Not much to talk about...

So, I know it’s been over a week… But truly, it doesn’t seem like there’s much to talk about. I suppose I’ll find something, I always do.

I just got off work - I had Thursday off, and now I have Wednesday off. The schedules go from Wednesday to Wednesday and this go ‘round I didn’t get my days back to back. I hope that I have the same days off next go ‘round so that this Wednesday will turn INTO a two day weekend with another Thursday & Wednesday off. Get it? So yeah, on the up side it makes for a short week. Yay…

Flo is starting with us tomorrow. Traded her for Johnathan. Good trade - Flo is SO funny. She gives Shelby more crap than Lindsay and I put together! Which I know means nothing to you, but trust me, she’s great and hilarious. :D And she does the work, from what I heard.

My day off I didn’t really do anything with - ran a few errands (cashed my check, general store, rec. hall) and I think I even did laundry. I can’t remember. It was only one day off which kind of sucked, I mean, I thought two days made me too restless so I was fine with only having one day off - not two back to back - but now I know I’d rather have two days!

Oh - so there’s this guy. He does the carving for the dinner buffet. See, we put a whole leg of bison out and he carves as people want it. He’s a jerk though - complete jerk. Condescending, can’t do anything wrong in his own eyes, and thinks he should own the freaking place! NO one likes him. BUT good news, I heard - scuttlebutt, I know - I heard that last night was the last straw, and he’s gone!! He was caught - by paying customers - picking at his lip, like at the dead skin, and then went back to carving without changing gloves, washing his hands, NOTHING. Eeeeww. So yeah, EVERYONE is happy about the idea that he’ll soon be gone. You get three strikes, see, before they consider firing you, and he’s had FIVE complaints from what I hear.

My friend Shelby fractured his wrist. His dominant hand no less. Complete accident - uneven road that is the park’s fault, no lights which is the park’s fault, and he tripped and tried to catch himself. Fractured his wrist. They’re not firing him - generally speaking the rumors are that if you’re useless to them Xanterra is pretty heartless and ruthless and will fire you just for being hurt or sick to often. Shelby, by the way, works with me in the pantry. I LOVE working with him! And I seriously hope - for my own selfish reasons - that he doesn’t take the promotion/transfer he was offered. Anyway, he’s being moved to the EDR (employee dining room) to work there for the next four weeks until his wrist heals. I SERIOUSLY HOPE - again for my own selfish reasons - that after that time is up he gets put back in the pantry with us. So for now he’s trying to make sure they fix it somehow and trying to get Xanterra to not hang him out to dry.

So yeah, work, shop talk at home, and sleep. Not much else. Shop talk is hilarious, I mean we all work pretty much RIGHT in the same spot, but we all have so much out-of-our-control and separate stuff to complain about. Oh - and yes, I did just call the dorm and my room home. I started calling it that since day three. And according to Alliya - my roomie - this literally IS home to so many of us. I mean, apparently most of us don’t really have a home outside of the park, no home to go home to when all this is done. Kind of sad, but at the same time I love that this is home to not only me but so many people. I’m just sad that so many people are leaving The Projects (as Laurel is so fondly called) for Bitterroot. Bitterroot offers bigger rooms, and a private bathroom, but also a longer commute and having to pack up and move again. I’m not putting in a request to move. I like it here in the Projects, and giving the option, I would actually opt to not move out. It’s a little run-down and REALLY a fixer-upper, but my home in Oregon was/is a fixer-upper. And it’s part of the experience almost. It’s the oldest one, it’s got a lot of real wood to it, and a lot of character. I don’t know - all this still doesn’t quite explain it. I just really enjoy it here, the ambiance, the way the people are, the younger group (Bitterroot is a lot of older people), even the fact that sound carries through walls and the doors slam if you let them close by themselves. It’s my home…

So yeah, I guess that’s my update, not much, a lot of random crap. Hope it works for y’all. Oh - and I’ve been hanging out with so many southerners - we have the SWEETEST southern boys - that all my red-neck and obviously-raised-on-country is coming out. I also have that problem where I start to talk like those around me, so it may sound like I’m mocking them, but I’m truly not. I don’t think I have that problem - with them thinking I’m mocking them - because we joke so much. I love chatting with the servers over my line. My co-workers are primarily AMAZING. There’s one server snob, that I don’t talk to and am strictly work with, but mostly they’re so great.

ANYWAY, that’s my update. I’ll try to post it and hope the internet doesn’t hate me right now…