Friday, July 13, 2012

in the peripheral

I like my perspective drawing class. Mostly I get to draw, but also my classmates are loud and a lot of fun to listen to and they don't have any idea what's going on as much as I do. The teacher is an old guy who wears rainbow suspenders. He's a good teacher and funny, too. Today when he was introducing everything to us and talking about how boys eyes are different than girls eyes (scientific explanation here) all I kept picturing was the scene in the movie "The  40 year old virgin" where the guy is saying "don't look, you gotta use your peripherals, use your peripherals!" And when our teacher was going on about shapes and forms and lines and dots, I kept thinking "maybe we should all be smoking a joint to get a better, deeper understanding". But, I don't smoke.
Now, the UPS group interview today. There were about 15 of us lined up outside. We were asked a few questions then walked through a portion of the plant where we'd be working, which is to either load trucks or unload deliveries. It's HUGE and hot in there and a lot is going on, but I've worked in places like that before. So, we'll see how I do on the one-on-one interview in a few days. I wouldn't mind it. The pay starts out at $9 an hour and you get a .50 cent raise after 90 days, then periodically. The hours would be from 10 pm to 2 am, which is fine with me too since I'm not sleeping then anyways. I'd have time to come home, eat, do my homework, boogie out to work, come home and sleep then do it again. It wouldn't be forever, so I could handle it as long as I knew there was an end point.
"don't look straight at her, use your peripherals! use your peripherals!"

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