my edward gorey mug amuses me.

today a woman went through my line while another person was training on my register, and while they were talking, the guest said that every person should work retail for a year, and especially work through the christmas season.  i think that is a fabulous idea and should be implemented immediately.  maybe then we would get fewer people digging through purses for change they don't have, forgetting their coupons until after they've been rung up, and my biggest annoyance--people who fill out the register before the check, making me wait even longer to run it through.  i understand the theory behind it, but i get a score on how long that takes you, and if it brings my average down that reflects on me. 

clearly i am annoyed with work again, but it's not so bad as usual.  people are just stupid and the heat makes it worse. 

i think that i might have an idea for photographs to use in the alumni exhibit.  out of the following that are my top three right now, i need two: shoes, sky, king chapel.  i am very much at an impasse and could use as much input as possible.  i know they don't really go together thematically, but at this point i'm running out of time and couldn't care less.

also: my dad joined my mom for a couple of days of the insanity that is ragbrai, and grant is with tim, so it is just stephanie and i for a few days.  dad before he left, "no parties."  stephanie, "who would we invite?".  and, i am still working on death sentences.  it's only 150 pages, but i got stuck on page 50 for a few days.  i have made my way past it and am smoothly moving on.  lastly, you will notice i have written a whole post without using parenthesis once.