I've been in New York for five days and I am exhausted. I had a nice two day break where all I did was catch up on sleep and read. But those days flew by very quickly and before I knew it I was at work again, answering the phone, helping customers, and wishing the night to be over.
There have been many changes at the bookstore. My favorite manager of course is moving back to California. Her husbands company closed down and they have no choice but to move. There was an issue between two employees (and former friends) which resulted in one of them getting fired. Surprisingly I am work friends with both of them and I am pissed about the whole incident.
Guy #1 (who was friends with Guy #2 ) is dating the girl who works in the cafe. No one thinks this is a real relationship. She frowns a lot and has a dry sense of humor, he for the most part is a huge ham and talks nonstop. Guy #2 is...how do i put this...is pretty much a man whore. He has tried to sleep with almost every girl employee and talks nonstop about his sexual escapes. When he isn't talking about his latest conquest he is fun to be around. Before Guy #1 began dating Girl in Cafe he knew that Guy #2 had had sex with her. When she wasn't his girlfriend, it was okay, but as soon as she became his girlfriend he felt threatened or something. Long story short because Guy #1 is a sort of manager he got Guy# 2 fired.
It happened a couple of weeks after I left but of course it was the first thing everyone wanted to talk about. I have had some problems with Guy#2 in the past, but it seems unfair that he got canned because of something very stupid. Guy#1 basically told the other managers that Guy#2 was making personal threats against him and customers. This is hogwash and I have yet to hear his side of the story.
But these are not the only changes. A lot of people are going back to school, the crew of employees is getting smaller and smaller, and suddenly I am feeling that it also my time to go. The bookstore has been good to me, I know this, but I have always hated the feeling of being left behind. I detest feeling like everyone is moving forward, only for me to be stuck in the same place. I have a couple of months of this internship, and I definitely have a couple of months of saving money and job searching but I know my time there is coming to close, not because I hate it there just because I have other things to do.
So far my life schedule will be a little jacked up for a while. I think that I will have at least one day off a week. At the bookstore I will most likely be on the closing shift, and I will be in Ct for two days a week from 9:30 to 5:30 (excluding travel time which makes it more like 7am-7pm). I'm young I don't need sleep, I know this, but I will seriously have to increase my naps if I am going to make it through the day.
The lack of sleep is messing with my dreams. I still have them(thank god) but they are more vivid and a little weird. Yesterday I had a dream about a shape shifting werewolf who was also a time traveler. This may have had something to do with being around books all day yesterday, but still it was a pretty weird dream. I woke up around 6:30 cursing Stephenie Meyers and The Time Travelers Wife for screwing with me.
I have to work today until midnight. How fun. My body is not use to this schedule and I am aching all over the place. I hope all of this struggle, time, and soreness pays off in the end. I need it to. It has to.
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