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- <h1>A potential driving teacher</h1>
- <p>Day 00895: Friday, 2017 August 18</p>
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- <h2>To-do list</h2>
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- Acquire stuff for my new home:
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- A bed
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- Browse the Gale Virtual Reference Library. A librarian can help!
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- <del>Read an award-winning book</del>
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- Look at the art in the City Hall Gallery. There's a new show every month!
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- Download one of the library's free apps or search in a database. A librarian can help!
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- <del>Read a book that takes place in another country</del>
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- I was talking with a shift leader at work as we worked, and I mentioned needing to get out of there.
- I said I needed to get back on the job hunt, and explained how I'd had to halt it for a bit due to the demand that I have an emergency contact, but that now that I had one, I could begin again.
- They offered to be an emergency contact for me as well!
- So now, if I need two for some reason, I'm golden.
- I also mentioned at some point plans to save up for an electric car, but mentioned that I'd need to find someone to teach me how to drive.
- I wasn't anywhere near the point of looking for a driving teacher yet, but they offered to teach me to drive as well!
- I might try to take advantage of that offer soon, while it's still available, long before I have my loans paid off and long before I even think about getting a car.
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- My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
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- I don't remember much of my dream, but I remember being at work with at least three of my coworkers.
- It wasn't my real-world workplace, but I remember three of my real-world coworkers being there.
- There was the one that thinks my gayness is funny, the one that got weird at first when he found out I'm gay until I told him he's not my type to calm him down, and the one that loves horses.
- The place had certain characteristics of my real-world workplace, but was an entirely different place.
- This place looked a lot like a warehouse on the inside, but without as many shelves.
- It was large, and had a huge, walk-in refrigerator.
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- A stupid customer had pulled up to the window, skipping the menu board.
- Unfortunately, I was right in front of the window when it happened, so I couldn't simply avoid the window.
- I pretended not to see them, and continued working.
- Apparently, the window was open.
- After waiting a bit, they pulled a bit more forward, so instead of the driver still being aligned with the window, the back passengers were.
- One of the back passengers spoke, and they were too loud for me to pretend not to hear, seeing as the window was open.
- I instead pretended to be startled, then explained that we have no sensors at the window, and that customers are supposed to order at the menu board.
- They said they knew that, but didn't care; they didn't want to order at the menu board, so they just decided to skip it.
- I started taking their order at the window, but before we got anywhere, they seemed to already have their food in the car.
- I thought they'd reached through the window and stolen it when I wasn't looking, but soon, I saw the my two coworkers that aren't the horse lover had joined them in the car.
- Those two must've been chummy with the rude group and brought them gratis food.
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- I'd brought into work a bucket full of candies to share with my coworkers at some point.
- While I wasn't looking, a rude and unappreciative coworker dumped a bunch of them on the table and on the floor.
- I got the feeling it was one of the two that were chummy with the rude customers.
- In the real world though, I don't think either would do that.
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- I finished reading The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.
- It was an okay read.
- Again though, it'd be nice if I could've filled my reading list with less children's books and more adults' books, but trying to squirm my way out of reading copyrighted material limited my options for filling reading requirements.
- I needed a book that took place in a foreign country and one that had won an award; this book met both requirements.
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- I started reading The Time Machine, and very quickly, it jumped to something thought-provoking.
- Some people claim that time is a fourth dimension, akin to the three spacial dimensions.
- However, the on the first two pages of this story, the book made the only convincing argument I've ever heard for that.
- Starting with one- and two-dimensional objects, these objects cannot exist because they lack other dimensions.
- For example, an actual, geometric line has length, but had zero width and zero depth, so it's only an abstraction.
- It can't exist in the real world.
- A plane has no depth, so again, it can't exist.
- On the surface, a three-dimensional object seems to exist, but it can't actually exist for a nil amount of time.
- The object occupies a fourth dimension, time, a dimension measured as the object's <strong>*duration*</strong>.
- ... or so the book argues.
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- Based on my feelings over the past few days, I think I can learn to love being gay.
- It will most certainly be an <strong>*acquired*</strong> taste for me though.
- As being gay involves having a heart (as would being <strong>*anything*</strong> besides aromantic asexual), I'm going to need to put in some work.
- First, I need to extinguish my need for a partner.
- I don't need to extinguish the <strong>*desire*</strong>, but it can't be a burning, aching need.
- I may have already achieved this, so perhaps mission accomplished.
- Second, I can let my heart lead me to a lot of places, but there are boundaries I can't let it lead me across.
- Such as hitting on known straight people.
- Like seriously: why do I have a crush on a married heterosexual?
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