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[sorcyress]

Soyeah.

I'm working at Target these days. Yeah, it sucks. I have fully entered the disillusioned worker stage. If you have it, go watch "Mannys First Day" (The second episode of Black Books). Fran's expression just prior to her saying "I haven't slept with you...and you're NOT trying to freak me out..." is exactly how I feel.

Day camp is not bad, besides the fact that I have a unit full of additude. Luckily, the two prep girls who I thought I would not at all get along with are not that bad --one of them was attempting to teach me ghetto slang (I am apparently never to use the phrase "gettin' busy" --she didn't exactly explain why) and the two of them can pretty much just entertain each other.

The complete demon child, who has been trying to outstubborn me by completely ignoring everything I say and not talking to me has gotten better. Plus, whatever. So she's not talking to me --that makes my job easier.

And then we had thunder, and got herded into Peterson. Fine, whatever. Songs could amuse the girls, the girls could amuse myself, and Veronica is an adapt at taking charge of large groups of people. I myself decided to be an adapt at herding girls through the bathroom, and while I was holed up in there, all the Quartermaster girls (The cool kids at camp) and Blue Canary, dissapeared.

Fine. Whatever.

And then, Blue FINALLY came back, babbling something about PickPocket hurting her arm. Whatever, drama.

And I popped in on PickPocket, and she seemed hurt but being taken care of, and I popped back out and Blue grabbed me and hugged me and started crying on my shoulder and just generally needing to be held.

Blue...doesn't cry on shoulders. She's damnably closed off, unfortunately. As Kawa and Wolf wandered through and joined our "ohshitohshit sobfest" in the corner, I began to get the whole Something Is Wrong vibe.

The worst part of people you care about being hurt is being helpless to fix them. God, that sucks.

So, long story short (Too late!) Pickpocket got dragged off in an Ambulance. She's fine, and will return to camp safe, sound, and with a cast on her arm tomorrow.

Soyeah. That's my life. Poke me if you need an explanation of any of the campy terms.

Love and such
~Kat

Comments

[mommyrex.livejournal.com]

Not bad? With a unit full of attitude and an ambulance ride for a friend? Sheesh! And I thought *I* was good at making crappy days sound bearable.

Here's hoping for a nicer tomorrow ...

[la-vie-cynique.livejournal.com]

So I get to the hospital and start breaking down crying for no damn reason. I promptly stop five minutes later, and wonder what all that was about.

Apparently, that was my addition to the sobfest. I also feel really shitty for scaring you all.

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

//to be an adapt//

The word you're looking for is "adept," an adverb ("to be adept").

Sorry. It bugged me. :P

Woo on the job disillusionment though. I don't think I've ever heard of someone getting it quite so fast as you.

Also, to cheer you (and everyone else, I guess) up, I'll be at camp all day Friday, probably all day Thursday (if not, a significant chunk at least), and possibly even some of tomorrow. So be happy, 'cause I'm just about the greatest damn thing in the world, and I'm coming to visit. ;)

[marcmagus]

It can also be a noun, although it's still spelled "adept". (Generally, as above, "to be an adept in " or ". . . at ".)

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

Hm. I've never heard of "adept" as a noun. Interesting.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

I'm more used to it as a noun, mostly because it was a class of mage in a series of books I read. So they would say 'an adept' often. --I think that's more how I was trying to use it.

~Sor

[marcmagus]

Ah, Piers Anthony . . . I wonder just how much reading his novels shaped who I am, and how much I kept reading his novels because of who I am. I think that was one of his better series.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Mercedes Lackey, actually, and her Heralds of Valdemar series. I have, sadly, never read any Xanth, though Veronica swears by them.

That's a good thing to wonder. It's pretty clear M.L. influenced everything from my painful "cannot fail, cannot 'let people down'" additude to my somewhat loose morals about sex (Not for me, but hell, go have fun, don't hurt anyone. :p) This needs to become a more coherent thoughtstream sometime.

~Sor

[marcmagus]

*gag* Apprentice Adept, actually, not Xanth. Although the first handful of Xanth are good, they're not that impressive. No need to be sad about not reading them . . . he has other stuff which is much better. (Apprentice Adept and Incarnations of Immortality spring to mind.)

M.L. I keep meaning to read, but never have.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhh. I'll poke around and see if we have any of those. If not, can I borrow them from you?

Lackey is not life-changingly amazing, but she was handed to me right smack in the middle of my formative years, and she helped me stay reasonably sane through most of middle school. For that, at least, I owe her reccomendations.

~Sor

[marcmagus]

That pretty much describes my opinion of Anthony.

You're welcome to borrow them. I think I'll have to retrieve them from New York, though, so give me a bit of warning.

[werewulf.livejournal.com]

WOOT!

I shall have TWO shedboys on Wednesday and Thursday then. Tobash came out today and worked for me all day and will return every day this week.

POUND IT!

Howls....

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

Well, since it sounds like you're expecting me to be there tomorrow, then I guess I will be. :P It's not like I'd be doing anything else in the afternoon anyway (I'm supposed to be building stairs for my cat, but I don't particularly want to do that during the day 'cause it's hot and I have to do it outside, or at least in the garage. At least there's shade at camp).

[marcmagus]

"gettin' busy" . . .

*snrk*

What happened with the arm?

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

It's really entertaining to have a sixth grader inform you of slang you shouldn't use. *sigh* At least she didn't try to explain it...

As for what happened...damn flocked journals, here's some liberally stolen quoteness:

"The EMTs were...amusing, I must say. Not even they could figure out what the hell was wrong. It took one pediatric doctor, two nurses, three x-rays,. and four hours in the Pediatric Unit as Howard County General to figure out that I had torn a ligament or two in my wrist, and the funny colored bump was actually a contusion cause by the damaged flesh.

Not a bug bite, as everyone thought it was.

So now I'm in a half cast that runs from my knuckles to three inches above my wrist, forcing me to do everything at an odd angle due to the way Doctor Watt wanted my wrist to be. Typing is currently a bitch."

Yep. Since I'm no good at explaining these things.

~Sor

[marcmagus]

Are you saying you're unfamiliar with the slang verb phrase "gettin' busy", or just that the situation would have been even more ridiculous if she'd tried to explain it?

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

The situation would have been even more rediculous. Eleven year olds have no right to inform me of that sort of slang.

It was a bit like the girl I heard using 'bugger' as a swear. I just kinda looked at her and said "Do you know what that means? Because you should *probably* stop using it."

On a similar note, it's really entertaining to call my brother a wanker, because he has absolutely no idea what it means, and can't be bothered to figure it out, so it just annoys him.

~Sor

[harena.livejournal.com]

" If you have it, go watch "Mannys First Day" (The second episode of Black Books). Fran's expression just prior to her saying "I haven't slept with you...and you're NOT trying to freak me out..." is exactly how I feel."

i don't, but by a fanTAStic coincidence, that's one of the things Rtizy made me watch when i was stalking her (albeit briefly) in her home a couple of weeks ago... got through the first few episodes... and i even vaguely remember the expressions you are talking about ... mainly 'cause i loved all of Fran's expressions! ;D