Hey everyone! Vim here! Sorry for the long wait, but a lot of things have happened since I was gone.
I guess we should start with my social life. Everything is as boring as it was last time Lol. I guess I hung out with a friend once since the first post. Let's call her Pellucid. I asked her if we could go to the gym together, and she said yes, so I thought we would be working out together, doing the same workouts and such. But no, that was not what she meant, so we just worked out independently in proximity to each other Lol. This is the first time I've worked out in months, and I found a pretty doable two-day program on my workout app (Boostcamp), so I started it. I found my love for working out again, so I did the second day also, which was a little bit more challenging since it included body-weight workouts and I'm a fat fuck, but I persevered through.
Speaking of social life...I GOT ASKED OUT BY A GIRL FROM WORK. Let's call her Evelina. I work nightshift and she works dayshift so we see each other in passing, but we have a history of good correspondence. We were talking about our lives and similar interests in books, when she suddenly said we should go out for a drink sometime and told me to add her as a contact. You don't understand how far my jaw dropped when she offered me her number and how ironic it was that my phone died 2 hours before shift change Lol. So instead, she added mine, and I messaged her the next day about when and where we should meet up. It has been 2 days since I sent that message, and so far she has just left me on read Lol. Can't say I was too excited about this meetup. I was being realistic and not thinking too much of it. So being left on read isn't the worst thing that could have happened. I think I'll see her next Saturday after work, so that's gonna be interesting Lol.
I do have an update on Star. Turns out, she recently just broke up with her boyfriend...SHIT. So these days/weeks of me thinking she might have something for me are now even more perplexing. The funny thing is, the day after I sent the message to Evelina was one of our more chatty days. Although it ended up on a bit of a sour note because there was a moment I percieved as awkward and when I went out to get something from my car, I saw her come out also but she turned a different direction to steer clear of me. So yeah, 1 step forward, 1000 steps backward :)
School has been okay. Not much happened in my Communications or U.S. Government class. I was dreading my Literature assignment though. For my chosen medium analysis assignment, so far I've been choosing feature-length films which is probably why I did a poor job on a past assignment because it was on comparing and contrasting themes so I had to rush watching both films. This time though, I put my ego aside and chose a short film so I can easily rewatch it to get a better grasp on the story and write a proper in-depth analysis. I have a good feeling about my submission, so I hope I do well. I even asked Star advice because the minimum word count is 400 but I ended up writing 730 because I had the "throw shit on the wall and see what sticks" mentality. She and others I asked said the same thing to shorten it a bit, so I cut out some of the weaker arguments.
Yesterday and today I've started the onboarding process for the radiography program. I worked 2 extra shifts during spring break, so my paycheck looked pretty nice when it hit Lol. I paid $200 for the processing company the school uses for background checks and such. I did the simple stuff first like forms to sign and agreements to agree to. I want to get the more laborous stuff like physical and health exams done this week though. Which reminds me, I have a fingerprinting appointment tomorrow so I should add a reminder to my phone Lol. So now I'm thinking if I should workout tonight or not :( The thing that pisses me off is that I know I'm going to test positive for the 2-week tuberculosis skin test because as an immigrant I took the vaccine thus I test positive. I wish I can just go straight to the chest X-ray to see if my lungs are fucked or not. I'm hoping the clinic office can print the physical exam paper because I don't have a printer. I think I also went ahead and submitted forms I wasn't supposed to yet because I think an instructor needs to sign them...oops Lol. What I'm most scared of is the drug test. I'm not a drug user or regular smoker, but I do have experience with the devil's lettuce every once in a while. I'm so paranoid that I'm looking at reddit to see how regular smokers pass the test with a week of abstinence. I think the last time I smoked was like 3 months ago so I should be good, but I have anxiety so I'm a wreck Lol.
Paying for the radiography program is giving me anxiety too. The service my job uses to pay for our school also asks for how much the books are. But the school hasn't updated their bookstore website yet so I don't know what the final costs of everything is going to be. I don't even remember how to look up the cost of the individual courses. I'm also gonna try to see if I can game the system a bit for my job to pay for my uniform because I'm broke Lol.
Reviewing my post, I see that there's a lot of negative energy so let me add some positives. I went and got a haircut today and shaved my face so I'm the cleanest-looking as I've ever been. The haircut went okay, but the stylist kept pressuring me to also get a perm to add texture and so that it's easier to style. Males in both my paternal and maternal families went bald so the last think I want to do is expedite the process. I even got a banh mi sandwhich from across the salon for lunch. All thanks to my mom who I begged money for to help with these superfluous expenses. I used to be ashamed of asking money from her, but she's my mom and can help me so why not. I do admit I think I got a lesbian haircut because I think I look like a lesbian Lol. It's okay, I realized as I was looking at it in melancholy that it's actually the perfect length to start growing a wolf cut which is what I usually sport so I don't feel too unsure about it anymore. Star previously said that after her day off today, she's working 10 straight shifts and I was like DAMN is that even legal. She said at her company it is, so I'm guaranteed to see her now Lol. I don't know if she's opening or closing, so it's up in the air if I'll actually see her because I tend to come in near closing. I am going to a rave next week, so I'm finally having some zest in my life! I asked my friend if he's free to come along so I'm not a lonely fuck.
Overall, my social/romantic life is still shit and school is going how you would expect it to be.
Thank you all!