‘Rush ya’ sounds like ‘Russia’
I’ve been void of existence for quite some time now and I’d like to say that things get easier, but you know, such is life. That, my friends, is not what this post is about.
I recently watched the documentary called “Jesus camp” and as filled with propaganda as it is (clips instead of full interviews, snippets instead of full context), it seems to have a profound affect on my very being and I am shaken to the core. The Evangelical Church is in question, and their rise to power within the government and the fall of a government that has fought so hard for what little freedoms it does have.
The woman in the documentary basically declared war on non-christians and sinners, admittedly brainwashing Evangelical demon spawn by the age of five, and admitting that 1/3 of the U.S. Population, roughly 80 million legal voters, are now Evangelical, that within the next 40-50 years, the fall of the democracy and government we’ve come acquainted with within the past 200 years will be for nothing, because these 80 million+ worshippers would love nothing more than to sway future elections. LONGEST RUN-ON EVER.
This entire matter has gotten me so flustered I spent six dollars I couldn’t spare on a journal to strictly start writing my randomly profound thoughts pertaining to this matter. Direct quote-age:
“I can’t begin to comprehend how terribly terrified and small and meek I feel in the shadows and throws of tyranny and religious holocaust. How can you possibly [claim to] believe in Christianity, a religion in which you are taught to love everyone, especially your enemies, and then basically reject everyone who isn’t obsessed with the idea of perfection the point of personal vendetta?
Religion is beautiful because of the idea of faith, of life and of all things around you. To turn the divine idea of things created in the vision of perfection into an idea of war, obsession, brainwashing, lost youth and forcing your own personal ideal of oppression and mourning is a terrible crime.
Only legal because of a glitch in the system, in our free governmental system (democracy?) that all faiths are acceptable and equal as long as they are organized in mass quantities and recognizable to the masses. These people threaten all chances of a cohesive and beautiful unit of democracy. Everything has its faults. How can these people take advantage of that to purposely and intentionally negate the freedoms of other people?”
Now, everything has it’s faults, especially freewrites involving both politics and religion, and I’m certainly not a political activist, nor am I a spokesperson for Jesus Weekly, but this issue has sparked up such an intense interest in the subject it’s about all I can think about. Did you know there’s already three fairly large Evangelical churches within the city limits of Midland? Familiar with that huge church on Jefferson next to the new hotels and near the mall? That monstrosity of a church is Evangelical. Holy Bible.
I’ll take a breather…yeah. Okay, well, anyway. I need some insight, some faith that anything I enjoy about living in the United States isn’t going to be obliterated by some religious fanatics with a cause.
Oh goodness. I need faith right now in the worst way and I almost feel that these people are so much better than me for that believe, that knowledge, that need.
-Hermit
Put out the fire, boys.
Well, normally, and you know, I’m pretty dedicated to laziness, I wrote about work. I did, however, write a poem just now and I don’t hate it.
The windows glow cold.
In the light from the screen, I am ethereal.
Creased in ennui, I am a window—
Cold, damp, secluded.
I am home through stained glass osmosis.
Neat. Well, work has been work. The boss avoided work all together last week and told the owner who was also going out of town. Both decided that neither could be reached that weekend at all under any circumstance. Guess who got volunteered to be ON CALL ALL WEEKEND? ME!
That’s all I got.
-Hermit
Would you believe it if I told you?
Guess what, sports fans! I’M SICK FOR THE FIFTH TIME IN FOUR MONTHS! I progress…
Work’s been interesting as I’ve been the only person on call and in charge of the store because the owner and Princess abandoned town for the weekend and I’m the store bitch. I did, however, skip out on work three days this week for a couple hours because I CAN’T BREATHE! Not too much interesting to say.
Give me next week when I get a week of health in me and we’ll talk.
-Hermit
Get me a box of kittens, stat!
Work, work, work. I’ll end my life working and if I’m not careful, it’ll be at The House of Ho’s (a nickname which, only if you knew me, would allude to a greater evil).
Working with people who live together is one thing, but working with two people who are dating/getting married and living together and having personal family crisis makes for one shit-tastic day. my lesbians are, in fact, getting hitched in May and it’s very apparent. I AM, HOWEVER, NOT READY TO PICK UP YOUR SLACK BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE FIXING YOUR PROBLEMS AT WORK! I’m a great supporter of all things right and just and as excited as I am about gettin’ down on the dance floor with said lesbians, I just need a break from the drama for one day. Fix your problems at home, please. Check yourself at the door, work your shift, *then* worry about family issues. Please?
Other than that issue, Princess ran off to go get us some clean rags, i.e. wait for them to wash and dry before returning to work. That was good, though, because I got to super-slack and pick it up when she got back so I had something to do. I had a migraine this morning so I was an hour late, but I had someone to cover for that hour (I love our new night baker), but today was just *long* in terms of people staffed and crazy lesbian drama.
Life wouldn’t be the same without crazy lesbian drama. See: The L Word.
Inspired, aren’t you?
-Hermit
I think we’re safe for now.
Well, I didn’t work today, but I worked yesterday and it was….eventful to say the least.
To start with, the day was ridiculous with business, despite being the day before Easter, despite the assumption being that there wouldn’t be anyone in town, because there really wasn’t any business starting Thursday. We were nonstop, we were understaffed, frustrated, and annoyed with everyone and everything. What are you going to do, right?
