JengashipJournalFighter of the Nightman.

September 17th, 2009

Fighter of the Nightman.

Rocketwhore and I are going to the late night performance of The Nightman Cometh by the cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It makes me crack up that something that seems like it'd fit right in at the Philly Fringe Festival is getting such mainstream exposure. This makes me think of Ed a bit, who loves the crap out of that show. Good luck in the navy, buddy.

It's funny how reading an article about a guy who's leaving the Philly school system after a 2 year stint has kind of inspired me to seriously consider doing it myself. Having summers off would help me focus on real estate, even if it'd probably mean taking a serious pay cut. Being a teacher would be kind of badass, though.

My friend Jerril is getting married on Saturday, and I just got invited to my friend Annie's wedding. Churchmates are dropping like flies. Sometimes, I think about how, if things had shaken out a bit differently, I would be posting this journal as a married man. I'm kind of glad that I'm not, though. My gut tells me that alone is a good place to be. I had kind of a fling this summer, but that went out the door shortly after labor day. No regrets, though, it was fun while it lasted.

The way the poll seems to have shaked out, there's a tie between Oct 17 and Nov 7 for the RvB Marathon. I'm leaning towards Nov 7 right now. I'll probably host it at my house rather than spend money for a facility. If you're free that weekend, come on down! Keep in mind that we're looking to raise a bit of money (but more importantly, manpower), for next year's RT Philly. So anything you can give is appreciated.

I apologize if I'm behind on your journals. The watchlist kept getting bigger and bigger and it was so much easier just to follow the forum threads I had on watch. Guess I've come full-circle. I used to be more of a journal guy, if you remember that chestnut.

As I discussed in a previous journal, I'm taking the last week of October off from work. I'll be in Boston Halloween weekend itself hanging out with my cousin, but if you're in the area and want to meet up for a meal or a brew or brew a witch's brew or something, let me know. The weekend before, I may also travel...north. The week in-between, I won't be online at all. I need to get away from everything for a week, so I'm thinking of getting a cabin or a bed and breakfast or something.

You ever spend a lot of time wondering who your friends are? Or who they aren't? Or trying to plot the trajectory of how someone made the transition from pal to foe or vice versa? The nice thing about when it happens here is that you can just close your laptop and grab some fresh air. But I can't help but wonder if I've deliberately kept my interactions with people superficial so that I can maintain my "laptop-closing powers" across my entire life. I take a sort of twisted pride in being the kind of person where there's less than meets the eye. I wonder maybe if it's time to change that.

And really, I feel like I am on the cusp of some major changes in my life. I'm not coming out of the closet or anything. I'm saving that chestnut for my 1,000th journal. But seriously, the pieces on the board are gonna be in different places before too long.

This is a very long list of tiny journals. Better to end it here.

Thanks for reading,

Jengaship

Posted 4 months ago by Jengaship Comments (20)	+ 23 Cool

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nalani523

Duty Free

#1 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Rocketwhore and I are going to the late night performance of The Nightman Cometh by the cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. So jealous! As for the RvB Marathon, I vote for Nov 7th. Later the better for me.

_Fire_Ball_

7 Months

#2 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Have fun at The Nightman Cometh!

daruma

HEARTTHIRTY3

#3 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I think you'd make a fantastic teacher.

mattiecore

notevenreal

#4 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Rocketwhore and I are going to the late night performance of The Nightman Cometh SOJEALOUS.GIF And I would love to attend an RvB Marathon. I will try to squirrel away some funds for a trip up to Philly, but I'm on a pretty tight budget right now, so no promises.

TeamSniper

Bowl Champs

#5 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Cool. Sounds like a good thing you've got going. Good luck with what comes along and enjoy what you are given every day. Life's a gift. [End Cliche]

slvrwhispr

ALL DONE

You ever spend a lot of time wondering who your friends are? Or who they aren't? Or trying to plot the trajectory of how someone made the transition from pal to foe or vice versa?

Yup.

The nice thing about when it happens here is that you can just close your laptop and grab some fresh air.

Used to be. Now that most of us have met face to face, it's harder. For better or for worse, we're all real people, not just screen names anymore. It changes things.

bwjenkins

#7 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
You used the term "chestnut" twice in this journal. Please try to be less redundant in future journals. Thank you. The Management.

Kschenke

SoItGoes

#8 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
In reply to nalani523, #1: I am also quite jealous. I just love that DeVito is a part of it.

OboeCrazy

Cause ShutUp

#9 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I'm not coming out of the closet or anything. You better not. Females all over RT would start to cry.

raz0rblade

NewHedfones

#10 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I'd be intimidated by someone as well-spoken as yourself if you were my teacher........I don't know if I'd be able to relate to you as well as others could. Things need to be kept simple for me if I'm to learn anything, but it also needs to be presented in an engaging and interesting way. So in that respect, I think you'd do rather well........

