Your Birthdate: July 2 |
 You're so intuitive, it's like you have a sixth, seventh, and eighth sense. You connect with others freely and easily - and you tend to have many best friends. Warm and caring, it's hard for you to close your heart to anyone. Affection is like air for you - you need to give and receive it to survive. Your strength: Your universal compassion Your weakness: Your unpredictable mood swings Your power color: Mauve Your power symbol: Butterfly Your power month: February |
Monday, January 29, 2007
Birthday Fun
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Funny & Strange things at work
I've been working for the public library going on two years now (hurray! longest post-grad job to date! :D ), and there are daily things that cracks me up about my job, and they are subject to happen at least once per shift:
Patron(via phone): Are you open today? [I'm thinking: No, I broke into the library so I could pick up YOUR CALL!]
Patron (in person): I would like to rent these items. [I hope that you mean borrow. Otherwise, that'll be 5 bucks.]
And then there are the strange things I can't seem to respond to:
[7 yr. old girl, mixed race]: Are you from Africa?
Me [after a bug-eyed pause]: Sweetie, I'm from Cincinnati
[and a slight answer from her grandmother I assume, who was white]: She's from Cincinnati, just like you (are).
It took me a minute to gather myself after that question, I was seriously blindsided needless to say.
Me (via phone): Library renewals, may I have your card number?
Patron: [rumbles in the background]: hold on, let me find my card. I didn't know you were going to answer so fast.
Uh, we expect you to be ready when you dial the number. Besides, there are more than one of us answering the line, and you're not the only one calling. Quit holding us up!
I could go on and on with things like this, but its every shift that I work that you get at least one person who's pretty 'unique'; that comes with the territory with public/customer service jobs. You just have to have a pretty thick skin, patience, and a co-worker close by to vent to...immediately!
Patron(via phone): Are you open today? [I'm thinking: No, I broke into the library so I could pick up YOUR CALL!]
Patron (in person): I would like to rent these items. [I hope that you mean borrow. Otherwise, that'll be 5 bucks.]
And then there are the strange things I can't seem to respond to:
[7 yr. old girl, mixed race]: Are you from Africa?
Me [after a bug-eyed pause]: Sweetie, I'm from Cincinnati
[and a slight answer from her grandmother I assume, who was white]: She's from Cincinnati, just like you (are).
It took me a minute to gather myself after that question, I was seriously blindsided needless to say.
Me (via phone): Library renewals, may I have your card number?
Patron: [rumbles in the background]: hold on, let me find my card. I didn't know you were going to answer so fast.
Uh, we expect you to be ready when you dial the number. Besides, there are more than one of us answering the line, and you're not the only one calling. Quit holding us up!
I could go on and on with things like this, but its every shift that I work that you get at least one person who's pretty 'unique'; that comes with the territory with public/customer service jobs. You just have to have a pretty thick skin, patience, and a co-worker close by to vent to...immediately!
Monday, January 01, 2007
Happy New Year!
It's official 2007 is (finally) here! I just about had it with 2006 anyways with all the drama and stress. This year I don't want to have resolutions that I will give up after a week, but have goals that I can manage. 2007 is going to be about enjoying the simple things and getting away from the ideal of "the bigger, the better"; becoming a more aware and mature person continously growing and learning more about my surroundings and the world; making better career choices on both the "regular" and entrepreneurial sides; being more social and keeping in better contact with friends; contnuing my quest to stay away from the "keeping up with the joneses" theory; and of course the good-ol stand by, have better eating habits and exercise a little bit.
It's crazy how your will power and patience can be tested. I love my friends like they were my family, in some cases I love them more than my own family, but like with any person you regularly interact with, there's gonna be those times where you get sick of them. I had an episode on Friday when I ran into a friend that was home from college and we were having a catch up talk, and afterwards I realized how it seems like everybody in this one circle of friends, seemed to dislike one another and how I'm caught in the middle of all the drama.
I'm tired of drama!
It's one thing where someone dislikes somebody or have a time where they're upset at a friend, but when you have someone you're cool with say to keep away from a person, then the situation is getting way out of hand! I'm not perfect, I had times where I added to the drama, and I regret it, but what's done is done. In a perfect world, everyone would get along. And what makes it so bad with this particular circle of friends, everyone was cool with each other at different points and were working together making music. So this leads to another goal for '07: work with (musical) friends when they are actually ready (have some single-worthy songs), and work with people who are already making moves (i.e. performing & pushing cd's). As much as I want to help my friends with their musical efforts, I've just about had it for now. It's time to expand my horizons and move on to network with others who are really looking for help with marketing their songs.
So 2007, like with all the new years of the past , is a time to start again with a clean slate. Time to get it crackin! Happy 2007!
It's crazy how your will power and patience can be tested. I love my friends like they were my family, in some cases I love them more than my own family, but like with any person you regularly interact with, there's gonna be those times where you get sick of them. I had an episode on Friday when I ran into a friend that was home from college and we were having a catch up talk, and afterwards I realized how it seems like everybody in this one circle of friends, seemed to dislike one another and how I'm caught in the middle of all the drama.
I'm tired of drama!
It's one thing where someone dislikes somebody or have a time where they're upset at a friend, but when you have someone you're cool with say to keep away from a person, then the situation is getting way out of hand! I'm not perfect, I had times where I added to the drama, and I regret it, but what's done is done. In a perfect world, everyone would get along. And what makes it so bad with this particular circle of friends, everyone was cool with each other at different points and were working together making music. So this leads to another goal for '07: work with (musical) friends when they are actually ready (have some single-worthy songs), and work with people who are already making moves (i.e. performing & pushing cd's). As much as I want to help my friends with their musical efforts, I've just about had it for now. It's time to expand my horizons and move on to network with others who are really looking for help with marketing their songs.
So 2007, like with all the new years of the past , is a time to start again with a clean slate. Time to get it crackin! Happy 2007!
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