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June 16, 2004
Laker Haters Rejoice!
Well, three more days of work under my belt at Marketplace. With the 5am shift on Monday morning came cleaning duty (oh yay), as Scott had me spray and scrub out the milk coolers (not fun), and then begin on spraying out the ice cream freezers (not as bad as the milk coolers, but still not fun). I get to resume cleaning tomorrow, hooray. Another 8 hrs Tuesday, and then 7 today, 6 of which I spent stocking only yummy Yoplait yogurt. Some customers were even buying entire cases of the stuff off my cart! It's kinda tough to keep up with how fast it's flying off the shelves when that's going on, but in the end it saved me work because I didn't have to put it on the shelves. :-) But when I got done with my shift it certainly felt nice to get a change of scenery from that one spot, hehe.
Last night Kevin came over and we watched the Pistons annihilate the Lakers 100-87, in a game that wasn't even nearly as close as the score might indicate (it was 82-59 at the end of the 3rd quarter), to win the NBA title. Kevin was a bit sad though, as he's in love with Kobe and the Lakers. Sigh, that kid. I was thrilled to see the Lakers lose though. I hate the Lakers just like I hate the Yankees, Cowboys and Duke. It wouldn't be so bad if the media could ever stop obsessing about any of those teams. Anyways, Kevin was supposed to come over a bit before the game and teach me how to fish, but he kinda took an unintentional nap after a long hard day of painting, oh well. Mike came over when he got done with work at the radio station, and then the three of us were gonna go out on a paddleboat ride after the Pistons-Lakers game and maybe do a little night fishing, but then it started raining, quashing that idea. So we decided to mosey on into town to go on the pontoon boat they'd made, since it had a roof and all. But we'd hardly gotten there when Kevin realized what time it was and went home to get some sleep before another long day of painting today. So no pontoon ride either. Oh well. Despite all the fun things that almost happened, it was still fun hanging out with just the two of them for awhile.
Oh, and IFSA-Butler had an offer for a free cell phone to its students studying abroad in Australia next semester. They offered two choices of cell phones, one Nokia and one Sony Ericsson. I elected to go for the aqua-colored Nokia. It's the one I had been leaning towards, Mike also thought I should get it, but Dave voted for the Ericsson. Hmmm... Well, hopefully the Nokia will turn out well. I get the phone and AUD $30 worth of call credit for free, and then I get to add however many minutes I want to whenever I want to after that. Man, the Aussie way of doing cell phones is certainly far superior to the American way, where you have to be bound to a contract and everything. In addition to all that, they'll give me my new phone at orientation (hopefully the day we land), and they'll even send me my new Australian cell phone number via email within the next couple of days! Woohoo! I've never had a cell phone before, so this'll be a new experience for me, in a land of new experiences.
And in other news, the US Department of Agriculture, in a ruling backed up by a federal judge, has now classified batter-coated french fries as a "fresh vegetable." I kid you not. At least they're not gonna take it so far as the "ketchup-as-vegetable" school lunch fiasco back in the 80s, lol.
Posted by Jared at June 16, 2004 11:41 PM