eventually she ended up at my place to watch the end of it. Since SWSYBN lacked cable and had to leave another friend’s house who had cable, I offered the services of the big, pretty, plasma screen. Her mom lives relatively close to me so she stopped over last night as well to alleviate some boredom with “Heroes” and a good game of Mario Party 3. She’s cute, quite fun, and has extremely long (albeit dyed) red hair. That’s like Kryptonite to my usually stoic willpower toward women. (HA! I just couldn’t say that with a straight face!) I’m trying to keep this on at friends for now as she mentioned she was “sorta” dating someone and a few other things. But, I figured now that I’m posting again you’ll hear about her… so know ya know! Now to think of a nickname since she reports “Nessie” is already taken, and the others are bland… Hmm…

So yeah, there’s life to date. Many changes, but still in the same place I’ve always been. Just a slacker  going about the business of life. Now I just need to get that will to go out and have fun. I’ve basically had to force myself to get out of the house and do stuff lately because I realized I hadn’t actually even gone outdoors for like a week. Luckily the fresh job has helped the mindset, even if it’s not a great one. Having a fresh face around with She Who Shall Yet Be Named has helped brighten those silver linings with a little fun lately as well.

Another new thing will soon be the Daily Slacker. I’m working on actually getting an official website and also a new format, so stay tuned Slackers!

So yeah, The Slack is Back baby. See ya round!