so i went and sat with my mom yesterday while she did laundry at the laundromat, and i happened to run into this girl named cora that i used to run with in high school. we talked for a bit, and then she invited me to a new year's eve party at her house. i said sure, not really intending to go, thinking i probably had to work that night. well, i ( Read more... )

the last three hours of work always seem interminably longer than the first five. i'm not sure why ( Read more... )

i had the most dreams i think i've ever had in one sleep session today. i dreamed about elephants, and that gas was eight dollars a gallon, and about plane wrecks (not surprising), and that i was suffocating (that one sucked), and a bunch of other stuff. indeed ( Read more... )

do people think there are little elves who come out at night and put things back where they go?? because there aren't, you know. when you decide you don't want what you have and toss it on a shelf someplace, people like me have to stop what we're doing and go find it and put it back. and it sucks every bit as much as you'd think it would. so ( Read more... )

she's right. i do worry insanely about things that are out of my control. like airplanes. but i have a reason for that.

for the first time since i've been on the crew, we have a full crew. four people. as a result, i am now frozen foods manager and officially have the title of night crew supervisor. i also threatened to leave unless i received a substantial raise, which i got. it wasn't an idle threat either...academy offered me almost two bucks more an hour than ( Read more... )

damn damn damn.

hurry up.

this has to be the worst break ever.

perhaps i should start looking for another job soon ( Read more... )

i'm pretty sure i've never wanted twenty-five days to go by faster than these next.

quite the home decorator i am.

picking up furniture off the side of the road and such.