Well technically...

I was operations leader during lunch today. I would tell you how many differents ways I sucked, but by that time I would be ready to go back in tomorrow morning, and I really need my sleep, since I have not gotten much for the past two nights (3-4 hours).

Everything was very disorganized, and the girl on front register was being retarded, and the girl who was running (assembling orders) for her is easily confused, and the sandwich maker was getting pissed at both of them, and the customers were piling up...it suuuucked. The GM ended up having to make sandwiches herself, send the confused girl out to clean the dining room, let me run one register, and leave the other girl to do her own running. Also, the guy who was supposed to be doing second sandwiches for the front (to move things along faster) had never been the 2nd person before, and was just muddling things up, so I sent him to drop chicken for the grill person, who couldn't seem to keep enough meat up. *sigh* Kinda makes me wonder if I'm cut out for this stuff. Grr.

But...I did get to leave an hour and forty-five minutes early. And I spent several hours at Barnes & Noble. And I got a package from my girlfriend. Which contained a CD. Which had one of the same songs on it as the CD that she received today in a package from me. Cool, huh? And caffeine kept me more alert than I thought it would. I have scary-looking circles under my eyes, though.

In case you were wondering, Miss Fang is the name of my sabre-toothed lime on Kingdom of Loathing. She is adorable :-)

It is so, so sad how obsessed I am with KoL right now. I wish they would let me have more adventures per day. Grr. But it helps me take my mind of how much I miss Sarah, and how slow I am at work...I never meet time goals for anything. It makes me feel stupid and cranky. At least I'm staying at the current store for the time being. And it's definitely the best one in my district. Hopefully my District Manager will let me stay there for a good long time.

Sarah has been planning heaps of fun things for us to do together when she moves down here, and I'm already pretty excited about them...it's been forever since I've particpated in planned amusements, and I'm really looking forward to it. And, of course, anything with Sarah is automatically a superfantastic event of + 10,000 fun.

I ran the grill today, so I am pretty dirty. Also tired (I opened). So I'm going to take a shower, eat some junk food, and go to bed and read zines until I fall asleep or Sarah calls me, whichever comes first. Whee!

Well, hello, dear readers. Everything in my life seems to be happening at a very frightening rate, and I feel a little left behind, but hopefully now that Granddad's funeral is over and Mom and Dad are back things will go a little more smoothly.

The funeral went okay, except for the minor hitch that the people folding the flag did a pretty terrible job of it, and it ended up taking them about 6 minutes to get it done satisfactorily, during which time everyone had to sit in absolute silence (a few sighs were audible though, especially towards the end of the 6 minutes).

Also, because there are not enough nerdy things in my life (sarcasm!), Sarah got me hooked on this mmorpg called Kingdom of Loathing. I'm a pastamancer :-)

And a girl I grew up with is in India right now, doing missionary work with street kids. That's what she's wanted to do for a long time now, so I'm really happy for her. And another friend of mine is trying to decide whether to do a masters in musicology, or settle for a teaching credential (violin). And I'm working at Wendy's. *sigh*

And speaking of Wendy's, I'm still pretty ambivalent about it. Obviously, the salary and benefits are great, but it's so exhausting that everything else in my life is getting neglected. I already dread going to work. I feel slow and stupid at work, even compared to the slacker teenagers, and I hate that. Oh well. I guess we'll see how it goes, eh?

Yeah, so I'm done with that whole learning how to be a Wendy's employee thing. Starting tomorrow, I will be learning how to manage. Cool, huh? Also has me a bit nervous, though.

And I am so very, very glad to be away from one particular person at the store I started at...he was just such a jerk. Always making fun of me (or trying to), trying to say that I said things I didn't...just generally making an ass of himself. And, really, he does it to other people, too. But I felt that as a non-fashionable white female (lesbian, too, although I'm really not sure that he knew) I came in for a bit more than my fair share of abuse, and I really didn't want to take it to my manager, because I'm going to have to deal with that kind of stuff, so I might as well get used to it.

I have had some little thoughtlets about writing a fantasy novel for many years but reading Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories the other night really cemented a bunch of them in my head. I feel a need to have some kind of creative outlet if I'm going to be working at a place that so firmly squelches creativity (mostly for good reason--creativity usually leads to food poisoning in a the restaurant industry). I'd also like to start playing the piano more regularly, but I'm not going to make any impossible resolutions. I just...would like to take better care of myself, mentally and physically, so that I can be more functional at work and happier at home (especially with Sarah), and more fun to be with for my friends and family. I've been pretty edgy and cranky lately, and I don't like that.

It's a little weird to be relating to my parents as a fellow adult. And I get the feeling they still don't think of me as one. But I guess that's par for the course. It really is great to see them again. And hear all about the craziness of Africa in general, and Uganda in particular.

I saw X3 with them on Friday night. It was okay. But I kind of resented the slightly random-seeming character deaths. Although I heard rumors that certain bits of the movie would not be...final. Anyway...I think I have a weird fascination with the comic-based movie genre. I like the Spiderman movies, because they tend to be a cut above, and I'm willing to see Superman Returns just because Kevin Spacey is in it, but I'm not completely undiscriminating...I refuse to see Ghost Rider, solely because it has Carmen Skank-of-the-Universe Electra in it. Well, not solely because of that. Also because it looks kind of cheesy. But, you know, mostly.

I made myself a pretty cool CD today, which I am looking forward to listening to in the car on the way to dinner with Mom and Dad. Is it sad that I get all excited about listening to CDs that I MAKE FOR MYSELF (and thus already know the contents of)? Maybe. Is that gonna stop me? No way :-)

I picked Mom and Dad up in DC on Wednesday. Well, it was actually Thursday by the time I got there, due to an unbelievable amount of complications/stupidity (that last bit was all mine).

Because I'm feeling distinctly stupid from lack of sleep, I won't go into all the details right now. But...let's just say that I ended up having to drive very fast in a car that is (apparently) in need of some repairs.

Also, I've just started playing a game called Kingdom of Loathing. Sarah got me started on it (of course), and it's totally addicting. Whoo! If it didn't limit the number of adventures you can go on per day, I would go CRAZY. Like, 24/7 role-play.

But I guess, aside from the parents being back in town, my biggest news is that I'm taking my big tests that I have to score at least 90% on in order to move on to Phase II of my training tomorrow...wish me luck :-)