50¢ Burgers

Yikes!

Yesterday at work, there was a special deal in which the first 300 people could purchase a burger, small fry, and a drink (12 oz.) for 50¢. Yikes! The line at times just seemed ENDLESS. What was worse was that the little ticket/stubs/etc. that the people had were supposed to be stapled to a copy of the receipt. Well.....the way that the machine works is that it prints the order, then one is supposed to print the receipt. When that is done, I can't just print another, but I have to manually go in and say "Re-print Receipt," then enter the order number, THEN press "clear" which then reprints another copy of the receipt. Ug. So...I had to do that for around 2o0+ orders. - We didn't actually serve the full 300 people, which was kind of nice. - But boy were we busy! The people at the grill were amazing! In fact, they were "faster" than us, i.e. they ended up making several "birthday specials" at once. Oh: sorry. "Birthday specials" was the 50¢ deal. The university center is covering the rest of the normal cost of what it would be; but since this week is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the building, it is a special they are doing. Back in the 1960s that combo of food cost 50¢. I personally don't know this 'cause I wasn't alive back then. How then do I know? Well, I wrote the article in the paper the previous week about the 50th Anniversary/Birthday celebration and all the festivities.

Needless to say, work was crazy busy. This last Saturday was like a full day of work for me as I finished my two articles and then tried to send them in with pictures to my editor. Grrrrr. Internet is STILL not working. : ( My house mum knows, and she keeps encouraging me to keep telling her every once in a while, but the guy/technician KNOWS things are wrong and he is working on it, but I guess as of late, he doesn't know WHAT is wrong, per se. Rather, he just knows something is wrong. For whatever reason, the newer part of the house is having trouble receiving the signal or something. I don't know. But now my computer can't pick up the signal and keep it. It used to not be an issue; I was always able to pick up some network, but now: (just about) nothing! : /

So.....fighting with the sparatic internet was interesting to try and send in my articles that were due Fri. night/Sat. afternoon-ish. Goodness. That took ALL day. Plus, I still had to get one more interview in from one of my girls, since one of the articles was based on the pumpkin patch experience we had last week Wed. But....I got it done.

Sadly, Sat. took up so much time, that I didn't get the chance to really work on my linguistics homework. So, I did most of it Sunday. Sadly, I got stuck, so I asked a roommie who took it last year and she was able to help on one or two pretty easily, but the last "task" was HARD. Anyone who might be reading this good at linguistics? Phones, phonemes, allophones, allomorphs, morphemes, morphs, complimentary distribution, free variation......any of that ring a bell? I knew linguistics would be hard, but I didn't realize how hard. I thought it might be a bit easier since I've already taken a class in linguistics (back when I was taking Spanish and....yeah, had that "interesting" experience) and the first two weeks were good. I felt confident and things felt fine, as if it wasn't so bad. Then it took a turn for the worse and became super challenging. Hmmmm....anywho. Will review more a little later this morning and hopefully something will click; if not, I'm just going to have to give it the "ol' college try." - Quite literally.

This week will prove to be oober busy as it not only is midterms - which I'm scared for my linguistics midterm Thur. morning - but I also have something going on every night. Tonight I work and then might possibly call someone in regards to a possible article topic, Wed. is the "Out of Sight" dinner as part of the Disability Awareness Month activities, Thurs. I have a "party" I'll hang out at for a bit and then go to ASL Club - I missed it last week due to a commitment I had made about two weeks ago, but forgot at the time that I had ASL Club, but what I did - which I can't really say directly [I'm sworn to secrecy...unwritten] - I don't regret and I enjoyed myself. But, it'll be nice to get back into the swing of things and get back to signing again. In any case, then Fri. (I think it is,) there is a Clue party/Halloween celebration at my house, Sat. brings the cider press activity with the youth and college aged groups through my church, and then Sun. night yields the harvest party in which the youth of the church can enjoy games, activities, etc. which includes the cider we press the night before! It'll be a crazy-insane week, but it is filled with so many fun activities and really cool things, I just don't want to miss them all, especially with all of the fellowship and support.....I'm starting to kind of see why I am here in Monmouth. As much as I may not like how I am limited, everyone seems to be behind me 100% and supportive. Everyone listens to me, believes me, sympathize/empathizes with me, and it is a TON more supportive than I think I could find elsewhere right now. Everything seems to be "right" - as much of a struggle life may seem - and I am so much happier here around the people that care most about me, and being around the positive environment that will best help me get where I need to go. Where that is? I dunno. But I'll try my best to enjoy my journey there. In the meantime, I'll do what I can and enjoy what opportunities come my way.

Well, off to another day. Class, break, work, girl's night "Bible study"/girl's night of support/encouragement/break from life/etc. Can't wait for tonight. Hopefully in class today I'll be able to ask questions and get things cleared up to where I feel comfortable enough and ready for the test.