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  1. Phantom
    Today is like most days in Red Bank. It's filled with tourists, locals, and the eye candy. Needless to say, I love it. Red Bank is like most small towns in America, but to me, it's starting to become my second home. Not only do I work here, but it where I come to relax and to shop when the mood strikes me.
    If you wander down Broad Street, the main stretch, you're greeted by little boutiques, Starbucks, a few pubs and sports bars, and lots of nice little restaurants. At night, there's something usually going on at Riverside park like Jazz in the park, tango lessons, or just a bunch of people you know hanging out.
    The nice thing about Red Bank, in my opinion, is the fact that you can easily get here and find something to do. Me?
    A lot of my story ideas come from talking to people around Red Bank or come to me through watching people around here (not in a creepy stalker fashion but you know... people watch). It's my home away from home, and I wouldn't trade anything for it.
  2. Phantom

    Future Prospects

    By Phantom,

    I figured, in order to make up for not blogging as much, I would write a blog with all of the ideals going around in my head.
     
    To think about the future and to make plans for said future is one of the most difficult things to ever do. What I
  3. Phantom

    It's about time!

    By Phantom,

    Well, I figured since I haven't blogged in a bit, I would today!
     
    Today went from bad to excellent! I ended up going to a job interview and was grilled about differnet things (who knew that working as a busboy would be difficult ). When I was done, I was a little on edge and when I took the bus to goto Red Bank (my home away from home), I ended up having a panic attack and that wasn't fun.
     
    In case you want the nitty gritty details, my panic attack simulates a seizure (it's effectively a psychogenic seizure) and needless to say the bus driver saw me and helped me a bit. A woman on the bus asked where I was going and I told her starbucks. Once I got to starbuck, the barista there helped me by giving me a free thing of water and I tookmy emergancy meds. After about 10-15min, I calmed down and was pretty much better.
     
    Once the attack subsided, I fall into a condition that can best be described as sensory overload. My hearing, sight, touch, and taste are messed up for a bit (even now as I'm writing sipping on some coffee, my taste is FUBARED). But as I write this, I feel a lot better and calmer (also the eye candy of red bank is helping out a lot too lol).
     
    I managed to write out some works that i've been working on (yes everyone I finally got ch.3 done of lost in pain so there wont be a delay like I was dreading). So i'm off now (I wanna write some more along with looking at the eye candy! )
  4. Phantom
    In life, everyone comes to a crossroad and have to make a decision, and right now I have about three major ones.
     
    School
    Everyone says that the best way to get ahead in the world is through school. Well in my case, it's coming to the point of where am I going to go finish my school. The school by my house is offering ASL courses and Criminal Justice courses that transfer to anywhere in NJ, but the thing is, I don't want to spend my life in NJ getting my education, I auctually want to get out of here and goto a different state, (perferably one where there arn't that many idiots). I've been thinking Rochester Institue of Technology, Kutztown University, Penn State, and if I have to stay in NJ.... Rutgers University.
     
    Home
    My family is moving in the next year to two years and that puts me in a bind. While it gives me the edge to leave NJ, at the same time, I don't wanna leave my friends behind. It's a hard decision, but one I'm willing to make because I really need to get out of this godsaken place. I want to move somewhere nice, but idk where, and even if I want to move, I can't because of the lack of job that I have going for me.
     
    Job
    The job market sucks in NJ. I can't even get hired as a cashier at a foodstore or Target because i'm 'over-qualified' due to my management experience, and no one wants to hire a manager right now. So i'm in a bind where I'm doing odd jobs fixing computers, but it's not enough to save for a car or a place to live.
     
    Basically this is all going on at once and its driving me mad!
     
     
    I'm headin to bed now... night
  5. Phantom
    Hey guys, I figured I would make a blog about something really great that happened to me, becoming the new (and I believe first) live chat moderator. All this means for everyone is that i'm there to make sure things don't get out of hand. While I know that there isn't any specific rules for live chat (i could be mistaken but I didn't find anything on GA) I'm going to follow the rules of the site and apply them to Live Chat as best I can.
     
