24 October 2009
2057 PST

Location: My room...Messy as hell, and I don't care about cleaning it...I'll give you 50 cents to do it for me.

Rather be: God, I just need some time with my girlfriend right now. That would mean the world to me right now. I don't know how that's going to play out.

Reason for being here: Long story, shortened up a bit, but still kinda long.

Feeling: Eh...lonely, kinda tired, had a headache much of the day, but it's gone now which is nice.

Random fact. There's a secret message in this journal, to see if you're paying attention. Can you find it?

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Yeah so I've been pretty busy as of late. Let me explain:

So I was mopping the lobby of the hotel I work at and over heard that the girl who works at the coffee bar (kind of like a coffee shop, only not as fancy) is getting fired (so I understood) and they were looking for a replacement. So I asked the restaurant manager about it and she said I could do it. The problem is, I can't work more than 40 hours a week at the hotel (not that I'd really want to considering the hours of the day I work, but I could use the money). So I work 3 days a week, Friday through Sunday. Another thing that makes it rough is that I normally work from 5:00pm to 10/11pm Then I wake up at 4:30am to get to work at 5:30. THEN, I work until about 11:00 and then have to go back to work at 5:00pm. That's not too bad, but I've had a lot of things to do lately that have to be done during “normal” hours. Y'know, when people are AWAKE. So I try to sleep during that time, but I'm lucky to get 2 hours. So for this first week that I did it, I was kind of zombie-like.
There's good news though. For one, it's not all that difficult of a job, nothing too tough. I also get to talk to customers a lot and I've always been good at that.
The people I work with seem to really like me. I guess I'm pretty good at the job because one lady actually shared her tips with me too (though she seemed to be convinced it was mine), so that was really nice. It's a good job, just kind of hard on me so far.

More interesting news. So I heard about a job that just became available at an engineering company. I guess they do roads and fancy bridges and crap like that. What I'd be doing is working in their marketing department, writing up things for their advertising. If it works out, I'll actually be a professional writer! That would be so cool! It probably wouldn't be the most fun job, but I'm thinking that it'll give me a nice boost in my income, enough so I could actually live normally instead of paycheck to paycheck and eating mac and cheese (cos I have to, not cos I want to). It'll also give me MORE hours, and hours at a decent time of day too! I could have a regular sleep schedule and even get to call my girlfriend for more than 15 minutes at a time. Basically, it's the kind of job I was kind of expecting to get since I'm a college grad and have the Army experience and stuff. I applied and I'm just hoping to hear from them soon. I'm pretty sure I'm qualified enough for the job, so if I don't get it, it's probably because they've found someone who is better........I really hope they don't, cos I want this job SOOO bad! But I have no intention of quitting the hotel job yet, it's a decent job and I don't need to lose that in case I don't get the new one

Oooh, something else that helped me out today. I was able to swing a deal with my student loan people. I got a 2 month extension on my payments so I can actually pay off my back-rent this month (hopefully I can still get a new roommate before then) and THEN I can probably go visit my girlfriend in January (if I save every cent I make). That's even if I don't change jobs.
Oh yeah, that's something that's been bothering me about this new potential job. If I get it, I'll have to quit my job at the hotel. I'm kind of nervous about that because it's a good job........okay, it's not a GOOD job...but it's the best one I've had so far and for the most part, the people I work with are nice. Although a few of them seem to think I'm retarded or are just messing with me because I'm not as old as they are. I don't know. But I just feel like it would be a jerky thing to do to quit when I'll only have been working there for 7 weeks this Friday. Does that seem weird?

So yeah, that's been my life recently. Sorry, I've been busy so I didn't get back to you as often. Then again, I also don't have much of any Internet access right now either.

I'll try to get back with all of you, but it's gonna be hard.

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A little nonesense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
-Gene Wilder, as Willy Wonka.