Well it has been a wonderful exciting week. And an exhausting one. I worked my last week at VBS. I will miss those guys a lot. Especially Ludwig and Taikara. I feel really sorry for Taikara, she is lonely and wants a boyfriend. But the guy that she is lusting over already has a girl. But Pete is in a long distance relationship and is not having a good go of it. So Taikara wants to bang him or anybody but is really frustrated. But that's life I guess. I feel bad for Ludwig, because I'm getting a better job than he has and yet he's a harder worker than I am. And is some repects he's smarter too. But I know Ludwig and he'll be running VT in a couple of years anyway. He does feel like part of the SCA group after New Years so he'll hang out with them some too.

Wednesday was my going away dinner/Brianna's welcome back dinner. We went to Boudreaux's and I had Jambalaya which was awesome. Then we went over to Mill Mountain for coffee and just hung out for a while. We talked about all kinds of different things. Then we went back to Julie and Jen's to watch movies. Which now that I think about it wasn't really all that special an evening. We do that kind of thing all the time. I do have to tell you about the joke I played on Julie. It's the kind you remember for a while because you laughed so hard. While we were hanging out at their place before we started the movie, she was on the phone with Aldemere. They talked for a while and then she had to go to the bathroom so she hung up and told him to call back in a few minutes and for us to answer it if he called back before she was out. Well he called back and I grabbed the phone before anyone else could get it. I said hello and could tell it was him. He asked for Julie in a subdued voice. I told him to hold on and the yelled so that he could hear "Julie put your clothes back on, you have a phone call". I then told him to hold on. While he was on hold and waiting for Julie to come out of the bathroom Jay and Ludwig and Bri started talking about how much he could mess me up because he used to be an army sniper. They were saying disgusting things about how big he could make a hole in you etc. Well Julie came in about that time and heard what we were talking about as I innocently handed her the phone. Before he could say anything she started in on him for talking about killing people. I remember hearing her say "well they are talking about making holes in people so it must be your fault". After about five minutes of talking to him in her room we just hear her yell "HE SAID WHAT??!?!". We all lost it, it was tooooo funny. She came running out of the room and started beating me with her Nemo stuffed animal but I was laughing to hard to care. Everyone applauded the joke after she went back in her room, even Andrea said it was timed well. I spent most of the weeknights packing my clothes and or washing them. I chatted with a good many people that I hadn't talked to for a while too. It was really hard to get motivated and I ended up wandering around my room a lot looking at things I had forgotten about. As a result my room is now an absolute wreck. But that's ok, I managed to pack all the clothes I will need and sorted through the stuff that I really don't. I left on Saturday to no real big fanfare, everybody was just doing regular Saturday stuff. But that won't last long, they want me to come back next Saturday for muy going away/birthday party. It's amazing that they can't ever schedule a birthday party on a day that's convenient for me, ever. It just won't happen. On Saturday the office took me out to lunch at Backstreets. The pizza was very good, I will miss that place too. Everyone was there and had a good time. Except for maybe Ludwig because the pizza wasn't Dominoes. I spent the whole of Friday afternoon getting stuff off of my computers at work. I had a lot of music and documents colected over two years. It all fit on five CD's thankfully. As I was finishing up Nancy walked in. She had to come in and pay some bills. It turns out that she did not have a good Holiday and her Mom will probably die from Cancer soon. She of course vented for a while to Mark and I. Thankfully Taikara wasn't there to hear, she's trying to quit smoking and Nancy just might driver her back to it. Ruthanne will probably move in to my space. She'll have to take a pay cut and hourly cut but at least she'll still have a job. That also means that Candle won't quit right away. He still has a crush on her, albeit a very benign one. But the estrogen level in that room will just be incredible now that I'm gone and Ruthanne and her triangle relationship will be moving in. But anyway I'm now moved in with Ox, Joe and Vlad were down this weekend to do some gaming. Gaming doesn't really interest me at all, even though it could be a kind of performance. It's just too tedius and I'd end up bored and miserable. But I also don't want to bust on them for doing it either. So I tried to stay out of the way. I watched some football and read my book. Kate got there a little later on, but she was more tired than I was. We slept in the back room. I couldn't sleep for some reason. My tooth acted up randomly and it hurt a great deal. After a while of just laying there listening to Kate breathe I got up and went downstairs. I drank as much of this nasty rum as I could and went and sat on the couch. I started nodding off despite the pain so I figured that it would be better to do that in bed. So I went back and slept from about 6-12. Not enough but I'm going to go to bed early tonight. We went to Shoney's for brunch and then came back here for a while. Then Kate and I went to wally world looking for food and some other stuff that I needed. From now on I'm making lists of things I need before I go wandering around a store. Wal-Mart up here is smaller with more people. That could get annoying.

Well my first day is tomorrow and I can't wait. The people there are friendly, and they are guys so it should be a blast. I can't wait to get my first taste of real IT work. I know that sounds silly but it isn't. In most of my other jobs web development and IT stuff has just been a part of my job and not the main focus. This is different. This is what I wanted to do right out of college but couldn't. I just have to stay focused and work hard. I also have to resist falling asleep in that big comfortable chair. I wonder when I will be getting paid. I get my last check from Tech on the 16th. But that's only half a period because of the holidays. It could get tight the next couple of weeks. Oh well. That's all for now, I'll write again tomorrow after my first day.