    Like any moderator, if you have any problems/concerns/questions/comments(good or bad) let me know in chat or you can PM me. I'm not going to be some overbearing person, but I will crack down if I need to. I'm also going to be in contact with other moderators so if I need help, I'll contact them as well.
     
    As of right now I can't access live chat until the wonderful wizard of GA casts a spell on my account to do this, but you will see me hopefully soon.
     
    As always!
  6. Phantom
    I posted a new story in eFiction today entitled Truthfully and so far I've gotten 2 review (at the time of the posting). I really hope I get more reviews or PM's from the members here that tell me how my writing is and where I can improve.
     
    I'm also happy on another level because I'm signed up for classes this Fall and i got the two I really wanted (the other two are required for me degree and are two i'm not really looking forward to lol). But I am really excited for my American Sign Language Class (ASL-101) and my Criminology class (CRJU-105). I really can't wait to start studying ASL because of the fact it can help me communicate with the deaf community and I really hope I can become fluent in it and use it one day at work as an interperter or use it when I start to work with kids. It's going to be a very intresting class because it teaches the fundementals of ASL and also talks about the Deaf community. I'm just really glad that my Community College offers it (and when i go onto a 4 year university, I'm deffiently going to plan on studying it even more possibly majoring in it or at the least minoring in it).
     
    My Criminology class is going to be just as intresting because I really hope to learn about the criminal aspects and behaviors of people who commit crimes. I really hope it brings an understanding to a lot of behaviors that people do, especially criminal ones (who knows maybe i'll become a human lie detector lol).
     
    So it's an end to a very good day, and tomorrow I'll begin the recomended reading for my ASL class entitled For Hearing People Only by Matthew Moore and Linda Levitan.
     
    As Always
  7. Phantom
    Well... I get out of bed today all ready to catch the bus to meet up with Tara in Philly so we could head out on the retreat she invited me on when Tiger (my cat) decides to run between me. I lost my balance and fell down my steps. As I go to get up, start to see stars. Turns out when you fall down the steps and land on your shoulder, you have a good chance of dislocating it. Lucky for me my mom was home and heard the comotion (cat yelling, me yelling and cussin, someone falling down the stairs) and drove me to the hospital.
     
    Well, turns out I have to cancel my plans as I tore my shoulder to hell and dislocated it. So now i'm stuck home when I could be out, but lookin on the bright side, its going to give me a chance to play in the chat room some more and get some of my stories done (thank god for vistas voice to text program).
     
    If i'm in chat keep in mind im using only one arm lol. I guess I'll write more later
     
    As always
  8. Phantom

    Good and Bad News

    By Phantom,

    Bad News: Well, suffice to say that I learned a very very important lesson yesterday, never open emails that look suspicious. I lost everything, my writings, music, pictures, videos, everything. I got a virus on my laptop and it erased everything. It's going to take me at the least a month to get back to where I was with my stories (and hopefully I can get some of the rough copies I sent in my email to my friends). I can try to piece back together what I had written from my writing journals. If you wanna know what I lost... here's the list:
    My Fiction
    Alone - 1 Prequel, 2 Completed Chapters, 1 rough draft
    Ultima - 1 Prequel, 1 Completed Chapter
    2 Short Stories (Rough Draft - Truthfully & Completed - Night out on the Town)
    1 Poem - Completed - Infinite
     
    Music
    20 gigs worth
     
    Videos
    Entire series of Queer as Folk and Season 1 of the British Version
    Season 1 of Heroes
    8 full length motion pictures
     
    It's going to be awhile till I can recover all the work I lost. Thankfully I had my sidekick to get me through the night (I was in the middle of reading Summer Anthology 2008 (If No One Notices - Great job Kevin!)
     
    Good news:
    I'm going to be going on a little vacation with my friend Tara which is going to last about a week. She's going to help me find myself and re-connect with my inner hippie . I should be gone for about a week and it's gonna be lots of fun (I'm taking my camera and writing journal should I feel inspired )
     
    Well, let me get back to my sadness that is my laptop and start rewriting my stories (that means all of my stories, series and poems are going to be delayed for at least a month so check my signature if you want an update).
     
