oh, reggie

today reggie decided that it would be fun to not brake unless i depressed the pedal all the way. and barely so, even then.

after class i got his oil changed (because he'd been needing it) and found out that jiffy lube doesn't do brakes. i then went to my optometrist appointment so i can get my new contacts and find out if my eyeballs are swelling. after that i went to discount tire and found out the master cylinder was leaking and needed to be replaced.

finally, i got to work two hours late and roughly $500 poorer.

all this after getting to sleep in for an extra 2 hours.

i feel now that either the sleep gods or the car gods are punishing me.

on the plus side, i've decided that since i have 4 boxes of contacts and some free solution in my backpack, today would be a good day to randomly get sucked into a parallel dimention where they don't have contacts. i could stay there for like a year before i wouldn't be able to see.

the hearts of the children

i taught again this past sunday. i finished about 20 minutes early. that's okay, right?

calling

i finally got a calling in my ward. i avoided it for about a year and a half, but then some uppity guy in my ward decided that i needed to teach sunday school. actually, it's okay, we're still friends.

so i teach gospel doctrine, now. my first lesson was on the 11th, called "a mission of saving." it was about rescuing the martin and willie handcart companies.

i was freaked out of my gourd to teach.

it went well, i'm told. my roommates and that guy told me that i am a very sincere teacher. i showed a video and then we read a bunch of quotes. it was fun.

i'm still freaked out of my gourd for the next one, though.

shaving

i was driving to work the other day when i stopped at a red light about to turn right. i pulled up so i could turn and stopped to make sure there weren't any cars coming. happened to glance into the car just to the left of me and saw that the driver was holding an electric razor.

now, for some reason it always makes me smile when i see someone getting ready in his car. doesn't really matter what's being done: hair, makeup, shaving.

so when i saw the guy holding a razor i got kind of anticipatorily excited that he would be shaving in his car around 2 in the afternoon. i mean, i'm lazy, but if i'm going someone after noon, i'm not going to get ready in the car. so that he was shaving that late made it all the sweeter.

i watched. i waited. he lifted the razor. and shaved....his hands?

seriously.

he was shaving the backs of his hands. with an electric razor. almost in public.

the end.

oi

so it's been a while since i wrote. let's think of all the things that have happened.

1. i got a new (to me) car. his name is reginald huntington III, 'reggie' for short. formerly of christianna-car fame.

2. i moved apartments on aug 20-21. it was only down 2 storeys down but it still took 2 days. amber and i have a lot of stuff, mine is mostly made up of books. maybe i should read them all before i buy anymore.

3. i dyed my hair. not that this is a new thing for me, but it was recent so i remember it.

4. in moving amber and i got a new roommate: anna eagar. she's fun and funny and has an awesome freakin' car. just saying.

5. i started a really dumb schedule for work at my own behest. half night shift, half day shift. all lame shift. it wouldn't be so bad were i only working, but doing both work and school is messing me up. seriously.

6. i finished my spring and summer classes without my brain ex- or imploding. go ahead and cheer for me, i know you want to.

7. i went to idaho for the wedding reception of my friend from junior high school, brittney fekete née carlson. in 45 minutes i got a sunburn but it was totally worth it to see my old friends and to hear brittney's mom scream when she saw me.

8. my friend, esther pluim, got her mission call and left for the mtc. she will be serving in wisconsin and promised to bring me back some cheese. she'll be awesome!

9. my youngest nephew, anders, turned 1. wahoo!

10. i attended my roommate's family reunion and learned that someone in her family tree is a sorensen. we're probably related and stuff.

11. in acquiring reggie i got to fly to la, drive with christianna to provo, drive to grandmother transtrum's house in eagle, drive to provo and die. but it was fun except when christianna poked my really hard in the face for no reason whatsoever.

12. my parents found a new house after agreeing to lease theirs to a family who used to live in their ward. they've been trying to sell it to move closer to salt lake for work, but now they are leasing and moving. their new house looks cool from what i've seen though it isn't done yet. it'll be great for them to be living together again.

well, that's all i can think of right now. but it's nearly 2 in the morning as i sit here on my night shift so there's good reason for nothing to be forthcoming. i'm enjoying my classes which include shakespeare (whose name sign i learned recently), modern american usage and the romantic era. by include, i mean that's it.

i'm having a bit of an issue with my html and i'm angry at it so i think i'll stop writing now anyway. i suppose it's good then that i ran out of things that have happened.

energy

for the love!

my work is being so stupid right now.

on friday an email was sent out saying that for summer semester instead of the 39 hours that we had been allowed (39 instead of 40 due to budget) we would only be allowed to work 30 hours. and then there was another email saying that we are now allowed to take on a second campus job to work 20 hours at each.

yeah. a second job.

now does that make sense to anyone else? because i don't get it.

also, keep in mind that this was sent to us 2 weeks before summer semester starts. which means that any position with on-campus jobs will have been filled. also, it's june. any job openings in provo have been filled. and if any of us manage to find another on-campus job, it won't pay as well as this one so we'd want to work 30 here and 10 there. but what other job is going to let us only work 10 hours?

now, those on my team had thought to avoid all this crap because we're doing roughly 1/3 the work of the entire call center where there are about 10 teams. are we exempt? no. they want us to cut back our hours so they can hire more people and make us train them. which only really serves to frustrate us more.

all of this is only because we're the peons in the entire operation.

i say we just delete everyone's accounts and then see how they feel about cutting back our hours.