A part time job with purpose

As little as BB pays, everyone is all happy with the discount (which is quite nice on some items), Just about anything you want is sold so close to cost that there is no discount at all. Best Buy makes all it money on service contracts, accessories, and services(computer repair & home delivery). Since there is no discount on computers, cameras, or media (movies music & video games) there is no real perk to working there. I need a place to work part time that I can get a useful discount. Maybe a clothing store. Yeah, that would be a pain in the butt, yet it would be sweet to get decent clothes at dirt cheap prices. Maybe I'll do a little pt job-hopping to get what I need out of life as cheap as possible.

stagnation and the greatness of nothing.

I guess my problem these days with writing is a lack of inspiration. You get into little routines that eschew all creativity. There is no sitmulation, no growth....and nothing to write about. Writing about the fact I have nothing to write about. Ironic.

Some kid in ISS once said "I don't see how you do it. How do you sit here all day?" Easy, I get paid to sit here all day. Everything I do revolves around the fact that the better I do my job, the less I have to do. I love efficiency. My Mom says I'm lazy, she should know, she's an expert on the subject.I argue that actually getting as much as possible for minimal effort in a virtue....working smart, not hard. Now when I figure a way to make doing next to nothing profitable, I'll be set. I want to be a consultant, a counsellor, or a lawyer. All get paid a tidy sum for nothing.

Nothing can be good. Nothing left to work on, nothing left owed, nothing to regret, nothing to worry over. There are nothings for which we can be grateful. When there's to do, you can do what you want.

I work three jobs and go to collge right now so I can have more nothing time later. Oh my sweet nothings......

12-step New Year's resolution

Not as in being an addict, but I realized that people do not adjust well to lots of change. Gradual change yields the best log term results. I thought about it and it makes sense. pick a New Year's goal for yourself, say....lose weight/ be healthier. Figure out what you need to do to achieve that and add one new aspect a month. So as to get used to it. After a diligent month, it is a routine now, aka a habit The two main aspects of weight loss are diet and exercise so start out simple.

January - Eat a healty breakfast every morning

Febuary - Start scheduing two days a week of exercise nothing rough a brisk 20 minute walk. a bicycle ride, an aerobic tape in your living room.

March - Start drinking you daily allowance of water.

April - Give up one unhealthy thing, or at least cut back.

May - Eat a salad for lunch at least half the week

June - Add a third excercise day.

July - Give up another bad habit, like eating before bedtime.

August - Add two "workout" days to your exercise regimine ie light weight training do them on exercise days.

September - By this point, your health should be way better, go from light workouts to strenious workouts.

October - Make a major change, like only eat sweets once a week or something of the sort.

November - Look at yourself and how far you've come along and see what you need to change next.

December - When you have maintianed your goals and now you may have very well gone from couch potato to athelete, figure out what you want to change next year and make a 12 step goal chart.

I think this one will be mine......

House keeping....

Robyn lived up to her end of helping me clean up and start getting my "sheet" together. Unlike normal, where I start at the front (main rooms) and work back, she started at the back and worked forward. The result? My bedroom is really clean and all my laundry is now under control. I'm only a short time from getting the major chunk of the house under control. During my sparse time at home this week I actually did upkeep and it felt great. It'd hard for a person like me to get organized and live neatly. Anybody who knows me knows why. I did not grow up in a neat and organized house. I grew up in a filthy wreck of a home. It has been a long ambition of mine to not live in such a manner, but it's so hard when you never learned how.

I'm going to try to get a better part time job soon. Best Buy is not cutting the mustard. Not enough hours, not enough pay, and too much grief for as little a paycheck as I get.

Now onto a different subject. At the age of 31, male pattern baldness has me tight in its grip. I would like to do something about it, but I'm not up for iffy surgery, smelly concotions you slather over your head daily, or drugs that have questionable results or dubious side effects.... I love the commercials though......

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Have you ever noticed that the side effects on the new drugs make the ailment you have seem kinda minor? Just pain ol' scary to me. Take a pill for hair loss that give you the runs, take a pill for the runs and it gives you headaces, take a pill for the headache that makes you dizzy, take a pill for the dizziness that makes you fart. If you stop taking all that mess, your hair falls out but then you feel great. I cannot fathom sacificing my health for the sake of vanity.

Since I'm sick of my hair horseshoe-ing on me, and I don't like pill-popping, I'm considering shaving my head. If I do, I'll have gone through every extreme in my life, hair-wise, from long to long gone. I have yet to work up the nerve. I might do it over the Summer, certainly not now.

a master of misery

I realized in the second year of being an ISS (in-school suspension) coordinator, I'm just now hitting my stride. I've learned quite abit about what works and what does not. Now let it be said, I am concerned for the welfare of my kids. I do, however try to make the experience here miserable. If they hate what I do to them, perhaps I can get them to not want to come back.

I have come to discover I have taken jobs that will allow me in some way allow me to be cruel to someone else. My job at the convience store, when I worked it was an inconvenience store. Other employees visited on my shifts to see what kind of crap I pulled. Since I took the shifts that nobody wanted, it was easy to keep my job.

I also worked at a buffet restraunt. I provided the food, and little else. I was the guy who stood in the window and asked if you wanted ham or roast beef. I was a very good meat carver. People would mess with you, so I messed right back. I got reprimanded quite a few times, but I still managed to keep a job because I was the person who carved efficiently an saved them $100 + a night in food cost, worked every night that nobody else wanted, I was meticulous to detail when I cleaned and there were never any "surprises" the next day after my shift.

My longest work was in pizza. I delivered and managed, there was alot of horrible things I did in an 8 year span in moments of anger that I shall plead the 5th at this time.

Then we have Best Buy. Actually, I do everything that is expected of me, but one person hates me. I don't quit because he dislikes me so. I'll quit as soon as I give him a bleeding ulcer. Actually, I'll quit way before that point, I just need to find something more my speed that pays better. Until then, I gain comfort in the fact it crawls all over his nerves to know we have to work together.

I'm sure there must be a compromise somewhere that I can get what I need money-wise and be able to go to school full time to finish my degree.

I question was asked of me. If I'm so hell bent on going to school for forensic biology as my four year degree, why still aim to teach? It was a good question that I have yet to find an answer for. I like working in a school. My pay is rotten, but I just love being here. Even after all is said and done with, this is an awesome job, I feel important, and every once in awhile, I think I reach a few of these kids. In the mean time, I make them miserable.

Rockin' in the New Year.....

In a recliner. I had Robyn's crock pot bbq ribs yum. I watched a Law & Order CI marathon on TV, realized the quirky guy that stars in it was Pvt Pyle from "Full Metal Jacket". Creepy......

School starts back up soon. I'm ready to get back to work. I'm going to be coasting on fumes through January, but I think it proves to me I need to be taking home about double what I am to be comfortable.

I will, funds permitting, go back to college soon. I will do whatever it takes to make it all happen. I could get a BA in 18 months. I'm eager to explore this option.

I contributed to Paul's site...go check it out, the link's in the sidebar.

I still want to write a book but I can't come up with any decent ideas at the moment....more to come. I guess I was always a "prompt writer" give me the topic, and I'll go on for days, try to have an original idea.....I'm screwed. I can think of Star Wars stories, D&D-type stories, Dune-type stories, nothing my own. I want my own niche.

Thanks to Robyn, my bedroom is clean once again.

UPDATES:

Truck: none, Harmon has been in the hospital. Living too wild I suppose.

Work: Best Buy still sucks.

School: finally moved on it, will have everything in motion by Summer session.

School(work): Still love it. Still pays for s**t.

That's all folks! for now.