    As Always
  9. Phantom

    This is my life

    By Phantom,

    It seems like life gets slower when there's nothing to really look forward to. Whether it's a job or school or something like that, it slows down incredibly when there's nothing to do.
     
    So I decided to take this time and really look indepth to where I am, where I want to go, and what I want to do, and I've come up with a todo list to be accomplished over the next few years.
     
    Enigma's todo list:
    1. Get a job that will last me through college
    2. Get a car because NJTranist is horrible
    3. Get my degree in criminal justice so I can get a job
    4. Maintain a writing schedule and release stories
    5. Help my friends and family when needed
    6. Be there for people who need help
    7. Help my fellow man
    8. Find someone who makes me feel infinite again
    9. Find friendship with good people
    10. Find out why CJames loves to use nast cliff hangers
    11. Write to a few authors on this site and tell them how inspiring they are
    12. Give hope and love to everyone
    13. Be the best I can be
    14. Find out what ever happenes with GFD
    15. Figure out who was better for Rory... Luke or Seth
     
    That's what I came up with and I'm gonna start working on that list..... tomorrow cus I'm tired now lol
     
    ~As Always~
  10. Phantom

    Seeking a Job....

    By Phantom,

    I guess it's impossible to find a job when your former job screws you over and gives you a bad reference.
    I used to work at a movie theatre and I left them because I was constantly over worked and underpaid and (the last straw) was when I was told I was wrong for calling the police on a customer who decided to threaten my life by beating the crap out of me until he "smashed my head in" (needless to say the guy did have an outstanding DV charge and a warrent issued for such).
    I spoke today with a store by my house in hopes of getting a job, but when I spoke to the manager who denied my application, she was nice enough to tell me that I was given a very bad reference by the theatre. She said that they told her that I 'liked to cause conflict with customers (I guess in reference to the guy I called the cops on)' and 'failed to do any training (which is a lie considering I have all of the certificates from every theatre management course I was required to take sitting in my file)'.
    It just astonishes me on how much one person giving you a bad reference can mess up your future. So now here I am unemployed and looking for a job, but I can't put down a company that I worked almost 2 years at because they're giving me a bad reference. So I shall talk to my friend who still works there and see if she can give me the low down on what they're saying.
     
    On another note, I can't stop reading which is throwing my release dates off for my stories. Curse you good authors on GA!!!!!!
  11. Phantom
    So here I am chugging along in my writings when I start to browse some of the hosted authors for ideas in how to elaborate and write in detail on how characters interact when I stumble upon GFD (Gone From Daylight) written by Comicality. This was about a week or so ago. Now here I sit, writing in my blog about two things, how amazing this story is and how I have ADD when it comes to new technology.
     
    One. This story is AMAZING in every sense of the word. It's written in such detail that I feel like I'm there. The story is so captivating that I actually stopped writing and have done nothing but read this story. If you haven
  13. Phantom
    Well in my last blog I talked how I had a bad reaction to some medicine and to recap, made me dizzy and loose balance which in turn caused be to fall down the stairs since it was a really bad spell, and in the process, destroyed my tablet and forcing me to get a new one.
     
    Now back to our regularly scheduled blog...
     
    The new tablet I picked up was the iPad mini 3 (Apple's newest edition) since I needed a tablet that was small but could run the eTextbook program and still keep me in the tech loop (if you haven't guessed I'm a technogeek with aspirations of being a computer teacher). Now I could have easily picked up a replacement tablet at a fraction of the cost and still display my textbooks just as well but I didn't and went with the Apple option.
     
    Now going with the Apple option makes my world a little more interesting since I now have my iPad, a Samsung Note Pro (10.1 inch screen with handwriting stylus) and Samsung Note 4 phone (both Samsung devices run Android) and my Desktop/Laptop running Windows 10. If you lost count that's three separate operating systems that, on a good day, don't interact well with one another. Windows and Android both sync through my Office 365 account and on my iPad I'm running Outlook as well to keep things synced. With web browsers, I'm running Google Chrome on all three so my bookmarks are all synced as well.
     
