Thursday, November 29, 2007

Raison D'etre

As it seems I am needing more of something nowadays, a life of change seems to be my raison d'etre. I am really enjoying life, but I still feel like I am missing something. Part of me wants to think it's the absence of good friends in Las Vegas, but I have been less sure of this lately. This appears to be the tried and true subject of my bloggings, but it is also seems to hint at being a pivotal subject in my life. In other words, a point at which changes occur that will shape the entirety of my life. However, whatever this feeling is, I'm sure everything will work out in the end.

To further describe my raison d'etre, I have recently moved in with my good friend Libby. Thus far, this arrangement is so much better then the previous living situation (if not a large amount more stressful). Things were just not working out with my girl roommates from my old place. I didn't get along with them as well as I wanted to and they were definitely not as hospitable as I wanted them to be. They ended up treating my other male roommate and his friends poorly and they would not consult us regarding house matters. They threw a couple of large parties at our place and had the cops called on them 3 times. I had to learn from my male roommate and not from the female roommates that if that happened again, we would be evicted by our landlord. Long story short, I wanted to get out of there and Libby wanted to move up to the city so we found a place together.

Only problem is that I had to give a 30-day notice before I was out of the contract. Because Libby and I had found the place in mid-November and we had to move in almost immediately to take it up, we both are probably going to have to end up paying for a month of rent where we are not living in our old places of residence. I told my female roommates not to worry and that I would pay my rent up to the 15th of December (30 days after I told them I was moving). The kicker being that my old female roommates will most likely be breaking their lease on the 15th of December. They have not looked for a new roommate to fill my empty spot and I will have to pay for the first 15 days of December in rent. When I moved out I thought that paying all the way to the 15th was a slim possibility, but it seems that the possibility gained a little bit of weight. Actually, I'm sorry that last one wasn't the kicker. Hypocrisy rules the day and my old female roommates just told my male roommate that they would probably be breaking the lease with about 15 days notice (once again the contract we signed was for 30 days). So they are screwing him up in their "bad decision" as well. He is such a great guy that he just wants to get it over with and move on from it, but if I were him I would've had a fit.

Lesson learned:

Some people need to live with their parents until they are responsible enough to be respectful and caring members of society.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Luck Is Not A Lady Tonight

What happened to probability? Statisticians are playing a game with my head. I thought that my theorem below held true and not false.

if(and(SFGay%Pop>LVGay%Pop,(SFGay%Pop-LVGay%Prop)/LVGay%Prop>(SFLesbian%Prop-LVLesbian%Prop)/LVLesbian%Prop),"Ladies Love Cool Jon","Ladies Want To Be Friends with Cool Jon")

I would assume here that I would be a marketable commodity if above theorem held true. However, it seems that ladies merely "like spending time with [me]" on a friendship level and they think that "[I'm] so cool". I have not met one person here who seemed like they were genuinely interested in me on something more than a friendship basis.

On the plus side, at least most people don't think of me as a schmuck (I hope).