Its been almost four months that I have been working at this job and things are going good. Before launching into any kind of rant I shall describe the general condition of my life at the moment. I finished my MS on the 4th of May, joined for work at a certain company on the fifth and have been there since. My lease at the last apartment ran out and right now am staying at a friends place, however today at 2PM I shall receive keys to my new apt so am looking forward to that.
Most of my team got reconfigured recently and it is an interesting time in the company for our product. While on the one hand I am going to miss the guys I was working with, I welcome the potential avenues of opportunity this might open up both career wise and creativity wise. The whole company life thing is weird to me, the numerous Dos and Donts, and the latter list in this case contains a lot of items that can potentially get you booted out the door. I recently heard of a guy who got kicked out since he was caught sleeping at his desk :-) I dont know whether to be scared or laugh at this.
One thing that has not changed is my stupid outlook when it comes to girls. Recently hung out with a friend of mine, his girlfriend, and a couple of her friends (yes the ratio was definitely in my favor). During the conversation I was mostly silent, messing around with my droid phone and so on. When I did talk it was to ask the folks gathered there as to who had read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. This one girl responded that she had, and she even went on to answer in the affirmative to a few more of my questions. Contrary to my usual MO I thought nothing of this.
Once I came back to my colleagues place, his girlfriend remarked that this girl was single. My colleague immediately pitched in an idea about how we should set up a double date. My mind leaped at the possibilities. Sparkling magnificent vistas opened up in my mind's eye blossoming into fruition and never fading away.
Yea,....nothing happened. Somehow the proposed double date never came to be.
My life is changing in interesting ways now. I seem to be developing somewhat of a social nature which is nice since for the longest time my friends have likened me to smeagol from the lord of the rings world. Just today I went out to this sushi place called sushi matsuri and had dinner with two of my friends. The job is great in that, even though im making no great strides as far as my savings account is concerned, im living comfortably with what I earn and for once, thats enough.
The changes are not always on the positive side, there are some neutral and possibly negative ones as well.
My definition of personal space has sky-rocketed. Actions and activities that were favored and even liked by me earlier are now brought into measure keeping in mind my redefined boundaries. This leads to a lot of changes but I have now come to know from my other friends who are working that this is only to be expected. I feel a new sense of independence which is great. Helping to make all of these even more enjoyable and colorful is the fact that I have a room to myself again and I cannot stress on how significant and long awaited this change has been in coming.
Musically, things are getting interesting again. After a disastrous attempt at forging yet another band I had given up all hope and put up a last ditch effort post on gainesvillebands.com asking if any metal band out there was looking for a guitarist. A few weeks later I got contacted by the drummer of this band who had just lost their guitar player when he moved to california. One audition later I am now playing with the band, I dont know if I am officially in yet or not but the signs are positive. Also, the decision to buy the crate shockwave amp worked out to be one of the best decisions I have ever made.
I have a car now, a toyota corolla 2010 SE, black in color. I love the thing to pieces and it drives beautifully also giving me excellent mileage and the kind of satisfaction that only a well made piece of japanese machinery can give you. I leased this car for a three year period which I thought makes sense since what if various events cause me to relocate or have to change my job and so on. So far this has looked like a great decision hope it stays that way.
That is about all I wanted to talk about at this point, once again will try to write more often.
Magus.
