The hotel had an employee meeting today for the front desk staff. I love these meetings. “They” make them so fun. Some of their ideas are so ridiculous that even I sometimes think I make this shit up. In the meeting we were told about a new plan to raise employee awareness about litter.

This plan stinks of the whole First Concern? thing that was started a long time ago. Here is the plan. In order to raise awareness of liter in the hotel management is going to drop more litter in the form of notes and such that have slogans and prizes written on them. I kid you not. This is one for True Tales of Induhviduals if I ever seen one.

“They” also made us take a test. A test on procedures at the front desk. I hate taking tests. I hate when work the workplace tests you on what you do. If I wanted to take tests I would go to school. That and the fact I hate jumping through hoops for anyone. One of the questions was to define teamwork. I can’t define teamwork. I work alone so I don’t have any teamwork going on. My answer was that there may not be an “I” in teamwork, but there is an “I” in audit.

Besides the” team” I’m on are made up of second and third stringers as compared to the good old days. Either I’m going to get fired, again. Or I go to school this fall.

I had some activity in the GuestBook and never mentioned it. First up was Saddler. The Saddler who wrote the hilarious Private Ryan commentary. Here is what Saddler had to say:

Name: SADDLER
Where: A ONE ARMED INDIAN LADY OUTSIDE THE 7-11….
Date: 05/29/01
Time: 10:31 AM

Comments:
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE PEARL HARBOR GET WITH TROY BOY AND LETS SET UP A DATE AND GO …NEW EMAIL ADDRESS TOO…LATER

Troy says this weekend, probably Saturday. Pearl Harbor was a movie that mixed Titanic with Private Ryan. Three hours. First two it’s a chick flick. Last hour is for the boys.

I also had a no name sign the before mentioned GuestBook and asks this question:

Date: 05/30/01
Time: 05:35 PM

Comments:
I think you should work at Menard$. Change is Good:)

I hate those damn smiley faces. Fuck people who use that shit. Oops sorry. I just really hate that shit. It just gets under my craw.

Anyway back to the comment no name brought up. Menard$? Sure it would be ok:) But I tried a few years ago and struck out:( Maybe I will re-apply? Change is good? Sorry I disagree. I hate change. Maybe even fear it. So to summarize, change is bad and that :) shit is too.

Well I’m still on track with my non-smoking life. I also have cut out the drinking. I can say that I don’t miss smoking. Drinking I do miss. Of course It’s not the actual drinking part that I miss. It’s the comradeship I miss. Of course not that the comradeship of late has been all that great.

Drinking with a bunch of kids just doesn’t do it. Not much I can really do to change that though. I do get to have some fun every once in awhile. I have an invite from the Ross’s I plan to take advantage of soon. Me and the Isley’s go out for dinner every now and then also.

But I suspect that part of the “problem” is me. The bar scene just isn’t fun anymore. Maybe I’m finally getting old? I do use the phrase “kids these days” a lot more than I probably should. Maybe I had to much fun back in the old days. I don’t really know what’s wrong with me. Maybe it’s because June is the ten year anniversary of me graduating from high school. This of course ties in with the age thing. I’m going to be thirty next year.

I have found now that I don’t drink that I can’t stand drunk people. When I drank I could tolerate them. Now I can’t deal with them. Drunk people just annoy the hell out of me.

I think I know what the real problem is. I just don’t want to talk about it. Or even admit that it is a problem. Cryptic. More on this train of thought later.

Well it’s that time of year when the Sand Festival comes into town. The Sand Festival is the local carnival for the small town I live in. Every year it gets smaller and lamer. This is also the time of year I run into old classmates. Especially because this year is the tenth year anniversary of my class graduating from high school. I’m really not sure if I want to run into some of my old class mates. Some things are best left forgotten. And some things are best left unsaid.

There’s one I really possibly don’t want to run into. Maybe, it’s just a hunch that I didn’t want to run into her. I have developed a new way of thinking since the last time I ran into her. Thanks to “that one girl” I have some new ideas. These ideas may be off base. But they have entered my head.

This one has a Husband. She has had the Husband for a long while. I met him a few years ago coincidentally enough at the Sand Festival. It seems this year I didn’t notice her. But I got (I think) a look from the Husband. Again it’s just me. I could be way off base. But it makes me wonder what kind of stories this guy has been told. And I wonder if the dude gets a good chuckle off of my expense.

Back to the ten years thing. It doesn’t seem my class is going to have a ten year reunion. But the idea of the prospect of going to one has made me think. It makes me think what the fuck have I done with my life in the last decade? Huh? Really what the fuck have I accomplished? Nada. Not a thing. Oops, wait there is this website. So in ten years I have only managed to make a website and then manage to get fired for it. That’s it. Nothing else. No family, no house, nothing.

Fuck it. Isley was right. I went home and wrote about her.

Some random thoughts I’ll throw out here. Pretty amazing that I updated on a day off. Last post kinda sounded like I was a little bitter? Maybe. I got over it. Life is what you make of it. What was I thinking?

You ever think about who would play you or your friends in a movie about your life? I can’t even begging to guess who could play me. The only friend of mine I could cast would be Ross. Chasing Amy’s Jason Lee could play Ross. Can you tell I’ve been watching the Smith movies?

Speaking of movies, I picked up a DVD player. I have fallen in love with the format. I own Chasing Amy and Mallrats. Both of course Kevin Smith. Both of them are packed with extras. Deleted footage and the feature I love, commentary. I love the commentary feature, I do. Especially on the Kevin Smith movies.

Speaking of Kevin Smith. Has anyone else downloaded the trailer to his new movie? I thought it was very funny. Lots of the characters from the previous four movies make a return in this one.

I sat and talked to the chick I had a crush on in high school for about fifteen minutes tonight. I was expecting some horrible exchange between her and myself. Again it’s just me. I expected her to tell me she felt uncomfortable. That’s a keyword by the way. Uncomfortable. Kinda like Pee Wee’s Play House. Sorry that was a cheap shot that only one person will get. So it was nice seeing an old classmate and acquaintance.

Me and Stanley because we had nothing better to do yesterday morning talked about further casting in my movie. The consensus is that Mr. Isley would be played by a young Tom Hanks. Rindfliesch would be Edward Norton. Stanley could be done by a young Kevin Costner. My hypothetical movie would never really work. Kevin Smith has made the movies I would have ended up doing. I have the same sense of humor as Smith. Star Wars jokes would’ve been in any movie I would have made. That and dick and fart jokes.