What about breakfast at Tiffany's?
Sep. 23rd, 2003 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteWell, blah-de-friggin'-dah. I'm actually NOT in a mood to be vapidly descriptive (can I even use those words together? Probably not, but do I care? NO) -- chances are I'll end up being so anyway, but let's get on with it, shall we?
Yesterday at work was actually OKAY, though I kept getting confused and thinking that I got off at 4:30, not 6:30. I was a half-hour early though, and sat in the break room reading the rest of my Nancy Drew #51. Come 2:30, I clock in and I'm assigned to work the 5th register on the 2nd floor... only Claudia is there, and I don't know her too well... but she's pretty quiet and has this sleepy-eyed look going on. There wasn't much there in terms of prepared food, so I had to keep running to the back and help out... and then, after she came back from break, I had to go up to the 4th floor, mysteriously open despite being a weekday, and help Tony set up. Tony had to go down to box office, so I was stuck with an entire concession stand to myself, setting up! I had to put the soda fountain spigots in (pain in the ass), make several batches of popcorn, hunt for the hot dogs, defrost and cook them, and make sure that we had enough packaging, cups, lids, and everything else. I was so paranoid that a supervisor would walk in while I was rushing back and forth, but it wasn't as if anyone could help me!
THEN they sent me back downstairs again, at which point I ran into Stephanie and Tobey-- seeing my friends was definitely a bright spot. :) Back downstairs at 2nd floor concession, more setting up to be done-- and it took me a while to figure out how to work the phones, since almost ALL the hooks are broken and the recievers just sit on the top of the phone. ^^; I got my first 10 minute break around 5:30, and went upstairs to watch these people try to DDR. I tried to help them out as best I could without either laughing my butt off or wanting to DDR myself (Alice and Jennifer both saw me as I went up to the 4th floor with the arcade, and warned me not to play any games, since it's not allowed while we're in uniform or on break). Break ended soon enough, and it was back to work... I had to get ice from the ice machine, and that was a disaster. Ice-capades! There was so much ice crammed into the freezer that it fell out when I opened the door. When I cleared THAT ice away, I had to hit the ice with the paddle to get it to fall into the cart below-- and that caused an overflow! So I had to grab two mops and clean it all up. Thankfully, no supervisors saw or anything, so, no trouble for Mer! ^^;
It felt like, once again, I was doing a majority of the work, but at least the people I was working with that day were tolerable. Claudia, being quiet, wasn't a problem, and knew what she was doing, though she was a bit slow, and maybe not even as friendly as she could have been to the guests. Still, she did most of the cleaning up! ;) Alexis (I think that's his name) was an usher, and he helped me with some stuff... he reminds me of James, my Dad's friend Steve's son. *whew* I also saw Christine (and that guy from prom, Eric I think his name was?) and had to serve her at concession-- why is it that whenever my friends are around, I screw up!? Christine's cherry icee exploded. :P
I made a decent amount of mistakes yesterday, which is kind of upsetting-- getting a woman a small icee when she wanted a large, and several cancelled items because I kept forgetting to tell people we didn't have hot dogs. AUGH! ;_; Oh yeah, and this old guy hit on me. Hehe, he asked me if I'd gone to see any of the movies in the theater, but I said I hadn't, but I wanted to. He took this as the perfect opportunity to ask me to see a movie with him when I was done. I laughed and said I still had to work for several more hours (which was true at the time). Haha, it's both freaky and funny, in retrospect.
Anyway, I was quite ecstatic when I finally got off work, and immediately headed downstairs after clocking out and getting my stuff. Hopped on a 49 to Market/Van Ness, and waited about 20 minutes for the M to take me to SFSU. When I finally get to Jack Adam's Hall, guess who's there? It was a cross between being a shock and not-- Lonnie. He was there like it was nothing out of the ordinary, us not seeing each other for the past FIVE weeks! I was sort of stupefied, so I just wandered inside and put my stuff down-- striking up a few conversations with other people on the way-- so of course Lonnie was sort of standing by the side of the door as I talked about my job. Being in uniform and all, it's not like it wasn't obvious that I'd just come from work. When I finally went inside, I smiled and hugged him like I said I would, but it was just... weird.
You know, I'd had all these terrible thoughts running through my head, like what if he's dead, what if he got into an accident, what if he got thrown into prison, all these idiotic thoughts-- and I somehow disillusioned myself into believeing that if he was alright, he would have CALLED me, at least ONCE during those five weeks. I stopped making a big deal about it a week ago, and so yesterday, when he was just there, getting all cozy with my friends, I felt this sense of betrayal. I get that he was busy-- he goes to classes 5 days a week, works on the weekends... of course he has no time to call me. He's in debt, trying to get a second job, has lots of classes... who am I to intrude? Feh, I have other things to focus on anyway, right?
