I Am Vertical
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.
I'm at school right now and am in the middle of a two hour break. Normally, I only have one hour between my last two classes, but today we're having a "work day" in Marketing Research and didn't have to go to class. So I'm in the computer lab trying to entertain myself. My high score in Bejeweled is now 487,000...not even close to Terra's, but I'm pretty stoked about it. (Stoked???)
Grr...this guy sitting beside me keeps looking at my computer and it's really bugging me. Hey guy, if you can see what I'm typing then please divert your eyes to your own screen. Thank you.
Okay, continuing...work has been very slow all week and I haven't had much homework to do, so when it comes to entertaining myself, I've been left to my own devices. Since I work in a bank drivethru, we're obviously looking out a window all day. And you can see some pretty fascinating things if you look out a window long enough, especially when people don't know they're being watched. Across the street from us we have a perfect view of two different business. One is a CPA firm and the other is a Funeral Home!! Creepy...but I'll get back to that one later. There's a girl who works at the CPA firm who is an obvious chain smoker. I work between three and four hours a day and I bet I see her take a smoke break at least 8 or 9 times throughout that period...I think she saw me watching her the other day too. Whoops! Back to the funeral home, though. There's some really shady stuff going down over there. This man who works there comes out about every twenty or thirty minutes and does the exact same thing each time. He brings a wheel barrel full of stuff, goes over to the dumpster, dumps whatever it is into the dumpster, and goes back inside. He does this like 10 times a day!! There are always stray animals around the dumpster too...there's like two different dogs that hang out over near it, and some cats too. And a few days ago two men drove up beside it, one with a suit on, the other in jeans. They went over to the dumpster and were pointing at something and then got out a metal detector! It was so weird. And the girls who work in the mornings say that they've seen caskets being delivered! I wonder what he keeps dumping in there though? Body fluid? Old clothes? Body parts?!!?!? I'm so curious I can't take it anymore. One of these nights the girl I work with and I are gonna go over and have a little looksy.
Goodness, why am I always the one to write incredibly long blogs? I've also noticed that I use ellipses very liberally...I'll have to work on that...oops there I go again.
Have a happy weekend guys!
Christina
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.
I'm at school right now and am in the middle of a two hour break. Normally, I only have one hour between my last two classes, but today we're having a "work day" in Marketing Research and didn't have to go to class. So I'm in the computer lab trying to entertain myself. My high score in Bejeweled is now 487,000...not even close to Terra's, but I'm pretty stoked about it. (Stoked???)
Grr...this guy sitting beside me keeps looking at my computer and it's really bugging me. Hey guy, if you can see what I'm typing then please divert your eyes to your own screen. Thank you.
Okay, continuing...work has been very slow all week and I haven't had much homework to do, so when it comes to entertaining myself, I've been left to my own devices. Since I work in a bank drivethru, we're obviously looking out a window all day. And you can see some pretty fascinating things if you look out a window long enough, especially when people don't know they're being watched. Across the street from us we have a perfect view of two different business. One is a CPA firm and the other is a Funeral Home!! Creepy...but I'll get back to that one later. There's a girl who works at the CPA firm who is an obvious chain smoker. I work between three and four hours a day and I bet I see her take a smoke break at least 8 or 9 times throughout that period...I think she saw me watching her the other day too. Whoops! Back to the funeral home, though. There's some really shady stuff going down over there. This man who works there comes out about every twenty or thirty minutes and does the exact same thing each time. He brings a wheel barrel full of stuff, goes over to the dumpster, dumps whatever it is into the dumpster, and goes back inside. He does this like 10 times a day!! There are always stray animals around the dumpster too...there's like two different dogs that hang out over near it, and some cats too. And a few days ago two men drove up beside it, one with a suit on, the other in jeans. They went over to the dumpster and were pointing at something and then got out a metal detector! It was so weird. And the girls who work in the mornings say that they've seen caskets being delivered! I wonder what he keeps dumping in there though? Body fluid? Old clothes? Body parts?!!?!? I'm so curious I can't take it anymore. One of these nights the girl I work with and I are gonna go over and have a little looksy.
Goodness, why am I always the one to write incredibly long blogs? I've also noticed that I use ellipses very liberally...I'll have to work on that...oops there I go again.
Have a happy weekend guys!
Christina
posted by Christina @ 10:05 AM
3 Comments:
At 11:56 AM,
terra.d said…
You do write the most incredibly long posts. I love them though. A funeral home stake out huh? You better watch out. I've been in that place, it sounds to me like maybe the Rogers Mafia is killing people and using that funeral home to dumb and cremate. You don't want to be next. And that is an awesome score you gots there.
At 6:23 PM,
Christina said…
The mafia thing is a really good theory. I never thought of it, but it makes sense. Today he went out there seven times in one hour! After that we got busy and I lost track. But the things he was throwing in there were really heavy and as he threw them, this dust like stuff went everywhere. Ashes maybe?? We were also thinking that maybe he is throwing drugs in there for the garbage collector. Hmm...
At 8:12 PM,
Nicole said…
I am somewhat freaked out about the funeral home thing, but at the same time incrediably curious....sounds like an adventure waiting to happen.
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