August 30th, 2025: fAsherah’s last day at work. I woke up at 7:00am and got out of bed at 7:30am. At this point, I didn’t see James so he must have left to go home. I got some cereal for breakfast and had coffee before I got dressed for work. I took the bus again to get there and got in to see my task list. It was pretty ok, checking the bathrooms, beverage cooler, beverage aisle, sweeping the dumpsters outside, sweeping the stairs, checking the cheeses for expired products, and stocking the shitoko aisle. I got to work alongside Hill. My first task with the beverage cooler was pretty easy and when I went outside, I started pointing at fAsherah for one last day. She was just working. I went back upstairs after completing the first bathroom check to go on my break at 11:30am. I wrote in my blog more until I got back off break and started sweeping up outside, l had to get in the fenced area. I saw the original owner’s son a few times today. Eventually I took my lunch break at 1:30pm and ordered a prosciutto sandwich, the employee there asked me:
“Do you want a prosciutto end in your prosciutto sandwich?”
I said enthusiastically:
“Why not!”
He then told me:
“Oh I’m just joking!”
I was absolutely disappointed. I got some sea salt and vinegar chips and a green tea Arizona to wash it all down, I continued with my work when I saw Safiyya up front. While I was sweeping the stairs, I passed by Sabrina and she ended up making a fake bite in my direction because I gave her the death stare. A bit later fAsherah came up with something which looked like a milkshake with whipped cream, I asked what it was and she told me it’s a gelato shake. I ended up going through the cheese a few times and just got the obviously gonna be expired cheeses first and then some that I spotted as moldy or were expired but not moldy. I then went back and tried to make a list for shitoko with the handheld but it kept frustrating me, refusing to scan so I went to make a list on paper. I took the paper and then went on my final break and fAsherah was kind enough to let me drink the rest of her Gelato shake. I went downstairs to stock the shitoko and it took a while until I went over to start on my closings. I talked to fAsherah one last time around 5:00pm and she had some final tea: she was talking to a member of the original owner’s family and her husband and then at the end of the conversation, she said:
“By the way, the original owner’s son was my first kiss.”
She never specified what their exact biological relationship was. I finished up with my task list a bit early and then told fAsherah to follow me to the back. I showed her the collection of expired cheese in the dairy cooler and she took some that she wanted before leaving. I went home on the bus. I got my phone charged for a bit and played a round of Holdfast. There was an event happening at the college which was a party at 8:00pm. I ended up changing into dress pants with a belt and walked over at 7:50pm to get there at 8:05pm. The party was hardly on so I ended up wandering around a bit while drinking from my cherry Pepsi can. I ended up encountering Angela’s roommate but didn’t talk to her and a bit later I encountered Talia. She and I talked a bit until I went back to the soda place and she followed me there. I went back over to the tables, I saw Enosh’s old roommate during my sophomore year of college and we said hi. I went back to Talia and she was talking with this super short guy. I found out his name is RJ and he was like 5’2” and I jokingly said he was a freshman because of his height. He's a senior and is 21 years old. Talia is 20 and is a junior who lives on campus. They were suitemates and seemed to get along. Talia and RJ went to play the jumbo connect 4 setup and I walked around until I ended up seeing them back. I talked with Talia a bit more and she told me she’s Reformed Jewish with an 18 year old sister studying to be a Rabbi and already spent a year in Israel, her dad was Jewish but her mom was originally Catholic until she converted for him, reminds me of the father being the spiritual head of the household. I just couldn’t stop laughing internally about Judaism being super liberal. I went back and got another soda before finding Talia and RJ dancing nearer to the crowd and the music. It ended up being just Talia and I dancing with RJ a bit distant. I felt guilty about RJ being distant because I was just being his Logan, but then again don’t date roommates. The water bottles were in those connected plastic rings so I would grab some and tear them apart before throwing them into the trash can. A very large mixed-race woman noticed me and started tearing them apart with me, I asked her her name and it was Day. Day told me she was a sophomore. I went out and back to Talia when there was an issue with the mic that accidentally made a super loud sound, making Talia say to me:
“I need to get out for a minute!”
And she left, I speculated this was code for:
“Leave me alone creep.”
And just stayed inside, but after a while she came back, saying she felt super unbalanced and needed to catch her breath. We danced some more, not as those partner dances, but like near each other. We went over to this hand casting thing and waited in line when these two South Korean woman stood behind us and the tall one said hi to me. We introduced ourselves and the were both from the city of Suwon. I got their instagrams and noticed they went on a lot of trips, the tall one went to Tokyo, Nha Trang, Macau, Hong Kong, Osaka, and London while the short one who had a boyfriend went to slightly less. Soon Talia left to look for RJ and then head home. So I left at 10:10pm to walk home. I got back and took a shower, wrote in my blog, and went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Only Girl (In the World) - Rihanna (2010)
