I’ve got orientation at McD’s in half an hour. I’ve always wanted a Lancaster County Food Handler’s Permit, and now I’ll get it. Now I can handle food without supervision. Then again, whenever I say I’ll make some girls dinner, they usually just laugh at me and say “whatever.” I don’t know what the deal is. I need to bust out some of my mom’s recipes and start practicing.

Update: It was a simple enough experience. I did all the paperwork, got my foodhandler’s permit, and my McD’s “outfit.” Next week I’ve got 12 hours over three days of training. (Oh, and of course Wally World called back today — finally, but it would’ve been the overnight maintenance shift and I wasn’t quite sure about doing two jobs at once.)

Categories: Life, Work
Tags: McDonalds

I am one of the world’s newest McD’s employees. I got hired today after a brief and painless interview process consisting essentially of common sense questions regarding customer service and personal experiences. Next Wednesday is orientation, and at that point I’ll fill out all remaining paperwork and buy two nice pairs of McD’s Pants. Hopefully, I’ll start working soon after that and get the money rolling in. I do like buying gas $1.10 at a time, but it would be nice to have a full tank (which I will have as soon as I find somewhere to cash this check my grandfather sent me… [thanks!]).

In the meantime, I suppose I can start working more on my independent study class and doing other tidbits of work around the house this summer. One of my tasks is to create a webpage for Mike & Kim, so I might get started on that.

Request: If anybody knows a good source of up to the second Christian rock news, let me know. I’ve been wondering if there’s anything like that available online and haven’t really found much other then a few more contemporary Christian magazines and webcasters.

Categories: Life, Work
Tags: McDonalds

Matt and I did some housework and yardwork this morning. The lawn is mowed, back yard watered, weeds whacked, bathroom cleaned, floors swept, carpet vacuumed, etc. It’s all dandy now.

We had some barbecue over at Brian and Tom’s apartment (Kevin’s gone now, so it is thus dubbed “Brian and Tom’s”) then went and played frisbee golf with them, Chuck, Travis G., and a few other guys. Oh, and I got tanner without even going tanning.

Tonight we had our meeting for summer bible study leaders. Hatfield gave us some advice on things and some information to consider when leading the study. I’m teamed up with Jaci to lead one of the six studies. It’s every week and topical covering various aspects of living a Christian life.

Afterwards Jenny and Ray stayed and played a fine game of spades, although Jenny and Matt did beat Ray and I. I have no luck at that game, but I do enjoy it.

Tomorrow I’m going to… well, I’m not sure what I’ll do yet. Perhaps I’ll call Wally World back about that job application. Maybe some other places. Maybe I’ll get lucky and hear back from one of the other places. It’s gotta happen soon.

Categories: Friends, Life, Work
Tags: 4L, Jenny, Kevin, Ray

I am in the Havenstein’s house now. I actually got here on Saturday morning and unloaded the few things I’d taken with me for my week at Kevin’s apartment. But now, here I am in the big house. Matt’s gonna stay up and work in Omaha for another week, so I’ve got this place all to myself for a bit. One of my only complaints: Dialup internet! AAaaaaah! Oh well. Good old NetZero is letting me surf for free and all I’ve got to do is stare at their ugly banner ads and commercials when it’s dialing the net.

I’ve had a pretty fun weekend. Yesterday we all headed to the AMC 24 in Omaha to catch Matrix:Reloaded. 10 Second Movie Review: Not as good as the first, the whole orgy/dance party and sex scene sucked, the characters weren’t developed much, and most of the plot (that wasn’t in the commercials) happened in the last 30 minutes of the movie. On the upside, the plot is pretty cool. I mean, Neo isn’t as cool as Jesus (and he’s not real, either), but he’s an interesting character. I wish he just wasn’t so indecisive and would stop asking “why am I here?” You’re here ’cause you need to do your thing, dude! Figured that out already. Thanks. Ok, I’m done ranting.

After the movie, about 15 of us went to the house of Jenny’s family. Barbecue, hanging out, Monopoly (I lost… oh well), hanging out, talking, and hanging out. Tracy and I both crashed there so we didn’t have to make the drive back to Lincoln. I’ve gotten used to sleeping on couches; I’ve done it three nights in the past week.

Went to a Vineyard church in Omaha with Jenny, Tracy, and Travis (a friend of Jenny’s from high school, graduated from Wheaton this year). After that had lunch, stopped by Mead (Tracy had some work to finish up real quick), and then came back to Lincoln. Oh, and also got some food (Thanks, Jenny!).

And now I’m just chillin’. Tomorrow: Job hunt continues. A few retail places, a few online apps. Maybe I’ll hear back from somebody, too. That would be a nice change.

Like that’ll happen.

Categories: Life, Work
Tags: Havenstein, Jenny, omaha, Tracy

I’m sitting in the Union once again, updating this lovely little weblog of mine. This time I’m sitting in a chair in the lab though.

Anyway… I’ve got a few opportunities that could perhaps, possibly, even plausibly work out. I’ve got an interview at Circuit City in an hour and a half. On Monday they didn’t have any open positions. Today they do. (w00t!) I’ve also turned in some applications at a few other places. Office Depot has some open positions, but the manager was at lunch when I dropped them off.

Yesterday I also sat around thinking up what sort of ideas I had for internet/music companies. I’ve got an idea cooked up, but it’s difficult and will take a lot of research and work on my part to see it ever leave the conceptual stage and happen.

I’ve read some pretty amazing things the past few days in some books I’ve been reading. I wish I could just throw them on here for you, but they’re out of my reach at the moment. Basically, John Piper, C.S. Lewis, and Lee Strobel all have some pretty interesting stuff to say. I recommend their works to anyone. (Not flawless, of course, but they base their works on truth as well as any living person can.)

I will depart now with some words of wisdom from my brother, Isaac: “Perfection is my only flaw.” And there you have it. *cough*

A few requests of readers:
• if you’ve alive, leave comments (I love getting them!)
• if you know any good recipes, email them to me or just post them in a comment (see above)
• got any good books to recommend? Contact me.
• have a superpower not listed in the poll? Contact me.

Categories: Life, Work