August 17th, 2025: The Lord’s day today. I woke up at 5:59am and dealt with my alarm exactly 1 minute later. I stayed in bed until 6:30am when I finally got out of bed to have some cereal and brew a pot of coffee for myself. I got dressed in a set of very casual clothes including my Aruba 1499 hat. I browsed my phone a bit more before grabbing my drawstring bag with my books in it, I left my apartment at 7:45am and realized I left my big suitcase with all my unfolded laundry out in the living room, with James the Greater coming back today I would piss him off with that and I wouldn't be back home until sometime after 7:00pm. I took the bus to work and got off he bus at 8:10am, I walked in and saw my task list was pretty normal: check the trashes every two hours, stock the beverage aisle, stock the beverage cooler, stock a large part of the store, and finally vacuum the offices. Sabrina, Safiyya, the Noahmusic2009 guy, and Anne were working up front, with the Noahmusic2009 guy wearing a Carnival Of Carnage t-shirt. I stocked the beverage cooler and saw some bags that Anne was collecting so I asked her:
"Are you doing any deliveries today?"
She replied she was doing one at 10:00am and I asked if I could help her, she agreed and around 9:40am we started loading the van with food. Anne accidentally dropped a small container of dried hard bread, like pita. I told her to leave the dropped stuff out for the birds to eat and Tony made another order. We got packed in and drove all the way west to the house the wedding reception was at. Along the way we discussed various things like how she wants to go back to get her master's degree and possibly move out to some rural county in South Dakota to get a good county job there. Anne went on about her cats getting kind of fat so I joked with her about pinching their flabby bellies whenever they walked by to fatshame them, she found it cruel, I found it hilarious, they wouldn't care. She talked about her favorite coffee place out in the western part of the county. I noticed her plastic cup containing iced coffee and I joked that she was consuming so much microplastic.
"Microplastics, what are those?"
She asked, I told her that they were basically in everything now, I first heard about them from a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episode about microplastics, I watched it the day it came out. I told her that there was a study about microplastics that failed because they couldn't find a control group of people with zero testable microplastics.
"So they would get freshly born babies to use as a control group."
I had more news to break to her, they found microplastics in pregnant woman's placentas, she was freaked out at this point and asked me what wasn't safe, I told her most plastics and she should just throw out her plastic cups to replace them with glass, porcelain, ceramic, or stainless steel. Anne said her cats would just knock over and destroy anything that wasn't stainless steel, I told her to buy more stainless steel cups. We went past my favorite chain of diners and the bus route I rode all the way out west and ate at the McDonalds at the end of the route. Near the place she told me:
"We forgot the bakery items."
I joked with her that she kept forgetting things ever since she stopped working 7 days a week but looking back on this I was being a total ass to her for forgetting something once, the previous time was actually her replacement forgetting the bakery stuff, not Anne. We got there and I helped unload. We didn't have the bakery stuff so she asked me this:
"Gemerson, you know how to drive right?"
I told her yes and she had me drive back to grab it while she set up, so it would take me 45 minutes extra to go home. I got my phone in the phone holder and started driving back, but it would constantly shift around and start leaning down to make seeing directions impossible. I accidentally started swerving the van while trying to fix this before ultimately giving up and just relying on memory, I arrived back 20 minutes later. The bakery manager got her stuff and brought it over to my van. She thought I didn't know how to drive but I told her I did due to growing up rural, her boyfriend also grew up in Wisconsin. I got my stuff and changed this setting on the phone holder to flip it from 'I' to 'II' and started driving. It worked much better. I got there 20 minutes later and we set that up last before driving back to the store. We got back at 11:47am and I faced the store a bit and sampled some balsamic vinegar from this chuddy looking guy as he remarked that I always got a sample whenever he was around. I went to lunch, got a large prosciutto sandwich and ate it. I went back after and worked on a pull list for downstairs, it was short and once I finished getting all the items on the black plastic pallet. I went on my 1st 15 minute break and then got back to stocking the stuff downstairs quickly, I got that done and worked on vacuuming upstairs which didn't take long including the locked office. When I was bringing stuff down I went through the office and noticed a bunch of people were scheduled for an hour after closing, I asked and found out there was a meeting. At 3:30pm I took my second break and saw Saffiya leave. I got off my break and started on my closing tasks, emptying all the garbages first before working on the bathrooms when fAsherah came in. I talked to her and she said she thought it was going to be about Tiffany's antics and her getting fired, I asked her:
"Hey, this might sound weird but could you please record the audio when Tiffany gets fired?"
To my surprise she agreed, I clocked out at 4:57pm and took the bus all the way over to the church. I hopped off and got in there, I saw Naomi waiting in line for confession and sat near the front, a bit later Onyx was sitting a few rows behind me and I said hi to him. The mass was done by the Catholic center priest, whom I will be calling (finally) Father Aquinas. Mass went through smoothly but there was this one blond boy in the pew in front of me who had to be 2 years old who just kept screeching, he wasn't crying about anything, just screeching for the love of the game. I forgot what the homily was about but for receiving the Eucharist, I saw the Keralan and Marie in line along with the other 2 I mentioned previously. I prayed for a bit at the end. I greeted Marie and tried to talk to Father Aquinas but he was busy, so I ended up talking with Onyx, I met his mother and she seems like a nice lady. Onyx was quite surprised to find out that I was living with James the Greater now. I eventually left to go to the grocery store, as I was walking across the street, I saw this fat White woman with her two mixed race boys, she was that one look of fat White women who seemed perpetually miserable and had her hair up in a bun. I went in to buy some milk and chocolate ice cream. At 6:47pm I started this following conversation with fAsherah:
>What happened at the meeting?
<Nothing
ignacio was so nonconfrontational lmao, i think he got shy
<One day Maybe tiffany will get fired . I can Dream
>He didn’t say anything about her?
<NOT AT ALLLL
<Literally not even a mention.
>Of anything she did?
>Did she even show up?
<She did, he talked about lateness and absences and "let someone know if you go to the bathroom" in a very indirect way without making eye contact with her once lmfao
<In fact while talking about the calling in he looked at me the whole time !! Like I HAD A KIDNEY INFECTION FOR LIKE 5 MONTHS AND I GAVE DOCTORS NOTES......
>How did she react?
>I’m curious.
<She left at one point during one of those topics lmfao
<Like she came back after a little bit but she literally just walked away
>Loolllllllllllll
>Tiffany [lastname] went to the bathroom during the meeting call her out.
<LMFAO LITERALLY
>What if she got kidney disease?
<I CAN ASSURE U THAT IS NOT THE CASE.
<I refuse to believe she shares my level of antibiotic resistance . I think the bacteria would live in harmony with her and flourish but not infect
<Maybe she herself is a Bacterium
I took the bus home and put my stuff in the fridge. James wasn't home so I asked him if I could use an egg for my ramen, he didn't reply in time so I had mine without an egg, I watched some more television and then ate ice cream. Later on when it was dark, I had the last slice of watermelon and took my suitcase into my bedroom. I wrote in my blog more and then went to take a shower. James finally came back and I then got out. I talked to James to ask him if he wanted to come back home next weekend, he said no because of ROTC commitments. I posted my biblejak and then went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Promenade II - Modest Mussorgsky (1874)