I think I’m running out of stuff to talk about. Since I started this job, I have found less and less want to do anything outside of my cube. I’m not on the net visiting message boards as much and I barely play games anymore. Nadia wakes me up in the morning, I quickly get ready, and we are out the door by 5:35AM. On a typical day, we do not return home until 6:30PM. This schedule is new to me, but is old hat for Nad. In fact, her schedule was longer before I joined her (she used to be out the door before 5AM).
I’ve been at this for over a month now, and while my body has become accustomed to waking up in the 5 o’clock hour on weekdays, my mind hasn’t quite caught up. When I get home, I want to do little more then vegitate on the couch. The only time I want to engage my mind is to cook and clean up after the cats… actually, I don’t *want* to do those things. I *need* to do those things; otherwise, we will starve or die of kitty shit odor intake.
On the bus, instead of using that time constructively to read or perhaps play a game, I cat nap. The only time I stay up is when Nad and I are talking about our day, or job, or bitching about one of those two topics.
My point is that I am running out of things to talk about. Unless you want to learn how to write a PHP script that sends multi-part MIME e-mails (both text and HTML) with attachments, then I am fresh out of topics.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel though. Two, in fact. My favorite dual screen handheld is pulling me out of my mental stupor long enough to become a vampire hunter and a surgeon. Then there is good old-fashioned D&D – I’m starting a Play By E-Mail game, since I can’t get a group of people in a room together to play in a more traditional format. With this game coming up, I’m spending a lot of time reading through my many books, which requires my brain to be running.
Well, there is a third light. Pump It Up Exceed has Nad and I dancing and stomping and sweating all over the living room. But our brains aren’t running then, since we’ve learned that it is much better to turn it off and react to arrows flying up the screen.
