The Update for Everybody Else

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Hmmm...

Last day of school was yesterday. I took my Forensics exam that day and probably did pretty well on it, though I've no idea. I was able to close some various business deals that day including getting paid at work and selling a ticket for the band's upcoming show on the 26th. I was planning on relaxing at my pad for the rest of the day after I left school, but a co-worker/classmate/friend/guitarist of mine was sick so I had to go into work. Got some Little Caesar's for dinner (which is about the third time I've eaten dinner at work) and headed home.

Today, I nonetheless had to go into school for some "graduation practice" type deal. I sold back my books to the school and got my religion final back. Made some money today also selling my religion books to a Junior, and I sold another ticket. A profitable two days. Now I'll never be obligated to step inside that building again unless it rains on graduation.

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Also relevant

Please, let's not turn this discussion into some crusade. Unrequited love/lust/what have you has existed since the dawn of time. The only difference is that now we have a catchy new phrase for it. Snowstalker's frustration is quite natural and there's certainly not sone reactionary "anti-feminist" motive behind it.

Now what he does in said friend zone is the actual topic if debate.

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Just got back from a post-show bonfire a half hour ago. Had fun, but was kinda pissed since my (former) classmates left about 10 minutes after I got there due to "laws" about 17-year olds driving after 11:00. This left me hanging with about six 20-something's for a while.

Played a show earlier in the day (obviously). Had a great time. Nevertheless I messed up on keyboards (only one point where it seemed folks noticed. The recording of that will haunt me forever). On saxophone, I would've done magnificently had my reed decided to behave. Despite that, people still seemed to think I did awesome & I got some pretty high praise from the guitarist's drunk brother.

The band ("Through the Eye of Horus") will likely be playing next Sunday also for the senior all night party.

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Went to the gas station where I am a regular customer to get an Arizona Peach Tea. The owner sent me walking three miles down the road to the Miami Subs that he owns, where after a brief interview, I got a job. ChairmanSanchez is now WorkingSanchez. It is not as interesting as the funeral home (which may still call me, who knows) but it is a job none the less.

Awesome stuff man. Might be better than my current dishwashing gig, especially given the lack of hours I work.


As for me? I just graduated yesterday and I'm officially done with high school. Got a summer of lounging and working about five hours a week () and then college. Went to the senior all night party yesterday and our band played there. Last gig with the drummer who'll be shipping off to California soon. Went to bed at 5 AM, woke up at 8.

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Went to college orientation at University of Detroit, Mercy on the 6th and 7th. Looks like I'll be spending my entire first semester in Briggs (the Liberal Arts building). Probably should've diversified. Or maybe switched majors. Tons of chicks in nursing (like three fourths).

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Guys, I'm just gonna end up playing saxophone in bars to support myself anyway.

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Don't do liberal arts. They're all useless degrees.

Isn't liberal arts what one does before law school?

Yes, Dukey is missing the forest through the trees on this one. The best lawyers are well grounded in the liberal arts, and economics for that matter. It is what gives them peripheral vision as it were, not to mention skill at the use of logic and writing skills, and vocabulary and all of that good stuff, which is how we earn our keep.

Well, if he's looking to go to law school, liberal arts is fine. I did a double major in economics and political science. But I'd never recommend a liberal arts degree to someone who had no interest in law or something similar. A political science degree is almost useless on its own.

So would you recommend a double major, with economics? Since I, as was said, recently got registered and was thinking if I should shoot for more than one major (and had been planning on it). Guess I can start bringing that up in November when we discuss semester 2 classes.

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Looking forward to kayaking later today. Everything should go over well if my mother and her awful fascism doesn't get in the way. It's quite sickening and incredibly frustrating.

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Well I was able to go kayaking. While wading against some rapids, I'm pretty sure my cell phone got water logged. Later, when taking off my beater, my sunglasses--which were hooked on the front--fell into the water and I lost them forever. Second pair recently. Later, while pushing myself under a bridge that had about three feet of space between the water and the ceiling, I fought the current and ended up capsizing of sorts. Had to drain out the kayak on shore.

Today, I'd be going to a baseball game with a similar group of people if it weren't for, again, fascism which has proceeded to block me at every turn. Had to fight tooth and nail to go kayaking for God's sake and I can't get in a car with some friends to see a damned baseball game. This is, of course, regardless of the fact that in a few months I'll be in college and no reasonable person can expect to know who I'm in a car with at any given moment.

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I was "laid off" fired today. I knew it was going to happen when they brought in a new guy-we are already 110% overstaffed, so why make it 120%. I get my paycheck Wednessday, and afterwards I am going to see Bob Dylan.

The good news is that 7-11 called today (two months later) about my job application.

How long were you working there? Seems like a quite short length of time.

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I'd like to extend my official congratulations to Bacon King, one of the Atlas greats who's finally found happiness.

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Got home from a night at the grandparents' house. Awful story.

Late-ish last night, my mom felt a burning sensation in her chest are or something to that effect. The week before, almost exaclty in fact, we'd gone through a similar fake health scare and gone to the hospital. This time, she again calls her parents who live about 45 minutes away and my grandpa swings by to pick us up (for some reason I can't be trusted to drive her to a hospital). After a few hours or so at the hospital, I've done some reading in the waiting room, and we get out, and it's like midnight. We end up sleeping at the grandparents' house. Woke up at like seven or something after less than six hours of sleep. Feel like crap today.

