Yesterday I went to the community college and picked up a packet of information and paperwork to fill out to attend. I have until the 1st of August to register for fall classes. Since I found out that I will not be made permanent until Lazy Ronald retires next April, it has given me a bit more motivation to get the hell out of there as soon as possible. I am going to turn it in on Monday and hopefully speak to an adviser on what I need to take. 

Speaking of work, the reason I was able to go because I had Thursday off from work. Since they have consolidated our departments for the summer, which is usual apparently, and it will continue into the fucking fall because their building is under renovation, is that in order to keep things “fair” they make everyone work a weekend day in exchange for a week day off. Which fucking sucks because you will never get two days off in a row. So if you want to go anywhere for more than a day you are fucked! If it where fair, they would not treat the people in our department do that and just the assholes that were brought in. 

Also I got into it with a girl I work with. One of the new positions created during the summer is a doorman like position where a person sits in a chair and waves everyone to the right entrance. I merely remarked that it was a nice change of pace from standing behind a counter for 8 hours and she went ballistic and started accusing me of accusing her of being lazy. I reminded her that she was and that I only knew what her ex-best friend told me and then I walked away. In typical crazy bitch fashion she started yelling at me across the main floor as I walked away. She then went into the head manager’s office and tried to get me in trouble. He did not believe her and knew that I meant no harm. The situation defused. Also, she got in trouble with the other supervisors for not respecting the chain of command and going over their heads. They said she is also on thin ice over snapping at other co-workers, lying about being pregnant and faking an injury. 

I also found out my friend Ms. Ruth got a new position and is moving to another department. I will miss her but she will visit and she will be better off than she was. She has a fair share of assholes to deal with, even more so because they give her hell for being Jewish and Canadian. She is the nicest and most generous person that I have ever worked with there. I already miss her.

And the last time I visited my mom she went on another tirade about the length of my hair and the way I am dressed. She kept trying to rationalize her disapproval by saying that I will be more successful with getting jobs that I am not qualified for and that girls will give me “a second look”. Not just any girls, the “girls at Wal-Mart”. Wow, mom. The number one place to pick up chicks. Especially with no teeth and no fucking future. My whole life I have been the invisible man. No one gives me a first look so why should I go out of my way to impress some superficial moron? Besides… I am happy to some extent the way I am! My love life is none of her God damned business. I barely have a social life because I went to school for five years and worked 7 days a week to keep MYSELF up the whole fucking time. I have only two real friends in this world and I cherish them for that and they are all I really need. 

I want out.

“One of these days I am going to tunnel out of this ocean of shit I’m in.”

You find yourself in a weird place when you find that your mom has a copy of one the “50 Shades of Grey” books in with her other books. The second one… So that means that she has probably read the first. 

It is a strangely hilarious feeling. 

I had to get out of town for a little while because I got really tired of floods and blizzards and assholes. So, I went to my mom’s house. 

I got my phone replaced and my car fully dried out. But there is one more victim of the flood. My Rainbow Dash cutie mark button got wet and the little graphic faded. I think I can get a new one at the same convention that one came from. It won’t be that bad. I did all my laundry too. 

The rental office is fucking me over on the clean up. I came home to find the base board heaters cranked up all the way and these big blower things in the floor. Including the base board heater i never use THAT MY BED IS RIGHT UP AGAINST! Stupid assholes! The place barely survived a flood and they try to burn it down. Any way, my and my roommate were going to be gone for the weekend so I could not leave them running. The house smelled funny when I got back but I think I was the trash. I am now burning candles and incense to cover it. I am also going to get some stuff that absorbs moister out of the air to keep it from damaging my books and stuff.

Any way, it was good hanging out with mom. Especially after wanting to talk to her so bad when I thought I was going to die. We had some good meals and went to the thrift shops. It was nice. 

I talked to my mom tonight about my plans to take classes in nursing. She was ecstatic over it. She said that I would be perfect for it and that I would make a lot of money. She told me that she wanted to be a nurse too. But life got in the way, and by life the abysmal marriage straight out of high school to a man who was seven years older than her and treated her like shit. And, the demon hell-spawn child that was my sister. 

On another note. I might be getting a permanent position at work soon. One of my co-workers, the world’s laziest douche bag, is going to get his knee replaced next month. He weighs almost 400 pounds so he is not going to be coming back any time soon. On top of that, he is expected to retire this summer. He may have to hurry up and retire because of his knee which leaves me open to take his spot. That means almost $3 more per hour and state employee benefits. Yay.

I traded in my gift cards at Barnes and Nobel finally. I came away with three new books. One is a collection of Cthulhu mythos stories, a Godzilla graphic novel and “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle. That is an odd combination, but I made some tough choices, but the books I passed over I can get cheaper online. 

Mom went on a bit of a rampage when she realized how much time I had off from work for the holidays. She brought up the fact that a local restaurant needed waiters and waitresses for New Year’s Eve and how we both could have made money. WHO THE FUCK WANTS TO WORK ON NEW YEAR’S EVE?! I’ve done that before and it sucks ass! She also got on my case that I did not FIND A PART TIME JOB TO WORK DURING MY VACATION! Because by the time the application process is finished, I am back at my real job! On top of that she told me that I need to get a weekend job and it would not do for me to do anything else than apply online for a job at the local hospital. That is exactly what I need! Someone who works 8.5 hours a day, five days a week, with only weekends off and fucked up immune system needs to use up all their free time to work a minimum wage job in a fucking disease infested hospital. I just got over the flu. I have been sickly my whole life. If it is going around, I will catch it!

Like most of her unrealistic schemes I just nod my head and smile until she forgets it. She started acting like dad in that she gets super pissed over something that you cannot do or preform immediately because you are not doing it right then and there. Like getting mad at you for not going to the post office on Sunday… when it is closed!

Another thing was trying to get me to apply for jobs that I am not qualified for. She must have said “this looks good! Apply for it!” Even though it says you need a Master’s Degree and after 3 failed attempts to get in the damn program I took a break. 

Ugh… 

I wish she was this tough on my jailbird, junky sister. Maybe she would not have ended up in prison.

But I am complaining too much. We really did have a good time. I had a lot of good food, I saw a completely different side of Hickory, and I have my books (treasures).