It's hard to find time to post on here. I've actually moved into and am just about to leave an apartment between my last post and this one.

I liked living here. I got to carpool with my best friend to work almost every day. My roommates were mellow. The location is decent.

But now, my friend no longer works near me, so carpooling is out. My roommate can no longer afford to live here. The local restaurant I eat at is making me gain more weight than I'd like to. Yes, I blame the restaurant and not my lack of control.

My new place is near a bus line that runs regularly. There is a nice restaurant that sells yummy salads nearby. One of my new roommates brews beer as a hobby. It's a bigger room and I get my own private deck.

I'm going to miss carpooling with my friend though. That made the day start so much nicer.

It's been a while since I last wrote something here.

I am moving out of the barrio and into a much nicer area of Goleta. It's just as close to my job as my current place, but should I choose to walk home, it is much more pedestrian-friendly, I'll only have 2 roommates instead of my current 7. The rent is more, but I won't be responsible for collecting any bills, which is a hassle.

My job is getting better little by little. We've hired 5 new people, and one of them has captured my groin. Heart, I meant heart. She's awesome. She watches anume, cartoons, plays videogames, is a big nerd sometimes and really likes spending time with me.

She also has a boyfriend.

But I'm sort of okay with that. For the most part. It's not so much that I'm upset she has one, as that I'm having trouble looking for other girls to pursue because she is just so awesome. She seems to want to spend a lot of time with me though, and my friends think she is probably confused because she's upset with her boyfriend some but just not enough yet. I really am happy with just being friends, but I'm open to more.

It's weird. It's like I'm growing up or something. 4 years ago I would be obsessed with such a girl. I'd be super nervous about telling her I like her, and crushed if she didn't like me back. Now I'm hesitant about saying something since she has a boyfriend, but I don't think I'll be crushed should I say something and she tell me we're just friends.

I'd be lying if I said she wasn't my favorite part about going to work, but she's not 50% plus 1 of my favorite things in life.

My next goal: buy a car.

This job thing is killing me. Sure, it pays for my rent and my food, so in a small way it's doing the opposite of killing me. But really, it might as well be strychnine. It's not that it's hard, it's just a lot. They just hired a new lady, and in about a month she should be able to handle her own territory. Of course, at the same time one of the other ladies is leaving the department. Son of a...

Maybe one of these days we'll actually have enough people to handle all these breast implants.

I was at kmart last night (or the mall as they call it in Indiana) with my roommate Curtis. At check out the lady asked if he wanted to donate to March of Dimes. He said, "Not tonight." How about a different night? I inquired. Come on, if you're not planning on ever giving money to a charity, just say no. It saves time and effort. "Not tonight" is three syllables. Tack on a "sorry" and suddenly you're up to five. A simple "no" is just one syllable. The same goes for dealing with bums. False hope is a terrible thing.

Don't say you're sorry if you aren't. Don't say you want to be friends if you don't. Don't say you'll call if you won't.

And don't say you'll love me forever if you won't even love me long time.

Today was my first day of real work at Allergan. I've been training for the last 8 days. Normally it's 3-4 weeks of training, but I'm just that good. That, and I already knew a lot of the software since I've been temping there since January. It went well, but I only had to analyze six cases today. Tomorrow I'll have 9.

I went to the bar down the street last night with some friends. I ended up talking to this really awesome girl from San Diego, who was visiting her sister. They're in San Francisco by now for the holidays. I gave her my number and told her I'd love to hear from her next time she's in town. I don't know if she will, or if that's even a cool guy thing to do. I would have asked for her number, but I would have forgotten to call. I hope she does call next time she's in town, but I'll never know if she doesn't.

I kind of like that.

I'm sure I could find the answer on here if I looked hard enough, but I don't want to do that.

What happened to Olivia's sets? I know she no longer has a public profile, but what about her pictures? Does anyone even know who I'm talking about?

I think I've made a new friend. I have made new friends, but I mean a potential special friend. She lives in my friend's co-op and was real insitent we watch Oldboy (South Korean movie, she says it's amazing) next time I'm over. That's cool.

Halloween weekend coming up. I've got most of my costume put together, I just need the hat now. One of my best friends is coming down and she never did the IV thing her entire 4 years here. Can you believe that? So DP one night minimum. Down town maybe the other night.

And next week is a mud wrestling party. That should be awesome.

I'm back. Can't pass up a special rate for old members. Plus, I fixed my finances and can once again afford porn. Art. Whatever you want to call this. I wonder if there're any new Mary sets since I was last on.

Wow, it's been almost 4 whole months since I last did one of these. There's not a whole lot that has happened though.

Work is still going fine. I'm falling for the new temp. She's cute with long light brown hair and just a couple of piercings. Light skin, no tan. Mentally she's on the ball. Knows her stand-up comedians and punk bands. Takes her tequila clean. All in all, an ideal date. I just need her to break up with her boyfriend. How hard can that be?

In the meantime, I hooked up with a hot English girl that was visiting along with my friend's sister and a couple others. He says he's real upset with me because she's "a friend of the family, off-limits". If a lovely girl takes an interest in me (and she isn't married) I am going to act on my interest in her. I spent all night talking to her and then we started making out at the party. We came back to my place for a little more, went to sleep and then started back up in the morning. Perhaps he should have said something before they all came down. It's not like I hooked up with his sister. I knew she was off-limits.

I decided to go through with the graduation ceremony. But only because of the hope for lots of graduation money. And with gas prices as they are, people are already saying they may not be able to drive down. A check in the mail would ease my pain Aunt Bea. I don't care for these sorts of things, and I hated my high school ceremony. Especially all the practice for it. At least we don't have to practice in college.

I'm thinking of going to Korea to teach English, apparently it pays rather well. Or maybe I'll go to England and work through the BUNEC program and meet me some more lovely English ladies.

Until next time.

New journal day is here!

There's going to be a song for it eventually.

I move into my new apartment Saturday. It's a five minute walk from my current one. Literally.

My new job is going well. I almost like going to work. In fact, if I didn't have to be there before 11am, I would actually enjoy working there. Even still, if I could just go in late Wednesdays, that would work.

80s Night is what I'm really getting at. Every Tuesday night is 80s Night at one of the clubs downtown. And I'll never get to go again...

But hey, I graduated college. That should be worth something. Like Wednesdays off.

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