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| Ask me how one gets the flu in California.... Go ahead and ask. I feel
like complete and utter shit. I called my resident nurse Cobb last
night cuz man I was really feelin bad. After 3 doses of theraflu, tons
of ibuprofen, antibiotics, and about 11 hours of sleep, I feel a lil
better. I woke up this morning soaked in sweat. I mean literally
soaked. My mattress felt like someone threw it in a pool and my clothes
were dripping. At least I'm not going through hot and cold spells like
I was yesterday. Bad thing is, I slept with my phone in the bed so I
think I got water damage cuz none of the buttons work.
Work has been cool. I just been in training/Cisco Boot Camp for the
past week with more to come. I got my American Express too. Now I feel
like an official employee. It's nice to have a limit with more than 3
zeroes behind it lol. But I realized they gave me this cuz..........
you guessed it, I will be travelling starting July. Well I'm off to go
do what good employees do. Have a blessed day
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| Well I've been in San Jose for one week and things are good. I see this job is actually gonna require me to do work unlike at Intel. Funny thing happened to me on the first day. I was in a meetin with my boss and after five minutes he goes "I'm sorry I hate to be full of stereotype but we have already signed you up for the basketball team for the Cisco Olympics." LMAO!!!!!! I couldn't do anything but laugh. I also saw some ducks having sex on the first day in the fountain outside the building. It's so scenic around these parts. We are located on the outside of the valley so there are mountains all arounds. There are 42 different buildings and its like a college campus here. I like what I will be doing and I'm actually getting challenged for the first time in a looooong time. Oh and by the way, I ended last semester with a 3.4 gpa. Holla at ya boy! Only thing I don't like, I speak the best english and I'm the only black person I've seen in 3 days. Not good. Everyone around me is some type of Indian or Asian with heavy accents and to make it worse they are all smart so they like to talk a lot and fast. I have to carry a pad and pen around so in case I get into a convo with them and I can't understand, they can write it down. Sad aint it?
My living situation, is well very interesting. I live with a Filipino family in a predominantly Asian neighborhood. They have a son that sells weed, a daughter that is 4'11" and has 36DD implants and models for those import car shows, and another daughter who seems to be normal going to nursing school. The neighbor has a license to grow medicinal marijuana. I mean the PRIMO shit and its legal. I wish I smoked. He has a lab in his house where he has some versions of bud that have in excess of 50 percent THC..... He was gon give me some on consignment for helpin him with his music but man I needed the money. I like livin here. It's like a sitcom everyday. I would like it even more if I saw some black people every once in a while. Stay tuned for updates. | | |
| I already miss her.... . I thought I could do this but it's harder and harder each day to have these feelings and not have her here to share these emotions. California is a loooong way away. Why did I have to start bein a punk again?
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| Man it's been a day today. I wish it would stop raining. It just kinda puts you in a mood when it's grey all day. Thank GOD I only have 2 more days in this place, then off to the bay area where the kids think going dumb is a good thing(sigh negroes). Better get used to it cuz for the next 7 months I'm gonna call that place home.
I'm actually excited about this job (Cisco Systems - Research Scientist VOIP). My boss told me I am not only the first undergrad they hired for this position, I'm the first black person in this area. Man I just hope I don't fuck it up for the rest of everyone. That means I gotta get to work on time and not be on the internet all day or on the phone lol. Dammit!!!! Cuz you know they like to base all their future hirings of black people on the first one.
I actually been tryin to do some planning for the future as far as career wise. I am graduatin in August(BOUT TIME!!!!) so I was thinkin about law school or just gettin my PhD or maybe both at the start of the new year. I dunno if I can deal with CS that long but I'm basically gonna be doing PhD work at my job. Law school is appealing as well but I don't know which specific field I would go into (IP, Entertainment, Civil). I tried talkin to my mom about it but she just is concerned about me gettin my damn BS in CS(short sighted negroes). Ah oh well, maybe someone will guide me in the right path. I definitely feel blessed though. A lot of my friends spent the last 3-5 years in college and don't know where they are gonna be or what they are gonna do. They don't know where their majors will take them and/or if they are gonna be successful. I think that's a shame. I mean there has to be some reason you chose to major in English or Speech Comm and I know it wasn't to work at Marshall Fields or Walgreens. I been talkin to a lot of people and they just confused at what they are gonna do and that reality bug is hittin them hard as hell. To me it's just that time to find out what's your passion and pursue it cuz you really have nothing to lose. I'm just really really really thankful I am not in that position.
Man I survived graduation weekend. It was like hollaback time for real. It seemed like just about every girl I talked to in the past few years called me this weekend tryin to be on some other stuff. LOL I know my reputation precedes me but DAYUM!!!! I was dodgin drunk dials from Thursday - Sunday and to make it worse, some of these girls got boyfriends. Boy oh boy I'm glad I've turned over a new leaf cuz man I woulda been on a serious rampage.
But I'm gonna miss this place. I really will. And I'm gonna miss the wild and crazy times I had and the experiences I had here will ultimately shape me more as a person than any other time I've had. I'll be back eventually. I might donate a building or something one day. *Chunkin a deuce*
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| Now I ain't no punk about my shit, buuuuttt someone send me flowers and a card today. I feel so special.
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