Friday, December 30, 2005
The Lunch Crunch
Today was my last day of work for this 2005 year! My coworkers, along with my sister and surprisingly my boss took me to lunch. It was a swell time. My co-workers and I were hoping to beat the Bennigan’s waiters at their crunch game. During the lunch time Bennigans does this crunch thing were if the food takes longer than 15 minutes we get the meal free. One of the first things I said to the waitress when I sat down was…”Today’s my birthday so you better come out and embarrass everyone here” (as I pointed to my surrounding co-workers.) The waitress said, “We will be embarrassing you.” After our delightful meal full of gossip about other’s drinking habits, who’s on the bitchy list, and associates that decide to walk out during their shift we managed to finish our meals. I splurged on a gout infested tasty b-day treat (my b-day is really Jan. 1)…ah oriental chicken salad…yummy!!! I think I managed to offend one of my co-workers. I can’t go a day without at least one awkward moment. Sophia was getting all starry eyed talking about her husband and her two sons which of whom she loves beyond comprehension. Her sons are these two math whizzes. One is just entering college and the other is getting his doctorate. We were talking about how smart they were but she injected the comment about how they lack common sense. I swore right after she said the common sense part she said, “And motivation.” I thought that was funny because in psychology my teacher seemed really interested in the genius topic. She made hints that she was a genius because she was in this club called MENSMA??? Anyway she really drilled us on this concept that in order for a person to be successful they can’t just be smart (or genius) alone, they must be motivated as well. My teacher repeatedly commented on how most geniuses lack motivation because things come easily to them. I told that to Sophia and damn if I don’t think she took it the wrong way. She said, “NO! MY sons are motivated!” I just meant to say that I think it’s amazing her sons are geniuses…that’s all. So it’s cyberspace apology time….Sorry Sophia Sorry. So after the embarrassment I felt during the meal conversation a stream of waitresses came out clapping and they told me I needed to stand up for my birthday song. I did better than that as I catapulted to my chair and reached new heights. My co-workers were laughing along with the wait staff. I hope I embarrassed them. Then the in the song the waitresses came to this syncopated beat part where I jumped from the chair to the floor and raised my knees and stomped my feet in a jerky motion in sync with the beat…a roll of laughter came form everyone once I did that…..like I said…it was a swell time, and now for more news. I’ve been on conquistador of chaos mode for the last two weeks since schools been out. I haven’t been following my laid out schedule. I’ve been side tracked with this compulsive behavior thing called called doing nothing. I find myself taking naps. I find myself playing on the internet. I find myself goggling over the I-Tunes store. I find myself just sitting looking into space. I find myself relaxing and reading just for fun. All of this two week vacation is making me feel like a worthless slacker. I really need to clean my damn house and get organized for my birthday party. I’m having a bash…one in the likes I haven’t had sense I was 21. My girlfriend sent out all these invitations and now the walls should fall down in this duplex located in the Platte Park Community. Tonight I have once again avoided the much needed cleaning and organization for my party to read some of the Elliot Smith book, play on the internet, listen to music, write two songs, blog etc. etc. and now I’m here tired and worthless and still not wanting to study my Spanish and clean the house like I know I should. I’ve got to get my ass in gear…I’ve got to. My dad’s having a party tonight…I think I’ll stop by.
Today was my last day of work for this 2005 year! My coworkers, along with my sister and surprisingly my boss took me to lunch. It was a swell time. My co-workers and I were hoping to beat the Bennigan’s waiters at their crunch game. During the lunch time Bennigans does this crunch thing were if the food takes longer than 15 minutes we get the meal free. One of the first things I said to the waitress when I sat down was…”Today’s my birthday so you better come out and embarrass everyone here” (as I pointed to my surrounding co-workers.) The waitress said, “We will be embarrassing you.” After our delightful meal full of gossip about other’s drinking habits, who’s on the bitchy list, and associates that decide to walk out during their shift we managed to finish our meals. I splurged on a gout infested tasty b-day treat (my b-day is really Jan. 1)…ah oriental chicken salad…yummy!!! I think I managed to offend one of my co-workers. I can’t go a day without at least one awkward moment. Sophia was getting all starry eyed talking about her husband and her two sons which of whom she loves beyond comprehension. Her sons are these two math whizzes. One is just entering college and the other is getting his doctorate. We were talking about how smart they were but she injected the comment about how they lack common sense. I swore right after she said the common sense part she said, “And motivation.” I thought that was funny because in psychology my teacher seemed really interested in the genius topic. She made hints that she was a genius because she was in this club called MENSMA??? Anyway she really drilled us on this concept that in order for a person to be successful they can’t just be smart (or genius) alone, they must be motivated as well. My teacher repeatedly commented on how most geniuses lack motivation because things come easily to them. I told that to Sophia and damn if I don’t think she took it the wrong way. She said, “NO! MY sons are motivated!” I just meant to say that I think it’s amazing her sons are geniuses…that’s all. So it’s cyberspace apology time….Sorry Sophia Sorry. So after the embarrassment I felt during the meal conversation a stream of waitresses came out clapping and they told me I needed to stand up for my birthday song. I did better than that as I catapulted to my chair and reached new heights. My co-workers were laughing along with the wait staff. I hope I embarrassed them. Then the in the song the waitresses came to this syncopated beat part where I jumped from the chair to the floor and raised my knees and stomped my feet in a jerky motion in sync with the beat…a roll of laughter came form everyone once I did that…..like I said…it was a swell time, and now for more news. I’ve been on conquistador of chaos mode for the last two weeks since schools been out. I haven’t been following my laid out schedule. I’ve been side tracked with this compulsive behavior thing called called doing nothing. I find myself taking naps. I find myself playing on the internet. I find myself goggling over the I-Tunes store. I find myself just sitting looking into space. I find myself relaxing and reading just for fun. All of this two week vacation is making me feel like a worthless slacker. I really need to clean my damn house and get organized for my birthday party. I’m having a bash…one in the likes I haven’t had sense I was 21. My girlfriend sent out all these invitations and now the walls should fall down in this duplex located in the Platte Park Community. Tonight I have once again avoided the much needed cleaning and organization for my party to read some of the Elliot Smith book, play on the internet, listen to music, write two songs, blog etc. etc. and now I’m here tired and worthless and still not wanting to study my Spanish and clean the house like I know I should. I’ve got to get my ass in gear…I’ve got to. My dad’s having a party tonight…I think I’ll stop by.
# posted by Nick D @ 10:22 PM 
