Ahhh, the good old days. Living in the Robinwood Apartments, a short walk from ARCC. Being able to wake up 5 minutes before class to get there on time. Only working 15 hours a week, and being able to enjoy the excitement of the cities.
Enjoy it while it lasts, kids.
Now, I live at home with my family of 5...both parents, two brothers, and a sister. All three sport athletes, the eldest brother in a relationship...with a snob girlfriend who is always over here and has fantasies about marriage (She is 16) and is always trying too hard to get on everyone in the family's good side to the point of pure dislikification. I live 40 minutes from school, take a 9:00 AM class (something I never even did at ARCC), and must leave my house by 8:00 to meet my car pool in Staples. Glorious Staples. We have just finished ruining our small, backwater town but placing a highway directly around it. After a summer of crappy construction, people are now beginining to realize that maybe it wasn't such a good idea. All the area busnieses and gas stations, all located on the old highway, are starting to see a decline in their sales. The only thing worse that could happen would be if Wally World waltzed it's way into town. (Which it almost did, I might add. It ended up in the town 20 miles west of us...our bitter sports rival, Wadena-Deer Creek...I'm sorry. The when-I-was-in-high-school-they-were-our-biggest-most-hated-sports-rival-but-I-wasn't-really-all-that-ibnto-the-rivalry-but-the-reason-I-hated-Wadena-so-much-was-because-I-failed-my-first-driving-test-there...rivalry)
I now work 45 hours a week (on average) at the local Care Center. The Care Center used to also have a hospital on the premesis, but they rebuild a couple miles outside of town, so all the higher-ups and administration members moved to the better facility, and seemed to forget all about us. We are always understaffed, and for all the crap we wipe up, we are certainly underpaid. They also turned the old hospital wings into an Alzheimers ward, and so there are always crazy people running around, whether it is all the PMS-ing women I work with, or the old guy who thinks that I am trying to shoot him, so he tries to wrestle the gun out of my hands (true story).
Nothing beats the glitz and the glamour of big city living. There are always concerts or sporting events or something exciting going on. There is little to none of that here. HS sports are the only glitz, and the concerts that Zeke's Rock Band (I'll explain in a later blog) is the only glamour. But HS sports talent, other than CC and Basketball, is down this year, and Zeke's Rock Band has spread to all corners of the state. Nothing ever happens here.
Nothing...
Nothing...
Nothing...
9 comments:
Hmm. It's an interesting post, but it seems a bit cynical to me. (Not that there's anything specifically wrong with that. . . it simply tends to grate on the nerves.)
Also, I would suggest re-reading it again for spelling. Spell check, alas, doesn't catch everything. Rereading also helps me inprove the tone and wording as well.
From what I have read, your situation isn’t that fair and I agree that you have been screwed over in several aspects (i.e. your family and job situation). You deal with that though cynical and somewhat humorous.
I’m not about to focus on whether your cynical nature or your weak humor is necessary, but I just want to ask, if everything in your life is going so bad, why not do something to better your situation?
Interesting.
Life is rough. But I think it's interesting because right now, I just want to get a job and I know that within a few months of having one, I'll be on the same boat as you...
I hope the snob girlfriend leaves or something.
I hate those snobs, I really do.
I think everyone can feel trapped sometimes. I recently moved back home with my parents and I'm living in a small town....Staples though, isn't that where they hold big dirtbike races?
Where is your blog about community??
I now stay in the Robinwood Apts!! Good stuff!
uh... thanks for telling me the story of your life... (what did it have to do with the community other then the the fact that it sucked?)
Funny. It's nice to read your intro. Is that your communtiy?
Your blog reminded me of 'the walmart movie'. People forget it itsnt just walmart that changes a community with its presence. Your areas sounds nice though! I enjoy quiet living. Kudos on your blog!
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