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The basic rules of lifeguarding:
1. Your job is not to save lives. Your job is to entertain the customers, which may or may not include:
a. Letting small children handle the chlorine testing kit.
b. Petting the dogs of a senile old lady.
c. Listening to the war stories of cranky old Romanian men.
d. Allowing said cranky Romanian men to "clean" (clean=throw out everything that you're not actually allowed to throw out, like buckets of paint or ightbulbs) the pump room at any given moment, usually without notice.
e. Teaching some random little kid to swim.
f. Playing catch with wild ten-year-old boys.
2. You are not an essential part of the pool experience. You can easily be replaced by a recording that says "NO RUNNING!" every ten minutes.
3. If the pump that puts water into the pool bursts, don't expect it to be fixed until three days later when the pool has virtually no water in it.
4. The lifeguarding handbook is to be completely ignored at all times. Rules only apply during visits from the Health Department.
5. Get used to spending four or five hours by yourself.
6. Don't freak out if there's no chlorine in the pool. It's clean enough, right? Right.
7. Don't freak out if your boss is drunk/hungover.
8. You will not be supplied with an umbrella, no matter how dire the lack of shade is. Put on some sunscreen and suck it up.
9. The first-aid kit will only contain three hundred feet of gauze and some medical tape. If you bring in band-aids to supplement this, the other lifeguards will use them all up in one day. Do not question this. It is beyond your comprehension.
10. If you go on vacation for a week, nobody will make any effort whatsoever to clean the pool. And the cranky old people will blame the entire fiasco on you. Period.
Oy vei.
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[19 Jul 2007|11:23am] |
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1. Where will you be when it turns 2010?
Somewhere in an average state school learning how to not strangle small children as I teach them music.
2. How did you get the idea for your MySpace Livejournal name?
Dumbasses who always see my viola and say "Ooooh, is that a violin? I used to play the violin..... Oh, it's not a violin? What the heck is a viola?"
3.what song are you listening to right now?
RENT soundtrack.
4. Has the death of a celebrity ever made you cry?
I am not ashamed to admit that I cried at the deaths of Steve Irwin and Anna Nicole. RIP.
6. Do you own an iPod?
Yes.
7. What was the first thing you thought this morning?
I gotta pee.
8. What would be your ideal job?
Teaching viola lessons to small children
9. What will you do tonight?
Hang out at Chris's, moon over Jeff, go to my sister's swim meet.
10. What's your favorite memory from last weekend?
Band camp dance!
11. What are the last two digits of your phone number?
16
12. What was the last thing you ate?
A burger.
13. What was last thing you drank?
Good ol' Pepsi.
14. What was the last movie you watched?
The Waitress. It was ah-may-zing. Everyone go see it. NOW.
15. What/Who do you dislike at the moment?
My sister, long distance relationships, laundry, bathing suits, my tan lines, school, SATs, SAT prep, not having a car/driver's license, lifeguarding, old romanian men, stalkers
16. What food do you crave right now?
A really good Philly Cheesesteak. Not some crappy knockoff. I want the real deal, baby!
17. What did you dream last night?
Stephanie was pregnant by a drug dealer, so we bought, like, eighty million pregnancy tests in the hopes that one of them would be wrong.
18. What was the last TV show you watched?
The Colbert Report
19. What is your favorite piece of jewelery?
The bracelet I made out of the corsage that Ryan gave me way back at the ninth grade dance.
20. Name someone on your Top Friends who is just like you.
Er...Leslie.
21. You're playing blackjack. You're dealt a jack and a seven. Hit or stay?
....question mark?
22. Who last text messaged you?
Jordan
23. Are you on any medication?
Rain Man, anyone? And yes.
24. What side of the bed do you sleep on?
The side that's closest to the nearest door, in case some creep tries to climb in the window. (Because creeps never, ever use the door.)
25. What color shirt are you wearing?
Black.
26. What is your favorite frozen treat?
Frozen blueberries/grapes. It's a girl scout thing.
27.How many peirceings do you have?
My ears used to be pierced, but they closed up a while ago. Huzzah for Claire's and clip-on earrings that don't look totally junky!
28. What's your favorite store?
Boscov's
29. Are you thirsty right now?
Ehh.... Not really, no.
30.Whos someone you havent seen in a while and miss?
Sara!
31. What did you do last night?
Lifeguarded, talked to Jordan, called Sonia, texted Hannah, ate, slept, showered. The usual.
So for those of you who haven't heard, I almost got Blake arrested after he tried to grope me at band camp. Band camp was amazing. Except for the whole Blake groping me/Mike is still in love with me and I don't like it/ Jordan lives too damn far away thing.
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[09 Jul 2007|04:37pm] |
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Well, I'm at band camp. AND IT'S AMAZING. I am completely in heaven. My roomate is awesome (not like last year), Mike is leaving me alone (not like last year), and I've run into about fifty people that I remember from last year (not like last year!)!!! And now, there is a really cute boy who I think likes me back. But I'm not sure. I hope he does. (In case you're wondering, it's about 110 degrees here. No joke. That accounts for my retarded seventh-grade-esque sentences). His name is Blake.
