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| Michelle and I found a house! We'll be living at 909 College Ave (right next to the PDC house!). Now all I need is for Julie Ross to email me back and let me know what's going on with classes and stuff, and my return to Tech will be set. In other news, first official day at Applebees yesterday. THEY ARE SO DISORGANIZED!!!! They told me to come in at 10. I was there at 9:55. One manager told me to tell the other manager to get me started with whatever I was supposed to be starting, so I went and found the other manager and told her. She said give me five minutes. 30 minutes later, I actually did something. When I went in for my interview, the manager kept me waiting for ALMOST TWO HOURS because he forgot about it and went to the other store. When I was supposed to go in to fill out all of my paperwork, they called me that day and asked if I could come in the next day because there were a bunch of people doing it the next day and they would rather just do it all at once. They asked me to write down my availability and they would call me with my schedule the next day. Three days later I called them to ask for my schedule. They said, you're working a double on Wednesday. 1. I have class at 1pm, and therefore will have to leave in the middle of the lunch rush. 2. I was supposed to work at Bob's Wednesday night. ( I had been planning to drop that night at Bob's, but still, they completely ignored what I wrote down.) I'm not the only one they've done this too. The two other servers who are starting right now with me too have had all of the same problems. I have to say that I don't know if Applebees is going to work out for me, because they are seriously pissing me off. | | |
| Hmm... Last night I fell asleep in a chair in the living room watching tv, and my neck and back were crooked at a really weird angle, so today my back hurts. Also, I've been looking at apartments in Houghton with Michelle, and we were kind of talking about this one bedroom downtown. Pretty good rent, and some utilities were included. Overall, not a bad option, but we would have had to share a room. Well, she told her mom about it, and her mom pretty much forbade us to do it, because she thought that it would look like we were queer (her word, not mine) with two girls living in a one bedroom apartment. I WAS SO PISSED! Why was that her mother's first reaction? And for that matter, why should it matter what other people think? Has she thought about DORM ROOMS? What is that? It's two (or three) girls living in one room, AND IT'S REQUIRED!! I get mad just thinking about it! I hate that people think that stuff, and that it matters! No one is perfect. No one should judge anyone else for their lifestyle. There are so many more things I could say, but I have to go to class. | | |
| Yes, I'm still here. I still read everyone else's updates!! Life is boring in Springfield (sort of). I've been working at Bob Evan's Restaurant, and I started today at Applebees. I'm hoping to work at the one in Houghton when I get back up there in the fall. Right now I'm waiting for my three hour physics lecture to start. It's going to be so much fun I don't know if I'm going to be able to handle it. I'm sort of nervous about going back up to Tech in the fall, because I'm afraid I'm going to be really far behind and it's going to take me forever to graduate. I'm going to be taking classes this summer, but even with that, I won't have most of the specialized classes that they don't offer done. My class schedule is going to be really screwed up for the rest of my college career due to this little respite. Overall, I'm really glad that I took last semester off, and decided to stay at home for this one. It's really nice to see my family, and to live at home for the first time in almost five years. When I come back, I'll be living with Michelle Ellenberger (if any of you know her), although we haven't exactly decided on an apartment yet. We've kind of been looking at the apartments above Cyberia, although I would rather live in a house. The problem is, it's going to be hard to find a house for just two people, unless we can find someone else to live with. The problem with finding someone is that we've both been gone for two semesters, and so haven't been talking to people there about it. I think that's all I've got for now, but I'll be back later. | | |
| Quick life update:
I've finally started working lots of hours, so it feels like I'm never home.
I got my acceptance letter to SIUE. Still making final decisions.
I got my hair cut. It's up to my shoulders now. That's about 6 inches I took off.
I've turned into an insomniac. I decided to go grocery shopping at about three in the morning this morning.
I'm addicted to Degrassi.
I think that's about it for now. I'm going to go continue not being tired.
Have a nice night, one and all. | | |
| So, I am perhaps the worst Xanga updater of the summer, but hey, it happens folks.
I am currently in Lansing for the evening, due to me wanting to see Kris Bartell (and Kim, of course) and also me working in Lansing and not wanting to get directly back in the car to drive back to GR. Let me tell you, early in the morning (Sometimes even before the sun is up) it is not pleasant to set out on an over an hour drive to go to work. I do not enjoy it. However, I do enjoy getting paid for said activity, so I can't complain too much. I've put in just over 30 hours in the last three days (which isn't that bad, but you have to remember that three weeks ago, I worked 25) For some reason today, I like parenthesis.
Anyway, I'm working at Bio Port in Lansing, where they have lots of security because they do nifty stuff with Anthrax (think letters in the mail a few years ago (not that they sent them or anything...)) and it's SUPER FUN (not really). I spend most of my day sitting in my truck waiting for them to compact soil so I can do density tests.
On notes other than work..
I have some good news for people who go to tech and don't like me and people who live in Illinois and do like me, and some bad news for people who go to Tech and like me and people who live in Illinois and don't like me. I've applied to transfer to Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville for the spring semester. There are a multitude of resons, and I will list a few below:
1) I hate winter. A lot. I get really really depressed in the winter and think bad thoughts. Unfortunately, winter in Houghton is very very long, and that makes me not like it.
2) The big D word has been tossed around by my father between my parents. I would like to be closer to home if/when this all goes down because a) I love my dad and want to be there for him and b) my brother has never been through a divorce (I have) and it's going to be a really tough choice for him and probably a really bad custody battle.
3) It's cheaper, but that's just a plus.
So, those are my main reasons (I feel like I'm writing a paper here). I'm just waiting to find out from SIUE whether or not I got in. I will keep my faithful xanga readers (not that there are many of you) update with the latest news.
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