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How I deal with drama

Review

Had dinner with guy I’d never met before. Made out with guy after brief but tasty dinner made for me. Stopped progress before orgasm (much to my later pain). Lost cell phone while making out. Sent, to my mind, humorously phrased (definitely ambiguously phrased) message telling him I’d left something on his couch. He interpreted it as “see you soon” (a possibility I hadn’t considered). I apologized, phrased it more directly. He found it, and told me he was really tired that night, so I said I’d pick it up the next morning (today). I stayed up late, emailed him saying I probably wouldn’t catch him at home, slept, caught him on his way out the door, said I’d pick it up from him at his office at negotiated time. Called him up later and asked for a number from cell phone, for lunch plans, he gets huffy about me being on time (I suspect he thought ‘lunch plans? He’s going to be late again’). He’s very huffy and demanding about me picking it up at specific time (more specific than originally agreed upon range), and I agree to that time.

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Oh and the cookies (and more)

Yeah, I baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies again. They’re tasty, but I’m having an experience similar to the one I had with beer bread: First time I had it, it was great. Subsequent times just got less tasty/more disgusting each time, until I decided, ewww, no thank you.

I gave some to the guy who I was supposed to have lunch with (and instead shared beverage with) before reclaiming my cell phone.

No job hunt happiness today, but I feel relatively content for the week. I have plans for monday, and I can do more sculpting of those plans on saturday. This evening will be gay men’s health collective volunteer training followed by an evening out with Josh and Tom, after which I will be the DD back to mountainview.

Then saturday I warcraft, and resumecraft, and plancraft, then partay. Sunday, more gay men’s health volunteer training stuff.

I’m contemplating whether I really want to do the GMHC thing. I mean, I want to do it, yes. But if I do it, it seems that it’s training and volunteering schedules would effectively prevent me from doing either the information resource collective (mmmm, acronym overloading) or general medical volunteer foo for them. I’ll go in and see how I feel about the group. Since IRC training doesn’t start until oct 13th, it wouldn’t prevent me in the slightest from going to the street fairs over the next couple weeks as well. Hmmmmm. And the general medical wouldn’t start until January.

But,but,but fags! It’d also allow me to see a bathhouse from the inside, in a way such that I wouldn’t have my dick halfway down someone’s throat when I walked through the door (since the GMHC does outreach to SteamWorks). Enh, we’ll see. =)

Cell phone and cookies

I went over to this guy’s place for dinner wednesday evening, it was tasty. We made out afterwards on his couch. As I’m walking home it penetrates my haze of blue ball pain that I don’t have my cellphone on me. Doh! Left in his couch. Suck! Get home, send email. Intend to pick it up last night. Timing doesn’t work out. Stay up “discussing” politics and economics. Sleep through planned time to get it this morning. Miss two lunch dates planned for today. (Another “Whoops” in and of itself. =)

Woohoo, got number from guy whose place I left cell phone at. He was all “When are you going to be here? I have things to do, you need to be on time, blah, blah, blah”. Very intense about it all. Yes, you have a life, I understand that. You can say “I have things to do, if you don’t make it, I won’t be here.” Action -> consequence. Do not freak out on me. Do not tell me what I have to do. Do not expect to ever see me again if you’re going to take the attitude that I’m an errant 12yo. Chill, chummer.

Ugh.

Today

Actually made it in to adecco like 2-5 minutes late, but they didn’t comment. I was all white shirt & tie & black pants & shaved & shit. They claimed to be muy impressed by my access, word, and excel skills (despite my complete inability to do anything even vaguely resembling a function in excel, and my total lack of a correct answer in the ‘advanced’ section for access.)

Came back home, checked mail, then immediately to Dolores Park Cafe (btw, yum) for date with brit guy. Brit guy is cool. And fairly cute. I was mildly embarrassed to have difficulty understanding him through the accent and background noise at times. He’s (recently) trained in shiatsu. Offered free session in return for referals. (note for the prurient, erotic massage and accu-p*ure are not terribly compatible). Also talked about hitting Herbivore sometime. We eventually adjourned to skyline and tanline watching from the muddy top of dolores park.

I arrived late to my first volunteer session at California Peace Action, where I learned that I despise data entry, in that zone-out sort of way. Back home. Much slack. Simpsons. WWE Smackdown. (oy) Laundry for the past 1.5-2.5 weeks. back home.

Bleh. That’s my day in a nutshell.

Oh, and I’ve memorized the major north/south streets that intersect market between the eastern end and castro. Next are the soma streets, then the major east/west streets between duboce and marina. This would make me a better bike messenger to my mind, and hopefully to the minds of the potential employers as well.

From commentary by

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0918HomeAfford18-ON.html

It claims that to afford a modest two bedroom apartment in CA, one needs to be making at least $19/hr full time. When I calculated my basic needs, it came out to more like $7.50/hour. And I’m in one of the pricier areas of CA (bay area) though not the priciest neighborhood (n oakland) also not the cheapest. I think this is based on the claim that everyone needs to live like a king. Truth is, we really don’t. Truth is, from a global/historical perspective, each person having their own bedroom is a luxury. Hell, each person having their own bed.

But I digress. Time to get ready for work interview.

Later.

“Final” Version

After intense consultation with a few people online, I have come up with the ‘final’ version (final for this iteration) of my resume. A big thank you goes out to , , , and most especially , her mom (who does this stuff for a living, and gave me tips for free ;), and .

You have all been immensely helpful. I appreciate all your suggestions, I made use of those that I could.

http://www.pobox.com/~scu/conceal/office_temp.doc