A Better Alex, stage 2: ASC Journal

[apollolux]

==7 days done==
I'm seven days into ASC and this has certainly been an interesting seven days indeed.

I came back to NYC from Vermont a week ago to find that I would have to find an alternative place to sleep for that weekend, and my uncle in Brooklyn was generous enough to accommodate me. The next afternoon, however, we had an argument and he kicked me out. I fully understand my role in that argument from start to finish and though I attempted to apologize he would not even allow me to finish a sentence. Back to the Apple Store after that.

Once I settled back into the apartment I'm staying at right now I seem to have had a surge of productivity (motivation?) that powered me through the part of the web app project that stumped me and that I lacked motivation to work on when in Vermont.

I finally heard back from a particular programming job I applied for and received the usual "we need someone full-time and don't think your schedule would work for us" response. I feel I should be more disappointed about this one because a classmate was trying to hook me up with this one, but for some reason I felt ok about it. I still haven't yet figured out what was different about this rejection, but I have a feeling it has something to do with the wording of the email.

Also, I met a woman on POF the day I came back and after about a week or so of texting (she claimed to be super shy) we finally met in person on Friday. We had a good time just walking around, getting ice cream, and it helps that she's cute and a pretty good kisser, though because she's supposedly shy she insisted I do all the talking. Still working on locking down a second date, but she seems to be flaking. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's because I came off as intense during the date and she feels intimidated by it.

Internally, I've noticed two major changes so far that are unrelated to each other: I seem to have an increased libido (I haven't posted here any of the journaling I've done on that front yet), and I seem to be becoming more and more comfortable posting on these forums outside of my own threads.