Beware of the Scare of the Ricki-Ticki Bear

[Insert obligatory apology about not posting lately here]

The apartment has been a bit lonely since Gavagirl left, but fortunately I'm only here about 1% of the time. The rest of the time I'm at the Flea Motel (Lorne and Judith's), or out until all hours of the night at various bars, coffee shops, and friends' houses. My life is both incredibly active and uninteresting at the same time.

For the entire summer at work, we have eight of our students who just graduated working for us down at the high school. Every day, one of us has to go down there and baby-sit them while they do their jobs. This sounds fairly easy, I know, but I'm just not one of those people who can surf the internet for ten hours a day. I don't have any work that I can take there to do, because all of my work requires many important files on my computer at the office. It's mind-numbingly boring and an enormous waste of my time to sit at the school all day. My other co-workers have apparently been taking it seriously, because when I'm there the kids ask me questions all the time and expect me to be an authority figure. I finally made it clear to them that I had no idea what they did there and that I tried very hard to keep from knowing. "I don't care what you do," I told one kid, "As long as it doesn't annoy me." They finally figured out I didn't give a shit and spent most of the day screwing around instead of working. I could not have cared less.

I am a very harworking person, believe it or not. Those of you who know me well know why I've turned into the supervisory equivalent of a deadbeat parent. As a VISTA, I am NOT supposed to be working with the students--that's not what we do in this program. I'm supposed to be doing my job while volunteers and/or paid coaches deal with the students. But all year, all of my time has been sucked away driving 25 miles down to the school several times a week to teach class or help the little brats with their applications. This summer employment thing has just been the last straw, and so I've decided to just let them run wild. I hope they set the building on fire.

In other news, it's been a while since I've showered. I'd better go do that before my "date" tonight. I'll try to post more in the next few days, I promise.