Glen, the manager from mcdonalds, phoned today. I was supposed to have my job orientation, but he said that he was too busy today, so he wanted to reschedule for friday. as in, 4 more days. without paid employment. Bah.
I don't actually work at mcdonalds, but I'll talk about it anyway. They all wear those tshirt-length dress shirts that bother me more than regular dress shirts, and I think they might wear ties too. and I'll have to. It's a pity. Also, I'll be surrounded by mcdonalds for long periods of time, thus tearing me between my desire to consume all that cheap cheap food product, and my mcdonalds gag reflex.
Something occured to me earlier today. When I was a young lad, I had many ethical arguments. Mcdonalds is evil, and I should never associate with it. I stand by that, I think it was a very good judgement to make, and yet I'm doing it anyway. And just so no one worries, I'm not losing any sleep over it. It just occurs to me that I'm doing something that goes directly against one of my own self-established ethical boundaries. I think this is what's called "growing up" or "adjusting to adulthood". Which is a fucking disturbing possibility.
I hope that one day, I do become an engineer, and I do become well-paid, and I do actually live off of a small portion of my salary, giving the rest away to strangers who could use it better than me. I really don't know that I will, though. I hope so.
I've also noticed that although I lack any ability to draw/sketch original things, I can copy simplistic comic characters decently. This brings me to the comics that I read today. High School Changed My Life is a nice comic, about a guy who gets sucked into a high school across the galaxy and begins adjusting to life in his new world. It's a fairly new comic, with a short archive, but many of the characters are good and it didn't cause me to painfully roll my eyes once during the entire archive, which sets it far from the bottom of the barrel, as comics go. I also read a bit of Venus Envy today, a comic about a transgendered high school student and the daily life that results. I'm not sure what I think of it, but I find myself looking at it every once in a while, reading new updates.
Oh, and one last thing before I think harder about going to bed. husband and wife. man and woman. boy and girl. guy and... girl. Two things come to mind there. First, I listed the male first in all those examples without thinking of it. Second, guys and girls. I think this resulted from 'gal' becoming a word used only in archie comics. regardless, it probably has deeper meaning. probably bad. Society-wide obsession with youth in females more than males, or society-wide disregard for females, compared to males? I don't like either, but they're the only ideas that present themselves. I've noticed signs of potential discrimination in myself, and it bothers me.
With all that off my mind for a while, g'night.
posted by Murray @ 12:50 AM
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