jump out of a plane

today we had our first snow of the season here in boston. i left for work at 6:15 this morning and it was just beginning. it was nice to watch it progress through the day from tiny flakes, to large ones, from barely falling to coming down in sheets. not much stuck around once it stopped though. but thats okay, that is usually when snow starts to get annoying. after its been hanging around on the streets for a while. but im ready for that, because its coming soon.

anyways, like i said, another early morning at bagel. the day turned out to be an interesting one though. for starters it was me and like 6 girls working today. this might sound good in theory, but not once they get full control over the music. i was forced to listen to mates of state, something corporate, and some other music that was equally painful. i try not to complain about things, especially something like the type of music you listen to at work. because really it shouldn’t matter what music is playing i just need to focus on doing my job. the music is REALLY there for the customer’s eating or waiting in line so they aren’t surrounded by uncomfortable silence. so i wont go into detail about why i get upset about the music at work. so lets just say i was already in a not so great mood, surprise surprise. then the espresso machine stopped working again. so now its the first snow that we’ve seen in almost a year and we cant use the espresso machine. which means we cant make hot lattes, cappucinos, hot chocolate, hot apple cider, hot chai lattes, the list goes on. so now im a little grumpy and the customers are getting a little grumpy. then our dishwasher calls out sick so i have to take care of those duties for a while. on top of all this, a customer spills his coffee all over our register and it stops working. so its the busiest day of the week, busiest time of the day, and our register doesn’t work. so now we have to announce every 20 minutes that we can only take cash and we have someone working the cashier drawer with a calculator and a mental price list. and just when the day looks like it is beyond salvage, a customer faints in front of the store. third customer this year to faint. he was alright, just hungover probably, but it was a nice little bit of comic relief for all of us behind the bagel counter.

so after work i head over to my friends house to hang out. it was nice, we watched the second half of red dawn, then we watched tremors. it was good to be out of my room and with other living human beings. i spend too much time in my room, i should let myself be around people more often. i hope i don’t come off as arrogant when i say this, but i am depriving people of my company, and my thoughts. and i’m depriving myself of everyone else’s company and thoughts. plus i’ve been thinking that the best way to learn about yourself is to live you know? you can’t be sure of how you will act in a certain situation until you actually find yourself in that situation. for instance, you could speculate that your new car could take an icy turn at 30 mph and not lose traction. but unless you took an icy turn at 30 mph, it would still just be speculation. maybe when it comes to our personal preferences we are able to make judgments based on the knowledge we have of ourselves. but it is still speculation to say that you wouldn’t enjoy doing an activity before you ever try it. you could be pretty sure that you wouldn’t enjoy sky diving, you could even read 30 books about it and still think that it sounds like a terrible idea. but maybe those 20 seconds after you jumped out of the plane and before you pulled your parachute would be the most exhilarating seconds of your life.

i guess what i’m getting at is that in life you have to be ready to jump out of a plane. too many times we make up our minds on things before we give them a fair shot. so whether it is going hiking, watching a football game, or spending time with a person, why not give it a shot? you owe it to yourself, besides people rarely regret things that they have done, it is the things that we don’t do that eat away at us for years.

so i finally left my friends house and walked home in the cold darkness. i hung out with my brother and his girlfriend for a little while. then john poked his head in for a bit before going to work. i did some reading on the internet, and now i’m on here. i will be getting into bed soon because once again i am working at 6:30 tomorrow morning. i cant wait.

-jordan

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