Good night

Lisa, I loved your update. It cheered me up inside. :)

My housemate's cat is flipping out. That is because I am ignoring him to type this. He is very alone and paranoid. I don't know where Hayden is, but I took a peek in her room (I'm alowed to take Ariel out as long as he stays inside the house and the other housemates don't mind - and he was driving me crazy with his meowing when I got home tonight) and anyway, he's pooped his teeny bottom out of his litterbox, there's hair everywhere and a bit of cat throw-up (yuck), but fortunately there's still food and water. So maybe Hayden's taking an extended trip somewhere.

Hm. He's shut up. (He's somewhere in our landing area I guess.) No, there he goes again, only his little meows are quieter now.

Last night I hung out with coworkers at a bar and bumped into an old Bubba coworker. I found out the whole story about his disappearance. He hated it there (I don't really blame him) and just stopped showing up. A host called and left a message - the managers wanted to know why he wasn't there for his shift. He was making jokes that Bubba's has such high turnover - no manager or anyone ever called his emergency contact number to alert his family that he was missing, and he could have been lying in a ditch somewhere and no one would have known. And it's sad because I realized that was totally true and I believe I've become so hardened from working at Bubba's, it didn't even occur to me that anyone would call. What's wrong with that? I need to get myself out of this strange environment and back to a semblance of a world where people are conscientious and have deeper relationships with others in their work environments -- at least common courtesy and respect. (Because Bubba's demands so much of it in commitment and work bs from its workers but seems incredibly self-interested and greedy underneathe all that gumpiness.) Yeah, doesn't it sound like I hate working there too? I don't, really, like today was a fun, good, ok day. My tables were all nice, got along with everyone, had fun, some giggles, etc. But then you do have the bad days and that just darkens everything, when your work environment goes nuts on you.

So yeah, he hooked me up with the contact info for his current job, a nice restaurant in the financial district, so I'll be looking into that and hopefully that can be my evening job for a while. I've been trying some places but no one's hiring. Driving me nuts! Nuts I tell you! Almonds!

My dad has his surgery tomorrow. 6 in the morning. I hope it's a great success but I'm worried. :( I'm going to head over there pretty soon after I check email.

Love to all,
me