Today (yesterday) Vivian and I selected an apartment in Poplar Place in Kennesaw. It’s about five minutes from where Travis is. It’s being held for us, but no lease yet, as we have to actually see the thing before I’ll sign anything. All things going well, our current move-in date is July 12.

I moved in to my own deskbicle today, comlpete with computer, chair, phone, pens, highliters, and two boxes of paperclips! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo

First, the Kenny update, for those following along at home: I emailed him, which is pretty much the only thing left I can do, and he’s not replied, which is what I expected. I don’t know what else to do at this point.

Now the good news. Today at work was awesome, and you want to know why? For just over a week I have been toiling in the hell of “Business Casual.” While it’s essentially the same thing that I had to wear at the library, I actually felt the need to tuck in my shirt and wear a belt at this place, as it was required. And despite doing it for five years at the library, I never really liked it.

Well today, for the first time in Verizon history, they announced a “summer dress code” that goes so far as to allow shorts and sandals! While I still can’t wear any of my arsenal of t-shirts, I can now wear jeans and my boots or Birkenstocks every single damn day to work! And no belt! And if it ever switches back to “winter dress code”, I’ll be gone anyway!

The weekend flew by. I was finally doing my real job today instead of filing, which was nice, but still…

The apartment search is on in Kennesaw. Part of me doesn’t want to move, but that’s mostly just because I hate apartments. It’s not like I have any choice though, so there you go. I’ll live.

I’m going to email Kenny either tonight or tomorrow with my full side of the story and try to talk to him. His cellphone is disconnected (it was his from PA anyway) and I’m still blocked from his AIM, so this is about the only thing left to do that I can think of. If he doesn’t want to listen he won’t, and there’s nothing I can do about that. In fact, I’m pretty sure he’ll delete the message without even looking at it.

So far I’ve spent two days doing nothing but filing (only one papercut!) for 6-8 hours a day with just a smidgen of general training, or maybe the lovely vacation of sitting at a photocopier for two hours. Luckily tomorrow I actually get my desk/cube. By next week they’ll be done flogging my library/having a brain experience in organizing and 6 months of back paperwork will be properly put in order in Data Integrity.

The frame for my diploma has come, but no diploma yet.

Thinking about going to Georgia State in the fall is a bit weird, like I can’t focus on it right now. All I’m thinking about now is that I have to call my handler at Sapphire tomorrow to ask her how to completely fill out my time card and fax it to them (it’s a weird shape, but they must have it faxed!) tomorrow. The other new guy from Sapphire is nice, we spoke for awhile today. He’s also going to ditch Verizon in fall for graduate school, although he didn’t feel the need to announce the fact ahead of time like I did. It’s interesting.

I forgot to mention that I start at Verizon tomorrow (today), and that my advisor at Georgia State just emailed me to let me know that I’m in.

I get the strange urge to work at AppleCare suddenly, after reading that blog about the guy who just quit, and had one of his coworkers come in wearing nothing but a bathrobe and flip flops for months with nothing said. I had no idea that Apple corporate culture was still in “Revenge of the Nerds” mode…but I’m pleased.

*sigh* I just have to wait until I have tenure…

The great Job Search is ended. I start at Verizon at some point next week, after I sign the papers tomorrow and get a drug test.

Sean Paul’s Trinity + Tool’s 10,000 Days in one playlist == a disturbingly accurate portrayal of my mental state!

So, Kelley blasted me on AIM while I wasn’t here suggesting that I’m setting it up so that I look like the victim of the Kenny situation here on Jux. I don’t think it’s that way at all, personally, but let’s look at this. I’m certainly the “victim” of being ignored, something Kenny cannot claim as I have tried to contact him. Kenny is the “victim” of the perceived slight that originated this situation.

While I can be accused of sometimes making things seem more black and white than they might be, I don’t think it’s the case in thi situation. I’ve tried to explain myself and make amends, and Kenny ignores me. I don’t consider myself the “victim”, but I’m not going to lie about what I think on here either, as that serves no purpose. I don’t think the post below says anything other than that I’m frustrated that we can’t just talk about this.