June 8th, 2025: Pentecost today, I woke up at 6:02am and made myself a bowl of cereal and coffee with hazelnut creamer and got dressed for work. I checked the live bus map for my route to work only to find that it said no buses were currently running, what! It was 8:39am so I decided to walk all the way to work while drinking the last thing of Muscle Milk that James had left (I'll just buy more in August when he comes back. I walked onto the trail and I encountered this White woman in her late 30s jogging along the trail behind me, she said:
"Good morning!"
To me and then went past me. I ended up encountering this stretch of the trail where to the east there were these old birdhouses in the distance that were pretty far apart. I ran past all of those because I was kind of concerned that I would not make it in time. I also encountered this Millennial guy walking his dog that also greeted me, I returned the greetings like a civilized person and then walked a bit more until I crossed the bridge and finally got to my workplace with time to spare. I clocked in at exactly 8:20am exactly and then went to view my worklist, I had a typical task list for the day which included doing the beverage cooler and when I got to it, I couldn't find the list anywhere. I asked the new employee where he had left it and he said he had no idea, but helped me look for it. The cooler itself was checked along with the upstairs and downstairs but we couldn't find it anywhere. I just had a paper one printed out, put it on a clipboard, and then used it with this blue pen that I had gotten the front side of the paper written down when the new employee had came over to the beverage cooler and told me:
"Hey, just to let you know, I found this upstairs next to the conveyor belt!"
I took it and then filled it out for the other half of the thing and then went to stock that part of the store. My first break was pretty ok and I talked to Mercurius a bit more:
>Thank you, wait are you planning on becoming a Byzantine Catholic priest?
<Possibly, that would be dope
>What’s your current plan?
<Finish university and then either get a masters in counseling psychology or go to seminary
I kind of felt sad for his girlfriend if that happened to decide on becoming a Roman Catholic priest compared to a Byzantine Catholic priest. But I talked with fAsherah a bit more. I got back to work, brewed myself some coffee in the Keurig machine, and cleaned upstairs and Sabrina looked at me weirdly at one point, I never understood why. For my lunch, I heated up some of the cooled stuff that I noticed had gotten more expensive recently, but fAsherah told me that Sabrina told her how to implement the employee discount in a different way that her manager had told her about. I got that and ate it. I continued with my tasks until I got them all done even before my second break, so I decided to go on my second break, but not before buying an entire bag of faccine cookies. While on it, I heard Tony and Folsade discussing this one guy that kept applying for a job here 8 times. I got a bunch of drama from fAsherah and here were some of the things I found out: This one guy in my department who is constantly absent yet never gets fired was jealous of fAsherah getting to work at the place that he wanted to work, another one was about the coworker with Sickle Cell Anemia, it turns out that she had two kids who are now in elementary school with her abusive ex-boyfriend back in her home city of Orlando, Florida, one night he tried to strangle her in the kitchen and she grabbed a knife and stabbed him and called the cops, the kids lived with her grandparents for the time being before she moved up north to live here, while her kids were living with her grandparents, her younger brother who she practically raised, gave her ex her phone number all for a new pair of shoes (they’re Black.) Now I heard that her two kids live with her and she works at a Pick N Save and has her kids now. Another joke was about how all the people in a certain department were obviously Tumblr users. A different thing was also the fact that the Original Owner flirted with her whenever she was cleaning on Sundays. She also talked about this one lady who worked up front getting fired for making fun of the guy who looks like Noahmusic2009, we said that while he was walking by and he smiled. I got to my closing tasks and then I clocked out almost at the time when the bus was going to come, I waited at the bus until it stopped at my stop but it did not open up the door. Someone went out but the bus driver said to me:
“Just wait until the next bus!”
I told her it was fine and I got on the absolutely crowded bus because of Pride Fest ending today. There was hardly any room to stand anymore but I saw Ginger girl sitting down wearing an unironed bisexual pride flag around and had purple and blue sparkly eyeshadow applied. I said hi to her and she seemed happy to see me, she told her 4 friends that I was in art class with her, I had some faccine cookies left that I decided to take home so I asked Ginger girl if she wanted any, she replied:
“Thank you so much Gemerson!”
There was this older lady that said her friend used to work at this place called Bunzel’s Meat Market and Catering. Ginger girl told me that she was from the south side of the city. I then got off and then walked to my place, I got changed into some dress pants and a red button-up shirt. Checking my emails made me realize that I was substituted in to be an usher by Lucas so I rushed to church, I got to church and realized there were already two ushers there. I sat near the front and I found out I was one of the few people there to be wearing red. Holly was there and she brought up the water and wine along with this guy I saw her with a few times before. The priest was a Jesuit sadly and was very loose with the words, even forgetting them at one point. Joseph mispronounced my name as starting with a c. When the mass was done I walked home and took a shower. I finally went to sleep. ZZZ
Song of the Day: Y.M.C.A. - Village People (1978)
