Been sick for About a week and a half now.
It's almost finally out the door though. Two more days of antibiotic and my lungs should finally clear out.

Also, a couple of days ago I yawned real big and my jaw clicked pretty hard. It smarted but was still in tact so I didn't think about it. Lately though it's just been sore and gets stiff at night. Hoping that'll go away as well.

In working at the Deli, there are afew things one must be careful of. Spinning blades on meat slicers, juice spills on floors, hot rotisserie ovens, etc. What I DIDN'T watch out for was a small bladed hook that we use to open vacuum sealed meat and cheese. The darn thing snapped forward on me and bit out a small corner of my thumb. But that's almost completely regrown as well.

Human body is an amazing thing really. ya get the snot beat out of ya, sometimes by others sometimes yourself, and it finds a way to put itself back together again.

Pretty Amazing.

Today, at 8:20am, I turned 20! ~streamers, confetti, etc.~

I've entered a new set of tens and can no longer claim teenage awkwardness as an excuse for my shortcomings! Huzzah! :3

Got to see the movie 9 for my birthday, which I celebrated yesterday. They put it in theater 6.
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good times

Also had dinner at steak and shake, and then went walking at a nearby forest preserve!
And since I was there 10 minutes after sundown, the cops even gave me a birthday gift! A shiny ticket for being parked in the lot after sundown. It's not too much, so I don't horrendously mind, but it's still ridiculous. ah well. cest la vie.

Much love to my MECA kids for the group chorus currently in my voicemail! I love it to pieces and I'm going to save it for as long as I can.

20. It's crazy to think I survived this long. Time do do aliitle livin' I guess.
Next year I'll be able to start living on the terms of maybe not remembering the night before XD

Be good my loves.
Celebrations for all!
Come have a slice of virtual cake with me!

Got my butt out of the Produce department at the grocery store and over into the deli! I finally have things to do at work!

I'm digging the Deli hardcore. Soon I get to learn how to work the fryer.

Columbia is treating me quite well. I still miss Portland, but Chicago is feeling better and better. Living at home is an on and off experience, but I shall survive.

To all of my friends in Portland who are on my letter sending list, I'll be putting out the first batch by the end of the month. And anyone I know in Portland who isn't on the list, note me your address and you will receive mail from me about my weirdo life.

In other news, Birthday in 6 days :3

I was in love with my job at a movie theater.
Not a day passed by where I wasn't happy to be walking through those doors and going behind the concession stand.

I had to leave so I could produce a good body of quality work for my senior year art portfolio in High school. Two days after graduation, I got hit with a particularly nasty strain of Mono. Hospitalization nasty. So when I was finally well, I could only apply to be rehired for about a month, and then breaks. I was denied.

When this summer came around, I applied again. And was denied. And then, a month later, again. And was denied. Finally, some less than pleasant family issues came to be, and I walked in, and against my better judgement, made them known to my hiring manager. And begged. I got the same verbal run-around as all the other times I was denied.

so when another company I had placed an application in gave me a shot, I took it, only to be told yes by my theater a week later after orientation had been completed. so I had to say no. Afew shifts into the new job, and I went back to the theater once more, to ask if they still had the paper work. More verbal run around and a promise of a call.

I called them today.
...

They told me, they don't think I'm serious about wanting to work there again.
Because I took the other job.
...

Two years of reapplication, bringing in things I never wanted to have to use, and I'm being penalized for taking a job offered to me over them because I didn't think they'd finally say yes.

And they tell me i'm not serious.

I haven't been this hurt in quite some time.

And now my new job KNOWS that I'm expendable and unhappy.

I've got alot of faked smiles and hoping ahead of me.

Undone
Complete
Half Way
On Going
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ACEN, this weekend May 8th-10th Was a ton of fun
Unpack all the boxes and re-organize my room
Get a job Produce section at Jewel
Buy a GPS Named him Hugh
Buy the MCR Vengaza! vest and USB
Visit boyfriend and meet his family :3 Excellent!
Cook alot of dinners
Art it up
Have Fun
Choose a college Columbia College Chicago
Introduce Boyfriend to Dad's half of my extended family They like him!
See NIN at the Aragon in Chicago AMAZING SHOW!