    So, you maybe asking yourself, why is Eric complaining if everything is working? Well the reason is I'm transferring information across three different environments and I like keeping everything consolidate to one system BUT currently I can't for reasons I just wrote previously. I used to be a huge Apple fan a couple of years ago, but switched to PC/Android when I got frustrated with the lack of innovation and the closed system that Apple runs. That said, I got rid of all my Apple products and built myself a nice super powered Gaming Rig (I could go into details with the specs but to save you the headache of trying to figure out the technobabble, let's just say it's a monster of a computer that won't need upgrading anytime in the near future haha) and got myself into the Android system with my phone.
     
    Now here we are about three or so years later and I'm locked into this tug of war between three different systems. All of them have there pros and cons but it's frustrating to me that I have my information spread out like I do, where Apple, Google and Microsoft have my info stored on the cloud. In some ways I wish I just stayed with Apple and gone from there but then I wouldn't have my gaming PC and be able to play games like I can. Also I'm regretting getting a Samsung S Watch since it's locked into Samsung Only phones which means I can't get an iPhone or Windows phone without loosing a heavy investment into my wearable tech.
     
    With that I feel stuck in a situation that makes me uneasy and irritated with closed systems, conflicts when syncing information and finally having my information spread across three systems, one of which is notorious for looking into your stuff and making ad's based off of it. I'll probably come up with a solution down the line and hopefully be happy about it.
     
    Now for the idea part and no it has nothing to do with computers, I Just wanted to bitch about it haha. My idea is actually a story idea that has been rattling around in my head for a while now, and it's a genre that I'm well versed and theory I have a good standing in as well. It's a Pre/Post-Apocalyptic military story that'll take place in seven acts. Now I'm not saying it's going to be posted all tomorrow or very soon (Well maybe the prologue) but it'll be posted in the near future under the title "Cocked Pistol" which, to some, has some meaning, to others well, you'll just have to wait and see why it's titled that.
     
    That's all for now and keep reading children since I might put snippets of my story in my blog to see reactions and the like.
     
    Eric
  14. Phantom
    It's official... In two weeks I'm moving to PA permanently and I'm scared. I can't focus on anything nor can I get anything done...
     
    I've been trying to distract myself with reading but it's not working... I've been talking to people but I feel like I'm being annoying so I stopped... I've only been talking to people I care for but it's not working...
     
    It's scary to move away from your parents but I feel like I'm not doing anything right... I feel as if I'm creeping back to my dark aide again and I'm really really trying not to...
     
    My friends and family noticed this with me... That I'm sleeping more and I'm being more of a bitch than usual... I hate it so I'm just taking time for myself...
     
    I'm trying to feel better but I can't feel it... Ugh... I hate writing blog entries like this cus I feel like I'm just being an emo wreck... But I gotta get it out so it doesn't eat away at me...
     
    Eric
  15. Phantom

    That's perfect.

    By Phantom,

    Well... This weekend was interesting... I got a lot of work done and managed to not go insane mainly because my mother was out of the state.
     
    Unfortunatly I was met with tragedy. My netbook of 1.5 years died on Saturday with a watery fate. I was by my friends pool working on some things for work when my friend came by and knocked my netbook into the pool. Thankfully I'm an avid backer upper because I didn't loose anything vital, just a movie or two. So needless to say I was horrified and dove in after it and grabbed it before it hit the bottom of the pool. Once out of the water I disconnected the battery and proceeded to scream at my friend. He felt bad and yesterday nt with me to the apple store where he bought me an iPad 3G.
     
    Sad to say I really like it, it's made work a lot easier and thanks to some sources at work, I got a few neat Programs to run on it (Dsm-iv-tr, iWorks, WebMD and a few others to name a few). I went onto the iTunes store and found out that the suite of Programs would've cost me quite a few bucks. Also since I use this primarily for work and it's been accepted at work, I can also use this as a tax write off
     
    Anywho my life at home is still kinda bad, but it's starting to look up especially since I might be getting a car in two weeks and soon to finish school.
     
