Beltaine...

On Beltaine (and I've been meaning to put this up here for a while) one of my close friends had a little ritual at the U.U. It wasn't too bad though not many showed up (there wasn't much advanced notice, mid-summer should be better). Anyway, the ritual was pretty good, even though half the people ion it were under the age of 14. After the ritual Adrienne made, well, I don't know what to call them really, they were elastic strings with bells on. I put mine on my feet and Dave (another friend) put his on his arms (I'm guessing he didn't feel like taking off his shoes... ;) ).

After the ritual Adrienne and her kids went to the game night that was being held there at the U.U. Dave is in the market for a new computer and I asked if he wanted to go shopping (it was still early). He did, and we wandered over to best buy and looked at some of their systems. The best buy people also talked to us for a bit.

We left Best Buy and decided to go grab bite. We thought about going to the Olive Garden, but it was packed. Dave suggested an Indian Restaurant. I had never been there, so heartily agreed. Now as Shakespeare might say, let me lay the scene. We walk into the restaurant, both of us are wearing dark t-shirts with leather jackets over them. We get a table for 2 and proceed to order exactly the same meal, with exactly the same drink (and I don't mean a coke, more of an exotic Indian thing), and an appetizer platter to share. After we order, Dave takes off his jacket, he's still wearing the bells (so am I for that matter, but you can't see mine).

Dave looks at me and says something like "You know what they are probably thinking..." I looked at him and responded with something like "Yeah...". Well, we proceeded to eat our meals, which were quite good. It came time to get the check and I thought to myself "Now if they bring one check, I will KNOW what they are thinking." about this time Dave says "If they bring one check...." (Dave and I are sometimes on the same wavelength, but since we are both straight....)

The waiter comes out, with his 1 check. Dave and I start trying to divvy up the check and the waiter asks if we would like him to separate it. We say yes. He does. He puts all the extra stuff on my bill (the appetizer platter and the bread), which by the way is fine, it's the way I had wanted it done, but he didn't ask or anything.

When we got to the car, We both rolled with laughter, and Dave said "I can just imagine the conversation going on in the kitchen "Abu, look how his people have come up in the world! He has gotten himself a twink!" It was, all in all, a very amusing night... ;)

New Job

Well, it looks like a new job has presented itself to me. It's a similar type of work, retailing. I will be working with different things though. It's different because it's not necesserally steady like my last job was. I will have to l;ook for e-mails and sign up and hopefully will get to work at least 48 hours every 2 weeks, anything beyond that is cake. ;)

My first job is tonight at 8. Funny, I'm not the least bit trepidatios about this. Maybe I will be later. Somehow I don't feel like I will though. It might be one of those things that comes with age.Age does have it's good points.

what's your cowboy bebop theme song?

Job Seeking...

Well, I'm going off job seeking today. A warehouse job, but it pays pretty well. If I get it it will pay about the same as my base pay at the last job. It will do. Hope I can get it...wish me luck... ;)

Well, here I am again....

Unemployed. Tonight our boss came into the store where we were working and laid off the entire team, all except for the team leader and her husband. I almost wish I could say I was surprised, but I wasn't. for the last 2 weeks they have been having us do busy work. Not a good sign. He came in though at the beginning of the set and told us it was our last. We finished it, I guess a lot of the teams (they laid off a LOT of people) just walked when they were told. I'm glad we stayed. We really were a good team.