Living a different life

This is incredible.

Only a few months or so ago, I read Planet Debian every morning after getting out of bed, closely participated in the be.comp.os.linux newsgroup (well, not that closely anymore, since my laptop was in repair all the time; but at least I tried to follow it a bit), did quite a bit of hacking on NBD, and had some fun on projects at work as well.

Right now, my laptop is stolen, taking with it most of my interest to participate in online stuff, and I'm temporarily doing a different job—calling people who don't want to be called, trying to sell them things they don't want to have. Since this starts at 13:00 and ends at 21:00, I usually get out of bed somewhere between 10:00 and 11:30, read mail, chat a bit on IRC, get some food if I'm lucky, and hush for the bus. After getting home at night, I get some food, watch TV for an hour or three, then read my mail, handle my buildd's, perform the daily update, go on IRC for a while, and usually play some game 'till I decide it's way too late again and need to find my bed.

In other words, my daily routine is completely fucked up. Can't say I like it, even though I like not having to be out of bed at 7:00 AM.

The end of the tunnel is (hopefully) near, though. Before summer holiday started, I've contacted the school where I graduated to see whether I could be employed there as a docent. Apparently, I'm allowed to do so, albeit only for practical courses (and all IT courses are considered practical), which I didn't know until a few months ago.

They told me that mr Lambrecht, who used to tutor me when I was still a graduate student and who would be my boss now, would be there on monday, but he wasn't; and when I called today, he still wasn't there. Hopefully he'll be there tomorrow, else I'll ask for an email address.

If I'm hired, I'll quit the telesales job for a part-time tutoring job (and will spend the rest of the time in our company). If I'm not hired, I still won't stay working full-time at the telesales company, but will reduce that to a part-time job as well.

Let's see what happens tomorrow morning when I pick up my phone...