Friday I worked my regular job from 8-5 and then worked the part time job from 6:30-10 so I didn't have a lot of time to do anything extremely drastic but in the time between jobs I went to Target to kill time and to also get dinner. While standing in line I remembered the Target text coupons having one for a free drink with purchase of an entree. I showed it to the guy behind the register who scanned the coupon and the guy behind me asked what I did. I then showed him how he would be able to get them by texting OFFERS to TARGET (827438). Now all of you reading this can get the coupons as well.
Saturday I had to work 12-4 and I meant to get out of the house by 10 to head to vote. That didn't happen. I'm not sure what happens to time in the morning but I'm pretty sure it has mystical powers where it speeds up. It is either that or it really does take me 12 minutes to put on mascara or 53 minutes to eat a bowl of cereal. I have an alarm clock that yells at me in 7 different voices which means that it also takes me about 40 minutes to get out of bed as well. Anyways, I got to the closest early voting location at about 10:50. It was at the local library. I work at a library and when I saw this good deed I felt like it would be a cop out to use it for work but since I went to a library different than the one I work at then I felt I could use it. I waited in the line that wound all the way around the building and as I was standing outside the room with the voting machines it was 11:32 and I knew that I needed to go through a drive through, eat my food and drive the 10 minutes to work and have my computer set up and I needed to be ready to answer phone calls by 12:00 sharp. It became clear that I could either vote or eat but I couldn't do both. I chose to eat. I told the guy I had been chatting with for the 40 minutes we were in line that I had to go and he couldn't believe I would leave. I probably should have stayed because when I went after I got off it then took a full hour to get through this time even though the line was shorter. Well I did my civic duty to vote for a person I don't really like and think might lose but I feel it makes me a good citizen. Yay democracy! Smaller cities certainly have shorter waiting times.
Okay, so while I was working at my part time job which is interpreting phone calls for people that use sign language to communicate I tried to make a special effort to smile while answering the phones. Once I was in the call I had to assume the feelings and attitudes of the people I was interpreting for but I made sure to smile as a said goodbye at the end of the call. There was a crazy amount of angry deaf people today compared to other days so it was a bit harder today to smile but I tried.... for the most part... not on that one lady though... or that other one... but I swear all the sane, kind people got a big old smile from me!
*Oh and this book is copyrighted by Chronicle Books LLC. I wanted to give credit where credit is due.
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