The Badly Written Sitcom

            One of the advantages of having as much free time as I do working a writing job during the night shift and having a Friendster account is that it gives one the opportunity to look up people and retrace certain periods of one’s life to review the lessons learned and evaluate how the said learning experience was applied. A couple of weeks ago, I was on a high school kick. Tonight, it’s a fond little place I know as IHG.

            After quitting my post as one of the resident whores from everyone’s second favorite music channel to pursue a career in teaching, I realized that in the months in between I needed money. These days, the quickest legal way to make a buck was work in a contact center. Fate led to a five month stint as a phone monkey at this awesome place where the work is light, the pay is good, and the people are interesting.

            That place taught me a lot. The biggest lesson I learned was than if you regularly drink in excess, the only thing you’d be left with would be more reasons to drink on a regular basis. It’s a fucking vicious cycle I tell you. In line with that, some of the more interesting people you can meet in life would throw up in a big city street first thing in the morning.

            Looking at the pictures of the people I used to hang out with during my headset glory days, I’m surprised that I actually miss a lot of them.

I had a boss that was very nice to me, despite my numerous shortcomings. Actually, I’ve been very lucky with bosses so far in my professional life. I don’t know why.

All in all, I see that stint there as a missed opportunity. I had a chance to make lifelong friends there, but I wasn’t able to. I was too wrapped up in my own shit, and being drunk as much as I was back then didn’t really help much. Hell, I spent Christmas and New Year’s Eve working the phones there, how can it not be special?

I guess I’ll just make up for all that with the people I share my time and office space with these days. Once again I’ve lucked into a pretty sweet group of people. In fact, this is the company I worked in before teaching and after IHG. I came back, so I guess I’m doing a pretty good job of cultivating my relationships here. I guess I’ll just keep on doing that.

On a totally unrelated note, I never had an idea how many people read this, mostly because no one bothers to comment anymore. (Not that I’m complaining, mind you. The gesture would be appreciated though.) Over the past month, every person I’ve bumped into that I haven’t seen in a relatively long time has made reference to this blog. (Actually they made reference to the amount of bitching and moaning I make on this blog.) Well, my happy blogs are now on multiply.com, and my username is thegreatrenethegreat. Two sites, two sides of me. Yeah? Yeah.

Peace out mo’ fo’s.

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