The past couple of weeks have been full of change in my life. I started a new job, I'm a prep cook at Cracker Barrel. It's a good company, I have good bosses, the hours are fine, and I hate it. I can't decide if i need to do an attitude check and get over it, or if I am just really, really burned-out when it comes to working in restaurants. Either way, jobs are hard to find here right now so I'm hanging on to this one while I look for a second, part-time job a few nights a week. Mature, right. :P I'm trying to learn to not burn bridges. But even temporary, seasonal work is hard to find. The bad economy has definitely trickled down here, I have co-workers driving insane distances to work because they can't find anything closer.
I signed-up for NaNoWriMo this year, my very first time. (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/417259) I am very far behind at this point, things went great for about 4 days and then I lost it. But i determined to finish this thing and so I have started, as of today, making myself write twice as much as the guidelines suggest until I catch up to where I should be. Like when I used to get so behind on my daily Bible reading at BCOM. There's nothing quite like realizing that your sheet is due the next day and you have to read 90-150 chapters (3-5 per day) of the Bible before then. Talk about pushing through something.... When I finally finished that night I was completely brain dead. Anyway, I do not want to get to November 29th and realize I have to write 15,000 words before I can go to bed!
I went and voted last week, it only took 45 minutes. I was scared when I first pulled up because the line went around the building and all the way into the back parking lot, and I had to park across the road at the National Guard Armory, but they were efficient and kept the line moving pretty quickly. The funny part is that though I had to stand in line for 45 minutes to get my ballet, I was done and out the door less than 2 minutes after that. I really like Alabama's new voting machines. No chance of a hanging chad, no touchscreens to be hacked, no chance to "not understand what the voter intended" because if you mess up your ballot the electronic reader spits it back out at you and you have to fix it right then. The simplicity and ease of using electronic voting, yet there is still a paper trail to be followed if it is needed. Alabama finally got there act together before a lot of other states. And we have voter id now, which is cutting down on the number of dead people voting.
I still don't have a church. I really miss going regularly but to start with I wasn't visiting around because I missed Bethany and didn't want to go anywhere else. Then, I did go to a few but really disliked them. Again, I'm not sure if it was the churchs themselves or if it was just the fact that I was missing my old church. Now, I have to work on Sunday mornings so I've got to look for a church that has a night service, and that is harder than it sounds. It seems that more and more churches are switching to Sunday morning only. Weird.
Aside from that there's not a lot going on. Foley just held their annual Heritage Days Festival so I had my requisite corndog and cotton candy while I watched traditional Mexican courtship dancing and listened to off-key wanna-be country singers. There was even a section of the park filled with old tractors to be viewed, and another with wooden boats. But I think the highlights was the table covered with mason jars, each one containing some dead sea animal, fish, or other little slimy thing. There was even a dead shark, about 2 feet long, that you could hold and have your picture made with. I'm telling you, this was the cultural event of a lifetime, yes sir'ee bob. I have pictures on my phone, but my laptop is on the fritz and so I can't download them. But keep an eye on my Facebook and they will show up eventually.
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How about going back to Korea to work? Didn't you like it there?