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RedLion:
Dear--oh fuck it.

I'm pissed. I got a summer job working for the city's water department. The original ad for the position said it was for grounds maintenance, which would just entail mowing, landscaping, cleaning, that sort of thing. It wouldn't be fun, I thought, but it would be better than some other jobs, and the pay was pretty decent. When I showed up for work on Monday, however, I instead was informed that for the summer I would be working for the sewage maintenance sector of the water department. This entails taking a Rodding truck to every single manhole on every single street and sending the Rodder down into the sewers to clean it. This manages to be both back-breaking work (it weighs about 300 pounds and takes 45 minutes or so to get it where it needs to be) and unbearably monotonous (when it's finally in the sewer lines, you just stand around for an hour while it does its thing.)

 In addition, my city, Janesville is ridiculously flooded right now, though not nearly as bad as places up in northern Wisconsin, or across the state lines in Iowa and Illinois. But the riverwater has seeped into the sewers now, which has caused the sewers to reach maximum capacity, fail to pump fast enough, and become backed up, resulting in a mix of contaminated river water and raw sewage into the basements of dozens of peoples homes. Guess whose summer job it is to help clean up?

The main guy I go around with is pretty cool, but to be honest--I know this is going to sound horribly pretentious--the rest are racist, homophobic middle-aged blue-collar white males. The pay is alright for a summer job--about 10 dollars an hour, for 8 hours a day. But I come home every day feeling broken, weary, dejected, annoyed and drained, basically miserable. I'm considering quitting...after all, on Wednesday of next week, I'm leaving for Europe for two weeks.

imapiratearg:

--- Quote from: Plasticity on 19 Jun 2008, 19:58 ---Simple Solution: Shoot the people leaving trash on or near the dumpsters, and leave the raccoons be.

--- End quote ---

That is a fine solution.  The raccoons weren't doin' anything but trying to survive.

morca007:
Tomorrow is my birthday (Half an hour), I will be nineteen. I have nothing planned.
I have:
-A Van.
-A few friends.
-The Pacific northwest.
What do I do for my birthday?

In Conclusion: blogblogblogblog

Lunchbox:
TOO MANY BIRTHDAYS

What is it that happens in Sep/Oct to make people get their baby-making on? I swear half the planet has their birthday in June or July.

pwhodges:
Actually the peak for births in the US is in July/August/September, corresponding to baby-making around Christmas and the New Year.  See here for instance.

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