pain is only a pulse if you just stop feeling it

So I thought I should do an update about what I am actually up to these days. Most of my posts tend to be sort of stream of consciousness bits without much cohesion or information. This one will hopefully be a bit different. I delayed a long time in writing about work partly out of fear that someone from work would read it (and yes I know how improbable that is) and partly because I had hoped to use a literary excerpt as means of explanation about my relation to my job. I should be able to post that tomorrow but in the meantime I will put up something.
I am working at Petco, getting about 20 – 35 hours a week now. And though the people at work are generally cool I must admit that I don’t like my job that much. Granted its good in a way that I can learn more about the pet industry and I hope to use the experience to learn more about aquarium management and maintenance but it’s hard to get excited about it. The other portion of it is I have a bunch of take home books to work through and tests to take so it almost feels like college again, minus the motivation. Tonight I worked a bit in a nice little 200 page manual - one of 16ish total books I need to go through. I don’t even know which ones I have to hand in or what is involved with the requirements and tests. They want to promote me as fast as they can, and that’s good, but what that requires me to do has been less clear. It is also kind of weird for me because I am hoping desperately that I get hired on as a biology technician by the city of Portland. So the whole time I am at Petco I am hoping to go somewhere else.
To make up for the fact that I don’t have many hours a week yet and that my pay is still somewhat limited I have continued on battling the onset of winter in my parents yard. (Yeah I know I work at my parents…sounds rather damning I know, but you have to do what you need to pay the rent.) My most recent victory has come in the form of an encounter with a blackberry bush of enormous proportions that had used a pine tree as cover. I wrestled the giant out of the earth using my bare hands and a trowel. It was epic…there will be songs and tales. Ok maybe just an exaggerated mention in an obscure blog.
That’s pretty much it. I have to take a test tomorrow at work so hopefully I’ll pass.

Euphemistically yours,
Blanket Jones



Coming soon to this blog!!
Monster Cards
Santa Clause I & II, holiday movies for the family (or a murder mystery)… all will be revealed.