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honesty is such a lonely word. unlike beer.
I went to continue the never-ending move today, and discovered the water line to the refrigerator's ice maker was leaking. After some bustling around turning off water and mopping up leakage and so on, I then discovered that the top-floor leakage was the tip of the melted iceberg ( Read more... ) -
White Christmas
Keep in mind that I am a tad cranky and sleep-deprived, since I worked until 10:15, came home to shoot my sugared-up child with a tranquilizer dart, took a nap, then woke up to wrap presents.
That said, all you people who were like, ooooh, white Christmas, it will be so PRETTY! All of you people: if the power goes out and I am snowed in with my ( Read more... ) -
40 in 40
- Finally see The Godfather already.
- Learn to swim.
- Get at least 20 hours of the necessary observation for my degree.
- Write in my "hard copy" journal once a week.
- Submit one thing to be published.
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Tales from Retail
The last few shifts at work have been dizzyingly busy. I stay in my little pen of display cases and just move from person to person to person. Overall, I'll say that 99.9% of my customers have been amazingly decent to me.
Two exceptions:
First: At one point I had at least a dozen people lined up at my register and people all around the counters. I ( Read more... ) -
Conceding defeat
Dear weather, parents, financial aid, job, never-ending move:
y'all win. -
lemons
Two exams down, one to go. Three assignments to write up ( Read more... ) -
my thoughts today
1. Happy birthday, darling Kate. I am sorry I forgot ( Read more... ) -
Retail Hell
Today was awful. I feel like an abused lab rat. A rat with a head full of Christmas carol ear worms.
On Sunday mornings we put up signage for all the new sale items. I couldn't find seven of the items we had advertised. The co-worker supposed to be working with me broke her hip on Friday, so I was alone. I was berated at length for a) leaving a $10 ( Read more... ) -
Mike D farts
After class I went to work out. I've been trying to increase the length and intensity, so after 45 minutes, I was a sodden individual. I was aware of not moving my head too much lest I fling sweat and become That Disgusting Gym Person.
Despite those precautions, I came close. I went to shower and realized that somehow when I took dirty gym clothes ( Read more... ) -
not dead (or moved) yet
I survived Thanksgiving. Considering it included a family gathering and working retail, I feel pretty bad-ass about it ( Read more... )