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| February 13, 2001 00:00 (by RustyBrooks) | |
I've accepted a new job at a company in north LA called E-praissal. I'll be starting there in a couple of weeks, so for the time being I'll be making frantic plans to get all of that worked out. I'm looking forward to some real changes in my surroundings, and I hope that I can make everything work for me in my "new life." More as things develop... Oh, and I took the LSAT last saturday. Not too bad, I'll just have to wait and see how I do. At this point I'm not considering law school very seriously. It was kind of hard to make myself go down there (Austin), get up early, and actually do it. A couple of times I just wanted to get up and walk out. I was tired, and uninterested, and I didn't really care how I did. I really didn't want to do the essay.... but I did it, and did a pretty reasonable job on even that. I guess the thing is, I don't want to screw myself in the future. At some point I may be thinking about law school again, and I don't want to have to wait another year if that happens, or take the LSAT again to fix the crummy score I might have gotten if I blew it off.
Well, it's over now, anyway. A little more about law school
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| February 8, 2001 00:00 (by RustyBrooks) | |
Going to Austin tomorrow afternoon, to take the LSAT on saturday. I started the law school wheels in motion some months ago, and now it feels like I might just be going through the motions. I don't really think at this point that I'll go to law school, but I've already payed a LOT for the Kaplan course, registered for the test, so I might as well go take it. What's a few more hours out of my life, anyway. I wonder though... what kind of score would I have to get to turn me around, to make me want to do it again, to excite me about 3 years of struggle followed by a career in law? I'm not making any deals with myself right now. When it happens it happens. Right now I'm just trying not to do anything that I'll regret later.
After all... if I didn't take the test, and in 6 months law school looks good again... I'd be sorry that I hadn't taken the test. So, I'll follow through, even if it isn't with the clearest of intentions.
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| February 1, 2001 00:00 (by RustyBrooks) | |
Lee and I went to see Spalding Gray last night, and it was GREAT! I wasn't too sure if I was going to like it... Originally I bought three tickets (David Sedaris, Spalding Gray, and Holly Hughes) because I was in love with Sedaris' voice and writing, but it turns out that I liked Gray a lot, and maybe I'll love Hughes also. So, maybe it was worth the money. Gray was delivering his monologue "Morning, Noon and Night" which I guess is/will be his newest book also. It kind of goes through a day in his life in a village near Long Island. There's lots of side-trips through other parts of his life, but mainly focusing on his children and the woman he's been living with for the last 12 or 13 years. His love for his children is apparent, and he clearly treats them like small-scale adults, which I think is neat. He's a neurotic in some (a lot) of ways but he's so dynamic and charismatic you can't help but loving him for his faults, not in spite of them. Jock Sturges, a wonderful artist, is speaking at the Mac on saturday and I might skip my LSAT class to go see him, since I've loved his work for years.
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| January 28, 2001 00:00 (by RustyBrooks) | |
OK. I said it the site wouldn't go down any more. I lied. We changed the network around at work, and that hosed everything up for a good while. But here it is, back in it's full glory. And I promise it will never go down again. On other fronts, a rather strange thing happened to me the other day. I was sitting upstairs, chatting with Lee and Angela on messenger, and I hear the door open downstairs. I live alone so I knew that was not right. The cat was pretty upset as well. So I peeked down the stairway, and there was some kid standing down there, begging me not to shoot him. I said, "Sure, OK, relax, and, by the way, what are you doing here?" He was clearly drunk, and he had apparently been at a party next door. He said that a cop had pulled up and he got scared, and just went into the first door he saw. Turns out he was underage. He stayed for a minute or two, and then we went outside to see what was going on. The cops asked "us" if my neighbors always made this much noise and I said that I hadn't noticed it before. Then the cop, and the drunk hooligan left (in seperate directions). How drunk do you have to be before you'll just walk into someone's house to avoid the police because you're 19 and inebriated?
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| January 11, 2001 00:00 (by RustyBrooks) | |
Lee is coming to visit from Dallas today, and will probably stay here until the end of the weekend. It'll be nice to have someone around to hang out with, I miss that about living in Dallas. Allen will probably come down from Amarillo or whatever godforsaken place he's living in now and stay a day or so too. He's coming to see Lee, not me, but that's OK.
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| January 9, 2001 00:00 (by RustyBrooks) | |
I guess I kind of forgot to mention it... but my house was broken into last thursday, and some, but not a lot, of things were taken. The only really valuable things missing are my dvd player and audio receiver. They took lots of miscellaneous stuff that isn't worth much, but I'll kind of miss anyway, which is too bad. My door is in the process of being repaired as we speak. The police have been here to look around and ask questions but I kind of doubt I'll get my stuff back.
It feels pretty weird knowing that someone has been in my house, looking through my things. It's hard not to take it personally although I'm pretty sure that there's nothing personal about it, whenever a robbery takes place, someone has to be the victim. It comes at a time when I was taking to viewing my home as sort of a sanctuary from other problems that I have, but now I don't really feel that way about it. I haven't even been especially motivated to clean anything up. Since all my remotes were taken, watching TV is a pain so I don't. With my DVD player gone I can't watch movies either. So there's hardly a reason to go downstairs at all now, and I guess I don't much.
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| January 5, 2001 00:00 (by RustyBrooks) | |
Well, at long last my web site is working again. It's been down forever due to the capriciousness of the new computer I was installing it on and some basic problems transporting the data from the old computer to the new one. The good news is that I have this server all to myself so my site won't be going down due to problems from some other stuff I was sharing the machine with. Misty and I are still apart, but I'm staying in Lubbock for the time being, I indefinitely postponed my move to Austin. I'm going to stay put until things clear up and I'm sure what I want to do.
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| November 5, 2000 00:00 (by RustyBrooks) | |
Well, I'm semi-officially moving to Austin now. I've found an apartment I like and it will be available starting in mid-december, so I'm starting to make plans to go. The apartment is in north Austin, at the far north end of 183, where it turns from a highway into a road. It's not far from where folks like Curtis and Mitch live, which is part of the reason for wanting to move. Just time to make a change.
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