Its Sunday, and tomorrow I start my new job. I don’t know what’s going on with my living situation right now. I’m feeling like I’m going to be making rash decisions without carefully thought. But oh well, I’m sure it will all work itself out in the end.

I created a excel worksheet, for budgeting purposes. Much like Bobby’s BPL MODEL, which saved my life during Business Policy (this is a class). Basically what it comes down to, is how much am I willing to save or not save at the end of the month. As long as I don’t go into the red at the end of the month, I’m sorta fine. After working out the numbers, its something like, do I want to save $600 at the end of the month or do I want to save $400? And when I look at it Annually, well, one choice looks even more undesirable. See the main difference is privacy and distance. At saving $600 a month I will be having roommates, be living quite far (not as far as I am now), but my liabilities are shared among roommates. At saving $400 a month, I have a one bedroom apartment, by myself, complete privacy, I will live either 1 to 3 miles away from work, but I have full liability for the apartment, all costs are on me.

After some rational and irrational thought I think I’m going to go for the $600 for now. Being that I haven’t even started my job and don’t know how much I will actually be earning every week, all the numbers in my Budget Model are estimates. And hopefully the difference between my Estimates and Actualls won’t be that big. I see a standard deviation of about $50. Watch it be more like $300!

The first apartment I took was an easy choice. This one is getting all complicated.

I will be changing the format of this front page soon. I want to add a ROOMMATE needed sign on the right side splitting this site down the middle and justifying to the left. Once I get a computer that can stand some heavy picture editing and web page making I will do it. Incidentally, if you happen to come across this website and are thinking about moving to Champaign, send me an email if you are looking for a place.

I GOT A JOB!

Well okay I guess I already had one but … I GOT ANOTHER JOB! Yay for me. What will I be doing you ask? Well I will be selling toys! Not not Yo-yos and barbies at Toys R Us. They are actually going to be Radio Controlled … stuff… to retail stores. Im going to be part of the Channel Distribution thing they talked about in school. Im that one step after manufacturer and right before retailer. Im part of a distribution system. Oh for joy.

so now what does that mean for the future of Dante? Hmmm dont know really. The job is one hour away from where i currently live, so Im probably going to be moving out once I have settled things enough for me to make the move. Bank accounts, change of addresses, and so forth. Hope my car insurance doesn’t go up. Last time I moved in this state it went up 15 bucks. Maybe this move will bring it down rather than up.

So with this new job I must say that things are moving along quite well. At first I was very disheartened and very worrisome of what the hell I was doing. But with this on the horizon, I think things are going to be “al’ree”.

I’ll try to update as much as possible. Of course, I say this knowing that there probably isn’t a very large pool of people who check this website, and of the people who do check this website, I probably call them and tell them about the news before I have a chance to update this site. But ah well. If you are reading this then awesome! If not then not so awesome. But if you are reading this, then I give you this. Coupon #456879. Mention this coupon number at any McDonalds and receive a free something or other with fries. (Only at participating locations)

Anyways Keep on Trucking
I know I Am.

Here is the link to the apartment page

APARTMENT

It isnt completed, but there are some thumbnails that can be accessed. Although if you are on 56 i advise not checking it out as they are not formated to a reasonable compression for 56 users…

Anyways its sunday and im home. I didnt do much yesterday. My apartment community has turned into a ghost town. Graduation was yesterday and the spring semester is over, so a good number of students have gone home for the summer. So i expect the partying for this week to be very minimal. But Im sure by june, all the summer party people will be moving in for their summer stay. Dont know if i will be here or not, if all goes well i will have moved out by June. If it doesnt, then im going to be back on that job train trying to get off somewhere.

A day ago, played some drinking games with the neighbors. I lost a few of them. I enjoyed myself.

Andrea has 2 finals this week, and shes off for the summer. Hehe although, to end her semester she will be having surgery on Friday. They’re removing her wisdom teeth. Kinda sucks but cant leave them in there.

Figuring out what to do next is difficult when you dont know what you are doing currently. Guess i should go figure out what im doing.

APARTMENT

Oh yeah almost forgot, im wearing shorts today. Its going to be 80+ deg today. So yeah … later

Still no job… Im getting a little impatient. If i dont have a new job in another week, im going to have to step up the search again. I kinda slowed down my job activity because i had a really good feeling about the one toy job. But if they dont take me then im going to have to switch gears again and find somewhere else to work for. kinda sucks but c’est la vie. This weekend i have a 2 day weekend. Yay both saturday and sunday. Andrea has finals week next week, which means im going to have to find something to do to occupy my time. I think i’ve decided on packing up my stuff here in this apartment and get ready to move again. It may be a little premature, being that i dont have a new job nor do i have a new apartment to move to yet, but i think it will make me feel a little better knowing i can just pack up and blink over to somewhere else.

Speaking of nearing the end of a semester… it is almost summer, meaning that there are probably going to be one or two people who will want to visit. this is perfectly fine, just give me a call or email and we will figure something out. Ive been telling myself that once the summer hits i will go back to new york to pick up stuff and visit for a while. A while being a short enough period of time to get drunk, play poker, maybe get a good game of cstrike, and see a rock concert. There is a scene here, but im so caught up in work and finding new work, that my free time is spent sleeping or driving. Driving to no-where in particular, just driving to not have to be anywhere specific.

Hopefully things will take a quick and dramatic turn for the better today.

Well i better go do something of importance before something unimportant comes up.