Tomoko takes the weight off

Well what an interesting week it's been. I was starting to suspect something was up with Tomoko from Friday. Straight after arriving she didn't seem to happy but I put it down to jet lag. When Friday rolled around and she seemed to be moping I began asking "What's up? You look like you're hating it here". The reply was home sickness.. But she didn't wanna talk about it so I was suspicious.

I tried to make her laugh as much as I can over the last couple of days but it's had a very short lived effect.

Last night on the way home my thoughts were black. I couldn't shake the feeling that something was going on that she wasn't telling me. So I finally confronted her with it. Straight up, what the hells going on and don't tell me home sickness. She's such a bad liar.

She made a mistake coming back. Her feelings have changed but she didn't realise until coming back to Australia.

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I didn't know what to say at first. I guess everybody makes mistakes. I kinda feel sorry for her that she had to come all this way, and spend all this money, in order to sort out her feelings. Student visas aren't cheap and 6 months college isn't either. I wasn't angry. Actually it was good to see her look so relieved. It was an obvious weight off her shoulders.

So she's started looking for a place to live. I hope she gets the hell out of my apartment.

I'm a bit upset, but hey, I've been through so many emotional break-ups before it just doesn't have the same affect on me anymore. Not saying that I'm a cold, heartless bastard or anything. Just jaded :-)

So where to from here? Probably another couple of months of meaningless sex with strangers. It seems to be the cycle. Maybe this time I won't meet anyone for a while? Try to be the playboy some people assume I am.

Anyway I should be able to concentrate on work a lot more now. I'm setting up a lot of xen boxen to test out our infrastructure changes. Oh and I'll be checking out nomachine some time soon to which will be a nice change from daemons!

Speaking of demons, and I mean the personal variety, I met a real life Microsoft geek last week at a friends party. "Oh so you're a programmer? What language?" "Too many, so I'll just say Microsoft". Man, those guys should get a life. I mean, come on, you don't try to impress people with how many languages you know. Especially when there only Microsoft specific. What's that? VB, VC++ and C#? It's not impressive even to other geeks such as myself.

Learn brainfuck or something and get back to me :-)

**waltzes out singing that's life**