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Annoyances
My refrigerator is dying, or at least only working under protest. A few weeks ago, it started making this horrendous buzzing. I had an appliance repairman come look at it. He said the condense...
The Opposite Side of Crushes
When I started this job, I was cautioned that some students may get a crushes on me. I suppose I didn’t disagree with this statement intellectually, but being the recipient of an infatuation was...
Happiness = Hell on Health, Also Aging
On any given day, it feels like half my body has expired. If it’s not my calf, it’s my knee. If it’s not my knee, it’s my other knee. If it’s not my knee, it’s my back. If it’s not my back, i...
Rude Stude with a Tude
Students come in all shapes & sizes, not to mention attitudes. I currently have one student with an attitude I’m amazed his parents haven’t corrected. His name is Eli, and he is the most co...
Work Trip/Girlfriend Ghosts
I went to Houston today. The dean is sending me & a coworker to something called the ACBSP Conference. Even after doing some research on the event, I’m still not quite sure what it is, or a...
Future Plans
I feel kind of weird grieving about the following. One of the bigger draws about moving back to Athens was the potential of reconnecting with my old TKD club. It’s just, a while ago, I arrived ...
The odometer rolled over one more time. I turned 37 last week. My birthday’s aren’t typically pleasant. Not that they’re bad, they’re just not particularly good. So many people have parties o...
Processing Break Ups
I spent so much of my youth being completely romantically inept around women, I had no idea how much guilt dating would entail. I think about Erika constantly, though I haven’t heard from her sin...
Now, it's over (I think?)
Last Saturday afternoon, Erica sent me the following email. “Hey there, You said if there was anything that I could ask you that might soothe my soul to any degree that I could ask. So, I would ...
It's Over...I guess...Still not sure
It’s been a week. I talked to Erica last Saturday for about five hours, and I think we resolved most everything. It looks like there was a love-language miscommunication. For anyone who may no...
She Responded
“Dear Rob, I come in peace and I want to ask for forgiveness. I don’t expect you to forgive me, but I hope you can someday find it in your heart to, if only for your sake so you can have peace. I...
What I sent
Maybe it was a mistake. Maybe I’ve just poked the bear again, but I can’t be called a spineless, immoral coward and not say anything. “Erika. I’m sorry I hurt you. I know the following rings ho...
What I want to send (rough draft)
I haven’t completed scrubbing it for grammatical errors, but this is everything I want to get off my chest. Erika, I’d really like to call and discuss everything you said, but you said a lot, and...
Do I Respond?
This is the email I just received from Erika. “Welp, it’s taken me about a week to stop being angry so I wasn’t going to write anything until I calmed down. Hurt for a day, but then just angry af...
Dumped (continued from the previous entry)
After a sleepless night, I typed and sent her my response this afternoon. Dear, Erika. Even after sleeping on it, I’m very much at a loss for words, so I’m not sure what or how much I can write. ...
Dumped
I thought everything was going well, then Erika sent me a break up email last night at 11:00pm. Dear Rob, I want you to know that the whole tone of this e-mail is gentle, kind, and soft spoken....
Christmas Visit/Brother Battle
I visited Erika & her family over Christmas. I left on the 22nd, and came back on the 2nd. Generally, I had a pleasant time. I didn’t get to see much of St. Louis. So much of our time was...
Internal Drama
I’ve been talking to Erika about a couple of times a week for at least a couple of hours each call. Conversations are always relaxed an easy. We talk about how our week is going, challenges we’...
Knucklehead students/Romantic Getaway
The semester is half-way over. I must say, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this position. It’s almost surreal. “So this is what it’s like to have a job you enjoy,” I think to myself almost every day. ...
Moving Difficulties; Ass Station Attendant; New, Hot (Kinda) Girlfriend
Much has happened since I last wrote, some awesome, some not so much, and some I’m not sure what to think. First of all, I’ve moved into my new place. I closed on the 30th and moved what few th...
Second Guesses
I wonder how many people after making a significant decision, I mean a stark either/or type choice, hear echoes of the choice they didn’t make afterwards. For me, it sometimes feels like a came ...
Barf!...Yay!...Ouch!...Oh $hit!
The last I spoke on the subject, I was being considered for an contract associate controller position in Atlanta. I also recently interviewed for an accounting instructor position at that techni...
Almost a Job
My recruiter contacted me on Thursday. Kellen is apparently interested in giving me the position. This is a six month contract, and the tentative start date is Wednesday. I want to be excited,...
Possibilities
I’m finally have some job prospects. My recruiter at Robert Half acquired a job interview for me last week with a company called Kellen. It provides management and consulting services to non-pr...
Still No Job
I’ve gone on some interviews since I last wrote. Nothing’s yet materialized. I had one interview that would have went really well had I not pooch screwed everything up by being 15 minutes late....
Book Description
Hello, my name is Rob, or Robbo, if you will. It was a nickname given to me in college by some very close friends. Well, I jumping on the Prosebox bandwagon. For close to 13 years, I had a journal on Open Diary. Sadly, Open Diary is going offline, and I need to find a new diary site to call home, so here I am. I miss Open Diary already; it was such a community. I hope I can find that same kind of environment here. Cheers.
