05.22.08
Posted in Work at 11:34 pm by Jim
I have an interesting text based friendship with a couple of the girls I work with.
One of them, whom (yes/no?) I trained for a couple of weeks when she started, texts quite a bit throughout the day. She claims she’s pretty quiet and prefers text to talking. She doesn’t come across as the shy type, however, so I wonder why that is. At first we would text quite a bit, but I found that I censored myself because I wasn’t sure how some of the things I write (see below) will come across. I try not to scare people away. I have so few friends as it is (by choice..?) that I’m pretty cautious with new people at first. Takes me a while to open up. The texts have died down over the past few weeks as I find myself more interested/caught up in texting with someone that’s been at the company since I joined.
For the record, both of them initiated the texts, not me. And it’s purely a friendship thing, don’t get the wrong idea. Although I am concerned that one or both might think otherwise ocassionally.
It’s more recent with this other girl. We’ve worked together on the same team since I got there, but only recently have we become more friendly. For some reason I’m completely at ease with her and I don’t censor myself at all. I also wonder why that is.
I find it strange that I’m more comfortable developing a friendship over text messages than I am the old fashioned way. I’ve begun to wonder (I do that a lot) if that’s the norm for people these days. I suppose I did grow up with the advent of AOL Instant Messenger (yes, that IS what AIM stands for) and learned to make better friends through text than through personal interaction. This feels different. I see them a couple times a week. The first one barely acknowledges me while I talk with the second one quite a bit. Is that odd?
I wonder…
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05.18.08
Posted in Life at 1:42 am by Jim
Here I am watching “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” while listening to the audiobook “Physics of the Impossible” by Michio Kaku as Raquel and Tony sleep.
The Indiana Jones films move very fast. Faster than I remember. It’s very fast paced without feeling fast paced. Everytime I look up it’s much further along than I expect. I supposed adventure films should be that way.
Audiobooks do not move very fast. They are useful for those of us that spend a lot of time in a car or like to multitask. Reading and multi-tasking isn’t entirely convenient.
Tony just passed gas in his sleep. I’m not sure how to react to this. I want to laugh but I am tired. He will see this soon and perhaps not appreciate the humor.
I find myself bored on the weekends. We don’t see Kile and Ashley as much because it’s getting into prime cake season, so Ashley is constantly at work. Good for her, as that’s her business and she will be moving to a storefront soon. Bad for our hanging out time, as that’s our business and we will be moving to a new home… someday.
My boredom stems more from the lack of variety in friends. It’s tough, at this age, to meet new people. We’re not especially social and even if we were we’re not sure where we would meet these new friends. I’ve been texting/talking to a lot more people at work lately and we’ve attempted to make some plans, but things always seem to fall through on one end or the other. Both of the people I’ve been talking to quite a bit happen to be girls right around our age. This is good in that I’m better talking to women than I am men. Worse in that Raquel tends to get jealous at first, though she seems to get over it fairly fast.
I feel like I need something new. Our life lacks excitement/drama/whatever you’d like to call it. I’d just like something interesting to come up. The most interesting thing we seem to be doing is saving for a home. Feel the excitement. HGTV here I come.
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