Summer was supposed to be relaxing, right? Well, I'm only getting Mondays and Wednesdays off right now, and it doesn't look like I'll get to take my paid vacation anytime soon. I honestly love my job, but the bullshit surrounding it gets old. I think I'm being conditioned into a management position (meaning, a salaried position much like my current ( Read more... )

Oh man, I'm so glad my semester is over in 5 hours. I'm completely burnt out. I might even skip a final, because I'll have a B in the class either way, more or less. My grades have suffered as a direct result of working full time, and... that might be coming to an end as well ( Read more... )

I went to the immigration protests in Nashville with Cody last night. It was nice to see such a great turnout, even though I understood very little of what was being said - my spanish is very limited. Thousands of hispanic people, some of the hardest working people in the country, just want their citizenship (or, at the least, not to be felons). So ( Read more... )

I'm having a lot of trouble sleeping lately; I guess it has a lot to do with stress. I toss and turn all night, just thinking about things. Different people, different places. What I'm doing with my life, and more frequently, what I'm not doing with my life. This semester is almost over, and I'm at my wit's end about school in general. I'm not ( Read more... )

I'm back, I guess I lied. Anyhow ( Read more... )

I've been having the worst dreams lately, all with a unified theme. I wake up every morning with this stupid, worthless heartache that I can't do anything about. But if I didn't have so much to do all the time, I'd go back to sleep and live in those dreams ( Read more... )

Listen. I haven't had much of a reason to write. I'm in a 'grow my beard out and stay away from girls' phase. If I'm on myspace or this, it's to keep up to date on the people I never get to see, or to delete the ones that ignore me when I see them all the time ( Read more... )

First week of school. I had a second job for a day, making minimum wage. My classes have this looming possibility of being really hard. I need some new shirts, stat. I'm not as rich (or taken) as I'd like to be right now. Oh well, pre-work naptime.

Work. Band practice. Work. We're playing a show in Knoxville Saturday night. Work. My dad and I are installing that AC unit in the shed Sunday afternoon. School starts on Monday. Work. School. Work. Bike riding. Beard growing. Little or no sleep. Taking notes. Being studious. Work ( Read more... )

So this is adulthood. Some lonely, boring version of it, at least. I led a shift Wednesday from noon to close. I pulled a double shift yesterday (8-2:03/5-10:38; 11. 68 hours, according to my timeslip), because one guy went to juvie for a month and two others quit. I had today off, thankfully. After opening tomorrow morning, I should have at least ( Read more... )