During all of this, a girl dumped the entire contents of her 14 ounce hot chocolate into my purse, directly onto my things. Needless to say, all of my belongings are in a paper bag and my coat pockets. My phone is malfunctioning and I keep having to clean hot chocolate out of the battery. Yeah. I love life. The first time my phone got ruined was at work when I watched someone who was angry with me poor water into my purse and walk out on the job. The second time, a girl stole my blue diamond, white gold earrings that were my special graduation present from my grandparents for graduating with a 3.9. Yeah. Well, I was pissed.
As it stands, I’m over said incident, but still thoroughly frustrated at how little respect for other people’s property some people have. Or a lack thereof. In either case, I feel that the situation will only be righted when I can find a really good purse that fits me. Yeah. SHOPPING!
Sometimes, I really am a girl. =)
-Hermit
She thinks that she’s artsy.
Work today was pretty craptastic, folks! Not only has “management” started to switch it up and make some night staff members part of the mornings, but vice versa. On top of that, the one that’s significantly mornings now has no motivation to work because the mornings are a different intensity than nights.
I heard my boss complain about this several times today, however, she is incapable of doing much aside from coffee, soup, and taking smoke breaks. We had 14 five dollar bills in the entire store today and she refused to go get any because her third food break of the day was going to be cut in half. She also couldn’t surf the internet if she had to drive the TWO BUILDINGS TO THE LEFT TO GET THE FIVE’S. In terms of geography it goes: bank, empty lot, my job. HOLY SHIT! That’s far too far to drive and/or walk by oneself, especially to get what’s needed in the store, especially if you’re the manager and owner’s daughter. My god, I’m sorry I inconvenienced you with such trivial nuances.
I enjoy my job most days, especially for my regulars, but it’s very hard to communicate with regulars if you’re running four jobs at once. I love it. I simply love it. Thanks, motivated staff members, for making me run everything by myself! =)
Enjoy.
-Hermit
When I say shotgun, you say wedding.
So, I’ve been busy and the like. Sickness, finding out more dirt on the ex and his current and dealing with everything in strides. A grand huzzah for ridiculous circumstances that lead us to insanity. HUZZAH!
My boss actually paid for me to have the day off on Friday. She even hugged me when she came to work today. This was then followed by three hours of nervous chuckling, as the DM (District Manager) was showing us how to prepare the new sandwich we’re getting followed by a store audit to see if more royalty payments are in order. When it comes to money, my boss is pretty damned anal. Silly things that really shouldn’t matter, even to the most savvy business owner, drive this woman insane. So, she was pretty pleasant all around.
My old manager popped her head in the door today. I mauled her. It was beautiful. She actually knows how to run a store, as opposed to my current manager who’s too busy trying to feel young (i.e. she recently pierced her nose in an effort to “fulfill a childhood dream.” She only wanted it because I said I might get rid of mine.) Every time I go to get something done, i.e. tattoo, piercing, doctor’s appointment, she’s right there behind me. I must be really cool because I’ve got two replicas now! =D Anywho, I’m threatening to pierce the nipples just to see if she’d unroll those things and let ‘em breathe for a while. I’m pretty cruel when it comes to her. For example, I call her Princess, I mock her integrity, and most importantly, I’m pretty sure her boobs are so big, they drag the ground, creating callouses that are so apparent that they’ve begun to have minds of their own.
On a lighter note, my job isn’t that bad to deal with. Now. I mean, as of today when I left. I can’t guarantee that tomorrow. I had to work with the girl who’s stolen my identity today. It wasn’t that bad, mostly because I was dwelling in my own misery, but then I could mock her and she’d think it was a joke. They weren’t jokes.
P.S. the new product is scary. I tried it. Don’t get the horseradish. Yeah.
-Hermit
I want Charles in charge of me.
Clearly, it’s 3:40 in the morning. I’m not going to work again because the infection seems to have spread, that or February’s illness has bred with March’s illness and I have both an Upper Respiratory Infection and Strep Throat. You pick.
Work has been rare as I’ve been sick as a dog, but I seriously spent fifteen minutes being off track yesterday because Princess couldn’t figure out how to re-decorate the drive-thru because we’re getting new items that require a scale. Yes, a scale to measure some interesting and questionable product. So, who does she ask? Me. Only because I’ve supervised for almost three years. Silly Canadian, I don’t care about your redecorating problems.
Also, work work work. I can’t type, I’m too busy hacking up a lung. I’ll get to it when I can function on a normal basis.
-Hermit
Change in plans
I would have an all-inspiring work-related tale to tell to you, however, things have changed drastically since my overnight on Wednesday.
Upon returning home from my all-nighter, I was greeted by my boyfriend and, “You should sit down and we need to talk.” He stayed up all night, as well, so he could dump me upon my return and he could go to work and school and not have to face the consequences of his actions. Wow, amazing, huh? I’m pretty sure her name is Pam. Yeah. Nice.
So, all in all, work hasn’t mattered too much lately. That and I have an upper respiratory infection and I’m not working today.
ALTHOUGH! To cheer me up, my buddies came in yesterday and got 24 dollars worth of fatteningly caloric goodness. I <3 my friends.
Enjoy the day, it could have ended like mine!
-Hermit
Got a body like a battle axe.
Late update, holy cow! Saturday was merely me on some sort of personal adrenaline crack. BUT!
I went to work today to print off a paper for school so I could have it and it would be free. I get there and it didn’t save correctly and my boss offers to drive home to get me a USB key that I could borrow to successfully transport my data. She then said she’d do it if I counted the drawers for end of day. I did. I did not clock on. I didn’t realize that until after I’d been conned into free work. Silly Canadians!
-Hermit
