Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Saturday night, my stomach freaked out, the way that it sometimes does, and I didn't do much of anything. I think I finished Harry Potter 5 on Saturday, or early Sunday. I also tried watching the first episode of Stargate: Atlantis, but I had rented the wrong disc.

Sunday, I got about 4 hours sleep, if that. Sometimes the shower running will wake me up, and other times I sleep right through it. I don't know why, but the shower woke me up that day. I couldn't get back to sleep. I had made plans with Janice to visit our grandmother's house on Monday, so I thought this might not be a bad thing; I could stay up, go to work, sleep when I got home, so I'd be awake on Monday.

Sunday night I closed the store with Pat. Everything ran pretty smoothly. I know someone else worked with us for a few hours, but I can't remember who. It was a blur of returns and people. I do remember Nate stopped in. We got everything done that we needed to. But during the night, I got a call from my sister saying that she had a horrible head cold, as did one of her sons, and that our grandparents were just getting over another illness, so we cancelled - not wanting to make our grandparents conditions any worse. I rented to correct disc of Stargate: Atlantis that night.

All through Saturday & Sunday there was an exchange of e-mails with Shane, the boy I saw at Necto on Friday. When I got home Sunday night there were more. And I found I couldn't sleep again. I sometimes get into patterns where I can't sleep, and was worried this was happening again. Some of it has to do with my acid reflux, which has been getting bad again, though I'm not certain why.

Monday I drove Mark to work, got gas in the car (OMJ - gas is so freaking expensive!) and dropped off my film. I've been taking pictures on this single role of film since December. I usually have 4 or 5 rolls developed at once, taken in a much shorter span of time; at least that was the norm last summer. I just haven't felt like having my picture taken lately, I guess. Anyways, my pictures would be done by 4pm. I went home, and tried to sleep. It wasn't working. I picked up my pictures at 4pm, then went home, but couldn't go to sleep, because I had to pick up Mark from work, then we had to go to Best Buy to get something for Mark. And then finally home...where I finally slept.

The phone woke me up around 10pm. It was Mollie, telling me she got into this great nursing program, and she'd quit her job at Little Caesars, which she hated beyond the telling of it. She says this training is for a job that's in high demand where she lives, but I can't help but worry about her getting another job. I mean, Mollie applied at a lot of crap jobs that were all hiring that didn't hire her. I know that she's happy about this decision, so I'm happy that she's happy, but I can't help thinking that she should have held on to the job she had, pathetic as it was, until she got another job. Hopefully it will all work out in the end.

I did get back to sleep for a few more hours. When I woke up early, I watched the pilot episode(s) of Stargate: Atlantis, which was mostly really cheesy, but featured some cool villains.

Tuesday, I was early to work, and late to leave. I worked with DJ, Jonathan, and later, Nate came in, as well as Bill. I didn't work over as much as I usually did. I changed my clothes early, and went outside to wait for Mark, while I talked to Mollie on the phone.

While I was working, I'd taken a call from the Packard Road Hollywood Video, about a customer of ours returning some 3 of our movies at the Packard Road location. Usually when this happens, they call us, then we look up who rented those movies, and call them, letting them know they made a mistake, and they need to go get those movies and return them to the correct store. This time I didn't do that, because my friend Mallory & her boss Tim were working at the Packard Road store that night, and I'd promised Mal that I'd give them some mashup cds months ago, but kept forgetting to go - so I offered to get the movies myself, which the customer appreciated.

When I got home from work, I ate, burned some cds, replied to some e-mail, and eventually went to visit my other Hollywood friends. I chatted with them for at little over 2 hours, which was fun. I gave them the cds, plus I gave Tim, the new NIN cd I had in the car (note to self - burn a new copy for the car!!!), which he was very grateful for. Tim & I have chatted in passing for years, but we've never gotten to sit down and talk, and while we didn't sit down this time, we had a lot more time this session, which was part of the reason I went there. Tim & his partner have been together for like 14 years or something like that, and this guy must be great, because Tim is really cool; I really want to meet his partner, and hopefully we'll all get along, because...well, I think Tim is fun.

While I was visiting at the store, there was a moment where they were busy, and I called Corey. I left him a message earlier, but I got through this time, and it was great to hear his voice. I can go for days without really missing him; I'm not obsessed with him or anything...but then I do really think about him, and I miss him a lot. He's been throught the wringer with his work lately, and he was resting up for the next volley...when I get my schedule for next week I'm going to call him and see if we can sort out a time when we can see each other again. ;-0)

I dropped those movies off back at my store, and got my boots, which I'd left there earlier, then I stopped by the Aut Bar briefly, and went home. I sent out some more e-mails. I updated my gay.com profile. I chatted a bit, but the updating of the profile took way longer than I expected. I finished the 3rd episode of Stargate: Atlantis. I went to bed around 10am on Wednesday. I slept until 4pm, which felt great. I might take a nap later as well. It rained all day, which made the condo darker, with the rain sounds helping to relax me.

When I woke up, I checked my e-mail, but there wasn't anything from Mollie, Carrie, Corey or Shane...or any of my other friends for that matter. Just random crap. Then I wrote this, which took way longer than it should have, as I'm still half asleep. Maybe I should go back to being fully asleep. That sounds great.

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