Welcome to part two of A Thousand Days. The post is really long, so I'm thinking I'll probably go to every ten days, or even once a week or something.
Day seventeen: I don't mean to
sound like a humbug...but really Katy? Why can't you just wait until after
Thanksgiving until you play Christmas music? I know that Thanksgiving is less
than a week away but still. She's been playing all day today. Tender Tennessee
Christmas over and over again. One the upside my mum bought me some lovely
curtains for my room.
Day eighteen: Only one more
episode of Firefly left. Katy and I are watching the series on Netflix and we
only have one left now. Oh why did it have to last only one season?! I finally
unpacked my books today, took only about a quarter as long as it took to pack
them.
Day nineteen: Bugs, bugs,
bugs!! How and why are there so many bugs in frickin' November? They're
everywhere, and bigger than they were in Bend. How numerous and huge they are
going to be in the summer is only for the realm of my nightmares. Huh, such a
culture "shock." It actually makes me feel somewhat like a wimp,
knowing there are people out there who on a daily bases deal with huge bugs,
and don't even have the ability to go inside away from them.
Day twenty: I'm actually
really nervous right now. This morning a sent in an application to JCPenny and
not more than two hours later they called me back, and now I have an interview
10:30 tomorrow morning. This is way further than I ever got in Bend, and in
Bend I was applying to places like crazy, and now the second place I apply to
is interesting? Is it a sign? Or luck? Perhaps a less depressed job market? I
kind of psyched, but mostly nervous. Gaaaah. Why am I so nervous?
Day twenty-one: I think I have
the job. At least at the end of the interview Amy, the person who interviewed
me, said "Well as long as the background check clears out, welcome to
JCPenny." So, I fairly certain that means I have the job. And the
interview was only five minutes long. She asked me why I wanted to work at
JCPenny, and that was it. So yea...now my nervousness seems a little
ridiculous.
Day twenty-two: Happy
Thanksgiving!! Ate turkey, will eat pie. At Thanksgiving we have this tradition
where we go in a circle saying something we're thankful for. I was last so all
of the good general ones were already taken, "I'm thankful that we got
here safe," "I'm thankful for this house," "I'm thankful
for family." I was sure that I was
going to sound like a lame copy-cat. Then, when it was my turn, inspiration
struck! I sat up a little straighter, cleared my throat, and eloquently said,
"I am thankful for this moment."
Day twenty-three: Didn't the
people in this house believe in real light bulbs. I am dead certain that every
single light fixture in this house is some weird shaped florescent light. It
wouldn't be bad if they were regular florescent light, but they're in the shape
of a hoop, or a long flat rectangle, or a pancake.
Day twenty-four: I THOUGHT I
WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM WITH SHORT ENTRIES!!! I don't know what to write!!!
You know what annoys me? The fact that when I turn caps lock, I still have to
press shift to get the exclamation point.
Day twenty-five: You know,
come to think of it, it is amazing how many things I'm not writing about
because I'm planning on posting this thing on my blog. Anyway, I guess Jacob
doesn't read this so I go ahead and talk about that. I finally got the stuff to
make his Christmas present (I've tried to make all the Christmas presents this
year) after I have already been done with everyone else's for over a month. I
am making him a sock monkey. Jacob really loves sock monkeys.
Day twenty-six: Guess what I
did today. I turned a monkey right side out through its crotch. Bet you can't
say the same. I finished making Jacob's sock monkey today, and it looks a
little creepy. Jacob probably won't want it, but for now I'm calling the monkey
Bert. If Tim Burton ever made a sock monkey character, it would look like this
monkey.
Day twenty-seven: I think I am
finally getting into the groove of writing this thing. I hope that soon it will
be a habit. I finished the outline for A Land Not so Far Away, and man, I got
chills writing it. I know, I'm a little conceited when it comes to my
writing.
Day twenty-eight: So yesterday
I was called from JCPenny to arrive today at the store at 2 'o clock. I just
thought it was going to be a couple hours at the most, just an orientation.
Well, the first two and a half hours were, but then the rest of it was
training. Quite honestly I wasn't expecting it to take that long. And now I am
to go back tomorrow. I have serious mixed feelings about this.
Day twenty-nine: Work, work,
work. Why? Why must something that is vital for my existence make me feel so
tiered? It isn't that I hate the job, or that it is even hard work,
nevertheless the idea of it just makes me want to lie on my bed and never get
up.
Day thirty: The men's
department in JCPenny is so boring. Seriously. Nothing ever happened. I think
there was like three minutes where it was busy, but that was it. On the plus
side I think I've finally gotten a hang of actually working and no longer need
a training partner. Once I was able to learn how to do the different things on
the register it was easy to remember. Oh, I also got to use this weird new
thing that is basically a portable scanner and card slider. You can use it to
check people out if they are paying with any sort of card. The people at JCP
call it the Libbi. I'm not sure why.
