It’s been almost a year again since I wrote a blog post and a lot has happened I think so let me give you a clifnotes recap of whats been going on.
I bought a Car in December. I moved from Texas in February and got my drivers license from the DPS the day before we drove away in our U-Haul truck. I drove for 16 hours straight on the first day. It was my first time driving for longer than 20 mins and my first time driving on a Highway. We drove 2000+ miles to Washington. Now living in Washington I was working for the same movie theater company that I was in Texas.
I was told that I would be making 22+ dollars there because of my time with the company but when I got up here they said the only thing they could offer me as 19.10. So that was a change in plans, but I needed a job so I could pay rent so I took the pay cut and licked my wounds making just about 14 dollars an hour after state tax was taken out. Some month or so goes by and I’m called to my bosses office. He says to me that they don’t have any hours to give to managers and that he feels obligated to give the hours that they do have to the managers that have been working there for a longer time. He says he feels bad but he’s going to have to start reducing my hours until I don’t get any at all (Soft Firing Me) and says I should start looking for other jobs because its only a 1 month time table. Bruh moment.
I applied to every job I could find for a couple of weeks while still working more regularly the theater and when i say everything I mean everything Train Conductor, Geologist, Soldering Engineer, Line Cook, everything. After weeks I’m working at what I thought could had been my last shift at the theater cleaning like normal and I receive a call on my phone from an unknown Californian phone number. I’m not sure why, maybe I thought it was my sister’s new number or something, but I answered the call. A man on the other line with a Turkish accent asked me when I was available to do an interview, I honestly didn’t know what job I’d be interviewing for after applying to so many jobs, but I needed a no so I told him Thursday (which was two days away). He said Thursday would work and gave me an address of where to go. I looked up the address and found it was a TV station? One of the jobs I’d applied for three weeks ago, maybe one of the first jobs I did apply for. I still didn’t really understand what the job was but I’d be damned if I didn’t put my whole focus on making sure I had a good interview.
Two days later, it’s a one hour drive to the station. Call my dad while I’m driving, he doesn’t understand the job, I dont either still tbh but I know who I am. I’m ready to interview especially for a technical job I’ve always picked up trades like this fast. I get to the station and I’m just standing at a locked door until a woman comes out and asks me what I’m doing there. I explain that I was there to interview and she takes me in and brings me to the man I talked to on the phone and a table of other people that ask me to sit down and talk with them. Im thinking ‘oh fuck who are these people’ but I remember that I gotta pay rent and let me tell you I worked that interview like that rent was due. After the interview I was told I would be receiving a email for onboarding and the job offer.
Still got a 100% interview to get the job ratio. Damn I’m good at bullshitting. 2 weeks later I was training with 2 people who said they’ve been in this career field for 20+ years. Damn. 2 weeks of training pass and we’re about to be trained by a guy who writes the program we’ll be using and that 3 more people will be joining us during training. Only 1 of the 3 actually was able to join the training a guy younger than me (also an audio guy) felt a little better after that. The last 2 members of the team would join us after training, one moving from Michigan and the other from the Netherlands for this job.
6 month since then I’ve become one of the most valuable members of our team and learned as much as I could. But were down a team member again because Josh needed to move back to the Netherlands to take care of his family.
Sorry for the abrupt time skip in the story just thought it was getting boring
I started writing this post weeks ago and a lot of other things have happened.
I went to some Melee locals for the first time and won a set of competitive super smash bros Melee while playing Bowser for the first time. And met some cool people
Numerous things done and shows watched with my roommates. Even saw the aurora borealis with them
Deadass things have been going well but I’m starting to feel strange, like how did I get here? Idk but I’m gonna try to ride the train until I’m kicked off I guess. Also I turned 25.
Oh and right after I got my new job 2 managers were fired at the theater and I was asked to go full time again but I make 10 dollars an hour less there so….
Blog post is long af so I’m gonna stop it here. Tried to upload pictures as well but I couldn’t.
