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"Wow, Chunga!" You say. "This is closing in on a year of utter silence!"
Mm-hm. That's what happens when real life eats you alive.
I have gone back over my journal entries--both of them--and feel like some updating may be necessary.
1.) The Job Front.
Yep. I'm employed in a totally non-temp way. Less than a month after my last entry, I was offered a position at the place I'd been temping at, which is a print shop.
More fool me. I needed the money, and I still do. I make $12 an hour. And I get overtime. I imagine to most gaians, that sounds like a ton--I make hundreds of dollars a week, thousands a year.
When you get into your mid-twenties, you realize that things aren't cheap. The apartment you want will eat up close to half your paycheck a month. Insurance will nibble on the rest.
I treat myself now--I have a PS2 and Gamecube and a TV and games for them, and each has come with my own money. But I don't have my own place, and that's part of it.
I also have a new computer that was won in a raffle at my little sister's Oktoberfest. That's nice. So I've taken up World of Warcraft.
Mika and I are still together, happily--though who would be reading this entry that doesn't already know that, I have no clue.
I remember that earlier I spoke of teaching english in China. That kind of fell by the wayside. There's something offputting when you send a message saying you're interested and might be looking into this a year from now, and their response is WE HAVE A SPACE FOR YOU NOW.
Color me paranoid.
However, I have been taking Mandarin classes over at the local community college. It's been fun.
Nargh. Tired. Can't sleep, because I have laundry going. *sigh*
 Chunga · Tue Apr 18, 2006 @ 06:02am · 1 Comments |
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It's been a while since I've said anything here. Might as well have a state of the Chunga address.
I'm still working with Kelly services. I'm still wanting to find something else. I'm still...I don't know. There's an interesting position available teaching English in China. I want to go. I want to check it out. Something in it says it's like my big chance, the Call to Adventure, and it is...SO tempting to leave everything behind. So very tempting.
Kate said recently that I helped her mature, that I helped her get out of her chrysalis. I feel like I'm still in mine, or maybe I'm just a snake wanting to shed its skin. I'm not as introverted as I once was, but there's still the urge to break free of something, of myself--like things are calcifying around me here in Dallas, and I need to break free before it starts to get to me, too. I feel, in a way, that this might be what I need. Two things stop me.
1.) Kate. Leaving her behind would make me very upset--hell, it made me upset just to leave her and College Station today. Ultimately, though, if it were just Kate not wanting me to go that would stop me, I'd be tempted--strongly tempted--to do this anyway, and I don't know if I would or if I wouldn't. I would likely come to regret it if I did, though. Ten months and continents apart would wreak havoc on our relationship the way few things do.
2.) The note about preferring young couples. I imagine this is because in China, you're going to need the moral support. The culture is going to be alien, you're going to stick out like a sore thumb, and the language will have you lost. Having someone there someone familiar, is probably something you almost NEED. And the fact that they note this is like a little dollop of fate, something whacking me upside the head and saying "WAIT FOR KATE TO GRADUATE, YOU MORON, AND THEN YOU CAN BOTH GO."
And so I'm waiting. It may be a year or more, but I'm waiting. I can be patient, after all.
Chunga · Mon Jun 27, 2005 @ 04:48am · 1 Comments |
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A first post/Of Beginnings and New Lives |
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So here I am.
I don't suppose anyone here with the exception of one person remembers Chunga from the days of the Misery, and then the Twilight. But for those unexpected folk out there who do recall, and aren't Mika, I bring this assurance: Yes, in fact, I can speak in proper English.
I'm a fairly recent college graduate, 24, without major plans. I read something in Time Magazine yesterday that suggests I'm not alone. And this is strange. If I were born twenty years earlier, at this age I would be expected to be married, I think, and probably have children on the way. That, and my college degree would mean something more.
Now, it means that I'm one of the oversized chunk of the population that trudged through an extra few years of classes.
I got the best positive sign in ages today from Kelly Services, a temp agency. Maybe I'll have work somewhere within the week.
In other news, I spent most of the Wal-Mart Gift Card I had on a String Quartet Evanescence CD. It's kinda cool.
Chunga · Wed Jan 26, 2005 @ 01:49am · 2 Comments |
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