Due to the way my mom's mind works in regards to me staying out: she has to be awake until I get home, I wont' be going to work today--my shift ends at 10:30 or later. Thus, I have to adjust my professional life in order to allow her to conform to rules set by her that are hard to follow due to a situation of her own creation. I won't be surprised if I'm not allowed to go to grad parties after work tomorrow for similar reasons. This is just... awful.

Also, as I was confident that my shift began at 7:30, I'm pretty sure the hostess at Sushi Land lied to me over the phone when she said it began at 7 (I had to check in order to tell my replacement).

So yeah, a great two days.

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So this is what's going on in my hood right now: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/fire-rescue/kyle-canyon-under-mandatory-evacuation

This was the view from my driveway this afternoon:



We evacuated about 5pm, and are staying with friends for now.  Local news says we could expect to be forced out for 7-10 days.

Whoa. Real sorry to see that. Also, seems that aside from the forest fire, you live in a pretty nice place. Looks like it could be the cover of a movie honestly. Hope that your area can be spared. Beautiful place.

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Reminds me of the time that a number of friends lost their wallets and keys at a homecoming after party.

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Good news, everyone! I put in my two weeks notice at Sushi Land on Friday. However, going into work today--I was sick all last week and my basement was flooded Monday so I couldn't go in then--it seems they accepted it early. My name was crossed off the schedule in pencil, and the owner/manager/my boss--a man of foreign descent, Korean I believe, who speaks in a way no one understands--indicated that I was free from work. He said something that sounded like "notice" referring to my two weeks notice, and seemed to say that if I ever needed a job again, I could come knocking. Good to know. Meanwhile, I've lined up intermittent work for the company a friend's dad is an employee of. The friend and another person get to go in from 8 AM to 3:30 and break up crap for fifteen bucks an hour. While a second friend will be going with him on Saturday, the first day said work is available and the day before my grad party, I'll be going in on Monday with him.

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Well I went to my first day at my new job yesterday. Six hour work day in a factory warehouse. A friend and I--his job is in the management portion of the company, I guess--have to prepare these factory rollers. They've had them for twenty years and have continually modified them for whatever purposes. Now, they need to piece them together again, so what we're doing is grinding down all the welding and all that on the edges so they can fit together, and drilling holes so they can be bolted together. Getting paid 12 dollars an hour--I've been told the unions wouldn't tolerate us getting paid $15 an hour.

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Well my latest experiment in employment has ended due to not being the right age to do this line of work. This type of employment discrimination I'd expect in the Jim Crow South, not here in modern day Michigan, but nevertheless, ageism is the new racism. I worked Mobday, couldn't go in Tuesday, the place was shut down yesterday & today, and I just got the bad news. A shame, too, since I was enjoying being part of Anerican industry.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Well my employment status is again apparently changed. I got a text from my friend/former classmate/coworker saying that I'm back in and that we'll be getting paid $15 an hour once they fix the warehouse's compressor.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Well my latest experiment in employment has ended due to not being the right age to do this line of work. This type of employment discrimination I'd expect in the Jim Crow South, not here in modern day Michigan, but nevertheless, ageism is the new racism. I worked Mobday, couldn't go in Tuesday, the place was shut down yesterday & today, and I just got the bad news. A shame, too, since I was enjoying being part of Anerican industry.

File a grievance at your local.

Read my most recent job-related post in here. And I'm not a likely ally of the unions at this point.

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Gonna leave at some point for "Lakefest", an annual celebration of sorts that happens at a lake a friend lives on. If tradition holds, a bunch'a folks'll be at his house havin' a good ol' time.

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So the compressor's finally fixed and I'll be back at work tomorrow for $13 an hour.

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...And work's off again. At this rate, I'll actually be 18 by the time work starts again.

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'Twas recently revealed that my cross country and track coach, as well as former science teacher, is leaving the school.

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Had my first work in two weeks. Spent about six or five and a half hours on a warehouse floor drilling holes in the ends of sections of factory rollers. Lunch break extended an hour beyond what it should have due to how far away the IHOP was and the wait for food. While I can't account for my work partner/friend/former classmate, I demolished my pancakes and bacon in mere minutes. The damned waitress didn't bring our silverware over either until long after our meal had arrived, so I went with my coffee unmixed for about a half hour and by the time I got my spoon, the actual sugar supply had been worn down and all the other crap was artificial. Arriving 20 minutes late--I again blame mi amigo for that--and coming back an hour late from lunch was naturally repaid (call it karma, if you will) by not leaving work until like 5, thus leveling out the working time to its original six hours.

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I'm getting hammered with my last forty ounce Olde English bottle. I got two yesterday. I'm not really into drinking but I have a lot of time to kill by myself these last two days.

Edit: Screaming "Like a Rolling Stone" and "All along the Watchtower" at the top of your lungs and then relaxing to Beethovans "Piano Concerto #5 in E flat major OP. 73 "Emperor" is the most awesome thing you can do.

Congratulations. And I like Jimi's version of "Watchtower better.