Mismanagement

So, I've had almost 2 weeks all to myself, to enjoy, before I begin my plunge of work and schooling again.

And now I have 30 minutes left.

Primarily, I wasted a whole bunch of the time that I had, but I don't regret it.

See, one of my favorite things to purchase when I was alternating between a job, schooling, and friends were the cheap-o playstation games that are only cheap because of age. But, I never had the chance to play any of them because I was so busy (my friends filled up any spare time that I had, if I had any that week!)

This time, however, I have had no school or work. Well, that's not true. I sanded houses last week for my landlord (doing realty work), doing a total of 21.5 hours of work, but gained a whole bunch of extra money because the landlord loved my work (said that I really hustle, and that I don't cut corners. That made me feel good about myself. What's more, I believe I have another reference if I ever apply for a different job (which I will some day)). Though, the money flew out of my wallet in one brutal shopping session of food, clothes (for my new job. Gotta look good!), games (as if I'll ever play them), and gas. Seeing that hard-earned $150 go out of my wallet after all that work made me cringe. What's more, I'm visiting the dentist (hopefully my insurance coverage from my old job is still in effect. I believe it is), and I won't be seeing a paycheck for 3 weeks.

Good thing I've saved up my money!

I just hate to see all that money leave my wallet, after months of saving.

Anyway, I've been getting drawn into all sorts of crazy ventures with my friends (on top of the regular ventures, such as old movie night and breakfast club), even making new friends (I've been inducted into yet another group of people. Fun!) I've been having friends shocking me with their presence in the backyard, seemingly popping out of nowhere, knocking on my window in my backyard with disgruntled faces and demands of attention, friends calling me on the phone at the same time (I know that they try since my pager keeps going off, sometimes 5 times in a session when I'm talking to one friend), and friends setting up appointments to play with me, without me agreeing. Aggressive? Yes.

Talk about having friends up to your ears.

What's more, something very peculiar has been happening. I KID YOU NOT. Wherever I go, I keep get people saying, "Hi, Darrel!" or "Hey, Darrel! Come into apartment 3B!" or "Congratulations on your new job, Darrel!" What's more, these are people that I don't know. Who are these people? Why do I keep getting repeated "Hi Darrel"'s? In one instance, a large group of people at the oyster festival (which I didn't know was happening, I was just doing my laundry. Haven't gotten my washer yet...) started shouting my name, calling me to come over. Unfortunantly, I was really busy and couldn't. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
My friends have been dragging me into plans of surfing, playing, running, cooking, watching movies, partying (some of the parties are weird. Others are not. Pirate party? Burning down a wooden ship that's just been built), storytelling, just to name a few.

Of note, my friends have been getting me to run. Heh, one time, up strawberry mountain, I cut my legs up good from all the flora along the trail. We were trying to beat the sunset up the mountain. A race against the sun... All the "whipping" flora made those legs burn like MAD.
In other times, running late at night has been good. We've been doing 5 mile runs, ranging from the one of the topmost parking lots at HSU to deep into the marsh area past Arcata... and back. It's tough, but it's just awesome.

Anyway, I wanted to talk about my laziness with video games (I've been not returning my friends' calls, as well as doing mischievious things like ditching them purposefully (of which I want to make my confession here, where I'm comfortable)), how star ocean is a lot like tales of phantasia (only 3D!), how it all reminds me of everquest (it's not fun to play, but you spent so much time trying to get this ONE THING to work that you keep working on it to finish the job. A bad trap that I fell into purposefully, one that took Evan 3 months to get out of.) and so on and so forth but

I GOT TO RUN TO WORK (1st day)!!!

Did you know that the materials used to make houses smell/taste a lot like candy when ground up??? I'll never forget the smell from grinding the houses...