This is the countdown

Today, the great task of sorting through things and organizing what honestly feels like two lives began. Basically, I started looking through clothes and things. Most of the stuff I own, sadly (and selfishly, I might add), I do not wear. Even though I gave 4 bags of clothes to the Salvation Army when I got home, there is still so much more that I'm going to go through when I'm home at Christmas and have more time. I'm hoping to make it up to school with only four cardboard boxes of things, the rest stored away inside the plastic storage containers I have. I think it's almost possible, because I have last years' experience to help me out packing-wise.

I'm a little (okay, very) irked with Lone Star. I went up yesterday to collect the remaining money I should have had there. I should have had two days worth of tipshare and a paycheck. Well, they "couldn't" find my two days of tipshare ("maybe you picked it up and forgot?") and my last two days of work were supposed to be on this pay periods paycheck. None of that made sense to me, since I haven't worked there in two weeks, but I didn't want to argue with incompetency, so I figured I'd go back today and see if I actually had a paycheck on this period. I went in, and sure enough, there's my last paycheck..all $11.81 of it. Hours worked, you might ask? Five and a half. I looked at the dates for the payperiod, and this payperiod started on July 13th. It only includes my last day of work, the 15th...therefore, I didn't get paid for my second to last day of work which I believe was July 10th...AND I didn't get tipshare for either day (which means I technically didn't get paid minimum wage). The money I would be getting isn't worth the effort it will take to get it, but it's the principle of the thing. I didn't malliciously quit, really. I legitimately had to leave so I could go back to Shepherd...I have no control over that...arg. I'm a little disappointed that I made next to nothing this summer...it feels like I wasted my time...I mean it this time when I say that I'm *never* working in foodservice again.

I should probably get my ass back to organizing the mess that currently sits on my bed. I have things to put away that don't really have places...so this could get messy.

This will probably be my last post until I get back up to Shepherd. So, to the Harfordcountians in the audience, thanks for making my summer a little better than I thought it was going to be...and to the kids from Shepherd, I'll see you soon enough.

Peace