    Cheers!
    Eric
  16. Phantom
    Sorry I haven't been around as much... I just have a lot going on and needed some time to think... so I'll write a blog to sum up everything that's going on...
     
    It's been like the cold war at my house between me and my parents. I'm starting to let more of my social ideals and homoness be more prevalent at home which is rubbing my mom the wrong way so needless to say it's been a constant struggle between me and her. We have our up days and our down days, so needless to say I'm throwing myself into work.
     
    Sounds like a weird solution but it's not. I'm trying to get a couple of bucks together to stash into my savings account so that when the time comes and I can afford to, I can get myself an apartment where I can be free. It may sound like I'm running away, but after much thought and discussion with friends and my sister, it really is the best solution. Me and my parents get along well when I'm not around as much which would be an ideal solution for me to finally move out because I can have my own place and still maintain a relationship with my parents. It'll also let me be myself so that I don't have to feel as constrained as I do now.
     
    I haven't talked to them about this really, though they aren't too supportive of it, though they know somethings up since I'm constantly broke (yay for paying off debts) and been going through things that I don't need and sticking things in boxes that I do want to keep. Mom asked me the other week why I was getting all organized and such and I told her that it's something I needed to do and when i started to rework my room (tear out the old carpet redo my baseboards and such) she know's that somethings up.
     
    Also I've been helping my family get the house ready to sell by fixing things up around here. This weekend is going to fun since I'm going to be rewiring the phone lines (I'm upgrading all the phones to cat5 cable hehehe). The previous weeks and weekends have been filled with various things like yard work, cleaning the attic out, and the like.
     
    Also work is kicking my ass right now. I have two IHP (Individual Habilitation Plan) that are due in the next few days. For my job this is a big deal since these IHP's have the largest impact of my guys life. It details everything about them and their goals for the year. Think learning plans but on steroids and you might come close. There's a whole bunch of work that goes into it, like assessments in various areas, life biographies and medical/psychological assessments to name a few.
     
    Oh and to top all of this off, my social life is taking a hit because of a few things, but that's for another time. I know what I gotta do with it so I'll get through it like I always do
     
    Well off again.
     
    Eric
     
    PS - follow my twitter to get an insight into my life
     
    @phantom113
     
  17. Phantom
    Well it's the begining of pride in asbury park this weekend and so far it's been a blast!
     
    I met Tara Sanchez tonight of RuPauls drag race and she was fierce/ her performance was spot on and she worked the crowd.
     
    I hung out with my friends as well tonight and got a bit drunk off the cheap drinks lol (Kelly knows how to get me drunk and on a budget haha).
     
    I made some new friends tonight, and some of them are staff at Paradise lol. It's nice walking into a bar where everyone knows you and like you cus your not a ho bag lol.
     
    Oh and to end this blog... I'll tell ally blog followers that i've moved on from Matt officially and now like someone else a lot... Nom nom
  18. Phantom

    Don't Panic.

    By Phantom,

    The title says it all and those words mean a lot to different people. To me it's what I tell myself every morning when I wake up, before I walk into work, before I head out with friends and even before I open up a DomLuka story and wonder what cliffyness Dom has for me (Dom you're the bomb!).
     
    Don't panic.
     
    I got snowed in at work last week and while I had the worst night's sleep, I had fun helping the residents who needed it during the night, though needless to say I won't ever do an overnight unless I have a way of keeping myself awake by sleeping before my shift or have LOTS of coffee at my disposal.
     
    My old job at the garage still owes me about 20 some odd hours worth of owed pay and i'm waiting for them to pay me (it's been almost a month and a half now). I submitted a wage complaint with the Dept of Labor, so we'll see how long it takes them now to get me my owed money.
     
    School's going well, I'm set to take some more tests this coming week and hopefully they'll go as well as my other ones have.
     
    Valentines Day has come and gone, and I have to say it was fun. I spent the day working at my new job and made my residents a heart shaped cake with pink icing, which they loved (they also loved the dinner I cooked for them). I really like this job, it's an eye opening experience.
     