*sigh*
My new goal is to get with him before the week ends. We'll see how that goes. And now for something completely different-- a lifeguarding story!
So I'm sitting on the edge of the pool, doing my psuedo-lifeguard thing, when this fortysomething man comes up and flicks a bug out of the water. I made some remark along the lines of "Sorry, musta missed that one with the skimmer" to which he made an equally inane reply. Then his ten-year-old swims over and shouts "Dad! Stop cheating on Michelle!"
"What are you talking about?"
"You're cheating on Michelle with that girl!
"Which girl?"
"The lifeguard!"
Ew. Ew. Ew. EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
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| Writer's Block: Wedding bells are ringing/Phone number!!! |
[21 Jun 2007|12:27pm] |
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What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
Anyway, the whole point of me posting an entry was to talk about... errr... Oh, yeah! I remember now.
So, I went to the MMR carnival last night with Mia, Janine, and Shirley. While we were there, we ran into Mia's friend, Larry. Larry is very, very cute. Larry is also a cuddler, like I am! At the end of the carnival, the girls and I were walking with Larry out to meet our ride. Before he left, Larry gave me a hug and slipped a piece of paper in my pocket.
I GOT A PHONE NUMBER!!!!
This is the first time in my life that I've ever gotten a guy's number. And I didn't even have to ask for it! (Minor downside: Larry is 20. Hmm. This one might be a little hard to push on the 'rents...)
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[19 Jun 2007|09:10pm] |
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I love Sara Bean. Passionately. She keeps me sane most days. Oh, if she wasn't going to be 3,000 miles away in a two months.
Edit: Goddamn layout won't work. I'm REALLY tempted to just leave it the way it is. Oh, well. The world will just hafta deal with that obnoxious text at the top.
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| Writer's Block: Who's in your neighborhood |
[14 Jun 2007|11:53am] |
How well do you know your next-door neighbors?
Hmm. I don't know them at all, actually. They both have pools? One of them has two obnoxious little ankle-biter dogs and a college dropout son. On the other side, they have two obnoxious little girls and a cat that sneaks into our backyard.
The end.
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[13 Jun 2007|07:34pm] |
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So I haven't updated this in a while.
24 weeks to be exact.
*sigh*
I guess nobody really reads this.
Except maybe Leslie.
So I say this to the interweb at large: It seems that Steve is actively sabotoging whatever love life I manage to eek out for myself.
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| Ever have one of those days where you waste all of your 'homework' time on the interweb? |
[26 Dec 2006|10:35am] |
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You Are 41% New Jersey! You've got a little Jersey in you. Not too bad, however you could have done a lot better. Based on this score, you may not actually be from New Jersey. You're missing out!
How New Jersey Are You?
Make Your Own Quiz
| What stereotype do you belong to? Your Result: geek/nerd smart, straight A's, high GPA, band member, unpopular, would rather spend time on the computer than with friends, wears glasses, has been wearing the same clothes for years | | No stereotype | | | Loner | | | Emo | | | Jock | | | Gamer | | | Preppy | | | Punk | | | What stereotype do you belong to? |
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You scored 0% which means you are a hardcore liberal.
You believe in governmental action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all, and that it is the duty of the State to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights. Believe the role of the government should be to guarantee that no one is in need. Believe that people are basically good.
Conservative or Liberal
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| Which wife of Henry the Eighth are you? Your Result: Anne Boleyn You are Anne Boleyn, second, and most famous, wife of Henry. You are firey, smart, confident, and witty. Though not notorious for your beauty, you have a prescense that sticks out in people's minds. You will stop at nothing to get what you want. Keep in mind, though, when you get it, you have to know how to keep it. | | Catherine Parr | | | Anne of Cleves | | | Jane Seymour | | | Katherine of Aragon | | | Kathrine Howard | | Which wife of Henry the Eighth are you?
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| Merry Christmas? |
[25 Dec 2006|01:59pm] |
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*sigh*
My dad can't even manage to be a not-asshole on Christmas. Oh, well. On the plus side, I got a book, some shirts, my Heidi Klum purse, a Bill Cosby CD, a ferret calendar,
AND A BRAND NEW LAPTOP!
(Although, my dad has already taken 'his' laptop away from me, and it hasn't even been a full day yet. This could get interesting. And by interesting, I mean reallyReallyREALLY FREAKING ANNOYING.)
I think my favorite gift, though, is the mug that my mother got me. It has Henry VIII and his wives on it. When you put a hot liquid in it, the wives dissapear! Hee hee hee....
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[20 Dec 2006|12:44pm] |
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Hey everyone (aka me). Home sick+boredom=LIVEJOURNAL!
Menstrual cramps are a bitch.
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