New Job

I sit at a desk in the honors college and answer phones for minimum wage.

I got the job through works study, a program offered to provide employment to college students by the federal government.

Thank you federal government!

Also, I think I am sick, and I am going to the university health center to get antibiotics this afternoon.

yay to that as well I guess.

It's nice to live a subsidized life, but I really feel bad for the other people who do not have such measures. America needs national healthcare now.

In fact, yesterday might have been good.

Blue Uniform

I have a blue uniform, and everyone else has a green one.

It is weird and bad, because customers dont think that I work at the store.

People are all, "Do you know anyone who works here?"

and when I respond "Me"

they get all confused. We need to fix it, because I am tired of being asked if I work at the place where I have worked for three years.

Also, people are idiots, I still have a nametag on.

There's time

Every time I think that I have screwed up big, or done something unrepairable it becomes plainly obvious that there is no way to mess up life beyond repair. It's all just a matter of paths that you go down.

I've become to obsessed with the things that I am currently doing to accomplish any of my goals. I got too wrapped up in the now, and I left the future to chance.

I've been at a lot of things since I was last here, and many things that I was doing have changed. So let's do a reset, a grocery term which here means "start over with a full shelf"

My job is still at the grocery, now I am a sample person. All day I purvey tiny bites of interesting food. Tiny bites, and just one please.

Good luck to you all on your new years reset, may all of your newfound convictions be fruitful for you.

Kerri Anne

Is letting me down

but I am so used to it now that it doesnt even phase me

Ian

I suck

At keeping a schedule that makes blogging consistent.

At work the other night I spent all my time singing, just singing.

A lot of the time I was good enough to get the song stuck in people's head.

It was great, there were at least 5 people with "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley, or the Ataris variously embedded in their head.

Also, I ended up singing a lot of Elton John, which bothers me, because up until now I never had the problem of liking Elton John.

At least not enough to sing it.

Sleep

I've never been very good at it.

That's why I think I like the closing shift at the store.

Everyone else hates it with a passion, a flaming passion of torrid hurry, with resigned candor.

it's a weird mix

and we all sit there and talk about stuff as we block

one girl got broken up with today

that sucks

I told her to drink it away, which on second pass is a bad idea

oh well

I had to give up my laptop today, and without it I feel empty,

but no worries
just repairs

Item 1

This is my Christmas tree, I leave it up all year round. This is in part due to the fact that it looks pretty damn cool.

Also, I like that it is a sort of blueish white, because then it can go with other holidays, and I can add ornaments to it to match the time of year.

My mom gave it to me, because I begged her for one like my math teacher Mrs. Curtis had.

This looks nothing like the tree Mrs. Curtis had, in fact, there is very little way it could look anything less like the tree Mrs. Curtis had, but I'm glad, it makes me unique.

Behind it you can see a jar of headache pills, they're like a little present to myself, every time my head feels like someone has addled it with a jackhammer.

Merry Christmas to me.