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Nerves, Swerves, and Weather Reports

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:39:41 +0200

Tomorrow is my trainer meeting with Sarah, the GM o_O I'm really nervous and I keep getting all of these mixed messages about whether I will become a trainer or whether I won't.... why I will and why I won't... and it's hard for me to think about sometimes because I know that this is something that I really want, and I don't like people telling me that I can't get something just because the circumstances are right. That's entirely too frustrating.

I think the biggest thing holding Mimis back from letting me become a trainer is the fact that I'll be leaving soon and that they don't want to pay me/waste money on me for that short amount of time. I wish I could negotiate my pay and just tell them that I don't even want that much money, that I would do it just out of the love I already have for my job, but being a corporate company means that they're not allowed to do that. I don't know, I'm going into the interview optimistic but I'm afraid that something bad will get said between now and then. I think I did a really good job tonight and the last couple of nights so I proved that I could handle it, but at the same time I'm nervous.

Super nerves.

Speaking of nerves, the weather here has decided that summer in Texas no longer indicates DROUGHT season, but instead demands FLOODING. There are huge amounts of precipitation coming down, like 18 inches over night, Lake Travis is ridiculously rising, like 5 inches over night and that's a freaking lot of rain! I mean some of that is immediate land runoff but the majority of it is yet to come and that's just going to be super intense. I can't even imagine really what that's going to be like!

the local channels this morning were playing non stop weather updates. But after work, when Robby and April and I were trying to find out when the rain would stop so that we could go home and not get wet running out to our cars, there was absolutely no weather station to be found. That was minimally frustrating.

Robby shared his bread pudding with me today. I also had two waffles and my left over apple whole wheat pancake. And that's all I've eaten today. I haven't even really been hungry.

Another episode of top chef was on today but I'm going to have to watch it some other time Gosh I'm addicted to that show! As long as I don't watch anything else I think I'm still alright on the anti-television front. Now I'm off to read a little bit of spanish lit and some Nabokov sooooooo... this was fun ^_^

Tomorrow is my day off! First day off in two weeks!

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Hugs not Drugs

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:06:11 +0200

So in my meeting frenzy...
While on the date with Jesse I met Tim the bartender and BJ the manager at Kerby. Love them both, and I saw Tim again tonight when I went to Kerby with Hannah. He invited me go to Bennigans with them to do karaoke and drink, but I knew I should probably turn in a little early tonight and not stay out until 4 EVERY night this week. I hope to see him again on Thursday though, it's Pint night, if you drink a pint you get to take the glass home ^_^ worth it.

Other favorites at Kerby include Ruth, who is tired-looking all the time but super wonderful and gives free rounds of drinks sometimes ^_^ thus my unending love for her! She's super sweet too, and sort of rockish. Then there's Suzanne who just has a way too cute atmosphere around here, and I adore her. Hannah and I have had her twice, she always makes me smile.

Then there's Dave and Stan from Slick Willies. They invited me to go play pool with them on Thursday, which I'll probably do before I go to Kerby for pint night haha wow my schedule got pretty full all of a sudden... they came and ate at Mimis on Monday night, I was their server ^_^ they were super sweet; Dave works for the sheriff's department and he is sort of the lost and found guy, he finds things that are lost, like people who are on the run! and then Stan works for the homicide investigation unit and he works on cases like that. Super interesting people. I met them I guess because Dave called me over and told me I had a nice smile, a genuine smile that lit up his night. Sounds cheesy but it made me smile even more. It's cos I was truly happy. People make me happy.

Except for Amish Paul, homophobe guys. Rar.

Anyway, I can't wait to play pool with them, I've been on this pool streak for awhile now and I really love it. I watched some on television the other day, Mike Davis and Shane van Boeing or something like that. Of course I love Janet Lee, she's incredible at 9 ball, 8 ball and trick shots. My hero! And I'm sad Mike Davis didn't win again Shane van Boeing but.... ya win some and ya lose some. Uhmmm yes. I wish I could play like them to sum it up.

Then yesterday Dewby and I went to Sidepocket to play pool, and it was pretty ghetto but lovely at the same time, we had the pool hall nearly empty save for a few tables. The table next to us was dangerous though because they kept jumping the cue ball and sending it flying. It nearly hit me one time but... it was cool too, they were very nice about it and you know me, I was nice about it too ^_^ haha. Cuties. Then Daniel and I went to IHOP and had tons and tons of food and it was wonderfully filling we talked for a good long time and then he paid for everything and drove me back to my car. So it was sort of like a date but this guy's my friend and I don't really picture him as anything more. Ever. Wow. That sounds kinda harsh of me but seriously... I've known him for too long and seen some crazy stuff from him... we're just not very similar or anything, and there's no spark other than of friendship. Hm. I hope he's not thinking anything differently or else this could be awkward.

Thursday is also my trainer interview. Hannah put doubts in my mind about it cos she said Donna said that I wouldn't be a trainer just cos it would be a waste of money cos I'm about to leave soon. I guess I'm disappointed but we don't know exactly yet. I want to be a trainer though; it would look great on my resume, and it would gain me a little more money, and I could eat for free, and I never abuse stuff like that and I really do just want to help people and help them love their job as much as I love mine. I just love to work at Mimis so I'm sad that... I have to leave it in a couple of months. I sort of want to be a trainer so that I can travel and continue to work with Mimis but if not... that's fine. No grudges, nothing like that. I'll just take it and swallow it and just... keep working there with the same amount of enthusiasm as I always do.

