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Not Actually Borges
bushidobrown
06 November 2009 @ 02:27 am
 
I'm applying for another one of those "too good to be true" jobs. The last one I got hired for was a research/blog position for a marketing firm, writing stuff like this every month. It's a ridiculous assignment, and I am continually amazed to find a big ol' check in my mailbox every month as a result of a few hundred words worth of babble.

From what I can tell, I'd be producing similar content for this new job... except it's a full time position paying $3000 a month. Currently, in a good month, I make $500. I don't know what I would do with $3000. I COULD FLY TO INDIA WITH THE SAVINGS FROM TWO MONTHS OF WORK AND WHEN I SAY "SAVING" WHAT I MEAN IS CONTINUING TO LIVE LIFE AS NORMAL EXCEPT ALSO SPENDING A LOT OF FREE TIME BATHING IN MONEY.

I'm pretty excited about this opportunity.

Additionally, I have a question for y'all:

1) I am going to be moving out of Fishmarket in late December. My current best living option would be moving in with a lot of girls in a sweet old house. I know many of the girls and I believe we get along okay. However, I've never really lived with girls plural before. Currently we have one female roommate, and when we first moved in to Fishmarket we had one female roommate. But, for some reason, I have a feeling that living in an All Girl house might be different. What do you think internet? Is it different? (also, I would like to hear from girls who have lived in an All Boy house).

2) There's a new hostess at my restaurant. She's pretty, she just graduated in May with a degree in photography, she's a little flirty. (Have you ever met someone and been pretty sure you were going to sleep with them? I'm pretty sure she got that impression when she met me. Which is what I mean by flirty. I mean it's like one of those complicated time riddles - how do you flirt with someone you've already slept with IN THE FUTURE???) Anyway, she says we should get together and geek out about photography some time. Assuming that her offer will either lead to me embarrassing myself by propositioning her OR the two of us happily sleeping together... should we hang out? Or should we stay "professional?"
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Emily[info]busby_berkeley on November 6th, 2009 07:31 am (UTC)
re: 2)- DOOO IT.
that fragile capricorn[info]sobota on November 6th, 2009 10:41 am (UTC)
re 1: depending on your level of comfort with the opposite sex, living in a house where your the only one of your kind can be intense. i lived with all guys, and each one had a complete set of problems and personality types.

you might get ganged up on, or one girl might develop a crush on you, and women living together tend to synch up menstration cycles.

i enjoyed living with all guys. they were a little slobby but i didn't mind and they were protective of me and i always felt needed and special. anyway. good luck.
Andrea[info]trowizilla on November 6th, 2009 11:12 am (UTC)
If you do live with girls, for the love of god and little green apples, don't date or sleep with any of them. Nobody needs that kind of drama.

Other than that, you'll be fine.
this is a skank shift[info]crescimento on November 7th, 2009 04:01 am (UTC)
1) I think it isn't so much the sex as the personality type. I lived with a couple of guys that were totally lazy dirty dramtic ridiculous fucks. And then I lived with a couple of girls who were totally non-drama, laid back, and cleaned up after themselves. If you can look yourself in the mirror and honestly say you think these girls would be low-key-drama-free, then I think there shouldn't be any apprehension about living with them. And I agree with the commenter above about sleeping with roommates -- the shit ain't like college anymore -- not only are the leases usually 3 months longer now, but it's a lot easier to get weird now that the confines of a 4-year learning institution are gone.

2) HA! "Professional" at a restaurant? What's the point of working at a restaurant if you're not going to partake in the perk of hot co-workers who are into casual sex?
Nile Red[info]nile_red on November 9th, 2009 12:55 am (UTC)
1) everyone else seems to have a good take on this
2) you should hang out

ps) come to seoul with your (potential) crazy savings! You could do an Asia tour from here.
Not Actually Borges[info]bushidobrown on November 9th, 2009 04:31 am (UTC)
I'm trying to get to India, and I'm pretty sure that's the same continent as Seoul.
roula[info]grammarcookie on November 10th, 2009 07:44 pm (UTC)
i've lived with all guys or mostly guys a couple times. there was a lot of cleaning up after others and feeling forced into a stupid gender role because of it; but there was also a lot of laid-back hanging out and more drugs than in the other houses. but as someone else said, personalities matter a lot too. i can imagine lots of dudes being more on the tightass end of the scale. as a converse example, even though my favorite living setups had more girls in them, i've had three girl roommates of whom two were intolerable; three girl roommates of whom one was intolerable; and three girl roommates who were all fantastic.

in sum: are they tidy people? do they do drugs? do they talk loudly? do they like making fun of people? do they have noisy sex? do they cook a lot? and how do you feel about the answers to all the above?

and then the clincher which is, as someone else said, how likely are you to get propositioned by one of them? that's kind of a dealbreaker i think.
Not Actually Borges[info]bushidobrown on November 10th, 2009 08:53 pm (UTC)
I'm guessing (hoping) that the sex thing won't be a problem - based on the answers I've seen so far, I think it's pretty widely understood that sleeping with your roommates is a terrible idea.

Gender roles - I wonder what expectations there are of a guy living with girls?

They're tidy, but tidy in the way that artists are - they take good care of their works spaces, but their bedrooms tend to be disasters. I think a few of them smoke weed (I don't smoke), some smoke cigarettes, none of them do as many hallucinogens (aka cool drugs) as I do. The only loud talker is the Russian, and that's only when she's on the phone with her parents, and hearing people talk Russian is AMAZING. I don't think they make fun of people. Whenever I make guesses about who has noisy sex I am wrong. I think one is a baker!!!!!!

As far as roommates go, I like people who don't bug me about being my best friends the instant we meet, do cook food, do like drunken late night conversations, understand it is important to make zero noise between the hours of 3am and 12pm, are not passive-aggressive, build things, and like to exchange books. I also like foreigners who are not well dressed.

Living at Fishmarket is actually the first time I've lived with roommates since my first year of college. After that I either lived with a girlfriend, or by myself.
 
 

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