I walked 6.8 miles today because I was bored, most of it was spent listening to music I listen to when I was a Kid. Stopped by my friends house to sit down for awhile. Sighed up for classes for the Fall semester
Extremely short post today, I’m sorry I gotta go to the DMV tomorrow morning and I must sleep a little bit. 4/20/21
Ay yoo friends. Reed here 4/19/2021
Basically didn’t do shit today
Went to work and cleaned a bunch of theaters watching my friends play animal crossing as the others do homework. One is learning extensively too much about the human body and the other is talking about Napoleon, He’s writing a essay about him for a class that I’m not even sure he should be taking. “The Irish are better than you” I just heard from one of them
What strange conversations occur
I’ve had the Station Square song from Sonic Adventure One The Directors Cut it goes dooo do do doooo do do do dooo do do do do do. I can’t replicate the song within this medium as well as I want to so I’ll stop.
This is a pictures (Pictures not pictured)
Of my old Cat Tony, he was chill he just vibed around and would walk around and meow at me then fall asleep
I really liked Tony he was cool
I miss him when I think about him, sometimes I think about getting another Cat but I feel like it won’t be the same, My family had Tony for more than 12 years, he was the last of his family.
Maybe one day I’ll get another Cat but until then I think I’ll just keep thinking about Tony.
I don’t have too to much to say today. I’m hanging out with Sawyer and went to see Joseph earlier (we gave him Bawls)
I bought a new brand of Root Beer today at World Market for after work, it was kinda Funky.
We’re finishing up the last of the Hobbit movies and we’re both sort of agreeing that the first of the movies was the best of them
I bought a little pot for Nadia, a clay pot, thought it was a funny joke
Sort of decided that my first Marvel Movie review is gonna be one of my least favorite movies ever The Hulk, 2003, so I can explain how I like to rate movies out of 7
That’s it for today I think, might post some more tonight
Today is April 17th, 2021. I'm writing this at 8:47 pm but the clock on my computer will assure me that it's in fact 6:47 at the current moment.
I woke up at 8ish today and went to work, I worked from 10 am to 5:30, I'm kinda doubting anyone wants to know about my job though so let's move on.
Today I didn't have much of a desire to thinkThat sounds like a Fox News quote, I know but I think I can explain what I'm meaning.
Since I woke up today my whole body has felt like it's been in tunnel vision. I feel like my eyes aren't seeing like they usually do, it's as if there are new boundaries to my vision, and at a point within my sight it's all just static. I felt like I was going through the motions today, wake up, shower, teeth thing, clothes, get to work in some manner, then sort of zone out as I auto-pilot training some new hires, then now I'm home sitting down just sort of being.
In less depressing News
I started my first post on here. That can be construed as a good thing.
My siblings continue to talk about getting tattoos, I believe the current talking point is flowers which is cool.
I've been theory crafting a recipe for a day or so, it's a Blackberry Pizza. This of course started from my fictional D&D character who owns a Pizza shop. Yesterday I tweeted that I was going to create Real Fictional monthly specials. I've gotten so deep as to make fictional prices for each size and made sure that all the prices are fair in regard to the Area of the Circle to the Price difference from one size to another.
Just got a notification on my phone and lost my train of thought, Bumble really just did that to me, damn, just wanted to talk about fictional pizza
Got halfway through watching what was at one point my favorite MCU movie, Iron Man 3 then decided to post on here
On Repeat, My Problems with Consumtion
I've been realizing recently that when it comes to watching things, or just media consumption in general, I've grown very picky for lack of a better term. I'll watch the same movie over and over again. I'll listen to the same Seven songs that I feel within a given month or week. Or if I'm really bored I proverbially jump the cliff and start listening to a podcast that I've listened to just about Three times.
I think the problem is unwillingness, I guess in my mind I know that what I like is what I like, this has been my main opinion of food for years. "I know what I like why try anything else" but it didn't use to apply to the books I was reading, movies I watched, or Two Hundred Hour podcasts I invested time into. This is likely why I'm, what I'd consider, boring nowadays. IDK maybe it's time for a change.
As a quick aside
It wouldn't be me if I didn't spend a whole section talking about D&D. If this is not for you that's fine I intend on making a category specifically for when I'm posting about the TTRPG games I play in, but honestly the game is a big part of my character in the present moment so if its the only thing I wanna talk about its just gonna be like that.
Boom that's the end of my First Post. I'm gonna try to do an MCU/other media review weekly on the Bias Reviews category. I'll try as hard as I can to post daily on the Blog Catagory and then I'll post whatever D&D shit (world-building, my characters, session notes, popcorn thoughts) on that catagory.
I like this today, lets see what happens.