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Wow, it's been a while.
Re-reading my last my post, it seems like I haven't written in ages. It's late, I can't play any games, and I can't sleep, so why not make a new post?
-So since I wrote my last post, probably a day or two after, I was thinking about my situation with the other girl in the posts and decided that rather than repeating the situation, that I would take a chance. Now, I know in my last post I said that I was more interested in the idea than the girl...well I lied. I was just a big chicken. However, this time I went for it...and I've been seeing that girl since. I won't say anything beyond that since I don't think this is the place and I don't like to talk about girls I'm currently dating in the public, but I'm having fun (in spite of the fact we both know it ends when I leave in January).
-Since that last post, I did GT I can't count how many times. I haven't done it in almost a month though. As of late, I've actually had a decent mix of both schedule and jobs. I've been doing shops, cash, training, midshifts, had a morning here and there, second shift, saturdays off...it's been interesting. I think they've actually been listening to the CP's complaints and are trying to accomadate us.
-I went to a Boys Like Girls concert, it was fairly good. This was the first concert where I wasn't actually in the pit going crazy, instead I just kind of chilled in the back with the lady friend. It was a nice changeup, however you can guarantee when I see Breaking Benjamin, Sum 41, Brand New, or Jimmy Eat World, I will most definetely be in the pit. Rocking out, balls-to-the-wall style is the only way to experience those bands. Yes, singing my lungs out like an idiot as well.
So far I don't know what to think of my experiences in Florida. I know that I've changed a little bit as a person...I've opened up more. While in the past, I had no problem slipping into a role where I can easily communicate with people I didn't know when I was forced into it, such as in an interview, but now I can do it pretty much on command. With any one. It's great for manipulating members of the opposite sex by flirting with them, and it's hilarious to see when it works and they act completely different toward you then other people. I've learned that all I have to do is be loud, say stupid things (not un-intelligent persay, but things I would normally filter out), and not show any hint of shame in them. That last bit is probably the hardest, but whatever. I can thank Disney for showing me what it means to be an actor.
The weather here is starting to change. For the first day since I've been here, it was rather chilly. Even though two days ago it was probably around 95-100F. It's probably just a cold front, but it might be a preview of things to come.
Work is starting to get a tad bit exhausting. I'm finding myself mashing the snooze button closer and closer to the time I need to leave for work each day. I lack the will (and time) to do any cleaning around my room or any serious ammount of laundry. Thankfully, my new roomate isn't really here 90% of the time and I can get away with being a total slob.
Well, I don't really know what else to talk about in short at the moment. I still haven't gotten around to pounding out any of my stories from here quite yet. It seems like everytime I go to, I back down and feel I should journal what's going on instead. Either way, I need to do this more often. To the point where 25% of my blog isn't me complaining about how I never write or how I'm going to write something,
-So since I wrote my last post, probably a day or two after, I was thinking about my situation with the other girl in the posts and decided that rather than repeating the situation, that I would take a chance. Now, I know in my last post I said that I was more interested in the idea than the girl...well I lied. I was just a big chicken. However, this time I went for it...and I've been seeing that girl since. I won't say anything beyond that since I don't think this is the place and I don't like to talk about girls I'm currently dating in the public, but I'm having fun (in spite of the fact we both know it ends when I leave in January).
-Since that last post, I did GT I can't count how many times. I haven't done it in almost a month though. As of late, I've actually had a decent mix of both schedule and jobs. I've been doing shops, cash, training, midshifts, had a morning here and there, second shift, saturdays off...it's been interesting. I think they've actually been listening to the CP's complaints and are trying to accomadate us.
-I went to a Boys Like Girls concert, it was fairly good. This was the first concert where I wasn't actually in the pit going crazy, instead I just kind of chilled in the back with the lady friend. It was a nice changeup, however you can guarantee when I see Breaking Benjamin, Sum 41, Brand New, or Jimmy Eat World, I will most definetely be in the pit. Rocking out, balls-to-the-wall style is the only way to experience those bands. Yes, singing my lungs out like an idiot as well.
