Heather Snyder
okay, so every week I get a call from Heather. She's mentally retarded, blind, and has cerebral palsy... anyway, aside from people that have my cell phone number, she's the only person that calls just to talk to me. Like other callers want to know song info, or phone numbers, or times/locations, etc; but she calls to talk to me.
Anyway, we were talking about Eric (she is afraid of him because he's mean to her) and how he quit. And so she had a lil side conversation with her mom about how she's talking to her "awesome friend Sean" [okay, she actually said that] and that "I have trouble making friends because not too many people take the time to understand me," and it just killed me because Eric was such an asshole to her. And Mike-o's guilty too because he's often times short with her and says he has to go (when he really doesn't). So that just leaves me, and I talk to her for about an hour every week, but once I'm gone, I can't be sure that anyone is going to be nice to her and actually take the time to listen to her... So while she was off talking to her mom I started getting all teary-eyed and sniffly because the others here are just so mean and it really burns me up.
So, now that Eric's gone she doesn't have to be scared of him anymore. But that also means Energy's going to have to look for somebody stupid enough to take this job, and then make sure that s/he's nice to Heather. Because if s/he's not nice, then that still just leaves me; but I'll be gone at the end of May, so that'd mean I have to train someone else to take my place, and just cross my fingers that it'll be a nice person that will take the time, ya know?
And then to make matters worse [yeah, this one was all me] I said that I was going to have to go --I actually had commercials I had to verify and Pete was supposed to be live (my cue to go to commercial...)-- and she said that her eyes were stinging. So I asked if she had something in them, and she started crying. Okay, I had NO idea what to do so I kept asking what's wrong, what's wrong, did I hurt your feelings; stuff like that. And so I talked with her for another 1/2 hour and she was doin all right, so I had to just guess when was a good spot to go to commercial b/c I missed pete, and I'll just hope nobody noticed.
Oh no, I got distracted, and lost the tracks to my train of thought. Right now, my entire train of thought is cowering behind some shrub somewhere... Speaking thusly, I had the biggest system reset of my life tonight. After I got off the phone with Heather, I was suddenly just staring at the hitachi screen (the one that has the log and the sweepers on it) and I wasn't doing anything... okay, I guess I get to pee. Wait, wasn't I talking to someone? So I called Kristen assuming that I had just hung up on her...turns out we'd said goodbye like 3 hours prior (I got that number from her). Oh... then what was I...AHHHHH, COMMERCIALS!! shit shit shit shit shit shit shit rrrrrrrrr [<--- stairs] shit shit shit shit shit shit. Guess I missed pete, so I just threw the commercials in there...10 minutes late, in the middle of a song. Teehee?
right, that is all. Funny update later, I don't know how much more of this "serious" stuff I can handle and retain my sanity.
Anyway, we were talking about Eric (she is afraid of him because he's mean to her) and how he quit. And so she had a lil side conversation with her mom about how she's talking to her "awesome friend Sean" [okay, she actually said that] and that "I have trouble making friends because not too many people take the time to understand me," and it just killed me because Eric was such an asshole to her. And Mike-o's guilty too because he's often times short with her and says he has to go (when he really doesn't). So that just leaves me, and I talk to her for about an hour every week, but once I'm gone, I can't be sure that anyone is going to be nice to her and actually take the time to listen to her... So while she was off talking to her mom I started getting all teary-eyed and sniffly because the others here are just so mean and it really burns me up.
So, now that Eric's gone she doesn't have to be scared of him anymore. But that also means Energy's going to have to look for somebody stupid enough to take this job, and then make sure that s/he's nice to Heather. Because if s/he's not nice, then that still just leaves me; but I'll be gone at the end of May, so that'd mean I have to train someone else to take my place, and just cross my fingers that it'll be a nice person that will take the time, ya know?
And then to make matters worse [yeah, this one was all me] I said that I was going to have to go --I actually had commercials I had to verify and Pete was supposed to be live (my cue to go to commercial...)-- and she said that her eyes were stinging. So I asked if she had something in them, and she started crying. Okay, I had NO idea what to do so I kept asking what's wrong, what's wrong, did I hurt your feelings; stuff like that. And so I talked with her for another 1/2 hour and she was doin all right, so I had to just guess when was a good spot to go to commercial b/c I missed pete, and I'll just hope nobody noticed.
Oh no, I got distracted, and lost the tracks to my train of thought. Right now, my entire train of thought is cowering behind some shrub somewhere... Speaking thusly, I had the biggest system reset of my life tonight. After I got off the phone with Heather, I was suddenly just staring at the hitachi screen (the one that has the log and the sweepers on it) and I wasn't doing anything... okay, I guess I get to pee. Wait, wasn't I talking to someone? So I called Kristen assuming that I had just hung up on her...turns out we'd said goodbye like 3 hours prior (I got that number from her). Oh... then what was I...AHHHHH, COMMERCIALS!! shit shit shit shit shit shit shit rrrrrrrrr [<--- stairs] shit shit shit shit shit shit. Guess I missed pete, so I just threw the commercials in there...10 minutes late, in the middle of a song. Teehee?
right, that is all. Funny update later, I don't know how much more of this "serious" stuff I can handle and retain my sanity.