Mar 15, 2020
FOTOS: DUKI EN VIVE LATINO 2020
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FOTOS: DUKI EN VIVE LATINO 2020
The Second Week Dawns (3/29)
Song of the Day: Thatās AllĀ
Seventeen hours. Over two days. Iāve been at work dealing with stupid people and even stupider questions. No maāam you can not return a pineapple youāve cut. (Yes, that was an actual question I got today.) I work as a cashier at Marianoās on 111th and Cicero. That implies that I should actually be a cashier, right? Wrong. For my shift today I was told to work in the diary department, which means I get to stand in a dairy freezer and move milk around. Sounds fun right?
I walked into the freezer and was instantly hit by a wave of cold. I pushed forward and started my tedious job. I was tasked with organizing all of the milk we had in the back by size and type of milk. Easily over five hundred gallons lay in front of me, almost taunting me. I grab my hook and I get to work.
Three hours in and Iām still freezing and working my arse off. Iām trying a risky maneuver and was singing a song. Instantly, I feel a sharp pain shot through my foot. I look down and suddenly I see the milk crates on my foot. Great. Easily 20 gallons of milk in crates have just crushed my right foot. I do the sensible thing and move my foot out from under the crates. This is where the fun begins. The crates begin to tip over and in one swift motion, twenty gallons are sprawled out across the floor. One explodes on impact, covering my coworker who just walked in from head to toe in skim milk. Obviously, annoyed she calls the manager and I get kicked out of the freezer. Now being the model employee that I am, I proceeded to walk around the store and do nothing for the remaining three hours of my shift. I helped customers here and there, but there is no way that Iām going back to the front end. I finished up my shift and left in a hurry before they could call me back for anything. I drove home and passed out on my bed. I woke up around 8 oāclock and ate dinner. My sister is a bit of a chef and made an amazing dish with a name I canāt recall. When dinner is done I hope back onto Minecraft to forget my pains of the day. Itās currently 11:56 and my eyes are beginning to droop. Well, thatās enough for today.
The Twenty Fourth Day (Easter 4/12)
Song of the Day: Be Still
T-6 days until unemployment. I donāt work today, thank goodness. I woke up at a cool 9 with my mother screaming for breakfast. She had made her special breakfast casserole and I was excited for breakfast, for once. It was delicious and my parents told us that weād be having a miniature version of our usual Easter dinner tonight. I knew what that meant: Prime Rib and mashed potatoes, however, dinner was in 10 hours and I had to find something worthwhile to do until then.
For some reason, I felt motivated and began to do my homework. I knocked out all of my math homework and finished an easy quarter of my bio packet. This was new to me, as Iād usually just do it all in one sitting the night before. After that homework, I decided to hop onto my college website, Xavier University, and check my To-Do List. I saw the two placement tests I had to take and figured thereād be no better time than now to get them out of the way.Ā
I started with Spanish which took my fifteen minutes, being honest I did not know a lot, but I felt confident with a lot of my answers. I finished the test and was alerted that my responses have been graded already. I was nervous when I saw my score of a 400 number. I looked at the rubric and realized that that score was actually in the highest category and I did well. This was a huge relief as the next beast loomed over me; math. I began the test and saw a sign for no calculator. Great. I put mine to the side and bagen the exam. It took me the better half of an hour and I finished right before dinner was to be served. The results wouldnāt be out until June so I knew thereās no point in worrying about it now.Ā
We sat down for dinner and dug into the feast that my parents had prepared. It was amazing. I was happy that our Easter was able to be spent together as a family still. I hope your Easters were spent well and in good company too. I am praying for you all and wish you the best in their trying times. I wish I could do like Danny Devito and offer you an egg, but alas. Well, thatās enough for today.
The Fourth Day Dawns (3/24)
Song of the Day: One is the Loneliest Number by Three Dog NightĀ
(for obvious quarantine reasons, and my mom and dad are both working long shifts and Iām the only one who knows what to do around the house.)
Itās been four days since the city has issued a quarantine. I havenāt worked in over a week. My parents have told me to go into work as sparingly as possible. Itās been quite an adjustment for me and my family, especially seeing them every day.
My routine has taken another hit. The day after the order, I knew Iād have to do something different in order to keep myself sane. Everyday I try to practice three hobbies that I hope to pass time: playing guitar, playing chess, and practicing card games. I start everyday with at least 15 minutes of each, by the time Iām done with all of this itās usually time to do e-learning. This takes up a large portion of my day, and honestly, Iām grateful for it. The new e-learning is very strange to be starting out. The rigid structure is now gone and we have more time per class. Iām not complaining, it gives me more time to do work, itās just a sudden and abrupt change. After school, I usually work out and play some sort of video game. Just some more stuff to take up a lot of time. I need all of these distractions to make me forget the downward slope the world has taken right outside of my window.
The world is in a bit of a mess, and not to sound ignorant, being a senior sucks just a little more than average. No going out with friends, everything you were looking forward to is now a maybe. Iām personally pretty bummed about it. Four years of hard work for this? Come on. Iām sure many of you feel the same way, but thereās nothing we can do about it now. We move on and adapt. My friends and I have adapted in an interesting way; Discord. We made a discord the day that this quarantine went into effect, we had all had it but now it was time to put it to use. We all communicate through it pretty frequently, just to keep tabs on each other and see how weāre all doing. I think that has to be my biggest change: the people I used to see daily I now only hear over Discord every so often. Itās an odd change, but weāre trying to make the best of a very bad situation. What else can I do? Well, thatās enough for today,
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