So far I don't know what to think of my experiences in Florida. I know that I've changed a little bit as a person...I've opened up more. While in the past, I had no problem slipping into a role where I can easily communicate with people I didn't know when I was forced into it, such as in an interview, but now I can do it pretty much on command. With any one. It's great for manipulating members of the opposite sex by flirting with them, and it's hilarious to see when it works and they act completely different toward you then other people. I've learned that all I have to do is be loud, say stupid things (not un-intelligent persay, but things I would normally filter out), and not show any hint of shame in them. That last bit is probably the hardest, but whatever. I can thank Disney for showing me what it means to be an actor.
The weather here is starting to change. For the first day since I've been here, it was rather chilly. Even though two days ago it was probably around 95-100F. It's probably just a cold front, but it might be a preview of things to come.
Work is starting to get a tad bit exhausting. I'm finding myself mashing the snooze button closer and closer to the time I need to leave for work each day. I lack the will (and time) to do any cleaning around my room or any serious ammount of laundry. Thankfully, my new roomate isn't really here 90% of the time and I can get away with being a total slob.
Well, I don't really know what else to talk about in short at the moment. I still haven't gotten around to pounding out any of my stories from here quite yet. It seems like everytime I go to, I back down and feel I should journal what's going on instead. Either way, I need to do this more often. To the point where 25% of my blog isn't me complaining about how I never write or how I'm going to write something,
Sunday, August 12, 2007
GOOD DAY, SIR!
Well after only three hours of sleep, I'm about to head off to work...again...until 1AM tomorrow, but before I do, I thought I'd hammer out some quick blurbs:
-Last night I was GT again...sort of. We had another woman who's fulltime and going to start as GT soon and she completely fucked everything up working alongside me. For starters, she wouldn't trust me with anything...other than the fact that she wanted to share a bank and that screwed me over later in the night when I had to recount all the money and figure out how much I was acutally responsible for. Also, she kept the keys to the bank all day long and wouldn't let me touch them, which was a major pain in the ass when she went on break and my bartenders/waiters needed change. Later that night, when we had to bank out the waiters, she was treating them like shit and yelling at them over at nothing. Oh, and she went on to charge a waiter $30.00 when she owed him $24.00, after he had told her she owed him money. Yeah, she fucked up royally there, and I had to call in my manager to have him tell her she was wrong, and it took him 15 minutes and various mathematical proofs for her to understand why. She almost did the same thing to the last woman, and it took a ciggarette and me as mediator to keep her from clawing the other GT's eyes out. The waiters are very simple: you treat them with respect, you don't yell at them, and you move as quick as possible when dealing with them and they'll do what they can to make your life easier.
-I had to move to a different apartment, but quite frankly it was an upgrade. Great location, my old roomate got to come with me, two of the roomates are very chill and have a soundsystem, not to mention one is over 21 (always a plus). My only fear is that we're going to have too much fun and have security called on us.
-I decided not to say anything to that girl. The more I thought about it, the more I realised that I was more interested in the idea of being interested in her than I was actually interested in her. If that last sentence didn't confuse the hell out of you, it's not a copout, it's the honest truth. I figure I might as well save something like that for a girl I truely mean it to. I think I'll shut up know before I come off as whiney and pretentious.
I know I say this every time, but I'll write more later. I have two days off and no video games to play, and I want to limit my spending. I guarantee I'll be writing some more later.
-Last night I was GT again...sort of. We had another woman who's fulltime and going to start as GT soon and she completely fucked everything up working alongside me. For starters, she wouldn't trust me with anything...other than the fact that she wanted to share a bank and that screwed me over later in the night when I had to recount all the money and figure out how much I was acutally responsible for. Also, she kept the keys to the bank all day long and wouldn't let me touch them, which was a major pain in the ass when she went on break and my bartenders/waiters needed change. Later that night, when we had to bank out the waiters, she was treating them like shit and yelling at them over at nothing. Oh, and she went on to charge a waiter $30.00 when she owed him $24.00, after he had told her she owed him money. Yeah, she fucked up royally there, and I had to call in my manager to have him tell her she was wrong, and it took him 15 minutes and various mathematical proofs for her to understand why. She almost did the same thing to the last woman, and it took a ciggarette and me as mediator to keep her from clawing the other GT's eyes out. The waiters are very simple: you treat them with respect, you don't yell at them, and you move as quick as possible when dealing with them and they'll do what they can to make your life easier.
