Brian Fields

On Saturday October 15th, I moved into my new residence in Cincinnati. I’m joined by Mike, Joe and Doug.

It’s exciting living on my own again. (I’d consider the dorms more of a test run, anyway, since there’s no bills and a meal plan.) I really hope we have a fun and exciting 12 months ahead of us and I can’t wait to see what is in store.

But I hope that I’m less busy and can handle it. I know it seems like I spend a lot of time doing nothing, but that’s not as true as I’d like to think. It seems like every time I start to get caught up, something new comes along and I either can’t say no to it (because I enjoy a challenge and I’m too much of a sucker sometimes.) and I don’t have a choice and it’s forced onto me.

Last week I was asked to house-sit for my aunt for a bit while her family is out of town. That’s really no problem, but it’s across town and it’s like I’ll really just be going over there to sleep during the day. Then on Wednesday… or maybe it was Tuesday, I was going to the grocery store with Mike and a girl backed into my car… I wasn’t mad at first, but now I’m starting to realize how much time I’m going to have to put towards getting my car repaired and it sucks, but it’s really time that I don’t want to spend doing. I didn’t need that.

Last week I also realized exactly how much I hate working third shift. Living in Franklin it wasn’t that bad, because the E-men wouldn’t really hang out until the weekend. But with us living together, we hang out by just sitting around the house. So when everyone is home from work and they sit down to play a game or watch TV or something… it’s time for me to go to work. So after this week (since I’m not going to be around much) I’m going to start looking for a new job. I’d like that. I know that simply being in the Cincinnati area will make the quality of jobs better and I’ll be more likely to get a job with a pay rate similar to the one I’m getting now, but without the dirty factory part of the job and especially without the third shift part. I want to go to movies at night. I want to sleep at night. I want to get home in time to sit down to dinner and enjoy the daylight before the sun retires.

I’m completely moved in, but I still have some things in Franklin that my mom would rather me take with me than her have them sitting around there, so really it’s a matter of going there to get those items and probably throwing a lot of it away and stashing the rest in my closet.

I built myself new DVD shelves because the one I had in my room just wouldn’t fit. My walls are slanted where the roof starts to come in and the shelf I had is not only 6 feet tall and wouldn’t fit in the room, but wouldn’t fit up the narrow stairway to my room. Now I have 2 4 foot shelves that go right up to where the slant starts and are about as big as they can get and still fit up the stairway comfortably. Smart planning, eh? It’s has already sunk in that this place is now my home, and although a few situations are still somewhat akward, I’m enjoying it. Like I said, I can only hope the whole year is this enojyable and that everything goes smoothly.

It’s now 1AM and I think it would be good for me to go to bed “early” (according to a third shift schedule) so I can get as much done as I can on my longest day of the week. (which is only long because I normally don’t spend half of it sleeping!).

Pics of the room coming soon.

See ya.