Okay so according to some rule that was created like a long ass time ago, by some random guy he said that when you take something and break it off when you look at it, you have double of what you had when you started, and that principle is proving to be quite true actually. For example, you take a rock and split it, suddenly you've got two. This rule also applies to men apparently. Because for some odd reason that I never quite understood, I spoke to Andrew for like a total of five seconds and I haven't heard from him since. But no matter, because when I had one, I struck that one off and ended up meeting Ray and Yoshi. And Bryan too for that matter, though that's not neccessarily included. However I'm sure I can get something out of the deal. At least from Ray definately. I'd love to work with Yoshi too while I'm at it. He's a newbie so it'd be hot to turn him out definately! lol. So yeah I had to throw that in there so I could mention it.
While I'm at it, let's take a second to document the recent drama of the other day. I realized that I'm tired of the bullshit that Lucy and the other fools in Pine Hall are pulling. So this being my Senior year, I decided to treat myself and I bought an apartment. Or put in the least at least. So now I have an apartment at Pembroke Place in building 5 room 513 with three other guys only one who's name I know. On top of that, when I get to get the place, everything worked out fine till I go to the part where the manager was like, I'm gonna need you to fill out this parental form since you only make this money a month kinda thing. So I called mom and before I could explain the whole situation about how I needed the paper by August 12th so I could move in, she totally went balistic talking about how co-signing ruined her life and all of that stuff and how they would never do that again and all of that. I had to put with that rant for a hot minute, and i had had enough so I had to go. Then I told the apartment people I would pay for it up front, like I had intended to do, which is fine. And I told my mom that when she called back 30 minutes later, all like sorry didn't mean to explode. Yeah. And that the REASON I got the apartment. I just can't wait to move in.
Friday 22 June 2007
Monday 18 June 2007
Cosmotini, please. Hold the Terror.
So yeah, this weekend was like mad fun. It started officially as soon as I left my job on Friday afternoon, and I was heading home. I'm starting to make really good friends with the people on the buses from Leonardtown, which will maybe produce some good partying nights later on...but anyway, I got on the bus home and soon thereafter headed on the the other MetroBus to downtown College Park metro where I hopped the train and found myself in Silver Spring Maryland to go watch the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, which actually turned out to be pretty good. Not fantastic like Spiderman 2, but it was much, much better than part one. I didn't expect Julian McMaman to reprise his role as Doom let alone mix in with the Silver Surfer and get his powers. That was a nice twist, and of course having the Surfer's voice as Morpheus is always the shit. lol.
Anyway after that, I came back to my house and slept getting up the next day to Deedee, (my roomate Damon's caretaker) as I asked her out to lunch. I was gonna go to DuPont Circle to get my hair done and colored, but after looking at those prices, I decided against it. Instead DD and i went to Applebee's, where I bought her lunch and we chatted. Afterwards, I bought some bronze hair color and came back to the apartment where DD commenced to put it in. Then, after all of that, Nikki (the secretary in the EEO office) called me and asked me to come meet her in Silver Springs, with her friends. I wanted to stay at home and sleep, but I got up and went anyway getting there and meeting her friend Melanie and her boyfriend Danni. Then I met Nikki's friend Dick, and the five of us went out to eat at this Lebanese cafe, which I wasn't too fond of. Then we left and went to a bar called McGinty's, which was loud and ridiculous. However it was there that I had my first alcohol love, "Sex on the Beach" and I got to taste a new thing that I've always seen on Sex and the City, the Cosmotini. Turns out it's pretty good, as a mixture of vodka, cranberries, and lime. So yeah getting a really good and tipsy buzz from that, I came back and fell out for Sunday.
Where DD called and asked if I wanted to go to church with her. So I got dressed and left out, to head to this nice Baptist church, of which we arrived in the last 20 minutes of the message due to her daughter Joyce's love of smoothies, to which afterward she paid for dinner at Golden Corral (.....hmmmm can't say anything here but let's just claim there's more to wonder about the source) and then we went to Chuck E. Cheese's because Joyce's uncle's daughter was having a 5th birthday party. That place is crazy as hell. And a little scary. However i had to face all living hell when that rat faced bastard in a suit emerged from the back bringing back all memories with it. I hated that thing when I was a kid, and it was back in the flesh yesterday. To quote a memorable moment in a book I totally despise by Joseph Conrad in "Heart of Darkness" (thanks Ms. Helgeson!) ".......oh, the horror." And yeah that was bad.