-I had to move to a different apartment, but quite frankly it was an upgrade. Great location, my old roomate got to come with me, two of the roomates are very chill and have a soundsystem, not to mention one is over 21 (always a plus). My only fear is that we're going to have too much fun and have security called on us.
-I decided not to say anything to that girl. The more I thought about it, the more I realised that I was more interested in the idea of being interested in her than I was actually interested in her. If that last sentence didn't confuse the hell out of you, it's not a copout, it's the honest truth. I figure I might as well save something like that for a girl I truely mean it to. I think I'll shut up know before I come off as whiney and pretentious.
I know I say this every time, but I'll write more later. I have two days off and no video games to play, and I want to limit my spending. I guarantee I'll be writing some more later.
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Few and Far
Since it's after 4 AM and I still can't get to sleep, I figured that I'd throw some of my thoughts down and start the process of clearing my head before my body sets out to do it the natural way.
-Tonight I finished my first night as GT. As GT, I'm responsible for the money of all four of the restaurants at our resort. That includes two bars, a food court, and a sit-down restaurant. I won't delve into how much exactly that is, but lets just say it's enough to stress over.
Of course, as my luck would have it, just about everything that could have went wrong, from the computers locking up when everyone was trying to bank out, to having to search for a decent chunk of money at the last minute, had happened. In the end, everything was ok (while I wasn't exactly on the dot when the money was tallied, it was close enough I guess). As my manager put it, "Well you've suffered the worse and now we know you can handle it." Why does it seem like I'm continously suffering the worse? Perhaps it's just my burden, or maybe I just find ways to make it my burden.
-On the homefront, things have gotten interesting. One of my roomates was fired, one was termed (kicked out), and one left on his own accords. This leaves our six man appartment with three rooms and three people. Of course, I dibbed up on the empty room and claimed it as my own. When new people arrive later in August, I'm sure they'll fill the empty spots and my old roomate will move into this one with me, but for now I have my own room, shower, two sinks, and a toilet. It's rather glorious. It took me an entire day off to clean it out and move in, but the privacy, nevermind the fact of its brevity, is worth it. Also, I'm having the HD projector mailed from home in about a week with plans to buy a surround sound system, so we should have a pretty sweet getup to boot.
-I'm quite excited that Football is starting up again, and even bought a Dallas Cowboys Jersey (Romo) in anticipation. I just hope I don't jinx the poor guy, as I really wish him the best, even if he doesn't stay with Dallas after this year. I think he'll do fine though and he doesn't seem very intent on being anything other than the QB of the Dallas Cowboys.
-Listening to a song by a certain band I've been listening to a lot lately, the line "I need to start to be myself// Because I'm sick of everybody else" really hits home. In the past two to three weeks since I last wrote in here, I've been for the most part my genuine self (with the exception of dealing with guests or infront of guests at work), and while I don't talk to a few certain people as much as I did when I was staying in character, I'm happy. The pressure of acting a certain way for the pleasure of a few isn't there any more. And quite frankly, fuck em'. This place is getting me homesick from time to time and this is one of the few things I can do to quell that feeling; act like myself. There are times where I feel like I'm by myself on another continent. I rarely hear conversations in English while I'm on the bus and even at work, English isn't commonplace. It makes it kind of hard to meet people as every time I go out with someone who doesn't speak english, our conversations are very generic and shallow. And while I'm not the deepest sea in the Ocean, I enjoy a rather engaging and heavy conversation from time to time.
-On top of that, of the few friends I have made, most of them are foreign and leaving in August. One girl in particular has pretty much best taste in music, has a cute accent, and is just down right gorgeous to boot. I'm still debating whether or not I should tell her how highly I think of her before she leaves. I'm not expecting anything of course, however this is a chance to tell someone how I feel and quite frankly I've never done that before outside of a situation I had engaged on those pretenses. Right now I'm banking on yes, why not? I have nothing to lose. I'm in Florida, living it up and looking to expand my horizons. Even if she has a significant other back home, she can go back and tell all her friends that there's a cute American boy back in the USA who adores her. At the very worst, she'll be offended, panic, and run away. I'll be momentarily hurt, but hey, life experience right? I don't think that one's happened to me yet!
