good jorbe!

so for those of you who don't get the title you will have to go to homestarrunner.com and read a sbEmail.

anywho, my job. well i would have written on tuesday when i got done but i had laundry and a shower to do so the whole hygine thing occupied most of my evening. so my job consists of basically doing everyjob in the coop. i am in: store opps., bulk, health and body care, and dairy. no cash register training yet. i don't think they trust me with the money. so i start tuesday through saturday @ 9:30 am. so not too early, it's not like i have other plans. i figure i will work this job for a while and then quit early to travel. there are also possibilities of going home early:) so the place i work is called down to earth. (and are you people serious that no one cares that i saw bob dylan at a pub, and i smiled at him and i got a smile back? what's wrong with you minnesotans). so the morning consisted of restocking the granola and candy bars, followed by removing bulk items from the shelf and dusting the shelf, as well as getting rid of the expired merchendise. wow, but there was some excitment during the lulls, for instance i get an hour long lunch break, so i walk home, it takes about 10 minutes. so this is a nice benefit.

when i left for lunch there was a strange older gentleman in a suit reading the newspaper just sitting in the breakroom. okay...so when i returned Ruth, one of the people i work with told me there was an allergy consultation going on, the strange man in the suit tests people for allergies. now, for some reason this form of un-licsenced kind of doctor is really prevalent in Ireland, in fact my flatmate Paul had this kind of allergy test done at a different health food store. i dunno.

so during the allergy doctor's lunch he was out by the cash register area with a screwdriver and a toaster...yeah i just walked away because i didn't want to know what kind of electrical disaster was going to take place. so whatever he was doing to the toaster, he finished to toast his bread for his...only be described as mystery meat/meatloaf...i started to smell burning plastic and when i looked over low and behold he had set the toaster down on a bunch of paper bags wrapped in plastic. i told him to shut the toaster off because something was burning. the owner of the shop and the allergy doctor both looked at me and said huh? then a customer realized it as well and said the same thing to them. so they finally understood and moved the toaster. i thought to myself, oh great my first day and the allergy doctor is going to burn the place down. so i'm sure there will be other fun antics like this.

wed. was far less eventful just kind of stressful the last half of the shift because we had gotten our shipment late...and they check in everything by hand so it was a lot of old man owner sitting at a folding table saying to christie "what's that by your left foot?" or "do you see sanji miso soup gluten free mix?" sorry go fish. so that's was interesting. then i found out we get tofu from a local asian grocery store that makes it on site so it is really fresh. just what you want fresh tofu.

i forgot to tell you all that i had a piece of tiramosu from the wine bar my roommate fransesca works at. on my first day of work she was starting waitressing for the first time at this job. she started as a porter (bus boy) and then was a bartender and is now a server. it was pretty delicious, it is made on sight by a spanish woman and an italian woman.

so like that, when i got home from work my flatmate paul had just started working at the fransiscan monk homeless shelter. so i asked him if he dealt with any addicts today and he said "only the usual ones on the street." now this is a joke but it is kind of the truth because that's just kind of a big city thing. paul also knowledged me about the TV tax in ireland. apparently the country of ireland has the stupidest tax in the world, for every television you own you are supposed to pay a 154 euro a year tax on every television you own, but the tax for a black and white television is cheaper. now the only reason this came up was because there was a commercial with puppets on that had one of the puppets saying "oh it's just a fishtank." yeah not so sure about that, but i was pretty much dumb founded when i found that out.

so those are todays topstories. i am going to walk home from the internet cafe and finish knitting my scarf. 50 degrees is not exactly warm. and that is the average temperature these last few days, and is the normal high for this area. we got sun today though, so i'm not complaining.

the emails will probably not be very exciting for the next couple days seeing as i work, but you never know i might have a half day now and again.

xoxo,
christie