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[flipflopjunkie]

I got a job. A real job. My first real job. I'm still letting that thought settle in considering every other job I've ever had has just been an excuse to party all summer on Mackinac or bussing tables at Smokies, and let's face it, neither of those count because I just played all the time. I had to give up play with this one. I'm in bed by 11 every night and up at 6:30 every morning. I'm lucky because it's "jeans day" every day for the rest of the year so I don't have to worry about being business casual (though I will admit I was disappointed I didn't have an excuse to go buy slacks or whatever real people wear to work.) I work at ER-one and I'd like to tell you all about what they do, or what I do for that matter, but to be perfectly honest, I have no fucking idea. I do lots of stuff with office supplies--highlighting, stapling, printing, typing, etc. but I don't know WHY I'm doing any of it and generally have no clue what any of it is. I guess I'm sort of like a trained monkey or something, except that trained monkeys don't make $13 an hour and I DO, so that's pretty rad. I sit at a desk all by myself and I don't even get a cube around it but that's okay because I'm in a big room and there's a Christmas tree so I have something to look at. I haven't seen anyone my age in the entire place and my only friends are Tina, the old lady who sneaks out to her car to smoke cigarettes and Steve the tech guy but he has Tourette's so talking to him is hard sometimes. He made a joke about being high my first day though so I know he's down. I'm mostly sad because my regular friends are night owls and I can't be anymore because even though no one checks up on me and I could just sit around and stare at the Christmas tree all day, I don't have a cube so I can't sneak naps. Lindsey and Ricky are at school all night so I won't even get to see them during the week. That's sad. But, considering my fat paycheck, come the weekend I can be everyone's sugar momma and buy lots of expensive vodka for us all. mmmmm.

I've got other thoughts a-brewin' but I think I'll just make this a one subject post tonight. Plus, it's almost bed time.