Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Well "orientation" is pretty much the same thing the old "you work for the customer" and "the customer pays your salary" BS, nothing different except there was more interaction, which means we got to demonstrate to each other how to take a person's order, how to act, what to say, stuff like that, pretty much what we did my first orientation. Then Thursday we get to do it all over again, but this time we do other stuff, ie: take phone orders and proper etiquette for drive through.
It rained this evening, it got so cool out side I opened all the windows and put my fan at the window to bring in as much fresh rain smell and cool air in around the apartment. I was ready to drive to the pond just to see and smell the rain and just to be at the pond (you get so much freedom with a car), but there is little gas in the Durango, I put in my last two dollars in after orientation. I also noticed the gas prices have gone down too, now instead of asking for souls and limbs they ask for fingers and digits.
I noticed the new Gmail, google's new email service, has gotten quite popular and now everyone wants an address. Every now and then I will recieve a request asking for an invite. I got mine through one of my tech buddies when it first got out. A gig of space (amazingly which none goes toward spam) and what looks like unlimited transfer space on emails. So far I have sent out several and I dont have that many left. Does anyone want one? Any takers? thought so. Yahoo upgraded their accounts too, about 100 megs of space, now I dont bottom out when I check my email because of all the spam.
I am actually feeling lonely, I kind of miss hanging around all the people we used to back during the semester, even though my roomates friends were a hinderance, they were cool to talk to. My old friend back home has just gotten so obnoxious and angsty that I dont even want to hang around him, he is just bumming around in Gallup and he has nothing better to do than work and hang out at Denny's. But I think I will manage, at work I was already asked to sow off some of my skills at some games, but I cant make it. Sucks. I really want to go home, even if its just for the weekend, I miss my family. I keep missing my mom's phone calls and now I am homesick. Called my grandparents Saturday, it seems everyone was home. I guess I negelected to take advantage of the moments of having family close a long time ago.
Well its late and I have work so off to bed I go.
Monday, June 21, 2004
Well its finally happened, I am learning to drive. I am doing good so far, I have been driving to work and such. But there is a feeling of freedom when you drive, its so exciting. I think I like it. But I am used to driving pickups, like my granpa's old GMC. This is bigger and faster, but then again its got lots of power, can turn on a dime and stop on a penny.
I have damn orientation again tomorrow and Thursday, its probably going to be the same thing, the last were all right, but could have been explained in a much smoother pace and faster too. But this time I was told there would be more interaction b/w workers. So it should be interesting.
Started talking to an old friend from a while back (I seem to have a lot of those) and although it was great hearing from her she seemed different, and no matter how many times I see/hear it I never get used to immature ignorance. I hate to say that, but this person had a lot going and it slipped away. But anyways it was interesting and hope to talk again soon.
I need to have someone look at my leg, the large bump below my knee where I fell doesnt seem to have gotten any smaller and everytime I shift my knee funny it feels like something is shifting under the skin, maybe its my kneecap, or its probably still swollen. But it doesnt hurt anymore and just seems to get sore when I move it funny.
