I'm the only gainfully employed member of my family...how strange!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while... I forgot how much this working for a living sucks! But I must try to stick it out as I need the cash for school, and I also found out today that I am officially the only member of my family gainfully employed. My darling bro told his boss to stick it today and therefore has put himself out of work. Little bro has always been a little flammatory (ok, so he's easily ignited, but really, once the fire has started, who cares right?), but there is usually a problem that causes my angry siblings' explosions. Well, we'll have to see what happens there...He's coming out tomorrow for a visit, I think.

On another note, my work has been going reasonably well. My language skills however, are beginning to suffer greatly from the constant cursing, yelling and generally demonstrable behavior of the owner and the customers. The other thing is that everything is so loud there, that I am seriously considering wearing earplugs to keep me from going crazy. Is it really necessary to have all the phones ringing on their loudest setting, while the radios are also on high volume? There's also the loud dot matrix invoice printers that I sit beside all day. I tell ya, between my exceptionally sensitive hearing and my ADD, this place is enough to drive me to the nut house and back again!

School is not going so well...as usual I've set superhuman goals for myself and you know what? I didn't meet them- imagine that! I seem to enjoy setting myself up to fail (or at least to seriously flounder). I've got to get back on track. At least the crappy weather around here lately has kept my mind off of the great outdoors (aka gardening).

I've also taken on another project, also this one takes very little time and I thoroughly enjoy myself. I'm play a role in an audio podcast written by a couple of talented local writers. They are friends of my Angry Sibling, whom I had heard of and contacted for an 'audition'. I expected nothing going in except a chance to see how they do things, but I ended up with a leading role! I was as shocked as anyone, well except for Angry Sib who had no idea I'd even tried out, let alone had any interest in this sort of thing. In the first script, I had a terribly demanding role that consumed hours of time...my characters' dialogue was "SHIT"! Yes, that was all my character said, one "SHIT". Boy, that was a hard one to master. I'll write more later once I've asked for permission to link to their site.