    And I think I'll finally explain why I have the star up as my avatar picture here on GA.
     
    My friend Frank was deployed again to Iraq. I've known him since middle school and while we're not super close, we try to talk and hang out when we can. He's a marine and is currently in Baghdad and my prayers and wishes for a safe return are with him. Also my dad is on notice to be deployed as well, though theres a chance that his unit will be passed over this time.
     
    Anywho, i'm off for more book learnin (as in playing some Band Hero on the iPod Touch before I hit the bed).
     
    Latas
  19. Phantom
    Have you ever had so many story ideas bouncing around in your head that it's hard to focus on one story? Well that's what's going on with me, and its filling up my flash drive like crazy! I do the classic thing of just writing down an idea and running with it till I stop, then I save it into a folder that says running ideas (which over the past three weeks went from under a meg of data to close to 5 megs now).
     
    Other then that, I got my hours and benefits cut at my job so i'm looking to go back to school and get a better job to deal with that and until then, I'll have plenty of time to write. I'm also thinking of finding a group around here or in NYC to volunteer with since i'll be having some free time. Since I love working with kids and helping them, I wanna try to find a GSA or PFLAG organization or something of that caliber and volunteer my time with them.
     
    Other then all of this, I've been busy hanging with the bf and working things out with him and we're about 99% back to where we were before. I've been making a name for myself at the clubs by me and people are starting to know me more and more (call me Diva on the Scene ). I've also been working with some of the drag queens and they love me and the videos/pictures i've been taking of them when they're performing.
     
    On a final note - after talking to a few of my friends, it's been decided that I can speak the following languages: Gay, Lesbian, Drag, and Straight guy.
  21. Phantom

    Caveat Lector

    By Phantom,

    It's time we had a cor ad cor loquitur (heart speaks to heart)
     
    It's simple really, something that was eating me all day. I have no clue with what I really want to do in the short run. Yes I have dreams, but I have no clue how to get to them. I want to work with kids, speciafically the gay kids and such. But to do that, I have to goto school, and I can't afford that, even with loans, and it's sorta depressing really. It's like having a carrot dangled in front of you, only to have it yanked away everytime you got close to it.
     
    Sad no?
     
    In other news, everything is going pretty well. I managed to buy a new desktop recently and decided to stop carting my laptop around with me unless I'm going to be out on the town or staying over a friends house and such.
     
    Me and Matt had a rough spot that we worked through, thanks to the most amazing thing. Communication. I'm not gonna bore you with the details, but pretty much we talked it through and things are looking like they're getting better.
     
    I know, it's a short blog, but I want to leave you with one last latin phrase:
     
    In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
  22. Phantom

    Read at your own risk

    By Phantom,

    I don't know what it is lately, but many people have been annoying the heck outta me. Most recent thing, my manager forgot to tell me until I was two hours late to work that she switched my schedule THIS week, not next week. Normally I would've been like eh, but not this time. Cus I missed 2.5 hours today, so I have to make it up this thursday and work a 12.5 hour shift.
     
    Now, onto my next annoyance which is *drumroll please* people. Yes people. They've been annoying the heck out of me. There a woman who's popping out kids who thinks it's cool to look like Angelina Jolie and that its fine to have 12 kids even though she's on welfare, living at home and unemployed. Seriously it's just greedy to do that when you can't afford it. For christmas sakes, she doesn't even have a husband, let alone a boyfriend to help her take care of the kids. It's gonna be up to her and her poor parents to raise the 12 kids. Did she ever stop to think about anyone else cides herself? Or did she think that people were gonna pitty her and give her things?
     
    Another person who annoys me is the person who buys you a drink at a bar, and kills the good time your having. Some girl bought me a tequila drink at a bar the other night while there was a battle of the bands going on and, if you don't know this about me Tequila makes me crazy. So she buys me a drink and the bartender gives it to me and doesn't tell me what's in it. I look at it and it seems to look like a gingerale or sprite and BAM I gulp it down (beer makes me thirsty and thats what I was drinking before that) and I get hammered and crazy. The more I think about it, the more I think that it was a double or tripple shot. That killed my night and I ended up having to call my boyfriend cus I was to hammered and out of it cus of the damn tequila to go home on the train. God knows where I would've ended up!
     
