Well, here is after, at 5:00 in the morning, and I once again can't sleep. I guess that is to be expected, since I took a 4 and a half hour nap today... Hmm... I love sleeping in the daytime.
Anyway, finals week is now over for me. I had my last battle with Microsoft war, and I ended the battle. At noon tomorrow I will hand in my final two essay, and complete my Junior year of college. I really cannot believe I have been in college that long...three years! It seems unreal that I am that old, and that I have actually made it this far. However, I have this great sense of accomplishment, and what is even more, I have this great sense of relief and more importantly, FREE TIME!
So, what are my plans for this summer? Well, I am going to go back to work at the fair, working as a concessionaire. I love my job, and I could think of nothing better to do this summer. I am excited.
Something else that is pretty major that I intend to so this summer is... WRITE A BOOK!!! I know many of you have probably heard me talking about it, because I am uber excited! So, what is this book, everybody else might ask? Why, it is my story of work. It is the true confessions of a concessionaire. Haha! This is going to be so0o0o great.
So, I have already started writing about it. I don't have chapters written yet, but I have figured out what each chapter is going to be about, what it will include, and finally, what each is going to be called.
It goes a little something like this:
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"No, I'm Not a Carnie, I Bathe Every Night"
Chapter I- What is a Carine, and Why I am Not One- This chapter will talk about the differences between "Carnie" and "Concessionaire". These differences include issues such as bathing at night, washing our clothes daily, among other things.
- This chapter will discuss my life before I became a concessionaire
- This chapter will discuss what life is like when you live at the fair, camping there, and never leaving the fairgrounds.
- This chapter will discuss some of the funny events that happen at the fair. These include a woman, forcing me to shake her three lemonades, and after each one, declaring "I cannot drink this, there is a bug in it", in a very strange accent. Another event is the phrase, "I'll go straight Steve Rader on you." This is based from my bosses father, another concession's owner, who gets grouchy. So... we named an expression of anger after him. Another event is the "Pussy $1.00" sign, that occurred when someone rearranged the letters on my menu board. Bees attacking customers. Making Brett paranoid by telling him he wasn't allowed to use the bathroom in his camper, and he couldn't go to the other bathroom because the girl had genital warts (when she didn't). Another event is witnessing Ryan and Jacinda (my bosses) fighting. Also "special people"
- This chapter includes what exactly "fair attire" includes. This covers short shorts in EVERY SIZE, the ever present "camel toe", thank tops that also come in EVERY SIZE
- This chapter will cover the difference from fair to fair that I attend. These include Adams County fair, where people are... less than sophisticated... (to say in the least, they pay with pennies!), Washington Courthouse, where people really are sophisticated (they pay with hundred and fifty dollar bills), Pike County Fair, where normalcy is almost restored since it is a good redneck kind of area, and finally Scioto County Fair, which for a lemon shaker, this is the superbowl of all fairs!
- This chapter will talk about how I found love at the fair, from a guy who worked in a sausage trailer. It will talk about how I used to save the first cup of sweet tea, "because it was the sweetest." It will talk about our crazy midnight swimming parties, the fairy tale ending... if we get married will be buy our own trailer, and live our lives, concessionaire style?
- This chapter will cover my many incidents in which I have played guard dog, and almost gotten in fights.
- This will talk about "the new kids", and what I do to them. Includes information about "15 year old boys who look like 12 year old girls", and even a boy named Derrik who I called "Dirk" and "Dirt", and the pranks I played on him such as "Dirk you have a customer, just to get him to turn around... 100 times in one night)
- If included alone, it will cover my behavior while at work, how I speak, constantly sing and whistle, play games, cut straws and give them out, pull trailers, and even making fun of fair people and carnies with the code phrase "what are you looking at?"
- This is obviously going to be about my bosses, Ryan and Jacinda, and their family.
- This will talk about crazy health inspectors, and those incidents. Incidents include bugs in the sugar, test strips, fire hydrants and passing them around before the inspector acutally arrives, bleach and also sharing this, sink swapping...yeah, we even share these...
- Swap Days is a very crazy place. This chapter will talk about why. Includes ideas about the variety of animals (even tigers and monkeys), crazy people, "hairy beast (a super nice customer who hates clothing, but is VERY hairy). This chapter will also cover some of the smaller events I go to, such as festivals. I might actually just make a chapter about festivals.
- This chapter will cover how my friends feel about me leaving the fair. One even said, and I quote, "I feel like you are my solider away at war!" It will also talk about how I tend to draft my friend's help when I need them, and give them the advice to thank me now, hate me later... because it really is hard work!
- I think I might actually interview people and see their take on the fair. So... if you are reading this... be prepared to be asked, and if you want to volunteer, thats cool too!
- This will include some of the crazy or annoying questions people ask me such as the following: Do you have papertowels, do you have change, do you have pizza or pop, etc. Carnie... err...
- This will talk about the fact that since I am going to be a teacher, I will have summer off, and will technically be able to work...
- This will talk about how my life is now. I am not shy anymore, am kind of crazy, and definitely a SOCIAL BUTTERFULY .
- It will be the final chapter and sum up the book. It will end on a serious note, and talk about how being a concession worker is coming of age. This book is coming of age story. It will talk about how concessions relates to life, and what everything means in the grand scheme of things.
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Well, these are all my ideas for my book. I hope to start writing soon, now that summer is here. It is going to be a young adult coming of age story. I am really excited about it, and think it is going to be really funny. Well everyone, give me your input. If you have any ideas for me, and comments, just let me know! :) I'm going to bed now... It's 6:06 AM now... and I am tired. Goodnight all and love!
Well, these are all my ideas for my book. I hope to start writing soon, now that summer is here. It is going to be a young adult coming of age story. I am really excited about it, and think it is going to be really funny. Well everyone, give me your input. If you have any ideas for me, and comments, just let me know! :) I'm going to bed now... It's 6:06 AM now... and I am tired. Goodnight all and love!
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