So it's wednesday, the last wednesday of the month, time for Nik to drive up and spend a few days at the house, and leave behind a rent check for the first of the month. Tonight should be a little different though...

Monday night I was up playing Canasta with Nathan and he told me he wanted to have a house meeting when Nik comes up. He wants to discuss the living situation and all that since the lease is up in April, which I think is a good idea. The part where he stopped making sense was when he told me:

"Yeah, I was thinking it might be better to move out in the middle of the semester while there is less competition, instead of doing it in May when we're all worried about finals and stuff."

This is not something I can afford right now, and furthmore, it'd be soooo disruptive to everything, I'd personally much rather do my moving after school is over. I'm not too worried, since I'm pretty sure Nathan's motivation for such a statement came from the fight he and matt got into earlier that evening while I was at work. I heard both sides of the story, and it sounds to me like they're both guilty of certain things but neither one can stnd the other and that's the bottom line.

Gosh I am just rambling about not very much. Even my sentence structure is bad. Ugggghhhh, tonight should be fun...

 
Well, It's been 12 days, and what a CRAZY 12 days it has been.

I hate to start a blog off on a sad note, but I'm trying to stay chronological, so here it goes:

5 Feb: I had no school, but was working all day. Two hours into my shift a coworker passes out, hits his head on the floor and his given shocks with the paddles from the paramedics and was then taken out on a tretcher, unconcious. Two hours later I get back from lunch and taken into the office where a manager tells me Jeremy passed away. Jeremy and I weren't really close, but it was still shocking and hard to deal with. Made it hard to finish the shift.

6-8 Feb: Fun weekend, nothing exciting really.

9 Feb: Went to memorial service for Jeremy. It was over-filled, had to stand outside. Half of Costco was there. After the service went to the beach with Nathan, Matt and Sarah. It was absolutely beautiful. I uploaded the pics on my site, but haven't made a gallery, so I'll get that up later this week.

13 Feb: Hung out with Kelly all day. Saw "50 First Dates." Good movie, nathan suggested that Adam and Drew are the new Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan of romantic comedies. That night Kelly, Matt, Doug and I saw a play. It was Brighton Beach Memoirs, absolutely fantastic! Then we went to a going away party for my co-worker Bryan. I was driving so I was a good boy, Kelly got nice and drunk, she had a good time.

14 Feb: Worked all day then went to Kelly's. We got Chinese take out and hung out for a bit. Then I took her, Doug and Steve over to my house to party. Nathan, Sarah, Matt and his friend Sarah (yep 2 of em in the house at the same time!) were all there. We proceeded to get nice and sloppy. It was a great time, had lots of fun!

15 Feb: Work was hard. I felt all crappy and tired most of the day. Got home, ate dinner, watched the Simpson then watched Van Wilder. I tried going to bed early, since I haven't slept much in a while, didn't work. Couldn't get to sleep till like 1:30 or 2:00.

Pretty tired today, finishing up the last 30 minutes of "stupid." Going to Kelly's afterwards to hang out, should be fun.

Saw the line up for Bonnaroo. I want to go soo badly! Unfortunately, I've already got plans, besides, don't think I could afford it. I'll be in Oregon that weekend. Jessica is graduating and her parents already reserved two hotel rooms. One for them, and one for all us friends. Soooo kick ass! Can't wait!

 
OK, it's been a few days, and I actually have something on my mind...

The house I am in is a 5 bedroom house, it has plenty of space, a decent kitchen, washer and dryer and is in a nice neighborhood. Sounds great right? Well it does to me. However, the roomates have sided that, despite how great the house is, they're done with it. NNN and Sarah want to get a place on their own, and Nik, since he never moved up, is eager to stop paying rent ASAP. That leaves Matt and I. There's no way we can afford to keep this house by ourselves, neither of us is comfortable with the idea of living with complete strangers and the only 3 people I know of that need another place to live next year would be Kelly and her two roomates Doug and Steve. Easy solution would be to have those three move in, however, Kelly and Steve don't drive, thus they must live in Arcata, as close to campus as possible. This means there will be no more Harris Ranch.

Another option has surfaced in all this, Matt and I can move into Kelly's house and fill the two rooms that will be opening up this summer. It sounds nice, but there are a few concerns. Number one being, their house isn't all that great. There's no garbage disposal, no washer or dryer, no backyard, no garage and they have a major ant infestation problem. Another problem, I haven't talked with Matt yet about his ideas/ preferences, so the few talks I've had with Kelly about us moving in have been strictly hypothetical, and I don't believe she has mentioned it to Steve or Doug. I'm also not quite sure that I am fully ready to move in with Kelly yet. We've been going out since July 4, and everything is great, but I mean, it's a BIG step. Plus, going to see her is one of my escapes, which was part of the reason I never wanted to kill any of my current roomates. Now that escape would be gone, and I guess I'm afraid of smothering.

Over the summer I watched a couple move up here from San Diego. They had never lived together before this and within a month and half were split up. They both had to move out and it was a big ugly mess. I don't think such a thing would quite happen in my situation, but it is looming in the back of my mind, "what if...". I couldn't imagine how horrible it would be if that happened and I had to leave the house, or worse yet had to stay there. Grrrr. This sucks. So much crap to think about. It is a few months away, but it is totally something I need to think about. Really need to sit down with Matt and get shit straight with him and see what his feelings are.