But after that fiasco in a bad and five hours later, I came back with the intention of strictly heading to bed but instead finding myself chatting with a few delightful characters, one of which I have a date with on Wednesday (kinda, check the friends page!) who's a total hottie! lol. That WILL be a blog. Though maybe not an open one. Perhaps I'll have to call the "special" crew for individual updates....keep your eyes and ears open....
On a seperate note, I just want to add that I went to see the Holocaust Curator's lecture this afternoon about the persecution of Homosexuals in Germany during WWii, and I was really really disappointed to find that in a room full of people, I was the only black guy there. It's just a little depressing. Maybe I'm just doing too much.....?
Anyway after that, I came back to my house and slept getting up the next day to Deedee, (my roomate Damon's caretaker) as I asked her out to lunch. I was gonna go to DuPont Circle to get my hair done and colored, but after looking at those prices, I decided against it. Instead DD and i went to Applebee's, where I bought her lunch and we chatted. Afterwards, I bought some bronze hair color and came back to the apartment where DD commenced to put it in. Then, after all of that, Nikki (the secretary in the EEO office) called me and asked me to come meet her in Silver Springs, with her friends. I wanted to stay at home and sleep, but I got up and went anyway getting there and meeting her friend Melanie and her boyfriend Danni. Then I met Nikki's friend Dick, and the five of us went out to eat at this Lebanese cafe, which I wasn't too fond of. Then we left and went to a bar called McGinty's, which was loud and ridiculous. However it was there that I had my first alcohol love, "Sex on the Beach" and I got to taste a new thing that I've always seen on Sex and the City, the Cosmotini. Turns out it's pretty good, as a mixture of vodka, cranberries, and lime. So yeah getting a really good and tipsy buzz from that, I came back and fell out for Sunday.
Where DD called and asked if I wanted to go to church with her. So I got dressed and left out, to head to this nice Baptist church, of which we arrived in the last 20 minutes of the message due to her daughter Joyce's love of smoothies, to which afterward she paid for dinner at Golden Corral (.....hmmmm can't say anything here but let's just claim there's more to wonder about the source) and then we went to Chuck E. Cheese's because Joyce's uncle's daughter was having a 5th birthday party. That place is crazy as hell. And a little scary. However i had to face all living hell when that rat faced bastard in a suit emerged from the back bringing back all memories with it. I hated that thing when I was a kid, and it was back in the flesh yesterday. To quote a memorable moment in a book I totally despise by Joseph Conrad in "Heart of Darkness" (thanks Ms. Helgeson!) ".......oh, the horror." And yeah that was bad.
But after that fiasco in a bad and five hours later, I came back with the intention of strictly heading to bed but instead finding myself chatting with a few delightful characters, one of which I have a date with on Wednesday (kinda, check the friends page!) who's a total hottie! lol. That WILL be a blog. Though maybe not an open one. Perhaps I'll have to call the "special" crew for individual updates....keep your eyes and ears open....
On a seperate note, I just want to add that I went to see the Holocaust Curator's lecture this afternoon about the persecution of Homosexuals in Germany during WWii, and I was really really disappointed to find that in a room full of people, I was the only black guy there. It's just a little depressing. Maybe I'm just doing too much.....?
Wednesday 13 June 2007
The Rocket-Fueled Update on Things....
Okay so I don't have too much time to do this, but I figured that if I didn't get to it, there'd be too much going on for me to go back and catch it all. So this is a really quick update on what's been happening since I got to NASA almost a week and a half ago. So yeah I left NC and came up here to the DC area, where I'm staying College Park, because NASA decided that they wouldn't pay for the extra accomodations in Laurel Square, but I am happy to report that the apartment is actually quite nice considering what I had in my mind in the beginning. There's two bedrooms with two beds in them a piece, a nice bathroom and a nice kitchen and stove and microwave etc. So that's the good part. The area is nice with lots of bustling going around, and there's a shopping convienience area right now the road from the apartment complex, so that's good. The area is actually quite easy to navigate once you get the hang of the bus system that is around in the area to take you where you wanna go. Add to that the UM system thats roaming around, and it's really easy to go places.
