Trash

I'm probably the only person at Brooks that doesn't mind taking the garbage/cardboard out to the dumpsters. As long as it's not really cold, heavily snowing, or downpouring, I don't see what's so bad about it.

You get exercise walking back and forth, and having to do a lot of lifting, etc.

You don't have to deal with annoying customers.

You don't have to worry about being buzzed up to ring, or asked to do anything else.

You can escape the ridiculous AC for awhile.

And because I'm me, I'll also add that it gives you time to think. I guess I'm a very introspective person. :p

I was thinking more about my future today (as I was cutting up Poland Spring boxes), not in any bad way. I was mostly considering where I want to be. You know I love planning ahead for everything, but this is one big thing that I really *can't* plan. At least, not right now. Kentucky has always been my Mecca, primarily cuz I like that part of the US and cuz there are lots of horses. And because the Kentucky Horse Park is there, which is a place I've been in love with since I first *read* about it, in an issue of Horse Illustrated back when I was a kid.

But my horrible time in Virginia taught me not to jump blindly into moving somewhere. I'd need to spend about a week in the Lexington area, just getting for a feel how actually living there would be. What's the cost of living like? How easy is it getting around the city and the surrounding areas? Is there actually stuff to DO (museums, parks, theatre, etc)? I'd need to volunteer at the Park to see if it's a place I could actually picture myself working at (preferably. . .or maybe I'd just be happy as a volunteer and working elsewhere). There are a lot of considerations.

Buffalo is another place I have semi-considered, despite the reputation it has for horrendous winters (I'd just hibernate, haha). When I was there last year, I looked into things like average cost of rent, etc. and found that there were a lot of good aspects. And maybe I could get a job at the Wilcox House, which is a small museum about Teddy Roosevelt, since that's where he was inaugurated after McKinley's death. I knew more than the guide did, not just about the McKinley assassination, but also about the attempted assassination on TR himself, which was either completely glossed over or not even mentioned. I forget which. I just remember telling my Mom (and consequently all the other people in the room, haha) about it, while the museum guide just stood there like ". . ." Afterwards we talked about assassinations a little bit, and every one he mentioned I of course knew about, every book he mentioned I had already read, haha. So yes, I could be the resident assassination expert and that would be just fine. ^__^

Anyway, it's just hard to know what I'm going to want to do in, say, a year's time. This is the first time I've been able to think about it and not have some kind of breakdown or major anxiety attack though. Yay, hehe.


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I hope the rest of you all read the Hell*Mart article I posted yesterday. I came across it on retailworker.com which is hosted by the IWW. It's such a tragic thing-- I mean true, no one knows whether or not the guy was just shoplifting for the hell of it, but I'd be willing to bet, as Travis mentioned below, that the guy probably couldn't afford the diapers (which are expensive) and it was his only option. Even if he *was* just stealing for no reason, the way he was treated is completely inexcusable and appalling.
And unless I'm mistaken, news of this incident hasn't really been released in any major news source. Not any I've come across, anyway. And I'm sure that's just how the minions of Sam Walton like it-- nothing wrong here. @_@

Well, speaking of IWW related stuff, I'm gonna go read now. I printed out the Constitution from their website and yup, I'm reading the whole thing. I already read the "One Big Union" article, but I want to learn as much as possible so I have a better idea of what I'm getting myself into, haha.

Oh, and if you've never played Katamari Damacy, why the hell not?? The premise of the game sounds like the stupidest thing ever (all the stars were accidentally removed from the sky, so now you have to roll bigger and bigger balls of stuff to replace them) but it is crazily fun and addicting. . .Rainbow Road! ;)