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marathoner452Wow, spending 8+ hours on your feet putting away 1753 shirts (approximately) at work today was exhausting! Then I ran home, 6 miles (4 + 2 around the neighborhood) in 93* heat just to top it off. And to cool down I jumped in our 74*, freshly-opened pool. Did that ever feel good! Post-run and post-sand white polo shirt recovery.
I'm running a social experiment at work. Everyone there is so quiet, so focused, not bothering or feeling they have the time to talk or even smile or even look anyone in the eyes. It drives me crazy. No music either. So I've decided to smile at everyone I can get to look at me. I'll see how long it takes for people to start smiling back, to breathe some life into that place. $9 an hour is great, but I'm going to go crazy this summer with only overpriced shirts and mechanical humming to keep me company. It's mindless enough to just about drive me crazy, yet not so mindless that I can just drift off and think about whatever. But it's just for the summer-I can handle almost anything for 12 weeks-and if it lets me do what I want to do the rest of the year, like have a single room and a laptop, go to Key West and on Outward Bound courses, etc., I'll be okay.
Guess what my big project for the summer is? After seeing Heidi and Kristin do such an awesome job with Les Mis last weekend, I want to read the book. But not just in English, no that would be too easy. I want to tackle the original French, in prep. for a re-attempt at French lit. next year. I was so close...yet so far away. And with 2 years between me and my last French class, it'll be even more of a challenge. It'll help take the edge off the monotony of stocking endless shirts and socks. :-)
Signing off and heading outside to finish The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Awesome book. I highly recommend it.
~Bethany
I'm running a social experiment at work. Everyone there is so quiet, so focused, not bothering or feeling they have the time to talk or even smile or even look anyone in the eyes. It drives me crazy. No music either. So I've decided to smile at everyone I can get to look at me. I'll see how long it takes for people to start smiling back, to breathe some life into that place. $9 an hour is great, but I'm going to go crazy this summer with only overpriced shirts and mechanical humming to keep me company. It's mindless enough to just about drive me crazy, yet not so mindless that I can just drift off and think about whatever. But it's just for the summer-I can handle almost anything for 12 weeks-and if it lets me do what I want to do the rest of the year, like have a single room and a laptop, go to Key West and on Outward Bound courses, etc., I'll be okay.
Guess what my big project for the summer is? After seeing Heidi and Kristin do such an awesome job with Les Mis last weekend, I want to read the book. But not just in English, no that would be too easy. I want to tackle the original French, in prep. for a re-attempt at French lit. next year. I was so close...yet so far away. And with 2 years between me and my last French class, it'll be even more of a challenge. It'll help take the edge off the monotony of stocking endless shirts and socks. :-)
Signing off and heading outside to finish The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Awesome book. I highly recommend it.
~Bethany
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Date: 2004-05-13 06:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-15 06:45 pm (UTC)Sorry I couldn't come down and have dinner with you and your family this afternoon. I told you family stuff would probably come up, and with gas prices being so high...I still want to hear all about it when you get back on, though.
~Bethany