So I've also started my job here at NASA Goddard, and I'm working in the PAO office or the Public Affairs office in the Education division. And currently after only a week of being here, I am doing five to six projects simultaneously with a job offer in the works. (Not bad for a week, huh?) lol. I met my mentor Mr. Dwayne Washington and he's a really nice guy that reminds me a lot of dad. So he kinda looks out for me and doesn't try to overbury me with work, though there's a lot of stuff that needs to be done, like for example, I have to press releases for the 220+ interns that are here, and then when that's done we have to send them to the respective states and campuses. Then the 2006 Nobel Prize winner for Physics Mr. John Mather asked our department to put together a pamphlet for his presentation series that's coming up real soon, which is cool. And then I have to write a few articles for the Goddard View, one of which has already been completed on Mrs. Lynn Harden, who's retiring from Goddard soon. The other one I'm doing will be this afternoon on a 15 year old named Evan I think, who's come from the United Kingdom to visit Goddard and make a presentation for his class back in England.
On top of that, I also have to develop a pamphlet for the Education department here at Goddard that deplays all of their information in a nice and neat handy package so that visitors will know what they do when they look at it. And starting next week, I'll also be responsible for the Goddard Dateline, which is in online and printed service that shows the upcoming events for the Center for the day at large, which has to be done everyday and turned in by 3:30. So yeah all in all, I have a good-sized plate of work, though there's more that keeps coming every moment, and yet I still have time to play with the PSP (I got rid of that Nintendo bullshit) and get a few hours with the PS3, every once in a while.
Over the weekend, I decided to try something new and I went to downtown DC to look around a little bit and ended up having to wheel all the way from the Smithsonian museum to the Lincoln Memorial which is a good mile and a half between each other, and then came back to go all the way to DuPont avenue for the 2007 Gay Pride Parade which was happening downtown. And that was absolutely great! I've never seen anything quite like it, and I can kind of understand why NC would never allow such things in their state. But I'm happy that DC is cool with it, and DuPont avenue is quite an interesting place. As a matter of fact that's where I met Chuck (this cute older gentlemen who invited me to his place after the fact, which I turned down to get home) and most recently Scott, who's a professional photographer with his own photo company. Scott was there at the parade and it turns out I was sitting on his front steps, and we talked and it eventually led to him asking me to model for him, which I'm still in the works considering. (We've been talking about it for a few days now). And then something else may come out of that, but I'm not too sure. However in the back of my mind, all I really wanna see now is VJ. But he's in Chapel Hill so I'll have to wait a few more weeks before I get a chance to glance at him again. *sigh* oh well. More coming later. And peep the pics!
So I've also started my job here at NASA Goddard, and I'm working in the PAO office or the Public Affairs office in the Education division. And currently after only a week of being here, I am doing five to six projects simultaneously with a job offer in the works. (Not bad for a week, huh?) lol. I met my mentor Mr. Dwayne Washington and he's a really nice guy that reminds me a lot of dad. So he kinda looks out for me and doesn't try to overbury me with work, though there's a lot of stuff that needs to be done, like for example, I have to press releases for the 220+ interns that are here, and then when that's done we have to send them to the respective states and campuses. Then the 2006 Nobel Prize winner for Physics Mr. John Mather asked our department to put together a pamphlet for his presentation series that's coming up real soon, which is cool. And then I have to write a few articles for the Goddard View, one of which has already been completed on Mrs. Lynn Harden, who's retiring from Goddard soon. The other one I'm doing will be this afternoon on a 15 year old named Evan I think, who's come from the United Kingdom to visit Goddard and make a presentation for his class back in England.
On top of that, I also have to develop a pamphlet for the Education department here at Goddard that deplays all of their information in a nice and neat handy package so that visitors will know what they do when they look at it. And starting next week, I'll also be responsible for the Goddard Dateline, which is in online and printed service that shows the upcoming events for the Center for the day at large, which has to be done everyday and turned in by 3:30. So yeah all in all, I have a good-sized plate of work, though there's more that keeps coming every moment, and yet I still have time to play with the PSP (I got rid of that Nintendo bullshit) and get a few hours with the PS3, every once in a while.
