Week Recap

So pretty much a week has gone by. And I'm adjusting fine. Days are busy from start to end...from not being able to get off my sleeping spot on the floor in the morning, to falling asleep on the floor at night with my laptop still open and the lights still on haha. This new life keeps me busy...but it's not better than what I had. It doesn't even come close.

I drove back up to San Jose on Tuesday morning straight to work and stayed in the office until 2:30am that day. I got all my stuff set up though...dual monitors, pictures, wires and cables, snacks, etc. I had a meeting with my manager and I asked about getting more training or shadowing on the job. It's been put into action, so this I am glad of. I'm finally starting to understand what on earth I'm doing...a month later. Funny thing is that after my meeting, my manager asked to speak with me, but we kept missing each other...so she finally sent me an email instead. She knew that times were tough for me and she thought she'd noticed a black eye on me during our small meeting. I assured her that I have not been physically harmed. That was odd though. I know I haven't been sleeping well...so maybe it shows?

Wednesday was a relatively normal day at work. Thursday was too. And Friday I worked from home because they told me to (nobody was in the office that day). But after work is when things got fun.

On Wednesday, I stopped by the Starbucks intending to grab a coffee to keep me awake for the evening, and to ask my new friend Erik if he'd like to go to see Pirates with me on Saturday. The funniest thing though. While I was standing around I ran into someone else, Ryan, who worked there and he was nice...older I could tell. A small conversation started and turns out he just moved to the area too from the east coast, so he wanted to hang out sometime and asked to exchange numbers. Wow that was fast from a two minute conversation. I won't lie I was surprised. But it's flattering I guess. I took a seat and Erik started talking to me from behind the counters. I followed the conversation and asked him if he'd like to come with us to the movies and he said sure! Haha that made my day. I already have a diverse group of new friends. It's kind of nice because he's still so young...just turned 19 lol. And don't laugh at me, he's just my new buddy. I'm over boy drama, so I'm not gonna be looking for anyone for a while.

Anyways I left and headed up to Jubilee where I walked in and people on staff still remembered me. I sat in on the service and worship. It was good...a very powerful message put into conversation that youth can understand and follow. Lots of stories and examples, and chances for exciting opportunities. I practically wanted to jump up and volunteer to go. It's interesting to me how the worship band plays like it's a rock concert. Not that it's the music that surprised me, but the center of attention and applause, etc. It's great and they do a wonderful job and wow those kids are talented, but it takes away from the purpose of God being the main spotlight on stage. Though, this is just me so it could be different for everyone else. It's not place to judge anyways. I stayed and talked and played a silly fun game with some of the older kids afterwards before heading out. I picked up my uncle from Cisco on my way out and headed back to his house for dinner with the family. Pho...mmm...homemade. Kim and I hung out but I was pooped so I feel asleep pretty fast that night.

On Thursday, I met up with Megan and we went to go shopping and see Shrek the Third at the Oakridge Mall. We bought a buncho candy over at Target and smuggled it all into the theater. Ahaha it was the best idea and worst idea ever. Candy is great. But on the other hand, candy is not so great! Haha...ah the health nut in me...who'da thought? The movie was pretty good. I actually liked it better than the first two.

Friday was checking out another bible study called GRX over in Saratoga. I left early since Kim and Emily were coming down after work to visit me down in South San Jose. They said it felt foreign to them since they never come around here...even though they live only a half hour away lol. We went to Downtown San Jose to grab dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory and walk around. Some parts of downtown were really pretty (including the area around Adobe, Russell I'm so jealous! Lol). The girls were very indecisive and kept asking me what to do. I had to laugh at this because I'm not the one from the bay area! We checked out some place for dancing which I don't have a problem saying it sucked. And finally ended up at a pub. The girls ordered beers and I got my water (DD) and we took a table. Ah, here's the story element. A guy approached us using his buddy as an excuse to talk to us. It was obvious. He said that he wanted us to go over to his buddy and take pictures with him so there would be proof that his buddy came downtown. Um, it's my camera lol. We said if they were so bold, to come over and sit at our table. So they did. Average looking at first, but they grew on you. The first one, Shawn (Shaun?), was well...wasted. I never really tried to hold a conversation with him. Emily tried though. The second one was not, and so he sat next to me and we talked and played some games of quarters (well, more like pennies and nickels on tall pint glasses lol). When I got them in he'd drink it all though haha. I admit, he was cool. You could tell that this isn't what he normally does...more like just a drink after work. Well, that's the impression I was getting anyways.

Two kickers that night. They wanted to guess my age...not a day over 20 they said. I raised my eyebrows and they said 19? I looked at them and said hello I'm in a pub. Haha. Second kicker...I asked Mike what he did for a living and he responded that he didn't want to bore me. I egged it out of him and he said that he was a computer engineer and was working at...Cisco. Oh. my. gosh. Ahaha that's probably the least boring topic brought up all night. Wow I'm such a nerd. But I did a lot with Cisco this year. Ebrah's gonna work there. My uncle works there. I wanted to work there doing hands on networking. And shoot, a normal everyday computer engineer sitting right next to me. Kim and Emily told me later to stop taking all the normal engineers haha. Anyways yea we talked and it was cool. A while later his buddy was gonna pass out so he called a cab and dragged Mike out the door. I could have asked for his number, but like I said I'm not looking...so I didn't. I think he wanted to ask also, since he kept hesitating when his friend pulled on his arm to catch the taxi sitting outside, but I didn't say anything and his buddy had his arm. So they left. And that's it. Interesting evening.