Sunday, January 26, 2014

January 26, 2014

Another typical Sunday. I watched YouTube videos and some DVRed stuff, played a little Battlefield 4, did laundry, played guitar, and some other stuff.

From reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore I was curious about the programming language Ruby so I went to Hastings to see if they had a book. On the way I stopped at my sister's to help her husband carry a giant fish tank into the house. It still had several inches of water in it so that was kind of a bitch, with stairs thrown in for good measure. I immediately wished I hadn't done so many pushups right before. But we managed it. At Hastings, I was not in the least surprised that they didn't have the book I was looking for. The books went from Python to SQL. No love for Ruby. I ended up ordering the book on Amazon so it should be here by Wednesday.

I checked out a few shows today that looked interesting when I saw commercials for them but hadn't gotten around to checking out. Those being: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Enlisted, and Chozen. And that is how I would rank them in order of quality. I really want to like Chozen because I like Bobby Moynihan but it just doesn't seem like something I can get into. Enlisted was good, not great, and it made me want to see more than the three episodes so far. I was surprised by how good Brooklyn Nine-Nine was. Also not great, but I was impressed. It has such a diverse cast of characters and somehow they manage to make it work. I like it.


Once again I was hit with the realization today that I can't bring myself to do anything that would advance my life. In any aspect of my life. I can't apply to graduate school even though I know that is what I want to do. I can't make new friends even though I want people to hang out with, people that are interested in the things I'm interested in. I have a few friends now, and we share interests, but they are all so different from me. I think really I just need friends that I can play video games with or talk about geeky things with. Or just hang out with to get me out of the house. Along the same lines, I can't talk to girls even though I know I want a girlfriend and eventually a wife and a family. I really enjoy my job at the school. For the first time ever I actually feel needed at a job and that I provide a valued service. But it is a job that pays crap. I have two college degrees and two jobs that don't require a college degree and pay just over minimum wage. My idea of feeling like an adult involves a job that actually pays money. And requires a college degree. Mainly because I spent five years getting a couple of them. So I need to go to graduate school so I can become a librarian, I need to make friends so I have people to hang out with, I need to talk to girls so I can increase my odds of finding a girlfriend, and I need to get a job (with that graduate degree hopefully) that I enjoy and pays grown-up money. All of these things, minus the job maybe, are fairly easy things to do. It doesn't take much to apply to graduate school, or talk to people, but I just can't do it. I will stare a wall for hours rather than making proactive moves toward the future that I desire. I don't really understand it. I spend so much time in my head but I still can't figure it out. It's like my feet are glued to the ground. I'm so tired of it. I want to move forward and I just can't. I know what needs to be done but I don't know what to do.

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