Friday, October 14, 2005
Like I'm right beside you
It's funny. Sometimes, even though my days seem to adopt this "New York pace" of life, my evenings are so uneventful. It's in the evenings that I feel most like a babysitter. I mean, yes, I live here, but on the nights when I come home, make supper, get Lourenzo bathed and in bed... usually, I watch some TV, and then end up online until bedtime. Part of that is productivity of some sort, but a lot of it is simply the fact that the internet is my biggest link home.In any case, these are the hours when I feel most like a "babysitter" in the traditional sense of the word--hanging out, waiting for the parents to get home. It feels even more that way because I leave my computer in the TV room most of the time--my room is just 10 feet to far away from the modem to have a steady connection. It comes and goes, so it's fairly unstable, which is irritating. I would much rather have my computer at my desk, and be able to work in my room on all this, but that's not usually an option.
So, I use it downstairs. I used to carry it back upstairs with me just about every day, but these days, I leave it down here more often than not. It's just not worth the hassle. The only time I really take it upstairs is when I need to do some work/writing that I don't need to be online for.
What else? There were a few fairly inconsequential things that I was going to write about. Oh yeah. One thing that I'm discovering that I really don't like at work? Having to call a manager to override every little thing on till. Seriously. Why can't I cancel my own transaction? Why can't I reprint a receipt? I can understand needing an override to do a refund, or to log in or out, or something like that, but there are just too many little things that need to be manager-approved. It's kind of irritating. Very irritating. Partly because I think that some of it is just dumb security--there's just too much that can't be done without much hassle. Partly because I'm used to being the one who has the keys, the codes, the knowledge, whatever. When I was on till at Quiznos, I did all that on my own. I so rarely ever had to call someone to get my till out of a jam--in fact, I was usually the one that others called to fix it. It just bothers me to have to get someone else to do for me what I'm completely capable of doing for myself.
Anyways. It rained today. I got wet. I went to the library. I bought shampoo and other such exciting items at K-Mart. I prefer Target, but K-Mart was easier to get to, and for those things, it doesn't matter all that much.
I want to go to a play tomorrow night, but I don't know what yet. Maybe I'll see about rush tickets for a bigger show. That would be fun.
I'm looking for a messenger bag of some sort. I have a purse that I really love, but I want something that can carry a change of clothes for work, maybe a laptop (not necessarily at the same time), as well as my wallet and stuff (I don't want to carry my purse and the bag). I have a backpack and a briefcase-type-thing, but I'm looking for something a little more walking-friendly. I'm thinking that maybe one of those one-shoulder sling bags (the ones that velcro across your chest) might be good, especially for the clothes/lunch/work stuff, although I'm not sure how a laptop would fit.
I'm not 100% convinced that I need it yet--the other bags are in decent shape still (although the backpack that I have has served me well--it lasted me through 3 years of high school, 4 years of college, 1 year of working full-time, 2 months in Europe, 6 weeks in vans across North America, and many, many other trips--but the zippers are finally starting to give out), but I'm keeping an eye open. It's more about the convenience than what's in good/bad shape.
Ha. I'm so not interesting right now.
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