Late Night Blog

Ah! I just finished writing my essay for philosophy. YAY!!! And what's even better? My two days off are back again! How'd my last week go? Pretty well. Friday I voluntered to stay late to work during a convention (Why, i don't know), but it worked out in the end because around 8:30 the convention was last-minute canceled and we were turned loose early!! But the best part was that we still got paid for the whole convention time we would have been there (till 11:30). It was awsome to get back home and randomly look at my watch and think "Hey, I'm not at work, but I'm still getting paid!" (The moral of this story kids: It pays to volunteer)

I have made friends with a squirrel. He lives on Commisary Lane at MGM and frequents the tables outside ABC to cleanup crumbs after people leave. We are such a good team. I sweep, he picks up what I miss. We had a rocky start to our relationship though. I think I accidentally cleaned up his supper one day and he threw a peanut shell out of a tree at me. (He missed, heehee) Today I saw him playing chicken with a stroller, but when he saw me he hopped over to a tree to watch what I was going to do with my dustpan half full of popcorn. I was curious as to how brave this little fella was so I kneeled down, put my hand out, and clicked my tongue at him. He came up slowly, until he was a few inches from my hand! I heard a dad tell his kids, "They must be friends." It was then that I realized we were being watched by the random people who were going down the lane too. I didn't want any of the kids to think I was trying to feed him so I stood back up and continued my walk as he went back to his tree hopping. It was then that I also saw one of the manager peoples walking down the lane who had seen the whole thing. He smiled, laughed and said something I didn't quite catch, so I guess he thought it was funny. *whew!*


Last night I worked another convention (this one was NOT canceled). Basically a group of 3000 cheerleaders/dancers and their chaperones rented out part of MGM from 8pm till 1am (yes that's not a typo, we had to deal with them for 5 solid hours) They mainly stayed at Sunset and rode "Tower of Terror" and "Aerosmith's Rockin' Roller Coaster" for a while and THEN they discovered us...A DJ was set up at the "Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Show" with lotsa "hip" dance music (Brought flashbacks of some of the dances at HCC). Me and another guy were in charge of keeping the nearby restroom clean as well as cleanin out cans and any other random trash that might collect up in there. It was kinda fun watchin' the "dancers" try to dance. (Sometimes even scary...scratch that, MOST times even scary) Some of our icon showkeeper peeps had been sent over to sunset to help while the crowds where over there, but they eventually migrated with them back over to epic as the night wore on. I think the late hours was beginning to tell on us too. It started with the manager jokingly telling a couple of us that we could go down and try to "busta-move" if we wanted. I'm pretty sure he was kidding but...all of us that were working were under thirty and...like I said, the late hours were telling on us. I go on my break with a friend and when we get back, here comes two of my cohorts laughing out of epic. They busted somethin' but I doubt it was a move. Yep, they had been on the edge of the dance floor and had created a new dance move that they called the "custodial sweep". I wish we'd been allowed to bring cameras to work cause this would have been the no.1 reason why. lol! The night ended peaceful enough. I got back to the apartment by 2 and had to wake up at 8 to go back to work today. But, like I said, I have two days off!

Well, it's almost 2:30 now so I should probably go on to bed. Shalom to y'all in MS! Love you, and I'll talk to some of you on the phone soon.
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--To Justin: take it slow!! don't make me have to come back early.
--To Jed: I'm still going to read your book. I promise!
--Jeremy and Rebekah: put a brick on that boys head! He's not allowed to get bigger until i get back!
--Ethan: Obey your mom. (but give your daddy heck!)

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--EDIT--
Here's my costume. Don't I look adorable!

I forgot to mention in my earlier ramblings... One of our custodial things to do is to offer to take pictures of families/groups if they want us to. I had a little dude come up to me a couple of days ago, and I thought he wanted me to take a picture of him and his friends. When I reached for the camera though he said "No! You take a picture with me!" and he handed his camera to his friend. So, yep, somewhere out there, there is a picture of me and some random guy in front of "Star Tours". I felt like such a celebrity.

---Jenn