Volume 2

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Tonight’s journal entry has to be brief, I only have 7 minutes.

I got to interview a girl today…it was unprepared and informal. But that was because I already knew I wanted to hire her. I also trained Justin for an hour, but his wife had an emergency so he had to leave. (She’s pregnant)

I got a letter from Robin Billings today. I was so excited! Perhaps tomorrow I will go into the storey between her and I. So, I wrote her back today and will mail it tomorrow or the next day. (more…)

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Last night, I got to thinking, inspired by my Chilly Chan’Oobi drawing. I developed designs for two new characters: Benji Chan and Julie Chan. Benji Chan, of course, is based on my friend Benji “BDep” Deptula. (Interesting…I was just thinking of all the nicknames Benji has given himself: BDep, Ijneb Alutped, Punix-GT, etc.) and realized I can do a couple variations on the same basic character to create a group of people. (more…)

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Well a number of miscellaneous things happened to me today.

I started my drawing of Chilly Chan’Oobi before church, and got a good portion of it done. I was surprised at how well I was able to draw the human-like character. I am normally unable to get features into a figure that allow it to resemble a person. I finished it up after church, and put color to it, as well as wrote a name in another language for it using symbolic symbols. It looks pretty close to how I had imagined. It also makes me want to create another character or more. I would have to base them on my friends at ETBU though.

Anyway, church was today. So, I got at least two things out of it: a direction for my novel, and the memory of Sarah G & the Bible studies I went to.

The pastor mentioned something about what an intelligent being’s perspective would be on the people of this planet, as positioned as a third-party observer…the observation: (more…)

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Today didn’t go as expected at all. I intended to go shopping with my parents, but they had different plans…

So… I’m watching This Old House with my mom, when my stepdad, out of the blue, and already knowing the answer, asks how much it would cost me to live on my own. So I tell him $1400 a month. I should have known it would come to a lecture…. My parents inform me that he came within two seconds of being killed on the way home yesterday. No specifics, just that; I don’t know if it is exact, or exaggerated. And so, it leads to “if I died, you would have ot move out and live on your own,” as well as “why aren’t you getting that lawn mowing job?…”and, “what is the status on the manager’s job?” All these things, have remained constant since the last time he asked. So I tell him the status of each…and he says they are just excuses. AHHHH!!!! If you don’t like my answer, DON’T ASK!!!

Anyway, I went to DQ and got the Applications that have been turned in this past week, and (more…)

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Valentine’s Day… Love is in the air…well, not from where I am sitting. S.A.D. That’s what today was…Single Awareness Day. Oh well.

It didn’t bother me too much, or even at all. I did, however, focus my time off during the lovely rain, on writing Jay’s letter. Yes, I finally did it. Now coming up with the money to write the check is the tricky part. But I’ll figure something out.

I closed tonight at DQ. It was demanding. We ran in our night shift what we would normally run in one day during the late spring. It was pretty busy. Next time though, I need to be the cook…my brother was tonight, and he (more…)

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Out wit, out last, out date? Survivor Amazon premiered tonight. It was pretty good, except for the frequent talk about some of the young guys wanting to hook up with the female tribe members. Still, I enjoyed watching it.

Earlier today, though, I was to have a day off. However, my mom had other plans. I scrubbed the bathroom wall, removing non-existing mold, and revealing what I already knew, but had to prove to her – that it just needed paint. (I do conceded that a little bit of stuff was mold, but not in the capacity that was expected.)

Afterward, I weed-eat’d the back yard, getting all dirty and grassy. I would have preferred to mow it instead.

Feeling drowsy, I lay on my bed and read my Bible. I hadn’t done it meaningfully in a while. But my stepdad posed the question at dinner last night about (more…)

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I was worn out today after work. My allergies kicked my butt all day. That, and the fact that I had the psychological difficulties of working with Zadra.

She is the type of person that will hold things in so one never knows if she is ill toward them. My thoughts on her concerning me are that she resents me being over her, wants to out-work me, and won’t make any conversation about it. I have no problem with her trying to out-work me. I do have a problem with the quality of some of her work:

• She takes 5-10 minutes to cook an order that should be out in 3
• She burns her food that she cooks
• She is not as clean during the process as she should/could be

Thus, there are two options: (more…)

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Ok…today was slightly different than normal. I got up this morning, but still had to watch Creflo Dollar on TBN. Shortly after, my mom went to a quilting bee at our church, and left me a list of chores, and the instruction to go to the half of a quadrant in our town to post my fliers.

So I put off the chores until the last feasible minute…about 11:00. Finished about 11:30, and then went on a walkabout to hang the fliers. During that I tried to dictated a letter to Lindsey H., but had little success. I am slowly losing my voice, and probably won’t have one tomorrow, which means that I will be able to cook instead of wait on customers.

But when I got back, I was satisfied that I (more…)

In general, my life gets better and worse at the same time.

I am having to take charge of teaching myself things at work. They are not difficult tasks, but Steve is not going to be around this week to teach me.

However, while I was at work today, my mom went through my room, confiscated most of my music, took my stereo and CD player, and my software. My stereo, CD player, software, and the rest of my music, as well as computer hardware went to the garage. The other music, and my Dragon Naturally-Speaking software are being thrown out. And, as normal, a lecture ensued the confiscation.

The high points of the lecture are: (more…)