keep a little dirt under ur pillow for the dirt man
2 am
my mom sent me a link re: "severe geomagnetic storm levels continue to be observed."
also the first snowflakes fell last night... and it's getting colder...
i had four days off work this week and it was really nice.
do you ever feel weird going back to work after a long weekend? i have no energy. my sister would say it's because i don't sleep at night. i do get enough sleep though. just at different times of the day than other people. i wonder if i'll ever see any aurora besides green. that's the color i've only ever seen living in the city. i guess the eye can perceive green better than other colors. it also depends at what altitude the solar particles and oxygen atoms meet.
so, the bussers at the restaurant i work at are very interesting people. they're mostly 19-21 year olds, and they make lots of dark jokes. all the time. my boyfriend's cousin who worked there today told us that one of the bussers went and told on another for making racist remarks, but we all think that busser told on a certain other one because he is tired of him and not the actual jokes.. that certain person is really prideful and just think he's number 1 at his job, and some of the bussers can be pretty competitive and also tired of his ego. we all notice that about him. the fact that he's not very humble. but anyway, for example one of my coworkers name is todd and he calls himself re-todd, and one of the managers heard and he got in trouble for calling himself that. but i literally heard my other manager after hours call him that as a joke. so as you see, there's one group of people and another group of people that work at my job. the serious type and non-serious. i'm definitely not condoning their behavior but i'm just used to it and it's not my problem either. i'm not responsible for any of them, thank god.
i don't know if i would enjoy being management and being responsible for other people and their mistakes and problems. there's just always so much of it. but also the restaurant i work at has hundreds of employees. like, the serving/bartender list alone is 61 people.
i feel bad for all the floridians this month. but on the other hand, the videos they're making are hilarious. it's always crazy to me how some people can always make the best of out of a bad situation, or find humor in the darkest of times. i was watching a news report and they were in the path of a jogger who was running down the sidewalk, shirtless in the pouring rain. nothing will get in the way of cardio day. he was like, well... my house is flooding.. might as well do something productive outside. florida man vs. hurricane milton.
the other day i went into the post office and they reprimanded me for not being able to open the door - they watched me attempt to open one of the doors and, thinking it was locked, i walked around to the other side of the building to open the other door. they told me just to pull it harder next time. i tried to explain to them that the other day when the post office was closed but the actual building was open for us to check our boxes, everyone thought the door was locked too. like one guy told me to go around and not even attempt the door. i did the same to the man coming in after me. so, i guess this is how misinformation spreads.
last night i broke my key when opening my front door. i was trying to find my key in my bag and i told my boyfriend, "UGH! why can i never find anything??? the universe is literally always against me!" and he was like, "you just need to be more organized." and then i put the key in the lock and tried to turn it and it snapped in half. luckily not in the lock, though. my boyfriend has his own key so we still got into the house.
the number one thing i love about living in alaska is that we don't have natural disasters here. thinking about tornadoes and hurricanes and even tsunamis scare me. the only thing we need to worry about is earthquakes (and tsunamis). the last big one was a few years ago. it was a 7.1. i was laying on the floor in my living room sleeping (because i was 19 and i slept on a futon in my living room), and i woke up and the ground started shaking and the pictures above the mantle place started falling and i immediately went out into my hallway to go outside and saw my neighbor doing the same exact thing. the epicenter was near my mom's house in the next town over and my two sisters were visiting at the time. one of my sisters was sleeping in the upstairs bedroom and stuff immediately started falling on her. while they were going down the stairs all the pictures were falling on them. some of the houses there split in half. school had just started and the traffic was crazy because everyone had to go back and pick up their kids because some of the schools ceilings had started falling apart. and the libraries looked like this:
but i can't even imagine being in a big natural disaster. the last one in alaska was in 1964 and it was the second largest earthquake ever recorded worldwide, at a 9.2 magnitude. buildings literally sank beneath the ground and/or were leveled. we have a section of anchorage named earthquake park that's dedicated to the earthquake because of the unique alterations it made to the landscape there.
that was denali theater. it sank all the way to the marquee. imagine being in the theater when that happened?
club paris is still in that exact spot, neon sign and everything. neon signs used to be all the rage here. there's even a youtube video recorded in the 70s called 'anchorage's neon signs.' but now they're no longer, except for club paris'.
i definitely feel like anchorage is losing a lot of its historical buildings. we definitely did that day, but also last year they demolished 4th avenue theater (which had been damaged by the 64 earthquake.) it just got so rundown inside that eventually it was beyond saving.
i started watching the witcher last night and i had tried to watch it before and didn't really get into it but the second time around, i actually liked it a lot. i went to the bookstore and bought the last wish and since i was in the mood, i bought a game of thrones too. i have a kindle --- which is like, the best invention ever and i don't know how i ever read paper books before it was invented ---- but i've been trying to go back to actual books. it's a weird opinion but i feel like owning a kindle makes me lazy and doesn't make me appreciate the book i'm reading as much.