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I’ve been so busy the past two weeks I haven’t had time to keep up with my LJ.
I started my new job at EA last Monday. So I’ve been busy in training all day. Finally found out what queue I’ll be working (OTQ: Old Titles Queue, anything over 2 years old) and got my desk. Spent most of today brining my machine, which had just been Ghosted up to date with Windows security patches and so on. Then 3 rounds of “role playing” with my supervisor to practice handling the phones, the customer database, etc. Since I’ve done it all before, it was old hat to me. The guy in the next cube over who started at the same time I did was a little more nervouse about it and flubbed his fist couple of role play calls, since he’s never done tech support before. Tomorrow I expect to be on the phones.

In my last post I refered to “Friend” and “Lover”, but forgot that, since my computer at home has crashed on me every time I tried to type up that incident, you have no idea who and what I’m talking about. “Friend” is an alias for a very very close friend of mine. “Lover” is an alias for her live-in lesbian lover. At Friend’s request, I’m not using their real names. I had much more detail typed up before, but I’ve (attempted) to type it all up so many times now I don’t feel like doing it all over again. It would probably crash this machine to. Suffice it to say, there is MUCH drama going on in their relationship, involving polyamory, a 3rd party who doesn’t understand the concept, and breached boundries. Friend asked me to take care of her one evening after work as she was feeling quite ill, and wanted to talk about what was going on. After she downloaded her emotions at me, she felt much better. Then Lover came home and they asked me to stick around and kind of mediate while they talked things out. Unfortunatly though the evening ended on a relativly good note, things went down hill again over the week. Friend is feeling a lot of stress right now and I worry for her.

This commute from Santa Cruz to Redwood City is really getting to be hell. It’s a 50 mile commute each way, and I have to drive it daily. I wasn’t counting on getting an apartment nearer to work, since I’m only guarunteed 6 months on thsi job and I have no money and lousy credit, but Martin called me yesterday and informed me he has a friend who owns a house just across the Dumbarton in Fremont, who will rent me a room for $200/month. Hell, I’ll SAVE $200 month on gas alone taking that place. So I have to meet this friend and check her out, and let her check me out and if all goes well I will be cutting about 40 miles off my commute.

Now the bad news: My car needs servicing. It’s running fine, but it’s going through brake fluid like crazy. The clutch is hydraulic and connects to the same resevoir as the brakes. Every time I step on the clutch, after a few seconds it starts losing pressure. I have to top up the resevoir daily. I’ve used a quart in the last week and a half. I have to get the thing back into the shop that fixed the clutch last time, but they’re only open on weekdays. I won’t have time except on weekends. I’ll have to see if Martin can drive me to work on Friday and take my car in for me. I can NOT not have a reliable car to get to work.