Hello friends.
So the weekend has finally decided to make an appearance, which took fucking long enough. It’s been SUPER relaxing so far. I just came home from working 7.5 hrs straight at The Pan-Pan. It was seriously the longest, hardest night of work I have ever experienced. It was like a huge Bitch Convention had just let out, and everyone was starving and everyone decided to come to eat at Panera. That’s what it was like. And my hands are all red and tender right now because I was on dishes tonight, which I have never done before, and I like scalded them multiple times in boiling soapy water until I realized that there are dishwashing gloves that I’m supposed to wear.
…so, tonight was fantastic.
On a positive work note though, I am really becoming buddies with a coworker that I wasn’t expecting to. So that makes things more fun.
In other news, I am experiencing a sort of ongoing crisis, which is this: I took the bus into school yesterday for midterms, and SOMEHOW my makeup bag like, escaped from me and I left it on the bus. So now I don’t have it for the WHOLE WEEKEND.
:sob:
This might not sound like a huge deal to you, but it IS. And if you’ve seen me without makeup, then you KNOW that it is. If you haven’t seen me without makeup, then here is a photo Maria took of me in the wee hours of the morning:
So, yes. You can see why this is a crisis.
Anyway, the musical is a month from Monday or something ridiculous, and I’m having a minor heart attack about it because I feel like that’s way tooooo soon for the amount of stuff we have done, which isn’t much. Also, SPIRIT is starting up soon. Can’t wait for that. Looks like I’ll be skipping school once a week till the musical, because honestly I just can’t DO it. I refuse to come in to school covered in fake blood or wearing a sheet around my neck or dressed up like a pie or whatever else they come up with.
In other news, I’m contemplating getting my nose pierced. Is this a good idea? Discuss. I can’t decide if my nose is right for it. But I have always wanted to. I feel like nose piercings have a pretty great potential to be trashy, but I also feel like the rest of me is un-trashy enough that maybe I could pull it off. I can’t do it till I’m 18 though obviously, because I’m pretty sure my mom would rather cut off one of her limbs than consent to have me do that. So I have like threeish months to decide. I have to do SOMETHING to make turning 18 momentous though, especially since I missed out on the election.
I’m taking this customer survey right now on Bahama Breeze’s website, because I went there last night and our waiter Alba literally BEGGED us to go online and give him a good rating so that he can win the video camera in the employee rating competition. He wants it real bad. There were practically tears in his eyes when he was telling us about it. So I figured I would do my part here to help a brotha out in his quest for a CamCorder.
Any. way. I’m going to go look for some lotion for my poor scalded hands. This entry was chock full of COMPLAINTS, jeez. Looks like we’re on our way back to the normal Jule Writing Groove.
Currently reading: The Chosen by Chaim Potok
I am way toooooooooo tired to write anything much!! So I’m just gonna put up some new photos.
Two days ago we drove up into the mountains to see some sights. It was a long drive, and let me tell you: Ron has MORE than his fair share of DEAD BORING facts and stories.
A dirt road! No pavement! Lots of dust! Where the hell am I?!
oh look guys. more rocks.
We parked the car by this awesome sign and went for a hike.
On the hike we saw these crazy trees.
Check it out, the lady under the umbrella was making money selling ROCKS. What the heck!!! Who does she think she is?! All I need is like a pickaxe and a ziploc bag and I could put her out of business. Jeeze.
This sign was outside of the little park ranger hut thing.
THIS IS THE BLACK BEAR THAT I SIGHTED JUST OFF THE TRAIL IN A CLEARING!!!!!!!!! IT WAS SO TERRIFYING!!!! But it scampered off.
In order to recover from the traumatic bear sighting, we paid a visit to the beautiful and serene Broadmoor Hotel for some afternoon drinks. This is a FIVE START RESORT that like, costs more to spend one night at than like, my whole house cost probably.
When I am devastatingly rich and famous, I will no doubt return to the Broadmoor as an honored guest, rather than the outside riff-raff who come in for lunch.
So, yesterday was totally foggy and disgusting, so we went to the U.S. Air Force Academy. But since it was foggy and disgusting, I have like zero pictures of the planes or cool monuments. We did however pay a visit to the TOTALLY COOL chapel they have there, so I photographed that.