    Yet another person who annoys me lately is the one who doesn't know when to quit. Seriously. If you come up to me and ask me to dance, and I tell you know that I have a boyfriend, F*** Off! Do you really think that it's gonna change two or three songs later? GAH!
     
    Another thing that annoys me is myself. I've put on weight that I never had and honestly, the scale has become my enemy. While I know that people are gonna tell me 'Oh NO! You look fine' look at it from my point of view. Never in my life have I weighed over 175 and when I weighed myself recently, I was 180! So yes I do need to loose weight, but don't annoy me and tell me oh no you look fine, cus it's just gonna piss me off!
     
    The final thing that has annoyed me is the people who just don't know when to shut up about things. Seriously, learn to take a hint and stuff it. Don't wait for someone to tell you when you cross a line... take a hint and shove it! GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  23. Phantom
    So time has come that I'm working on a serial that I definitely need an editor for (if my other works prove it). If anyone is interested in editing for me... please PLEASE let me know via PM!
     
    So as I may not get stuck down my GA's spoiler killer I'll let you know about the story and such if you ask. It's going to be a decent series (I think) and each chapter averages between 4,500 and 5,000 words.
     
    In other news... everything is going swimmingly and couldn't be better (for the most part).
     
    Eric
  24. Phantom
    Well, the drop occurred.
     
    Out of all the managers i've ever had, my all time favorite one quit without any notice. She was pretty cool and i'm gonna miss her something fierce.
     
    That's not to say that i'm depressed from it... i'm disappointed but I know that things like this happen and it's of no fault of my own.
     
    Needless to say, I'm also having quite a bit of fun training the new manager that we have. He's pretty cool, though in a different way.
     
    On a personal level, Matt and I have been together almost a month now and my feelings for him are just as strong as ever and, on a side note, I need to get better pictures of him and me.
     
    On a seperate level, I want to say that I should have a new serial that i'm working on and the first chapter should be posted by mid-november. Lost in Pain is also on hiatus right now because it's not going where I wanted it to go. Needless to say I'll try to finish it, although it may be just one long extended chapter.
     
    Finally I want to thank everyone who's been suportive of me and my attempts to write. You guys keep me going!!!!
     
    Eric
  25. Phantom

    Arguments

    By Phantom,

    It's a proven fact that most parents care for their kids and want to see them succeed and be happy. With me, that's no different then the way my parents act. We had a discussion today that lead into an argument about my life both present and future and while I was pissed at them for the way they carried out the argument, I can say that I'm glad (in a way) that they did.
    We talked about how I wanted to ultimately be a social worker and they both told me that it was going to be a hard choice to make. That's when they started to question why I was going to school to get my associates degree in criminal justice, bachelors in social work and my CDAC (certificate in drug and alcohol counseling) and not just go for social work. When I gave them my reasons, they pretty much told me that it was a waste of money to go that route, but I told them I disagree with them on that.
    Then we got into the discussion of me not only moving to california in the future, but taking a small vacation this november and going there for a few days to relax (and to look at schools if I can manage that). They almost hit the roof telling me that they think I only want to move to california because they're more accepting of gays. When i told them that wasn't the case, they pretty much called me a liar (and it isn't, I can make more as a social worker in cali then I would in NJ if you factor in the cost of living and such).
    Ultimatly we ended up agreeing to disagree and I put (somewhat) my plans for this november on hold until we can discuss it even more. I know that it is my life, and after talkin to a very smart person, I can see the reasoning behind their arguments and dislike of it. They are worried about me and want me to be happy, no matter what they believe.
    So I want to offer you guys and gals a second view on things. Remember that some of the times when you come out to your parents, or if you get into an argument with them, that ultimatly it is because they are concerned for you. Now i'm heading back to bed.
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