Over the weekend, I decided to try something new and I went to downtown DC to look around a little bit and ended up having to wheel all the way from the Smithsonian museum to the Lincoln Memorial which is a good mile and a half between each other, and then came back to go all the way to DuPont avenue for the 2007 Gay Pride Parade which was happening downtown. And that was absolutely great! I've never seen anything quite like it, and I can kind of understand why NC would never allow such things in their state. But I'm happy that DC is cool with it, and DuPont avenue is quite an interesting place. As a matter of fact that's where I met Chuck (this cute older gentlemen who invited me to his place after the fact, which I turned down to get home) and most recently Scott, who's a professional photographer with his own photo company. Scott was there at the parade and it turns out I was sitting on his front steps, and we talked and it eventually led to him asking me to model for him, which I'm still in the works considering. (We've been talking about it for a few days now). And then something else may come out of that, but I'm not too sure. However in the back of my mind, all I really wanna see now is VJ. But he's in Chapel Hill so I'll have to wait a few more weeks before I get a chance to glance at him again. *sigh* oh well. More coming later. And peep the pics!
Saturday 2 June 2007
A Date With Devdas
so yeah I can't believe what happened today. it was kinda cool, but at the same time, it was totally not me. I mean I started out going shopping and finishing up the DC trip stuff over at Wal-Mart and I switched out the DS for a PSP and few games and accessories. Then when that was done, I stopped picked up my dry cleaning at the store, and headed back to the house after a brief stint at the Dollar Store. So then I got home and then VJ showed up like five minutes later like clockwork and I was waiting for him on the porch. So to bring you up to speed with what's going on with that situation. I met this guy VJ on .com a few days ago and we really hit it off well.He lives in Chapel Hill and he's a biomedical engineer going for a Ph.D right now in UNCCH grad program. He's 24 and from Atlanta, originally from India. We have a lot of the same tastes in a lot of things. He likes the music I do, and he's been a lot of the same places I have. And in the demeanor, we're very similiar. He's extremely smart and actually he's totally cool with my foot fetish, which is a big thing for me. And so today I decided to actually meet him and go to dinner with him and he came by to get me so we could go to Chili's. My impression of him? He's very cute. A little on the thin side for me, but I always had a side of sideways attraction to guys from India and the Middle East anyway. So yeah it's cool. But he was very attractive and he's really funny. He can keep with my sarcasm most of the time, which is interesting being that he's from Atlanta. But yeah we ate dinner and stuff ourselves and then after he PAID, (which shocked me) we came back and decided to go the Park over here in Weston Estates. That's the good thing about the park at night. It's so secluded and wrapped in darkness that one could almost do anything....and we kinda did. We started talking like normal people and then we stared at stars. Then it turned scandalous and he started giving me head and whatnot. I don't think he has too much experience in that realm, but then again I doubt that people really give head like Frank did (God that shit was good!). But still. It seems to be a promising way to go when I head back to the Carolinas. Very interesting. And that's all I'm saying about that! So I have to go now and get a version of like an hour of sleep before we hit the road for DC. Later!
Friday 1 June 2007
The Countdown Drama Begins.
