i have been sick lately, and not doing too much. it is a crappy way to end summer vacation. i can't believe we go back to school on monday. i am mostly dreading it, but i am also tired of only going to work. maybe it will be a little fun. beth and i have all our classes together, none of them are TOO terrible, and hopefully we will get to see friends around campus. also, i will have a teacher i love on the lips. IF ONLY!

my work is totally a soap opera. i wish i could tell stories using people's names, but i guess that would be rude if anyone i mention was to somehow stumble across this one day. there is the stock guy and the girl who pulls line who always have secret sex on our lunchbreak in one of the trucks parked in our parking lot. there is the lady who talks to anyone who is standing near her and tells them things like when she needs to go grocery shopping, and laughs at her own jokes that aren't funny at all. i think she is crazy. there is the twenty-something guy who is dating the forty-something guy he works with in his department. the older guy is always saying how stupid the younger one is. the younger one is always telling me what nice boobs i have. there is the girl who has a crush on the younger gay guy, and who buys him presents like disco cds and writes him love letters even though he is OBVIOUSLY gay and OBVIOUSLY wants her to stop pursuing him since he told her to her face a bunch of times. there is the foreign lady that learns how to speak english by reading a romanian/english dictionary every day at lunch, and picks a different hat that she finds in the store to wear every day. there is the lady who comes in drunk every saturday, and asks everyone to count the number of clothes on her rack because she can't count when she is drunk. there is the lady i often work with in my department, who knows all the gossip in the whole store and always tells me as soon as i walk in the door what i missed on my days off. she also took home a pair of edible undies that someone found in a bag of stuff the other day. they were still wrapped at least.

those are some of the more colorful characters. there was also a boy i worked with that i don't anymore. i heard from the lady who knows all the news that he blushed when she said my name. the other day, he asked me to go get lunch with him. we contemplated not going back and talked about all the places we would rather go. i suggested the huge candy store. we almost did, but went back to work anyhow. when we got out early at the end of the day, he told me to wait for him and we walked over to the candy store and got 15 cent candy lipsticks. he bought like 6 popcorn balls. i hate popcorn balls. we sat outside on the railing, eating candy and having one of the first real conversations ever. we were both kinda shy at work. it was nice. he doesn't work there anymore and i won't see him for a few months at least, maybe more. kinda lame.

i don't know why i even told all that stuff, but it just seemed important to me. as much as i claim to hate everyone, i really love friends and finding people i can make an actual connection with. i should probably stop being so antisocial and get out more.

there are a lot of awesome shows coming up in the next few months.