So, it's been a little while

The major problem with owning a Wii is now my free time is more like Frii time, and while super fun, it's sucking up my time for being productive, and more importantly, blogging.

A lot's gone down over the past while. I'm going to go backwards, because that's the way i remember it.

I just got back from Pirates of the Caribbean, which is a really great movie. It makes the 2nd movie worth watching, although still inexcusably bad. It was nice to finally hang out with johnny a bit, since i haven't in a while, hopefully there'll be some of that tomorrow.

Since my last post i've pretty much finished high school. It's insane. I got my cap and gown on Tuesday. All that remains is a hefty calculator fine, since the one i borrowed and the really awesome ti-89 i won both got stolen out of my backpack. So that made me pretty upset. Add that to the tab of stuff that morally lacking people owe me along with yu-gi-oh cards, a trogdor shirt, and a bike, all stolen on jackson public school property. So glad that's the last time that'll happen.

I've had some nice hanging out and saying goodbye with the cool teachers that i like, mr. jones, mrs. williams, mrs. polanski, unfortunately i haven't really gotten to do the whole goodbye thing for ms brierly or mrs van uden, but i'll get to that hopefully. It's really weird to think that this is the last time i'm going to be seeing a lot of people.

I've mostly been working lately. I really like my job, and my job really likes me. It sounds kinda self centered, but i like this job a lot because i'm much more appreciated than i was at backyard burgers. 2/3 of my managers liked me there, but Andrew, Joe, and Jeff are all very good at complementing good work. It's cool. I wish i could keep working here and live in Salt Lake.

Wow. I'm going to be living in salt lake in less than two months. I still haven't quite gotten a handle on this whole college thing. I've applied for housing, picked roommates (which was really hard) and scheduled some orientation. I fly out of mississippi on the 14, and i'm gone. insane.

I've also been playing Zelda a lot. Like really a lot, i've had it for less than a week and i've played it over 30 hours i think. But c'est la vie and all that.

I finished up all my AP exams, and i expect to do at least very decent. I'm hoping for 5's on the english and math exams, but i have a hard time knowing. The gov i'll shoot for a 3, a four if i'm lucky, and i'd be more than happy to have a 3 for euro.

I've been noticing how much working at Sal and Mookie's has reworked the way i think. I now have a few weird compulsions, like stabbing tickets, and taking dirty plates. I very naturally carried three plates at a pot-luck, and when i handed someone a drink i came very very close to saying, "you enjoy that sir" in my sort of cheesily sincere kindness i've been developing. I also hold the door open for people and say hi or ask them how their doing on the street. Sal and Mookies has done more to instill southern hospitality in a month than the south has in 14 years.

It's also kinda weird to think that i'll be leaving the south. As much as i've tried to avoid it, this is very much where i'm from. I get a bit defensive when people from outside the south talk about it, or just are ignorant. I am ready to go though. Even though i doubt college will be the holy grail of coolness, success, and awesome that i'm hoping for, i'm hoping the mayor won't be completely insane and the bureaucracy completely useless. But i wax political.

That's all that comes to mind as far as news and such. i had my seminary graduation a little bit ago, so that's cool. In one week i will be a high school graduate. go figure.

Wiiiiiii...hm, it wont let me type in the main box, but i have a wii...woo!

the past week has been crazy. Really completely crazy. I think sunday night will be the first time i can just spend some time to relax, that'll be relaxing. mmmm.

Anyways, today was alright, busy, but alright. i guess i should start with yesterday. ok. yesterday. My mom let me sleep in, which was nice of her, since i hadn't slept much, but i was still pretty severly out of it until around lunch time. Then we had a russian girl play piano for us, then i went to work. I did expo at work, which was way easier than scoop. I actually got out of their before 11, then i watched LOST, which was super cool.

