crap-ass update (bookmark)

Okay, let's get this show started...
Umm... Jobs. Had my lifeguarding interview on Thursday. Part of the interview was a test of my ability to retrieve a 100 pound brick, tread water with the brick and my head above water for a minute and a half, and swim 200 yards in under four minutes. I treaded water for thirty seconds and failed. They said I could do the retrieval, laps, and interview and do the treading another day. So I attempted the laps next, and did about 35 yards at fullest speed and ran out of energy. I totally, completely, wasted the interviewers time, and proved to myself just how insanely out of shape I am. I used to be able to do that no problem! I told the interviewer that I would come back another semester, after I had trained. After I came out of the shower room she told me that the St. Paul pool is desperate for lifeguards and doesn't have those physical tests, but I don't want to be a lifeguard if I can't pass those basic tests. So, yeah, starting Sunday I'm going to be going to the U Rec Center on basically a daily basis to swim lots and do a bit of machine work. (Was going to start tomorrow (Saturday), but stuff came up with a co-worker and I won't be able to make it to the Rec Center before it closes.)
At least I won't have to worry about deciding between the lifeguarding position and the bookstore position.
Becca. Becca(-zen) is my family dog who's been around since I was probably six (she was a tiny puppy when we got her). She now has serious arthritis, and Dad called me while I was MAS last night to tell me that depending on what the vet would say today, we might put her down Saturday. I was really scared about putting her down Saturday, since I was going to be working 5-close, and I really didn't want to go to work after that. The good news is that the vet ended up trying a new steroid, but it probably won't be good enough, and Dad thinks we'll probably end up putting her down within the month. This is why I want to borrow a camcorder: I want to record her and us spending time with her so I'll never forget her like I have Bitsy(-dao), Carmel, and Isis.
Next... OVA block. I don't like the OVA block. Watching a different show each week really makes me more likely to leave just 'cuz, and I don't like not feeling like I have a reason to stay for the last hour. I don't even leave early when we have a regular program I don't like. I'm scared of getting into the habit of just not staying. Blech.
Yaron came back today. He's scheduled to start work on Tuesday, but I know there's no way he'll stay away. I'm so nervous! Blech^2.
I'm getting used to Meg working at Teavana. I've even been talking to her about the job a bit. Yay for getting over things!
Alana's off at FGC for the week. It's nice not worrying about when she will or won't be home. Let's see if I can clean up a bit while she's gone? Hah! Yeah right. *tries really hard anyway*
Sam (my co-worker) is having potentially serious medical problems right now. I ended up coming in two hours early today so she could leave, and I'm working 10-3 tomorrow rather than 5-9:30 so the store won't open late in case she decides she's not up to coming in (thus my inability to go swimming tomorrow, when the pool(s) are open from 10-3:30.) I really hope she'll be okay.
I reheated some Cajun soupy-thing my dad made for dinner (what's it called again, Dad?), but my throat is already too oily that I really don't want to eat it, so now it's getting cold. *dips my finger in the bowl* Scratch that. It's already gotten cold. But it's a marvelous dish, and I'm really so very hungry... Maybe I'll get the guts up soon.

Gah, I really need to e-mail my mom. She sent me an e-mail on the 27th, and I still haven't replied. But I'm really too drained right now. If this entry sucked so bad, imagine what an e-mail written even later would be like?

P.S. Inferiority complexes (compleces?) suck.

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[インソムニア」と言う事か？

Added two new colorbars. ^_^


Kodocha is Love on Crack.


Sana-chan is Love.

Okay, I'll go to bed for real now.

From the Minneapolis Barenaked for the Holidays concert recording:

"Tree forts are a year-round thing in this area. You just gotta... That's the thing, people say that, you know, us folks from the North, it's like, 'How can you stand it?'. 'How can you stand it?' You put on a friggin' winter coat and stop bitchin' about it, that's how you can stand it! You know, like, Arizona, how can you stand that?! There's only so naked you can get and it's still frigin' hot, there's nothing you can do about it! But here - you go outside, you dress properly... You know? And once... Once you have all..." "And then you just, you just peel your face off." "Yeah! It's fine! You can go stand out on the street and go 'See, when you're dressed right, it's really not that-'" ...... "And then you just wait 'til Spring."

I love BnL. ^_^