Okay, so maybe I didn’t miscalculate my dates.
One more day of this, then I’m finished. Not 30 entries, but there’s 31 days in these summer months.
I am getting into the kick of writing, but I’m finding reasons not to, too.
Sticking with it, well, that’s just what I do.
Taking things back, though, and I’m going to actually edit this from what I’d originally recorded in my diary.
I have edited the names here, with people other than me replaced by numbers.
Conversation from IRC, over an ad on craigslist looking for a roommate….names changed to protect the guilty….
15:49 [@sean] a——.com
15:50 [@sean] temp agency
15:50 [ 1] oh a——-
15:50 [@sean] hrmph
15:50 [ 1] yea
15:50 [@sean] iow
15:50 [@sean] we work like
15:50 [@sean] three weeks at a time
15:50 [@sean] we need someone to pay for shit!
15:50 [@sean] so we can continue buying beer and rubbers
15:50 [ 2 need to cut back on the rubbers
15:50 [ 3] young male professionals
15:50 [ 3] at least they didnt ask for a female only roommate
15:50 [@sean] they’re mcses
15:51 [ 3] they could be ccnas
15:52 [@sean] novell
15:52 [ 3] 4
15:52 [ 5] loz
15:53 [@sean] of course
15:53 [@sean] they’re tards, too
15:54 [@sean] town center ain’t far from planned parenthood
15:54 [@sean] I’ve heard you can get free rubbers there
15:54 [ 3] dude
15:54 [ 3] they’re mcses
15:54 [ 3] they dont use rubbers
15:54 [ 3] just crisco
15:54 [@sean] lmaonade
15:54 [ 3] ANALEAZE
15:56 [ 6] They have a big bowl of them at that planned parenthood
15:56 [ 6] and it’s near the door
15:56 [ 6] so you can run it and run out
15:56 [ 6] w/out talking to anyone
15:57 [ 3] analease?
15:57 [ 6] no, rubbers
15:57 [ 6] I was giving confirmation
15:58 [ 3] we changed conversation focus to buttsechs mgs
15:58 [ 6] since control-H is too scared to go in there
15:58 [ 3] plz keep up
15:58 [ 6] control-H needed to know
15:58 [ 6] trust me
15:58 [ 3] oic
15:58 [ 3] I forgot
15:58 [ 3] winkwink nudgenudge
16:01 [@sean] 6: I can afford ones that don’t break like the free ones
16:01 [ 4] if they get 100% o f the value, I doubt they would do shit
16:01 [ 4] omg those are good condoms
16:01 [ 4] name brand nigga
16:02 [@sean] it’s like the crack dealer
16:02 [@sean] they give you defective ones
16:02 [@sean] so you’ll need to come back in a few weeks
16:07 [ 3] but control-H
16:07 [ 3] it costs them money when you come back
16:08 [ 6] free condoms, but the abortions cost $$$ ?
16:08 [@sean] it’d be like a onconology clinic handing out cigarettes
16:08 [ 7] kek
16:08 [ 3] rofl
Notice the tag here is, “everything gets deleted, eventually.” Maybe it doesn’t, though?
One of the podcasts I routinely listen to regularly has been hitting on lately is about how people’s memories of things change over time.
They do, certainly, but I think, maybe, keeping track of what you’re thinking and doing helps clarify things for later?
I’ve really taken it in the shorts over the past five years on top of being sick. Maybe what I’ve written will bring back clearer memories.
But, as I said the other day, I think I’d started doing these summer periods because I was so fucking miserable with my situation.
When I did this last year, I was about to start my next round in hell. Perhaps I should say that I regret going back there; I should have learned my lesson the first time.
But, no, I did what I did because it was the right thing to do for our situation. Things have changed.
Speaking of that, reading back through that exchange, “a——” is a pretty sizable staffing firm. So this was from August 2006, and sorta signified the start of the “gig economy” that was so widely-panned in the 2016 election.
My understanding of it was a bit misguided, thinking that they were only working two days per month, and were focused on selling Microsoft’s products.
I didn’t take into account the price of benefits. I wonder if someone would do the math on that compared to now to see what the difference is. Big companies are looking to peddle labor with a minimum of government meddling. So government just puts things that further discourage companies from hiring anybody full-time.
*shrug*
Free-write tomorrow to close things out. My head is pretty clear, even if my vision isn’t.