Ok, this morning i woke up at 5:30 and drove to the middle of nowhere to play piano, i didn't do great, it wasn't terrible, but some girls did better than me, so yeah, i don't really care much, so i'll survive. Then we drove back to jackson (at around 9:30) and i ate a sandwich and then went to work. I worked SA from 11-3ish, ate some lunch, then worked scoop until around midnight. All in all, today went well at work. i didn't break anything, i didn't lose anything, i didn't ruin anything, and nobody had to wait for a few hours because of me. I did forget to check a togo order before i sent it off, and the kitchen had made it wrong so that was too bad, and i dropped a scoop of ice cream on the ground, but other than that i was good, and i'm might break 30 dollars in tips. that'd be cool.

So yeah, now i'm going to relax for a while, i ate the rest of my lunch for dinner.

but yeah, i hope i'm never this busy again. I need time to relax.

What is six times nine?

I was hoping that dark rainy thursday night would be a kinda quiet relaxing worknight with an early closing and then on to a nice spiderman III.

Well.

Apparently rainy thursday night means lets all go work the ever-loving-crap out of Ammon and bring every problem possible. Just a little run through: I think first i broke a glass, that was one of the best things that happened to me tonight. Two people's togo orders hadn't even been rung up when the people got there, so they had to wait an extra exorbitant amount of time for their food, somehow, someone decided to add anchovies to a pizza which really didn't need anchovies, we gave a lady the wrong sandwich, and so she called in and said she wanted the right one. This also meant that another person came to get food, and his food wasn't there. Lets see, that may have been the main things that were our fault. On top of that the system was screwing up, the kitchen was screwing up, expo was having some struggles, and we only had one manager, andrew, who about fired me and hung himself. At the end of the night we were 20 dollars short in drawer, so i had to give 10 dollars, and lost 10 dollars in tips (i say had, i offered to pay it all, but the nice lady who did my report recommended half tips) the worst i don't think they were my fault, but they were my responsibility, so i'll deal. I also got 27 dollars today, so i'm no poorer or anything, oh, and i also got a 20 dollar gift certificate and a trophy. woo.

But i love my job, i really do. It's one of about three things that makes me wish i was staying in jackson. I wish i could take it with me to college. oh well.

But yeah, it's now 3:20, and i have 3 glorious hours of sleep before i start tomorrow, which will probably be about as rough as today, except tomorrow i get my pay check. Word.

Oh, and spiderman was amazing, it made tonight just a bit good, and is letting me go to sleep without feeling like complete crap. hoorah.

Nothing happens, nobody comes

My 41st post. 41 is a thoroughly meaningless number, not nearly as awesome as 42, or as monumental as 40, but it seems like a bit of a milestone just the same...moving on:

Once again i find myself without motivation. I wish i knew how to make amazing projects, because while i can churn out mediocre - decent projects all night long (so far i've only falled asleep once tonight, happily, i've been snoozing my alarm so it'd wake me up every 15 minutes or so if i fell asleep) really outstanding projects that are remembered for years and years elude me. Maybe i'm just not that kind of person.

Anyhow, today was pretty fun, although there was a definitive lack of swimming and swan diving. we got back from Field Trippin' around 8:40, and i started on my review project. First i found a tree, i'm not really happy with it, but i suppose it'll do. Then i started reading Waiting for Godot for inspiration. Waiting for Godot is not inspiring. It is depressing and oppressing and suppressing and various other ppressings that don't come to mind at the moment. I have a general idea of what i need to talk about, but i'm not sure how i should say it.

In other news, sunday i gave a talk (a sort of mini-sermon thing we do in my church that are assigned to members and such instead of having a preacher. I dunno if other churches do anything like this) which was like 15 minutes long. That's pretty long for me, especially considering that writing a 5 minute speech proved to be too much for me. So that was kinda rockin'. Now i'm just procrastinating. Work is busy, but money is great. Whoever said money can't buy happiness was either very poor or very depressed, because money does buy me happiness. I suppose you have to have some foundational happiness for that to work though...or perhaps i'm shallow and easily pleased. Either way. Back to work.