Up The Middle

mood: content

music: Nelly "Play It Off"

Well for the first time since March, and a lot o' shit has happened since then, i am gainfully employed again. Given its only seasonal right now but had the potential to turn into a permanent position. Besides unlike the last job that i regretfully took this one will actually give me retail experience, a field i'm interested in working in, and most importantly isn't manual labor in the blazing sun and freezing cold. So yeah i'm pretty excited about the whole thing, a little nervous as with any new job, but overall excited. Now we're assured to have enough fundage to get totally toasted on halloween!

Had a totally uneventful w/e but after the last one it was kind of nice and relaxing. Did go walk on the river this saturday morn, which is always a nice little escape. With the lack of rainfall this year, the whims of the Georgia Power dam, and Atlanta's never ending attempt to see if they can be the first city in America to suck a major river dry, the Chattahooche has been at a record low most of the year so one can walk all the way out to the channel. Our illustrous (note the sarcasm) riverkeeper organization had apparently organized a cleanup drive sometime earlier in the week, which entailed pulling all kinds of garbage out of the river while the water is so far down (the river doesn't look like a landfill or anything but has its far share of trash like most waterways). That in itself is a noble cause but like so many volunteer efforts it was done more to make ppl feel good about themselves (some whom i sure contributed to the garbage to begin with) and the organization look upstanding in the public eye. While i will admit they had pulled a lot of old tires, rims, and other large pieces out, they left the pile on the side of the bank. None of the trash bags they had used to pick up bottles, cans, plastics, etc. where tied so they lay open on this pile to spill their contents back onto the river bed with the next strong wind. The water bottles that had obviously been given out where just thrown on top the pile without being put into said bags. One volunteer obviously either too lazy or in a hurry to leave had left their bag and other pile of collected trash sitting on the river bed for the next rise in water to redistribute. And for the considerable turnout that i understood happened, they sure missed a lot of rims, tires, and even a whole shopping cart! Complete laziness and a half ass effort that made me never want to support or volunteer for this organization and had me feeling like it would have almost been better off if they had just left the shit alone.

So being who we are, we bagged all the lose trash, tied all the bags, carried the missed rims etc. up and onto the pile (which i can only hope is scheduled for pick up) and finished the lazy volunteer's lacking effort. We also discovered that this group was wasting considerable time picking up pieces of glass (most of which is broken antique pieces strewn across the entire bed from a time when a river was seen as a great disposal place). My problem, aside from the personal issue of we like to see what we can discover in the pieces, is the primary ingredient in glass is what class...SAND!!!! It will eventually weather back into its parent material, there is no need to waste time picking up glass pieces when there is so much more environmentally hazardous stuff to be picked up, including wads of broken fishing line and old nets. (Readers Note: this part of the river is all rapids and is not a swimming area or somewhere children play, not to mention most all the glass has been weathered to a point where it will not cut. I am also not purporting that more glass containers be thrown into the river but what is already there can be left alone when there are more important focuses). They were also removing old concrete pieces (blocks, bricks, etc.) which was also unnessecary as these too are earth materials that will eventually weather away and in the meantime provide extra havens for fish when the water is up. Basically the whole thing was an ineffectual and piss poor organized effort, with volunteers and members who seemed to have little if any knowledge of river ecology or its true problems.

So this time at the river was just ok, compared to some of our other outings but i guess u can't win em all. We did find ten dollars though- no shit :D

mood: bored

music: Led Zepplin "Whole Lotta Love"

So yeah i'm tired of this job hunting shit, just give me a damn job already! Forget the fucking resumes and interviews, i'm just ready to have A job! Apparently i'm over-qualified for entry level positions and not experienced enough for upper level jobs. Wheres the middle ground? Oh wait thats right there is none. I encounter morons working jobs every single day and yet i can't get hired. Bullshit.

Ok now that thats out there, i'm actually in a pretty good mood, just bored...and broke. A horrible, horrible combination. I actually wouldn't mind be unemployed except for the whole everything takes money. Not implying i'm lazy (cum laude graduate here) just i'd be content to stay at home and create or...well yeah (of course wouldn't we all). Owning my own business is more my speed but well that requires money too.

So today i've been doing all the "around the house" stuff while Lace works. Laundry, dishes, cooking (i actually like that), etc. Anybody looking for a "full service house husband?" - not that you'd actually have to marry me, just support me in the way that i have become acustomed, well that and i'd have to like u, obviously. I jokingly tired to convince Chels to let us move in a few months back but alas she likes her solitude at home not to mention shes still trying to rid herself of the ex-boy.

So i'm thinking i need a drinking buddy tonight...yeah yeah its monday but anyday can be play day...jess? cinna? bueller? you in the pink?