Square

So I'm back.

My job is partly the reason for my return. Upper management brilliantly decided to enforce the rule that student workers aren't allowed to do homework during the down hours- i.e. the workers shall sit idly at their desks, pleading with the phone to get it to ring just to have something to do. It gets kind of lonely.

I'm sure blogging wouldn't be allowed either, but a screen on a computer is much less conspicuous than a calculator and statistics notes.

Oh, yes, I use big words now like "conspicuous" and "allelopathy" and even small words that are so uncommon that they sound like big words like "transit" and "vex". I am quite the thesaurus, when it comes to dinosaurs.

Seriously- today at work, I was talking to Caleb about how I like oranges, but not orange candy with the synthetic flavor. And he was all like, "Synthetic? You mean artificial?"

Same thing.

As for the other blog, I think I'll go to the library one day and print off the whole thing using the remainder of my technology fee allowance. I'll put it in a big old binder and stash it away like wine. And then I shall resign from Ooga Booga Surf Company.

I know, it's sad. But I'm tired of the colors not cooperating, and the ads that show up on some computers, and it's a little obsolete. So I'll be "closing the books". Haha- get it? Yeah, I'm into accounting now...

So I didn't go home with Cleve this weekend because I had to work Friday, had to study for stat, and I decided to go to this dessert social.

And let me tell you about this dessert social.

A couple of weeks ago, I took the second test in my Business Economics class. Real easy class- no problem. I went to class the next time, and the teacher asked, "So how was the test?" And people were like, "HORRIBLE!" and I was like, "whut?" So the professor talked about the class average bladeblah and then he said, "But some of you are doing quite well, and I'd like to recognize you...is Allison Jansen here?"

crapcrapcrap.

And he gave me this invitation IN FRONT OF EVERYONE to a dessert social held by the School of Economic Development. And then he asks me to "give a few words" IN FRONT OF EVERYONE on how I am succeeding in this class.

Shoot me in the face.

So then I went to said dessert social Friday, and it was LAME. Basically, it was the department's way of getting people to switch or think about switching to an econ major. So I ate a piece of cheesecake, listened to the presentation, thanked the host, and was out of there in an hour. Functions like that are just so awkward.

Never again.

I'm sitting at work right now eating my crackers. They're all crumbly because I stepped on them this weekend by accident. Isn't it weird how crummy can be spelled like crummy or crumby and sound the same? Confused the heck out of me when I was reading The Catcher in the Rye.

I can't wait to be home for Thanksgiving. Or my 5 week Christmas break. That's right, sirs, I get 5.5 weeks off! I don't know what I'll do with myself. Feel free to post suggestions.

Suggestions like "return to summer" and "play in local coffeehouse" are acceptable.

Ok. I'm done with crumby crackers.

This job gives me boredom headaches.

OH! My title just reminded me. I'm writing a new song and it's called "Square". I might change some things- the second verse is bugging me. But it sounds really nice, so I'll write some lyrics:

We met up last spring in the park
On a cold, sunny day in the middle of March
And we sat on the grass and talked like old friends
And I believed we were...

We started off that way
Always filling the silence with something to say
But our common became so different
And so did we.

There were things we didn't know
We tied our hearts to balloons and we let them go
And when they came down
They were in two different worlds in two distant towns
And we were even; we were square.

*section of lyrics that are too embarrassing to post*

And there were things we'd never say
As you pulled up the anchor and you sailed away
And I stood there on the shore
Looking back at you as I've never looked before
'Cause we were even; we were square.

Yeah we were even; we were square.

Failing to reject the null hypothesis,
T.T.