Erincita

Hello Everybody!
Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Hello everybody! As you may have guessed, I've been working at my new job and not doing much else. My computer classes are going well, but I have to really get my nose to the grindstone for the next few weeks and finish up my Access projects on time. After that, I guess I will have to think of something else--some kind of hobby. Any ideas? One can't just work all the time, even though these days, when I come home from eight hours of noise and a complete lack of personal space, I'm grateful to just sit without moving. It's already happened a couple of times, and Dana can bear witness to it. I'll just sit in a daze knowing I meant to do SOMETHING. Laundry or whatever. Then Dana comes home and spurs me into action by her sheer presence. She's an awesome gal.

One thing I keep "meaning to do" is work out. All this free calorie-packed coffee is definitely taking its toll and the weather's too nice to stay indoors all the time. I was into such a good exercise groove a few months ago and once again I'm amazed at how easily I just slip right out of it. Having such a random work schedule makes it hard to make time to work out everyday. However, my club is open 24 hours...I have a long list of excuses for why I'm not taking care of my body the way I should but I won't go into it.

I'm trying to consider carefully how I get into this next part...the kinda-sorta personal stuff. I've got this guy calling me after I definitively told him NOT to call me anymore. It's not necessarily that I don't want him to call me--I enjoyed our conversations--it's just that he's complicating my life in a way that has no redeeming value for either of us and I'm just loving the single life with no boyfriend and no potentials on the horizon. It's a very free, independent state. Luckily or unluckily, I haven't been there to pick up in the three times he's called but he hasn't left a message, and it's driving me nuts. Ack. I'll just roll with it for now. My fear is that I'll build this up and finally talk to him and then be totally disappointed because he "just wanted to catch up". He has a history of pretending certain things never happened. By the way, this isn't my ex-fiancee I'm referring to.

9:29 PM |

So I've Been Working
Thursday, May 06, 2004

So I've been working a little over three weeks and was hoping that I'd start getting in the swing of things, but apparantly those people who've been there for 3-5 years didn't attain their skills in as little as three weeks. There's so much room for improvement but the advancement is going to slow down alot and that frustrates me. The worst was a 7-drink order from an ex-Starbucks employee, and the day got progressively more challenging to the point where I seriously wondered if I was being tested undercover or something. The paranoia actually helped out because I tried to remember that the most important thing is to not let customers see you sweat. The one new thing I've had to do lately is closing the store, which pretty much means cleaning up after everyone's mess. I'm interested to see how difficult it is to open the store. I swept and mopped the entire store and successfully dumped all the dirty water right back onto the floor. Not pretty but you just have to deal with it, so when I did I realized it wasn't quite as bad as I thoght. The asst. manager and I worked mostly in comfortable silence

9:43 AM |