lousy cohabitation

man, I just don't know about this working thing. The problem is having someone else around. I don't know, I got really used to living alone and working, and then I had to adjust to living alone and not working, then I had to adjust to not living alone and not working. I guess I'll adjust, but in the meantime I'm freaking the hell out. Nick says we can get a bigger place (or even a house) when the lease expires, but in the meantime, well, see above.

I need alone time. I had plenty before, while normal people were at work, but now I'm one of those people. I get up at 8:30 and get home at 6:30. If I'm lucky, I have almost a full hour of alone time, then Nick gets home and plays his fucking piano. Needless to say I haven't played a lick of clarinet since I got my job, let alone write on my novel or watch any movies. It's rather annoying. And then to top it off, Nick works till 2am most nights, whereas I need to get to bed by midnight in order to get up the next morning.

The only thing that I really won't compromise on is the sleep thing. It's pretty easy to get Nick over, since I'm a real bitch when I'm sleepy, but then I hate myself. I just don't know.

what a worthless age

I turned 24 at the end of March, at the beginning of a crush, and then suppressed things for a while so I could fall in love with my boyfriend again. At which point I finalized plans to move in with him, drove across the country, and did so. Meanwhile I sat around on my ass wondering what the hell I was doing.

I went to Europe for a few weeks, during which time my crush made things easy (ish) for me by refusing to speak to me. I managed to finish one novel and start on another, and thought about getting a job about once a month. Finally, I actually got on some job sites and searched for real, and after three months of nothing, got an interview for basically my Resume Objective. Curiously they never actually asked me if I liked programming...

So 24 wasn't really all that great, I don't think. But I didn't regress too much, I hope. Better luck next year.