The cooks asked me out to play pool tonight at Slick Willies, but I had plans with Hannah and had to decline. They're so nice though <3

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Bad Date Blues

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:54:04 +0200

I went on a series of dates recently, and the first was a tragic disaster simply because the boy showed up drunk, decided to try and fuck me on the first date, and uhm.. well that sort of describes a lot of my dates...

His name is Jesse, and I met him with Chance and Hannah and I went out to Friday's one night, and he was our server. I was writing all over the check like I usually do when I go out to eat, and so I told him he would have to come back to get it because I wasn't done. He replied with "hey... why don't you put your number on it" and I said "well.. haha don't tempt me" -- he says "no seriously, do it, put it on there."

So I did. I mean how harmless is that?

Later on in the night he saw Chance and Hannah and me outside and so he asked where we worked and stuff, and when we replied, he said he would stop by the next day to come and see me there. Wonderful. I thought he was just being social. But the next day he showed up! Unfortunately at the time, I didn't have any open tables so he left and called me later. We then made plans to go out that night after I got off from work. Too bad the date SUCKED.

You don't show up for a first date drunk. You just don't! I can understand if I've been dating the guy for awhile and he's had a hard day at work and decided to get drunk, fine fine, that's super. But... the first date? please.

He said he had had a lot of fun on the date, but he never called back. I don't mind at all, that little pervy slutbag.

The next date was with Paul, whom has been trying to coerce me into going out with him for the last two years. And I've been avoiding the contact because we met on myspace and I think that love on myspace is shallow and unwarranted, really, and there was really no spark between us so far, but he insisted and who am I to say no?

He was the most boring man alive.
And he has this Amish beard. I ono if he is or not but...
He's Amish by association.

so boring. He didn't have any ideas on what to do so I did what I wanted to do on a Friday night. I went to Slick Willies with him and we played pool. But the entire night he bitched about how much he doesn't like pool and how bad he is and blah blah you know, that's just awful. If he had had any other ideas, I probably would have gone along with them. But he didn't. He's just a complainer. So after an hour (cos they have an hour minimum) we had to leave. Right before though, when I was super bored of him complaining, I started to look over at other tables, and I met these two guys named Dave and Stan I talked to them for awhile (they were a lot more entertaining) and they said they would come visit me at work one time!

they ended up coming to visit me yesterday, it was wonderful! they're so nice and so interesting more on that later.

soooo Paul and I left Slick Willies and went to Kerby, where we were sitting for awhile idly cos he's BORING. Then all of a sudden I see Robby and Chance, and they're meeting a whole bunch of people from work at Kerby!! So I invite them to come sit at our table to ease the boredom, and we have so much fun, and I have so much sugar, and thank goodness because I really needed to escape the monotony of Paul and his Amish-ness.

After leaving all of them, and finding out that Paul is a homophobe, he invites me to Mt Bonnell to smoke cigars. Wtf. It was like 4 in the morning. Psycho. I don't smoke cigars anyway. I just went home.

Terrible.
And now I like this guy named Phil and I wish I could just go up to him and ask him out but... that's next to impossible. Bummer, cos he's wonderful.

Hannah thinks I should just ask him out.
I might.
Yikes.
xoxo

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first something or other

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:40:30 +0200

Try round three for the blogging business, and lil ol' me is just wondering if this attempt will be successful (or at least a little more long term?) It's more of a way for eager pen pals to stop having to write "so... whatcha been up to?" after every single email, because sometimes there's just too much to say. Not that any of this will be more exciting that what I already write, but yaknow. A different medium, a little more excitement. We make it work.

Green like trees, did anybody notice that conscious stylizing?

For now, just the wonderful news that I'm about to head off to work in about 30 minutes for a hopefully wonderful Saturday night rush. Goodness knows that tomorrow for Father's day, the restaurant will be ridiculously busy-- and I pity everyone who has to work through that madness! At least it wasn't like mother's day when EVERYONE had to work. I think the server-to-guest ratio was like 2-1 at least. I have Sunday off, and my dad and I are going to Georgetown to go see some sort of live theater thing that he really wants to see... a community theater production of sorts that makes him happy. Can't be better than anything I've done, yaknow :D Not that I'm modest or anything.

Speaking of theater, I saw James C and Alison G yesterday at some sort of magic outing... for magic camp, there was nothing supernatural about the place or the time (Mimis, at 10ish) but it was super exciting to see them both again. I hadn't seen AG in forever, she's been extraordinarily elusive ever since we branched off from the same school, and James lives too far away for me to visit all that often, although Kris and Brandi visit quite a bit... hm... not to judge or anything ha.

I forgot to make reservations for tomorrow at breakfast so I guess we'll be doing a "surprise dad! I don't know how to cook so try to force these burnt eggs down your throat as best as possible, mmkay?" Bummer. His gift was supposed to be a phone but all my mother can say is "aren't there free phones he can get?"

Well yes. Duh. But that would be a sort of stupid gift. Besides, my dad wants something, deserves something perhaps, a little better than just a free phone. That's what he already has, and I know that he's been envious of those flip phones for awhile now. Something about making him look more important, haha. He's important.

Flight, accommodations, and reservations are perfect for my UMN orientation trip. I leave on the 10 July.
xoxo

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