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2004-04-05 - 12:12 p.m.
little green bag
The Nine Greatest Songs of All Time (Right Now)
1. Bill Monroe
"Blue Moon of Kentucky"2. State Property
"Want Me Back" 3. Usher
"Throwback" 4. Jagged Edge
"What’s It Like" 5. King Crimson
"Larks’ Tongues In Aspic" 6. Kay Slay f/ LL Cool J
"The Truth" 7. Big Punisher f/ Fat Joe
"Twinz (Deep Cover ‘98)" 8. Nice Nice
"Joinus" 9. Billy Joel
"The Longest Time" |
Growing up, all the way up through high school, I had the standard LL Bean backpack like almost everyone wore to school as a kid. But I think sometime around the freshman year of college, I adopted the green carry-on bag from a luggage set my mom got me as my book bag, one of those things with the strap you can carry on your shoulder. Which is kind of like the emo messenger bag look, I realize, but at least I didn’t cover it with patches and buttons or anything. The day before I went back to class from spring break, though, the zipper on the green bag broke, and I decided to go back to the LL Bean backpack, which is kind of funny considering that my mom just became an LL Bean employee recently. Anyway, it’s weird to make the shift back to the backpack after all these years. I remember I used to hate them because they were so heavy, but I carry a lot less books to class in college than I did in high school. Partly it’s because I only have 1 or 2 of my classes on any given day, but also that not every class has one of those thickass text books. The thing I’ve noticed immediately, though, is that it’s done wonders for my posture. When I have some weight on my shoulders from behind, it reminds me to stand up straight, and I stand up straight so rarely that it actually hurts a little to have good walking posture. I mean, a significant amount of my waking hours are spent hunched over either a laptop or a classroom desk, and I don’t really have good sleeping posture either. So my shoulders are kind of folded inward and it’s just not good. So hopefully the backback will help me foster better posture. Oddly enough, I think I had a more relaxed schedule the week after spring break than during spring break. I didn’t work as much, and there were no tests or papers due or anything, so while I wasn’t thrilled to be sitting in class all day again, it was all in all a pretty easy week. I got back grades for the midterms I took before break, and the results were kind of the reverse of my expectations. I thought I did ok on one and not so ok on the other, but I ended getting a D and an A, respectively. But the D was in the Sociology class that I already got an A on my first paper for, so hopefully it will all balance out in the end. Friday was one of those really exhausting 11-hour workdays, though. First I had a little 3-hr shift on campus that turned out to be a real pain in the ass, setting stuff up outside in the rain, really miserable morning. And that night I had a closing shift at the sub shop, which started off well enough. But as things started slowing down and the customers stopped coming in, there was a blowout between 2 of my coworkers. We had a new girl on the shift and she’s still training and learning how to do stuff. So she asked one co-worker, Jess, about how to do a certain order, and then she asked the manager, Mike, and he told her a different way to do it. And before I knew it, Mike and Jess were butting heads about it, and it quickly escalated into a shouting match. Over melting cheese. Seriously. Jess tried to just drop it, but Mike kept forcing the issue, until Jess got fed up and just walked out, about an hour before her shift was scheduled to end. The next day they each talked it out with the boss and Jess didn’t quit or anything. But still, it amazes me that people can get that bent out of shape over melting cheese. They turned it into this whole power struggle. Jobs like this really aren’t worth that kind of drama. There’s just not that much at stake. I had to take some money out of saving last week to make sure I’d be able to cover the repairs on my car, but I’m not sure I took out enough. I can’t even count how many checks I’ve written in the past week, for the car, for rent, for practice space rent, for the Verizon bill, for the Comcast bill, for the BG&E bill, for studio fees, for my student loan, it’s just mind boggling. So I just hope some of those checks take their sweet time getting cashed so my paychecks have time to catch up and I don’t end up overdrawn or close to broke for a week or two. -al
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