Just Perfect

So I’ve had (almost) a week in my new job. It’s been an eventful one.

• A (female) intern started on the same day as I did. She’s simply adorable. Pretty, cute, witty, cheerful, and (unfortunately) totally my type as well. She’s also about 12 years younger than I. If that were not enough, I think my manager may be into her, no pun intended.
• Missed my own introduction at the first Friday’s company meeting due to the fact I had not been told about the meeting – and thus scheduled to look at apartments.
• One of my co-workers is jealous because I have to work a lot with his life-partner. Never mind that I am totally absolutely not into guys! It seems the two guys had problems in their relationship before. Now the other dude is talking very badly about me behind my back. Great!

Could you think of a better start into a new job?

New Job

I started my new job today. So far, so good. I don’t really have anything interesting to say about it, yet… except that this office must have the highest concentration of weirdos and oddballs I have seen in a long time. I know that a renaissance for this blog is gonna come from these guys…

Blue

Take the Magic: The Gathering ‘What Color Are You?’ Quiz.

Switching Jobs

As you probably saw on my twitter feed, I’ve been offered a new job. I decided to take it. I resigned last week. My bosses reaction was predictable.

“Oh, okay,” he said. He barely looked at my resignation before returning to whatever he was reading.

On my way back to my desk I dropped by Lynn’s office and gave her the news.

“Ooookay,” she replied.

“I seem to get that a lot today.”

“So where will you be working?”

I told her about the new job, and that it is in another city. She was fairly cheerful, but after I left her office again I noticed that she hadn’t resorted to her usual zany jokes.

Oh, well… Another one for the long list I guess.

Secretgeek vs the Economy

As you may know I’m currently job hunting. Not something I enjoy under normal circumstances; but in days of global economic meltdown, it’s even more sucky than normally. There’s a lot of really good people available who got laid off, and a lot of companies who’re simply not hiring. Add to it my desire to find a job that’s actually fun and puts me in the same room as fun people, and it begins to look hopeless.

Had a lot of interviews lately, but can’t seem to nail anything down. The little feedback I get seems to indicate it’s not really anything wrong with me, it’s just that there are more suitable candidates. The curse of the generalist is that there’s always a specialist for everything…

Too bad I can’t list “free headlining on a crummy anonymous geek blog” as a plus.

That’s going too far

One of my female friends who shall remain nameless is pregnant. I never realized quite what a freak she is:

“We made a lot of tapes,” she told me. “so we probably have That One as well. Think we’ll keep them.”

Me: “So one day your kid is gonna go through your stuff and watch his own conception? You should probably think about that.”

If you hear that story in a court case twenty years down the road after some kid born in ‘09 becomes a psychopath… don’t say I didn’t warn anybody.

Post #666

Life of Secretgeek

Bad day today, and not really because of anything specific. I am feeling old, cranky, and did I mention I am feeling old? It’s been one of those moody days where you get up on the wrong foot, then something reminds you of something you had already almost forgotten, and then you spend the whole day with your mind solidly focused in the past. 1995-past. 1998-past. Even 2002-past and 2007-past. And then your thoughts return to the present and you realize, bloody hell, not only has life not improved, it’s gotten worse. And then, as if that wasn’t enough, I realized that I am now at an age where I really have to worry about my timetable. Kind of like women who suddenly realize they’re 30 and still haven’t reproduced. Yeah, I am now over 30, just that as a guy I care less about having a little version of myself, and instead worry about quality of life in general. I’ve been stuck in the same type of life for the past 10 years, doing the same thing, having about the same standard of living, and so on, and so on.

I really, really do not want to be stuck in the same miserable excuse for a life when I hit the big four-oh.

Sure, I’ve had some good times, but today I seem to be seeing the downsides: I’ve dated some smart and sexy women – but none of those relationships worked out. I’ve traveled four continents – but what good did that really do me? Now I am still stuck in my home-country. I live comfortably – but I still live from one month’s salary to the next, my saving being negligible in the grand scheme of things. Ten years job exprience, and none of it is truly noteworthy (I am good at what I do… but so are a million other people. Ask me about looking for a new job in the midst of a global financial melt-down someday). And sure, I’ve accomplished some things, but – no, wait, that’s the core of the issue, I haven’t.

So, yeah. I am feeling really down today and there’s not even really anything I can do about it. In the long term, maybe – I’ll have to think long and hard about it. But there’s nothing I can do right now. I am sure as hell not going to rush out and buy a sports car, no matter how traditional that “solution” is.

Maybe tomorrow will be better.

Beyond freudian slips?

Martha is an elderly co-worker. She has this problem where spots of the skin on her hands have lost their pigmentation. I overheard the following conversation she had with a younger co-worker, Denise.

Martha: “Now that it’s so sunny, this is really annoying, because the specks get sunburned so easily.”

Denise: “Oh don’t worry about it – a lot of people walk around with cancer, nobody will think it’s a big deal.”

Random Updates

Done watching the Season 4 episodes of the new Battlestar Galactica, so I am caught up with the series. Choice of 5th Cylon is, well, boring, even though it’s appropriate. I guess. I mean, they really ran out of options. They probably could’ve picked worse. But then they ended the show in a massive deus ex machina. That was totally sucky! This, boys and girls, is what happens when you don’t outline your stories ahead of time. At least Sharon Agathon is cute.

Also watched a few of the “new” Doctor Who episodes. Not a bad job reviving that show, either. Tennant does a really good job as The Doctor. And anyway, Martha Jones is cute.

Started raiding and grinding daily quests in World of Warcraft. Damn – I didn’t want to become one of those people. And promptly, raid politics caught up with me: In the raid group there’s Drunk Dude and Emo Girl. Emo Girls goes on about how she’s a straight-A student and yet everybody’s out to get her and to be mean to her specifically and on purpose, while Drunk Dude just resigned in a fit of paranoia. Note: Just because you’re an alcoholic does not mean people automatically make fun of you behind your back. Meh – I need a new hobby! Er… Gnomes are cute, but in a different way.