devvyn

I provide here an excerpt from an email I sent today to an acquaintance in England, a friend of my brother. I feel if I have time to outline in detail my current life status I may as well provide it here as a blog entry:

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As for life here in the apartment, my girlfriend who lived here for--I suppose--three months, perhaps, has moved out as of two days ago and although things between us are in a friendship area more or less. there is that sense that we miss each other even though this arrangement is better. There were many fights during which her anger was so far out of control that nobody in the apartment could find peace, as often as twice a day during the worst week of it. I admit that I should bite my tongue when needed, as this effort would save myself many instances with other people as well. I feel I am too outspoken for my own good in some cases where standing up is not the path of virtue; some fights aren't worth pursuing.

Work is another grey area now. I am still plagued by a sense of restlessness within my occupation, and a recent job offer seemed to shine some hope for a break in the monotony into my mind. This turned out to be a false alarm as the offer was attached to the acquisition of ownership of a franchise location, taken on by my former employer of the pool hall which closed down in May. As it turns out, she didn't apply for the proper franchise liscences, and as such, was henceforth threatened with legal action. I had a look at the web site for the franchise and it seems the fees for merely using the name are $15 000, followed by a two-week instruction course in Toronto. Fortunately, I was able to re-secure my job at Arby's for the time being, even though I'd given my formal notice to leave. I plan to apply for employment elsewhere on my own, as I still find Arby's painstakingly dull.

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Cathy's computer is assembled. She bought the parts at OTV and I put it together. We started installing Windows XP and when I attempted to connect it to the Internet, I realised I'd put the motherboard in without making sure all the back panel jacks were accessible, and here the network jack (and the firewire, too) are obstructed by part of the back panel. Today after work I'll fix it, but it means unplugging most of the cables and unscrewing the motherboard from the case to re-align it.