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16:04 Jun 28 2011
Times Read: 573

113. Dammit. This manager thing is going to kill me. The first thing I do with my bonus is buy the biggest steak I can find and drench it in butter. ...Then find another one ...and some baked mac and cheese ...and make a steak/cheese sandwich! Yes, it's the only way to remedy the conundrum of the Incredibly Shrinking 'Friday. The only way.

04:16 Jun 27 2011
Times Read: 584

Tom Hamilton and some other dude from American Babies came into the store today and gave me a $3 tip and a free CD because I didn't know who they were and kept them company while they waited for their Micro-to-Go. I was super psyched to go home and listen because Tom described it simply as "just good shit." Not for me, fellas. Nice boys, glad to meet you, but not for me.

17:29 Jun 23 2011
Times Read: 596

3 hours into consciousness on my day off and I get a call from a friend I know for a fact must be at work. Wuh woh... Short story shorter: I'm sitting here with a sick kid taking a Benadryl-induced nap on the pillow nest at my feet, trying not to make a sound more drastic than a key stroke. Here's to 4 hours of silence...



Perhaps I should break out of my habitual muted state and actually respond to the messages from randoms piling up in my message box. Maybe. I'm in an oddly chatty mood today.

03:37 Jun 20 2011
Times Read: 601

I just pulled a cardboard tube off the head of a hedgehog, running around circles in the dark. Cheers to going to bed with a smile on my face.

18:40 Jun 17 2011
Times Read: 610


I Am, Therefore, I Think.



I have to write a paper for my psych. class and I'm trying to figure out how to go about it. The criteria for theme and method are extremely open-ended. It doesn't have to be a research paper, an introspective piece or an exploration of a personal theory work just as well (as long as it was something to do with some bit of course material). I haven't decided quite yet what I want to do with the bugger.



I had a conversation about my uncle (a sci. fi. writer) about whether or not we [humans] could evolve past physical bodies. My argument (backed heavily by a woefully underdeveloped knowledge base on the subject, exceptional bullshitery and bravado) was that in a sense, yes. I'm not saying that we could exist without matter, but that it doesn't necessarily need to be our matter. The interplay between energy nodes through a conductor is the important part as far as consciousness is concerned. I very much doubt there would be a reason for us to develop in such a manner but that wasn't the question so that didn't factor into the argument.



I'm going to have to leaf through my textbook and brush up on the mechanics (mine currently feel more than a little shaky) but I think this just might be a basis for my thesis.

05:21 Jun 04 2011
Times Read: 625

Just an asshole with a smile apparently. I had my first trainee complain about me. I remember when I first started my coworker had just had a talk with our boss telling her to ease up when training because all the trainees were freaking out and quitting because she was too intense, mean and rude. I just got a very similar text from that same employee. I was shocked. I'm always the safety blanket, the fun one, the one the trainees cling to when the boss gets to be too much. The shift leader you can breath around. I'm not used to being made out to be the villain. I barely remember the girl who accused me but if I recall correctly I think she's just displacing newbie frustration about realizing that being a barista isn't all jerking off and play. I came in and it was a clusterfuck of customers so I set up the drinks for the two trainees and put on a show for the people in line waiting for the milk steamers to get their heads out of their asses and catch up. When everything calmed down I clocked in, took over the reins at cash' from my boss and only then had time to introduce myself. Yeah, I made her run a bunch of laps (wiping down tables, restocking the customer prep area, checking/cleaning the bathroom) when we got slow and didn't let her sit on her ass but I wouldn't qualify that as mean. I joked around with her and the other milk steamer and always said my "please" and "thank you"s. I never talked down to her but I didn't have time to hold her hand through every second of the two hours she was instore, that's what the other milk steamer is for. I'm stuck up at register so yeah, I delegate. That's my job. If you don't do yours properly I'm going to send you back to do it right. Better me than the owner she'll be working with more often than I. I'm always the bad guy when someone wants to be lazy. I guess I'll accept that.