Just managed a decent run, it feels good to be getting back in the habit again. My friend in the Marines was just clocked at running 3.2 miles in about 21 minutes. I'm pretty impressed with that time considering we're talking about the same guy that chain smokes and used to sit up all night drinking with me (actually I'm sure he still does these things with his Marine friends these days). Anyhow, I digress, I'm determined to at least catch up to that time by September.
Things have been getting a bit stressful lately and it seems like my main outlets have become my turntables, running, and copious amounts of marijuana. It is once again that time of year when grad school application results start coming out and so far I haven't heard anything from any of the six schools I applied to. I try to keep my mind off of it, but it's tough when all you can think is, "man if I don't get in this time, I'm stuck in this awful town for yet another year". On top of this, I've been dealing with this guy at work who seems determined to cause problems for me, even if he has to go out of his way to do it. He did something the other day that really bothered me, but I've complained about it quite enough already, for the purposes of this blog I'm just going to 'spoiler' it.
So, if the average clientele at No Fear wasn't bad enough, we now have this nasty, skanky, stuck up stripper that comes into the store nearly every day. Typically, whenever I ask if she needs help finding a size or anything, I get a really short and nasty reply, so I steer clear of her. The other day however, she comes into the store when I'm there by myself and stays for like two hours. Every 20 minutes or so, I walk over to her just to make sure that she is finding everything ok. There are two reasons I was doing this, first because it's my job, and second because I was really getting tired of her walking around and messing up my store. Eventually she buys like a clearance t-shirt and leaves. I didn't think anything of it, but the next day she comes in just before I'm scheduled to come into work and starts talking to this asshole I work with. According to my manager the two of them just start talking all sorts of shit about me and right before she checks out, this nasty stripper calls my manager over to tell him that last time she was in the store I followed her around and did nothing but hit on her. Now, sure, I've flirted with customers before, I won't deny that, but only when I get along with them ok. I had never said a single thing to this lady that could be construed as me 'hitting on' her. This guy she was talking with has caused problems for me before and I get the feeling that he really provoked her into doing this. It's upsetting because, honestly, I'm just trying to do my job, and he is making that increasingly difficult.
I suppose I shouldn't be too upset. He is morbidly obese and spends most of time either smoking cigarettes or sucking fast food into his bottomless vacuum of a stomach. The way I see it, there is only so much more his greasy arteries can take right?
In the face of all this, I've come to really appreciate how nice it is to come home and either scratch my records a bit or light up with a friend. It's like I can finally be myself again. I think it's part of the reason why I want to go to Ultra so bad, because it's like 2 days that I don't have to care about anything, 2 days in which I don't have to pretend that I listen to the Kottonmouth Kings and drive a giant truck. My only hang up is still soloing it, but hell, I have a feeling it might not be so bad.
Anyhow I have to leave for work in a delightful 10 minutes. I've been listening to this St. Vincent song a lot: