Ok so I lied. I AM switching journals over to Live Journal. /. I hardly knew ye but don't despare. I'll still visit every day for my dose of news for nerds.

Well I thought about moving to another journal site but since I don't have any friends either way, I'll just stay at /. since I'm here anyway. So far it's been an uneventful weekend. I'll fill you in.

Friday nite I didn't plan on doing anything really. Just felt like crashing early. But around 11 I realized that I might just go out and meet some friends. So I went down to the Sand Pits. It's a bar with volleyball courts outside. Of course this is Colorado and it was far too cold for that. So we just sat inside and played pool. I got to meet some cool new folks and found out this girl I used to work with is now a bartender there. She let us drink past last call (2 am here) and I ended up having a bit too much.

Saturday was recovery day. Sleep, eat, sleep some more. I was feeling better around 3pm so I played some DDR to work off my beer gut a little. Looked for more jobs then went over to Fox's to watch hockey. I'm the only hockey fan tho so we switched it after the ducks were up 4-1 at the end of the 2nd. Watched 007 Die Another Die. I decided it was better than TWINE and TND but not as good as Goldeneye. Then we went out and shot a few games of pool (more pool?) but got kicked out since it was 2am already. Finished off the night by watching Blade 2. Very cool movie.

It's sunday and the day is over half done. Applied for another job and hopefully I can get in one more application before monday. I made an HTML version of my resume and it turned out pretty good I thought. Simple but effective (I hope). It always seems like I have a lot to do but when it comes time to actually do it, I have nothing on my plate. So I make lists to remind me. Of course making the list is just another excuse to avoid the REAL task. Kinda like this journal. heh.

This is BIGmog signing out.

Ok that's better. Now I'm doing this at nite so I should have a better memory of the day's events. Let's see where was I? Oh yeah the job hunt. So now I'm at the point where I'm willing to settle for a job here in the states that involves some sort of international relation with Japan. At least that's a start. I applied for 3 more jobs today but nothing on the previous jobs. Why is this so difficult?! Ah but I'm tired of all this talk about jobs. Let's switch subjects.

Let's get cup crazy! Ah I feel kinda bad. I love hockey but since I don't have cable I haven't been able to watch very many games this season / post-season. Even tho my team (the Avs) were knocked out in the 1st round, I still enjoy the games. So tonite, game 5 of the Stanley Cup playoffs was on ABC so I was able to watch it. Great game too. Lots of goals and fighting. I don't really care who wins all that much. Ok well maybe I do a little. It's just that Anaheim already won the World Series. So let someone else win Disney! On the other hand, NJ has their team in the NBA finals (Nets). So they have the potential to win 2 major sporting titles also. Ideally, the Devils will win the Stanely Cup and the Spurs will win the NBA championship. Shall we take bets?

-dusty

Wow here I am managing to put ANOTHER entry into this thing. Two in a row. That's way more than I expected. Although now that I think about it, perhaps it's better to write in here after the day is over as opposed to when I first wake up. Now I need to remember all the exciting adventures I had yesterday. Hmmm...

Well there was more job hunting of course. I'm really torn on what to do here. Officially and originally, I wanted to go to Japan. More than anything I wanted to go to Japan. The easiest way to do this is to teach English there. There's some sorta law in Japan that a non-Japanese person is not allowed to fill any position that a Japanese person is able to do. Apparently they're really strict about it too. That leaves teaching English English as the only job I could possibly obtain.

The JET programe was my optimal choice. I tried. But I didn't make the cut. Maybe next year. So then I decided to try the big 3 english schools in Japan; Nova, Geos, and Aeon. Then I read about the horror stories. Ok that might hafta be plan 'W'. How about private schools then? There's plenty of those. So I applied, and applied, and applied, and applied some more. The few hits I did get back all required some advanced teaching certificates which I don't have. This is getting discouraging.

I think I'll just save the rest for tomorrow before I start getting depressed about it. I must stay determined!

-dusty
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Hey look you can keep a personal journal here! It's like one of those blogs things but without all the depressing banter about how lifeless my life is. Oh wait, that's exactly what it is. I should try to avoid such boring news but no promises.

We'll start were I didn't leave off. I'm BIGmog but you can call me Dusty if you want to. A recently graduated college student with a long interest in computers. But not interested enough to make a career out of it. Instead I got my degree in international business in hopes of traveling to a foreign land (Japan) and using my adequate unix and web site skills to bust into the video game industry. Sadly it's not going nearly as well as I had anticipated. So now I spend my days frantically looking for a stepping stone job that might lead me in the right direction. Given my current funds, I'd say I have about 2 months to accomplish this. And instead I'm writing in a journal that will probably be abandoned within 2 weeks. Raison D'etre? Let's find out.