August 16th, 2025: Asherah’s 21st birthday today, I did not wish her a happy birthday at all because that would cause my social life to plummet further. I woke up at 6:00am and had cereal for breakfast with some milk. I played more modded Plants vs Zombies 2 for quite a while until it came to be 8:30am so I got dressed and finished off my coffee. I walked out to the bus stop and took it at 9:03am. It would take a while for me to get there but I clocked in at 9:22am to see my task list was more of the same with stocking the beverage cooler first, I had to bring up a holder of Diet Coke plastic bottles because so many people just love their Diet Coke. I got on Instagram and was curious to see if any of Asherah’s friends had posted anything to celebrate her birthday, I checked Elinor’s account (She’s also turning 21 later this month) and nothing was there, I checked Khadija’s account and nothing was there, I checked Sita’s account and nothing was there. I thought that she must have instructed all of them to temporarily hide their stories from me, but I remembered last year they never did that, well at least Sita didn’t post anything on her story last year or the year before. I need to get trustworthy friends. Next I started cleaning the windows to the coolers and freezers inside and then the vestibule windows, but not the outside windows. fAsherah wasn’t working today but Sabrina was so I would say hi to her whenever I went near her. At 11:03am I got a text from my mom saying:
<I'm having trouble getting venmo to pay you from my bank. I may need to just put a check in the mail and mail it to you. Can you pay the tuition with your own bank?
Guess who’s gonna get tricked into wiping out my savings again? Me! Just before I was about to go on my 1st break, I saw the old guy who samples cheese from his Wisconsin company set up his table. On my first break at 11:30am, I bought a bag of faccine cookies and gave some to Sabrina for free. I munched on them during break and continued doing it throughout the day. I went downstairs to clock out of my break near the entrance, I walked over to the sampling table and saw Lebanon talking to the cheese sampling guy, I saw him cut up Butterkäse to put on toothpicks for customers to sample, Lebanon held up a wrapped wedge of Gouda asking:
“You started selling a new product right?”
The cheese sampler replied:
“We just got some new packaging for the Gouda, but it’s the same product.”
I continued with cleaning some more and stocked the beverage aisle. I didn’t have to make a list to use for a pull upstairs because it was so easy that I could remember all the stuff I needed to grab and make it in 2 trips or so. In world news, Vladimir Putin is back in the country he rules, Russia, after meeting with Donald Trump to discuss ending the Russo-Ukrainian war unsuccessfully, obviously that wasn’t going to work but there was a video of Putin online making the Sign of the Cross at a grave and some pro-Russia shills were saying that he’s the only head of state to make the Sign of the Cross, some people brought up Pope Leo XIV being one or even the former head of state Joe Biden. Nothing about lesser known leaders doing the Sign of the Cross. I saw the original owner’s son around the store a few times. I went on lunch break and had a small thing of tomato salad with ginger ale. I ate it in the break room and wrote in my blog until it was time to get back to work. One of my tasks was to sweep all the stairways in the building so I did that, starting with the back stairs near the door, moving my way over to this other set of stairs nearby, I swept near Anne’s replacement’s chair, I had to sweep the attic stairs off and while I was doing that, I heard a verbal dispute between Tony and the Black supremacist guy, I heard him say more clearly:
“I’m fucking tired of you constantly micromanaging me and shit.”
And also:
“Im bouta quit this job and find me another place to work at.”
I then walked past him and saw him wearing a Malcolm X t-shirt, so I’m gonna be calling him Malcolm. A bit later while I was in the bathroom, I heard a call over the intercom:
“Jesse to the front.”
I ignored it because it wasn’t my thing. I eventually washed my hands and then I heard:
“Gemerson to the front.”
I panicked and got out of there as soon as possible and went downstairs, Sabrina told me:
“I’m having complaints from customers that there needs to be an out of order sign on the women's bathroom.”
Jesse and I went over to see what the issue was, we opened the door and the smell of a dummyed subhuman bitch who shit their underwear and threw it on top of the garbage can, not in it, hit us, we had to hold the door open to air the bathroom out, Jesse had me grab cleaning supplies and he got it into the bag with his gloves, I had to take the garbage directly to the dumpster and wash myself thoroughly. I nearly got caught doing nothing while not on break because I had no more tasks assigned by Jesse. I went on my second 15 minute break at 4:00pm and then proceeded to do all the closing tasks by myself. I clocked out at 5:54pm and hopped on this bus, I had to take it all the way to Barnes and Nobles to buy a journal. I had my drawstring bag so I was concerned I would be warned or kicked out for potentially stealing. I got in and nothing. I walked around trying to find a good journal or even a Sharpe book to buy but I found none that were worth the listed price, except for this green Celtic style journal that I loved. I checked the Bible section and it was all filled with non-denominational slop that cut out books of the Bible. I checked out for $13.25 and ran to the bus to take it home, when I got home I had the last of the rachette and sauce while watching television. I published my diary entry and then gamed for a while. I added a girl on Bumble who I realized was a single mom too late, I saw her profile on Snapchat and she said she was a single mom of 4 at 24 years old, they were all White so that's impressive. I took a shower and went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Promenade I - Modest Mussorgsky (1874)