Bookworm

In Love

#11 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
My former housemate is a teacher for Teach for America. She's working in NYC and she loves it.

sevilen

needsleepplz

#12 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
"You ever spend a lot of time wondering who your friends are? Or who they aren't? Or trying to plot the trajectory of how someone made the transition from pal to foe or vice versa?" No, but I'm about to start. ( >:( )

PeteZahut666

Raptor Law

#13 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Have a great time!

Elnea

croissausage

#14 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Maybe you could come out of my closet? ...and omg don't worry about catching up on my journals. If I have something I specifically need to tell you I will message you. Promise!

AltGrendel

Yar

I don't think teaching as a career is a good idea. You don't really get the summer off, you only get about a month (at most) off. You have to clean up and finish up paper work from the ending year, then about a month out, you'd have to start lesson plans for the upcoming year.

Most of the people that I knew that taught were (slightly) insane after about 4 years on the job. And the strangest thing is you eventually lock into treating everyone, and I mean everyone, like the age group that you teach. I worked for a woman that taught 4th grade for 10 years then got out. Getting instructions from her for upcoming projects could be real "entertaining".

Hamstar

ReStar

On the job, dude follow your heart� I cannot stress this enough.

My original plan was to be in Robotics. The money was obscene, and I lined myself up to be the important guy who makes 6 figures a year and does very little in return.

I went to school, took all of the obscure little things I needed to get my plan rolling� landed the job when I graduated, staring down the barrel of a mountain of educational debt�

To work in the field 45 min and quit.

Dude, no matter how much money, time, blood, sweat & tears you have invested, the effort should never sway your gut instinct.

I was right to quit my field. My life is richer (but not in money lol) for it.

Yeah I�m making literally 1/10th of what I started at, but I�m happy� and when it boils down to it, money is not happiness, toys are not happiness (well for me at least). I have a great wife, and some of the absolute best people in the world that I have the honor of calling my friend.

I�d take that over a luxury car and fancy house any day� wait� I did :D

If your dream is to teach, teach. If your dream is to be in radio, go for it. Don�t let anyone or anything sway you from following your gut instinct. You know yourself better than anyone else.

I really don�t spend too much time thinking about who my friends are. I pretty much view everyone I see as a friend I haven�t been acquainted with yet.

I�m a terrible friend because of that motto.

I don�t get to spend as much time as I would like talking with people, being that good friend I would like to be.

I always want to help people, and I burn myself and usually them for it.

Like I�ll offer to do something because I have the ability, and I rush into it without thinking and it ends up taking more time than I have, in some cases more money than I have, and I get right up close to the end of getting it accomplished� and then I�m like ADD and someone else that I promised to help pulls me away.

I know my problem just not how to fix it.

So I see your �laptop-closing powers� as something I wish I could do� I really should do� but I know I could never do.

I can usually pinpoint that time, that one event that sent the dominos in effect to go from friend to foe.

To date, I�ve only had one person in my life make that transition. I�ve literally spent 4 years bouncing it around in my head trying to figure out what happened and why. He was a childhood friend, someone I still care about to this day, but we�ll never be friends again and it�s always going to eat at me.

Sometimes it just happens dude.

I don�t think you�re a less than meets the eye kind of person.

Quite the opposite actually.

When I saw you online, I never really had much to say to you. I didn�t know you from Adam, and nothing really stood out to make me visit your page.

When I met you at TO, you struck me as genuinely fun, personable, interesting to talk to, and fun to hang out with.

Since then I�ve gone back to your page, looked at journals, pics, and it strengthened my �He�s a cool guy� outlook that I took back with me from TO.

I see you like an iceberg in the water.

There is a little showing for the world to see, but there is a vast amount waiting to be discovered below the surface.

Paris

Being a teacher would be kind of badass, though.

Agreed.

it was so much easier just to follow the forum threads I had on watch

So lately I post journals and maybe three people come by to comment. It's making me feel cut off from my e-fam. I don't have time to join a forum too.

But I can't help but wonder if I've deliberately kept my interactions with people superficial so that I can maintain my "laptop-closing powers" across my entire life.

I hate that I wear my emotions on my sleeve. Red likes this about me because I don't require guess work, but I'd like to be more stoic, more of a mystery. Not here, of course, I like you guys. That has nothing really to do with what you said, but you triggered the comment.

Paris

#18 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Ditto [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Regarding being a teacher, sign up to sub first. You don't need a teaching background; you and see what the local schools have to offer; and you can cut and run when you start thinking that beating kids is a good idea.

Starburst

BACK

What Paris said on the teaching thing. Our oldest daughter is doing exactly that and she's really enjoying it. She's working with a variety of ages, and she really does get her summers off, which works perfectly for her because we pay her well to work for us at the drive-in. She's liking the balance it gives her.

Also: the cabin for a week? Do it. Escaping is good for the soul.

Post edited 9/27/09 11:49AM

Strider165

Gunners

FORUM MOD

#20 Posted 3 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I apologize if I'm behind on your journals. The watchlist kept getting bigger and bigger and it was so much easier just to follow the forum threads I had on watch. Exactly what I'm going through.

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