Summer Updates

I started my summer job a few weeks ago. For the first few weeks, I was a curtesy clerk at Safeway. That job was at some times quite horrid but at others it didn’t suck too much. Mostly I bagged people’s groceries, cleaned up the bathrooms and various spills, retrieved the carts from the parking lot, and helped customers find things. It kinda sucked just because it was so boring. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been training to be a Starbucks clerk. It’s super confusing at first because there are a million things you have to remember to do, a million routines, a million recipes for a million different drinks. And I never go to Starbucks so I have no idea what a frappe is or whatever. I literally didn’t know the names of the sizes of drinks (tall, grande, venti) before last week. I don’t really know why they moved me to Starbucks because once I learn everything then I’ll just be leaving for Montreal…although it will be nice to have Starbucks on my resume. And the people who work there are nice (PB and L). Maybe I’ll work at a cafe in Montreal once I get used to university and my courses and such.

Emma has been here for 3 weeks, which means she’s leaving next weekend. It’s been a fun month. I wish my work hours would have been better so we could’ve hung out more, but overall it was a great month. We’ve been to the beach, the World Bank, several malls, New York City, MoMA, and lots of other places. We were super busy all the time, and it made the time go by really fast. Surprisingly, I’ll be in Montreal in less than 2 months.

My IB scores are released next weekend. I’m fairly sure that I passed, but I’m also fairly sure that I didn’t do much better than passing. I know I did well on the exams that I knew I’d do well on (like english) and visa versa. So we’ll see. I’ll be happy if I pass; I don’t really have high expectations.

In under a month I turn 18. Mostly that means that I can now vote, get a tattoo, and drink legally (in Quebec). McGill does a welcome week called frosh. Frosh is wet, since most of the freshmen are of age to legally drink. I don’t drink that much, so I don’t have much experience with alc. I hope I won’t be pressured to drink. I know I will drink during frosh but I don’t plan to get drunk. I feel like a lot of people say that before college and then everyone ends up drinking and partying a lot sooooo. I want to get a tattoo but I’m going to wait until Montreal for that I think. I want to be sure about the tattoo before I get it.

 

The Rising Action, Probable Climax, and Eventual Resolution of L.

[I wrote this post to get some things out of my head and to help me think through some things.]

I’ve recently come to realize that I get way to attached to certain people way too fast. This came to light after I began conscious of the fact that I had known a certain person (L) for a grand total of 5 hours and now had become weirdly, stalkerishly attached to them despite not knowing anything more than a few personal details about them that I was able to pick up on/overhear. The end result is that I am here, caring way more than I should about a person I barely know, freaking out because I’ll never see them again after this summer. Meanwhile, L is just going about her business, having no idea that I have weird attachment issues.

L  is a very cute human with a hand tattoo. Tattoos are definitely one of my weaknesses. If you have an unique tattoo, then I am interested in getting to know you. L has an eyebrow piercing and shortish, straight, dark hair. L is tiny, like she’s actually shorter than me which is weird because I’m short as fuck. L looks like she’s around 18 years old, but I know L is at least 21 because she mentioned wanting to become a bartender. L wears black doc martens. L also has a very distinctive voice, sort of low and smokey. L is very cynical in regards to pretty much everything. This is almost everything I know about L, but I am not going to post anything else because I already feel like one of the creepiest people ever.

I don’t know if I’ll ever hang out with L again. I hope these 5-hours did not include a resolution. However, it was probably a one-time experience and that makes me feel like I am a slowly leaking vessel.