This is the totally neat chapel!! It’s gigantic. It has a Protestant church, a Catholic church, a Synagogue and a Buddhist temple!! So it is quite the multi-tasking structure.
The ceiling of the Protestant church.
The wicked sweet organ in the Protestant church. Clearly Protestants are a favorite at the air force academy.
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The Catholic church.
The Synagogue
The Buddhist temple. Seriously. I guess the Buddhists were like at the bottom of the USAF budget list.
This image will probably only ring a bell for like, Anna, Siena and Anthony. But yes guys: it’s true. I WENT TO WHIT’S END!!! IT WAS EVERYTHING I DREAMED IT WOULD BE AND MORE!!!!!! I WILL SHOW ALL OF YOU THE FULL SET OF PHOTOS WHEN I GET HOME!!!!! <333
TODAY we took the Cog Railway up to PIKE’S PEAK. It was an epic journey.
The cog railway has many unique and wonderful patrons.
This is ROGER and KEITH!!!! Ron’s totally wild high school buddies who accompanied us for our journey! I LOVE THESE GUYS!!!!!!! <33
OMG. We are so lucky to live in such a magnificent world. aweuawijaefdawe LOOK at that!
I have no words
AHHH SNOW!!!!!!
Lookie there! It’s a Yellow-Bellied Marmot sitting on that pipe, but its difficult to see.
Finally, we made it to the peak. 14,110 feet baby!!!!!
If you are ever feeling all self-important and big, go to the top of Pike’s Peak. You will feel like nothing at all.
AWWW YAY ITS ME, RIGHT SIDE-UP!!!! For those of you who are wondering, but who are too polite to ask, the answer is yes: I have gotten uglier in Colorado.
Anyway I took like a BAZILLION! more pictures than that, but whatevz, it takes too long to put them up, and you don’t care anyway!!!
I must get off to bed, because I have an exciting day (for real) planned for tomorrow, which I will tell you about later if it works out!
packed up and ready to go.
we were on the ground for a whiiiiile.
we eventually lifted off thank GOD
My lap.
My new room! huzzah.
Some of my new room accomodations. Nothin like some Sleepy Time in a pluggable teapot!
Billy Collins is everywhere.
My personal patio.
Today we attended the Pike’s Peak arts festival.
The Pike’s Peak arts festival included some LAME music from these guys.
This is a terrific sculpture of a door. I tried walking through, with the expectation that I would be transported to another world. No such luck.
We wandered away from the arts festival (No one said it was because of the music, but we were all thinking it) and I felt obligated to photograph this neat building.
Words of wisdom to the ignoramus pedestrian. Thank you Colorado Springs.
Kathryn Lee Bates! Who wrote “America the Beautiful”. The purple mountains are obviously Colorado’s.
A cool cash register in the Pike’s Peak museum (FREE ADMISSION! in case you’re ever in town). I felt a connection with this piece, since I myself am a cashier. My fingers were just itching to get to work.
An awesome fountain where the young’ns of Colorado Springs cool off. JUST WAIT!!!! It gets awesomer.
Every half hour it suddenly starts playing music!!!! Then it grows into this incredible, tuba-playing, water-squirting wonder!!!!!!!! THIS FOUNTAIN ROCKS!!!!!! (sorry for the sideways. deal with it.)
Another sideways! Whateva dude I have no idea how to rotate it. Anyway this is in the library that my hosts were gracious enough to take me to.
Then we were off to the Garden of the Gods!!!!!
The gods were apparently waay too cool to grow flowers. They grew rocks instead.
There is actually a man climbing in this picture, but you probably can’t see it, it’s like this tiiiiiny little dot above the trees to the right.
BLLLLAAAHHHH!!!! More gorgeous scenery. Are you bored?? I am.
My three awesome tourguides.
AWWWWWW YAY ITS ME!!!!!!! Too bad its freaking sideways again, so you can’t be hit head on by my stunning beauty. Oh well.
UPLOADING PICTURES TAKES SO LONG. I AM DONE.