After AFX, somehow it got arranged that Amanda-sempai (whee! she rox!), Dorkchop, Vince, and myself were getting rides home from Lonnie, who had since gotten his formerly-impounded Honda Prelude back. He drives like a maniac. And he had us all on paranoid alert for cops. :P Of course, it was beforehand that he lost some stereo part and ran all the way back to Jack Adams Hall from where we were standing out at 19th/Ave... he totally yelled at me when I tried to cheer him up by saying that someone at FX probably picked it up-- after all, why would someone have just taken it? Most of the people *I* know at FX are nice, honest, and, probably not knowing what a stereo cover even IS, not have thrown it out, kept it, or sold it. But noooo, Lonnie, ever the pessimist, has to bring up that nothing EVER goes his way, and that does he have to remind me how his parents died!? I was just reeling from that, he totally (and literally) pushed me away. Yelled at me. Never happened before. Yeah, he's been ANGRY at me, but... geez. I haven't seen him in 5 weeks, and he 1) barely talks to me, 2) yells at me, 3) pushes me, and 4) makes me cry. Okay, the 4th one is entirely my fault, because I'm a big baby, but I was just so friggin' upset that I got all quiet. Of course, Amanda and Vince noticed, and tried to cheer me up, which I have to thank them for... but I just wasn't in the mood. I probably should have stayed over at Vince's until midnight, instead of getting a ride home with Lonnie, anyway. *sigh* But no, I got a ride home with him-- he didn't even talk to me that much. He came in for a few minutes, gave me a brief hug, and that was it, he was gone. And I doubt I'm going to hear from him anytime soon. JOY. :*(
Yeah, so on the bright side of things, I have an extra $1000 or so from my Governor's Scholarship, which is the one thing I can thank Davis for. He might have been a sweaty, emotionless, repetitive governor, but at least when he was first elected, he knew how to disburse the money RIGHT! That will help with my tuition some, but I have to call/email/visit the SFSU financial aid office to sort that out.
I should go back to Fastweb and see if there's anything else I should apply for... I printed out so much paperwor, so there's much to be done... I need to get a new printer, a scanner, a tablet would be nice... but I also want manga... ;P rollerblades... I'm so selfish, eh? :P Whatever, going shopping today with Mom oughta cheer me up. I hope.
Yesterday at work was actually OKAY, though I kept getting confused and thinking that I got off at 4:30, not 6:30. I was a half-hour early though, and sat in the break room reading the rest of my Nancy Drew #51. Come 2:30, I clock in and I'm assigned to work the 5th register on the 2nd floor... only Claudia is there, and I don't know her too well... but she's pretty quiet and has this sleepy-eyed look going on. There wasn't much there in terms of prepared food, so I had to keep running to the back and help out... and then, after she came back from break, I had to go up to the 4th floor, mysteriously open despite being a weekday, and help Tony set up. Tony had to go down to box office, so I was stuck with an entire concession stand to myself, setting up! I had to put the soda fountain spigots in (pain in the ass), make several batches of popcorn, hunt for the hot dogs, defrost and cook them, and make sure that we had enough packaging, cups, lids, and everything else. I was so paranoid that a supervisor would walk in while I was rushing back and forth, but it wasn't as if anyone could help me!
THEN they sent me back downstairs again, at which point I ran into Stephanie and Tobey-- seeing my friends was definitely a bright spot. :) Back downstairs at 2nd floor concession, more setting up to be done-- and it took me a while to figure out how to work the phones, since almost ALL the hooks are broken and the recievers just sit on the top of the phone. ^^; I got my first 10 minute break around 5:30, and went upstairs to watch these people try to DDR. I tried to help them out as best I could without either laughing my butt off or wanting to DDR myself (Alice and Jennifer both saw me as I went up to the 4th floor with the arcade, and warned me not to play any games, since it's not allowed while we're in uniform or on break). Break ended soon enough, and it was back to work... I had to get ice from the ice machine, and that was a disaster. Ice-capades! There was so much ice crammed into the freezer that it fell out when I opened the door. When I cleared THAT ice away, I had to hit the ice with the paddle to get it to fall into the cart below-- and that caused an overflow! So I had to grab two mops and clean it all up. Thankfully, no supervisors saw or anything, so, no trouble for Mer! ^^;
It felt like, once again, I was doing a majority of the work, but at least the people I was working with that day were tolerable. Claudia, being quiet, wasn't a problem, and knew what she was doing, though she was a bit slow, and maybe not even as friendly as she could have been to the guests. Still, she did most of the cleaning up! ;) Alexis (I think that's his name) was an usher, and he helped me with some stuff... he reminds me of James, my Dad's friend Steve's son. *whew* I also saw Christine (and that guy from prom, Eric I think his name was?) and had to serve her at concession-- why is it that whenever my friends are around, I screw up!? Christine's cherry icee exploded. :P
I made a decent amount of mistakes yesterday, which is kind of upsetting-- getting a woman a small icee when she wanted a large, and several cancelled items because I kept forgetting to tell people we didn't have hot dogs. AUGH! ;_; Oh yeah, and this old guy hit on me. Hehe, he asked me if I'd gone to see any of the movies in the theater, but I said I hadn't, but I wanted to. He took this as the perfect opportunity to ask me to see a movie with him when I was done. I laughed and said I still had to work for several more hours (which was true at the time). Haha, it's both freaky and funny, in retrospect.