1 Day, 12 hours, 32 minutes left till NASA breach.
So yet again I'm on another countdown for what's happening in my life although this time around its for NASA and all of it's affiliates. So the last few days of this week I've been trying to get myself in order, devoting two whole days to doing nothing but laundry and packing, and then today I went out and got an eye exam spending an extra 35 bucks for some photos in the exam for absolutely nothing. She told me it was extreme dry eye, nothing more. So that was kind of a relief, but at the same time, I felt kinda let down. All the allergy drama for nothing. Afterwards, we went to Perkins and I ate with mom followed by me getting a manicure at this Nail place in deep Cary with this guy who's supposed to be Asian, but he's maaad ghetto. Words cannot describe. Let me put it this way: Mom was coming out of the shop to see if they would let me in to get my nails done, and the owner's response was: "Well get him in here, then!" add a very ghetto-ized tone to that, and you have an idea of what I'm saying. And personally I think he was gay, boots! but that's another story. So in the middle of the manicure I decide to get my eyebrows waxed, and so I did. It hurt like a bitch, but it looks something fabulous. Previously the day before, I got my hair cut and now I have my sideburns and chip strap combined, so it looks really good. All I need now is a stud and I'm good to go. But after the waxing, we left and went to the movies to see "Pathfinder," and it was blah like I knew it was going to be. Personally I wanted to see Norbit, but I figured if the movie's coming out next week anyway, I'll just wait to see it. So yeah anyway I'm back at home and plotting and planning my wardrobe for the trip when I get this email from Denna of NASA which basically says the following: (in my words)
When we started we knew that this internship was going to be trouble because previously, since the apartments here were 2,000 a month in rent, it's been impossible to find any interns. So taking the cheaper route, and allowing students to have a kitchen, we tried to work it out. That bombed completely, so now because of our failure in communication and adequate money put up, we were forced to look back at the Uni. of Maryland, and you guys will be going there, completely seperated away from everyone at Laurel Square. You don't get a laundry room in your apartment, and you don't get a seperate bathroom either for that matter. So I hope you like your roommates, cause they're all you're going to be seeing. Can't wait to see you! Denna.
yeah something like that. I mean I hate to sound ungrateful, but this is already starting out on the wrong foot. I mean its NASA and they couldn't even persuade an apartment complex to put in a shower stall? That's fucked up on multiple levels. So in the back of my mind, I'm cringing to think about what's in store for me when I get there. In my experience, when you have to settle for something less than what you wanted, it's always worse than what it should've been. And the fact that I have to stay there for 2 months and PAY for it, is sounding mighty shady to me. I guess I'll just have to hold my breath and see.
So yet again I'm on another countdown for what's happening in my life although this time around its for NASA and all of it's affiliates. So the last few days of this week I've been trying to get myself in order, devoting two whole days to doing nothing but laundry and packing, and then today I went out and got an eye exam spending an extra 35 bucks for some photos in the exam for absolutely nothing. She told me it was extreme dry eye, nothing more. So that was kind of a relief, but at the same time, I felt kinda let down. All the allergy drama for nothing. Afterwards, we went to Perkins and I ate with mom followed by me getting a manicure at this Nail place in deep Cary with this guy who's supposed to be Asian, but he's maaad ghetto. Words cannot describe. Let me put it this way: Mom was coming out of the shop to see if they would let me in to get my nails done, and the owner's response was: "Well get him in here, then!" add a very ghetto-ized tone to that, and you have an idea of what I'm saying. And personally I think he was gay, boots! but that's another story. So in the middle of the manicure I decide to get my eyebrows waxed, and so I did. It hurt like a bitch, but it looks something fabulous. Previously the day before, I got my hair cut and now I have my sideburns and chip strap combined, so it looks really good. All I need now is a stud and I'm good to go. But after the waxing, we left and went to the movies to see "Pathfinder," and it was blah like I knew it was going to be. Personally I wanted to see Norbit, but I figured if the movie's coming out next week anyway, I'll just wait to see it. So yeah anyway I'm back at home and plotting and planning my wardrobe for the trip when I get this email from Denna of NASA which basically says the following: (in my words)
When we started we knew that this internship was going to be trouble because previously, since the apartments here were 2,000 a month in rent, it's been impossible to find any interns. So taking the cheaper route, and allowing students to have a kitchen, we tried to work it out. That bombed completely, so now because of our failure in communication and adequate money put up, we were forced to look back at the Uni. of Maryland, and you guys will be going there, completely seperated away from everyone at Laurel Square. You don't get a laundry room in your apartment, and you don't get a seperate bathroom either for that matter. So I hope you like your roommates, cause they're all you're going to be seeing. Can't wait to see you! Denna.
yeah something like that. I mean I hate to sound ungrateful, but this is already starting out on the wrong foot. I mean its NASA and they couldn't even persuade an apartment complex to put in a shower stall? That's fucked up on multiple levels. So in the back of my mind, I'm cringing to think about what's in store for me when I get there. In my experience, when you have to settle for something less than what you wanted, it's always worse than what it should've been. And the fact that I have to stay there for 2 months and PAY for it, is sounding mighty shady to me. I guess I'll just have to hold my breath and see.
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