Aaron Riveroll | Photographer

Well, the last two days have been quite the whirlwind of activity. As many of you know, I started my new job yesterday. Due to company policy (which I had the pleasure of thoroughly reading yesterday), I am not allowed to disclose the name of the company nor am I allowed to say that I am an employee of the company. Never mind that I have mentioned the name several times in this blog … from here on out, I will affectionately refer to my place of employment as “The W” as or Dubya, since that seems to have caught on.

So, my time at “The W” has been interesting. Actually, you could say that it sucks a little bit. Don’t get me wrong; these things take time to get used to. But I hate being the new kid. I don’t know anything or anyone. I ate lunch by myself. I had asked where the bathroom was. I felt stupid. I hate that feeling. I went from being able to tell people how to do things to not knowing how to do anything. And I hate it. Have I mentioned that already? Today was slightly better, although I did spend all day in a training class relearning everything that I thought I knew. Tomorrow and Friday looks the same.

But enough about work. Work is depressing. Let’s talk about something happy!

Well this isn’t necessarily happy, but funny … on Monday, we had our photo shoot on Sunset Cliffs. I brought a towel for our model, which ended up getting drenched when a giant wave crashed into me as I was climbing up the cliff. Not to mention my shirt and shorts got absolutely annihilated. When I got home, someone was washing their clothes, which meant I could not utilize the washing machine. Rather than put wet articles of clothing in my room, I left them in the back of my car hoping to get them into the washing machine ASAP. That didn’t happen. It wasn’t until yesterday that I got the opportunity to wash them. As a result, my car stank. This offending odiferousness permeated every inch of my vehicular unit. It smelled like something died in there. So I spent a good part of my evening Febreezing every inch of my car. It now smells like a glorious meadow on a beautiful spring day. It’s quite pleasant.

Let’s see, what else is new? I got back a little while ago from having Chipotle. I also went to Wal-Mart and bought things I didn’t need, including Milk Duds that were 88¢. I did pick up the Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds Live At Luther College CD which was suggested to me. I’m a big fan of the Matthews/Reynolds combo; this CD is really good! I am also full of ice cream. Coldstone is great, but the small size is always more than adequate. I forget that sometimes … and their marketing ploy to get us to buy the bigger sizes. I went for the medium-size, thinking that I was being economical and smart about the whole ice-cream purchase. It turns out that my eyes were bigger than my stomach and there was a small portion I could not finish. I wasn’t even able to eat the cone, which is really sad. It’s a cone!

Well, since I’m feeling like a big ice-cream blob and pretty useless, I think I’m going to clean up and get ready for bed. I’ll try and write more at a later date. Goodnight.