Kirstin, long-time bud from college, came up to visit for a few days last week. Coincidentally, last week all scheduling went to hell.
She told me a little late, so I wasn't able to ask for time off. No big deal, I'll try to leave early on this day and go in late on that day, get someone to cover my shifts at the bookstore, and we'll still have mornings to hang out.
Day 1: Nobody could cover my shift at the bookstore, so I wasn't available to hang out until 8pm.
Day 2: The boss woke me up at 9:30am and asked me to come in early to watch the techs install the new projector, because apparently they can't do it without someone watching. Lame, but since I was doing my leave early/go in late thing the next couple of days, I figured it was an okay trade. Left at 8:30pm, went out for sushi with K.
Day 3: The boss woke me up at 8:00am and wanted to know why the hell I wasn't at the theatre meeting the techs. I went to the theatre to meet the techs and proceeded to wait for another FOUR HOURS until I was scheduled to come in and open the theatre. They showed up around 6pm just as I was trying to leave early. Took K to game night, where we grilled and goofed off.
Day 4: Go in late day! Was called every hour or so with angry questions by the theatre, but they were preoccupied with the computers all crashing. K and I played discgolf and then wandered around having fun in Breck for a while before I went to work at 6pm. She came by the theatre later and we watched the last show of Prince of Persia.
Day 5: Was woken up by call from the bookstore at 9am. No, I didn't know I was scheduled to work today. I'll be right there. Got away from bookstore at 1pm. Okay, 2 hours to hang out with Kirstin before I have to work at the theatre and she has to leave. At 1:03pm the boss called to say they're almost ready to start training us with the new projector and I need to come in. Got there at 1:20 and watched them be 'almost ready' for about 45 minutes before finally losing all patience and leaving. Spent a blissful 50 minutes eating pizza for lunch with K with my phone turned off, then went in at my scheduled time at 3pm.
Hey, no worries. It'd only been 5 years since Kirstin last visited. I'll probably see her up here again in another 5.
I'm pretty laid back about most things. Losing my job would suck, but I can always get another one. A random person throws a rock through my car window, lame that I have to replace it but what else can I do? What I do stress about is my friends and relationships. Windows and jobs come and go, but you can't replace love and respect once it's lost. I'm seriously upset right now that Kirstin practically wasted her vacation days to come up here and veg out at my place and endure my obnoxiously over-friendly roommates while I worked a freaking 60-hr week. I wouldn't blame her if she didn't visit again even in 5 years, and Kirstin is the only friend who's ever come just to visit me (rather than coming by because they're in the area doing something else).
Argh. I try not to get overly dramatic but like I said, this is what's most important to me.
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