-Other notable changes: I changed my hair again. Even though I know it won't stay like it for long, I stoppped giving a fuck and cut it short. I just leave the bangs down now.
That's it for now. I have two days off comming up so unless I do something totally sweet (not likely), I'll write up a story or two from my experiences here. I have quite a few of them.
-Tonight I finished my first night as GT. As GT, I'm responsible for the money of all four of the restaurants at our resort. That includes two bars, a food court, and a sit-down restaurant. I won't delve into how much exactly that is, but lets just say it's enough to stress over.
Of course, as my luck would have it, just about everything that could have went wrong, from the computers locking up when everyone was trying to bank out, to having to search for a decent chunk of money at the last minute, had happened. In the end, everything was ok (while I wasn't exactly on the dot when the money was tallied, it was close enough I guess). As my manager put it, "Well you've suffered the worse and now we know you can handle it." Why does it seem like I'm continously suffering the worse? Perhaps it's just my burden, or maybe I just find ways to make it my burden.
-On the homefront, things have gotten interesting. One of my roomates was fired, one was termed (kicked out), and one left on his own accords. This leaves our six man appartment with three rooms and three people. Of course, I dibbed up on the empty room and claimed it as my own. When new people arrive later in August, I'm sure they'll fill the empty spots and my old roomate will move into this one with me, but for now I have my own room, shower, two sinks, and a toilet. It's rather glorious. It took me an entire day off to clean it out and move in, but the privacy, nevermind the fact of its brevity, is worth it. Also, I'm having the HD projector mailed from home in about a week with plans to buy a surround sound system, so we should have a pretty sweet getup to boot.
-I'm quite excited that Football is starting up again, and even bought a Dallas Cowboys Jersey (Romo) in anticipation. I just hope I don't jinx the poor guy, as I really wish him the best, even if he doesn't stay with Dallas after this year. I think he'll do fine though and he doesn't seem very intent on being anything other than the QB of the Dallas Cowboys.
-Listening to a song by a certain band I've been listening to a lot lately, the line "I need to start to be myself// Because I'm sick of everybody else" really hits home. In the past two to three weeks since I last wrote in here, I've been for the most part my genuine self (with the exception of dealing with guests or infront of guests at work), and while I don't talk to a few certain people as much as I did when I was staying in character, I'm happy. The pressure of acting a certain way for the pleasure of a few isn't there any more. And quite frankly, fuck em'. This place is getting me homesick from time to time and this is one of the few things I can do to quell that feeling; act like myself. There are times where I feel like I'm by myself on another continent. I rarely hear conversations in English while I'm on the bus and even at work, English isn't commonplace. It makes it kind of hard to meet people as every time I go out with someone who doesn't speak english, our conversations are very generic and shallow. And while I'm not the deepest sea in the Ocean, I enjoy a rather engaging and heavy conversation from time to time.
-On top of that, of the few friends I have made, most of them are foreign and leaving in August. One girl in particular has pretty much best taste in music, has a cute accent, and is just down right gorgeous to boot. I'm still debating whether or not I should tell her how highly I think of her before she leaves. I'm not expecting anything of course, however this is a chance to tell someone how I feel and quite frankly I've never done that before outside of a situation I had engaged on those pretenses. Right now I'm banking on yes, why not? I have nothing to lose. I'm in Florida, living it up and looking to expand my horizons. Even if she has a significant other back home, she can go back and tell all her friends that there's a cute American boy back in the USA who adores her. At the very worst, she'll be offended, panic, and run away. I'll be momentarily hurt, but hey, life experience right? I don't think that one's happened to me yet!
-Other notable changes: I changed my hair again. Even though I know it won't stay like it for long, I stoppped giving a fuck and cut it short. I just leave the bangs down now.
That's it for now. I have two days off comming up so unless I do something totally sweet (not likely), I'll write up a story or two from my experiences here. I have quite a few of them.
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