I felt I should update and say what I've been up to, although it's nothing exciting.
So I'm still working as a video game tester, but very sporadically. They didn't give me work for three weeks. I thought, "I can't live like this!" and went hunting for a second job. I landed one, with another video game company, working in an assembly line. I'm now convinced that assembly line work is a certain kind of hell but I'm managing, I suppose. I go through weird phases of how I feel towards work: despair, anger, ambivalence, determination, etc, etc. This last week we were working 12 hour shifts. That was really tough. I ended up aggravating my old shoulder injury from a couple of years ago, so I got time off today and a half day yesterday. We're supposed to drop down to 10 hour shifts but we'll see how that goes.
I guess my parents got tired of driving me to the bus station at 4:30 in the morning (it's like 5 minutes away) and shipped me off to [insert city name here], which cuts my commute time in half. But I'm especially unhappy about this, since I kind of hate the city. Bah, I should just get a car.
Aaaaannnndddd...that's about it. No time for life between work and sleep. My plan this weekend: nurse my shoulder and on-going head cold.
Hope you are all in better health and better free-time!
