Pirate Week and First Impressions

Arrgh! It's been a full work week. It was pirate week at the gym I work at...actually one of the better themes (soon it will be "Everybody Wins Week"). Pirate week has been a long one, for once I finally got more than the hours I have been wanting (more boys=more instructors). I am totally exhausted from work this week, 8+ hours a day can be tough.

This week I have:

• Been called "Captain M&Ms Emily"
• Worked for "Captain Tickle-toes Thomas"
• Searched for pirate treasure everyday before snack time (Wow, we found gummy bears!)
• Had a 3 year old teach me how to dance like a pirate
• Said "arrrrghhhh!" about 500 times
• Talked to Santa on the phone when the kids were bad
• Pulled parts of an eye patch out of a child's ear

Sound fun? Heck yeah! I am warn out but pirate week is awesome! I have a birthday party tomorrow and then on Sunday the mysterious all day "Work Outing" will be discovered. I have figured out that it has something to do with a lake, a long drive, and food. I'm there!

While I have been getting more and more excited about going to school, I have become increasingly worried about the work load. I received my textbooks the other day and all the novels I need (6 of them) are slowly coming in seeing as I didn't get them from the school (saving a lot of money). My textbooks simply made me dread Spanish. The first "regular" book (more like self-help) I got, "Loving Each Other," looked interesting (one of five for a class). Today another book came in, "The Mysterious Death of Mary Rodgers," for my history class. It has the smallest type ever. Just looking at the book scares me, luckily that is the only book in addition to a textbook.

Recently, I got a letter from one of my professors. Actually, I have 2 classes with her, but her letter was regarding my First Year Experience: I Read it in a Book-on truth and knowing class (FYE for short). The letter was on what the class was about and why she is teaching it, she also wants us all to email her (which I have not had time to do yet). It also gave us an assignment to have done by the first class. While it isn't an especially hard assignment (only 2 typed pages), it isn't one I am use to doing. The assignment "is to learn the 'truth' about a celebrity." We must choose someone from her list, follow them for the next few weeks, then write an introduction for them as if they were receiveing a major award. Anyone who knows me knows I am not up on my celebrities. I don't follow tabloids at all and I am not obsessive about any celebrity. It'll get done, it probably won't even be that hard once I start, but the though of it makes me nervous. It's a person that has never read my writing before. In fact, I don't even know them. That makes me nervous.

Well, I am sure I don't know everyone that reads this blog. Somehow that doesn't bother me as much. Probably because I am not trying to impress anyone here. But at school, I am writing to impress, and for a grade. Makes me nervous when, suddenly, someone new is reading the papers. Oh, and that first-impression-email to my professor. You know how much I am going to stress over that? To top things off, my personal proof-reader is out of town!

And today, I got carded to buy cough medicine. They wouldn't let me buy it because I wasn't 18. They didn't even ask for my id, they just said "um, you have to be 18 to buy this." Haha, the things they regulate.

Can you tell I have spent a long time around kids...quick, I better stop before my mind jumps again!