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   As evidenced by that previous entry, I'm clearly losing my sanity. In fact, I determined just how far from sanity I am. Here are the results

[livejournal.com profile] emosnail-[livejournal.com profile] incomple-[livejournal.com profile] oystercracker-[livejournal.com profile] _amandalauren-[livejournal.com profile] fienduntildeath-[livejournal.com profile] __war_room__-[livejournal.com profile] sanity1

   As you can see, not only am I relatively far from sanity (random ljs are usually four or five "hops" apart, as opposed to six in this case), but only [livejournal.com profile] incomple connects me to sanity.


Today - Return to Wild Rivers
   Today was an employee party at Wild Rivers, where after being employed for six years I am NOT currently an employee. I'll probably come back at some point though to make this my seventh season, after all with 93 rescues I just HAVE to try to break 100 now.
   My parents tried to convince me I should shave off the mohawk before I showed up there if I ever wanted to work there again, but thing is, I've been waiting to show up there with a mohawk for like four years.
   It was really nice to see everyone again. Nearly everyone who was a deep guard last year is a supervisor now. I've worked there four years longer than most of the current supervisors had when they were supervisored - wish I could've found my "unpromotable" shirt this evening.
   Supervisor [livejournal.com profile] forrest441 showed up wearign a $60 shirt and someone called him metrosexual. Also supervisor Hethr kept calling out "hand check!"s in the warming pool2 every five minutes. It was a bit unnecessary considering that I don't think thats really gonna stop anyone - she seemed to just enjoy doing hand checks.


1Source: http://www.petekrawczyk.com/lj_connect/
2Its a "warming pool" and not a "spa" because it only gets lukewarm, and not a "jacuzzi" because that's a brand name.


Related
   Pictures: of Wild Rivers - Featuring [livejournal.com profile] forrest441 himself, and pictures from the wild animal park before Wild Rivers was built on its ruins.
   Year Ago Today: Violations - getting violated by parking tickets twice in one day, and talking to Wild Rivers Operations Director Kevin Kopeny (which I did today as well)

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   So today was my first actual day of work at Wild Rivers for the summer. I worked 11-7.
   When I got there Nikki informed me that since I'm not area trained in anythign yet this year I can't work anything but three places, two of which are the most unpleasant places in the park (the kiddie pools argh!). I'm like... I am practically qualified to GIVE the area training.. I'm the most senior lifeguard there and have seniority over several supervisors (Yes thats right; I get passed over in favor of people like Hethr, who with half as many years as I and a number of no shows already that season was promoted to supervisor, why? So Ryan Carter can date her. I'm serious).
   So the first half of the day I'm working these sucky places and thinking about going postal or something. I felt like "the funnyman" from Boondock Saints, like everyone knows I'm never getting promoted and is laughing at me. But then the second half I got to spotbreak shallows and basically things went a lot better.
   The highlight of my day was DEFINITELY seeing SHASTA who happened to be in the park, randomly. Yay. Seriously made my day.
   And I met this girl Hannah who seriously is for awesome. I worked with her at the bottem of "patriot," where there's always two employees. Of course supervisor Jeff Whetstone (::caugh::manwhore::caugh::) was flirting with her when I got there. We were only working together for like five minutes but it was long enough that now we're LIKE THIS. Good times.

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