Anyway, I was quite ecstatic when I finally got off work, and immediately headed downstairs after clocking out and getting my stuff. Hopped on a 49 to Market/Van Ness, and waited about 20 minutes for the M to take me to SFSU. When I finally get to Jack Adam's Hall, guess who's there? It was a cross between being a shock and not-- Lonnie. He was there like it was nothing out of the ordinary, us not seeing each other for the past FIVE weeks! I was sort of stupefied, so I just wandered inside and put my stuff down-- striking up a few conversations with other people on the way-- so of course Lonnie was sort of standing by the side of the door as I talked about my job. Being in uniform and all, it's not like it wasn't obvious that I'd just come from work. When I finally went inside, I smiled and hugged him like I said I would, but it was just... weird.
You know, I'd had all these terrible thoughts running through my head, like what if he's dead, what if he got into an accident, what if he got thrown into prison, all these idiotic thoughts-- and I somehow disillusioned myself into believeing that if he was alright, he would have CALLED me, at least ONCE during those five weeks. I stopped making a big deal about it a week ago, and so yesterday, when he was just there, getting all cozy with my friends, I felt this sense of betrayal. I get that he was busy-- he goes to classes 5 days a week, works on the weekends... of course he has no time to call me. He's in debt, trying to get a second job, has lots of classes... who am I to intrude? Feh, I have other things to focus on anyway, right?
After AFX, somehow it got arranged that Amanda-sempai (whee! she rox!), Dorkchop, Vince, and myself were getting rides home from Lonnie, who had since gotten his formerly-impounded Honda Prelude back. He drives like a maniac. And he had us all on paranoid alert for cops. :P Of course, it was beforehand that he lost some stereo part and ran all the way back to Jack Adams Hall from where we were standing out at 19th/Ave... he totally yelled at me when I tried to cheer him up by saying that someone at FX probably picked it up-- after all, why would someone have just taken it? Most of the people *I* know at FX are nice, honest, and, probably not knowing what a stereo cover even IS, not have thrown it out, kept it, or sold it. But noooo, Lonnie, ever the pessimist, has to bring up that nothing EVER goes his way, and that does he have to remind me how his parents died!? I was just reeling from that, he totally (and literally) pushed me away. Yelled at me. Never happened before. Yeah, he's been ANGRY at me, but... geez. I haven't seen him in 5 weeks, and he 1) barely talks to me, 2) yells at me, 3) pushes me, and 4) makes me cry. Okay, the 4th one is entirely my fault, because I'm a big baby, but I was just so friggin' upset that I got all quiet. Of course, Amanda and Vince noticed, and tried to cheer me up, which I have to thank them for... but I just wasn't in the mood. I probably should have stayed over at Vince's until midnight, instead of getting a ride home with Lonnie, anyway. *sigh* But no, I got a ride home with him-- he didn't even talk to me that much. He came in for a few minutes, gave me a brief hug, and that was it, he was gone. And I doubt I'm going to hear from him anytime soon. JOY. :*(
Yeah, so on the bright side of things, I have an extra $1000 or so from my Governor's Scholarship, which is the one thing I can thank Davis for. He might have been a sweaty, emotionless, repetitive governor, but at least when he was first elected, he knew how to disburse the money RIGHT! That will help with my tuition some, but I have to call/email/visit the SFSU financial aid office to sort that out.
I should go back to Fastweb and see if there's anything else I should apply for... I printed out so much paperwor, so there's much to be done... I need to get a new printer, a scanner, a tablet would be nice... but I also want manga... ;P rollerblades... I'm so selfish, eh? :P Whatever, going shopping today with Mom oughta cheer me up. I hope.
