Having been an Atheist now for 7 or so years, I was quite pleased to hear the current ruling against the Pledge of Alligiance. Not that I think someone should waste their time fighting this, or that I think the Pledge is really all that offensive to us Atheist, but more along the lines that I'm glad an Atheist has finally stood up and said "Hey, guess what? Not everyone believes in a God." I'm constantly hearing how we have to be careful not to discriminate against people for religious reasons. Watch out for the Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims ect, but what about those people that don't believe in a God? Even if this is overturned I'm glad that something finally happened. Enough said.

It has been a while. Busy but not really. Went to Long Island last weekend. Didn't really do anything special. I've been assigned to work on a special project at work. This will involve me spending two weeks scheduled as such: Sunday-Saturday a total of 52 hours. These weeks happen to have been scheduled in August. One during my birthday and the other during the last week. I'm not even sure if I'm still going to be working at Fleet that week. It all depends on when I move to Long Island. Speaking of birthdays. A certain someone who will go unnamed had a birthday two weekends ago. I sent that someone a birthday card and have yet to hear/receive word from them that they got the card. Maybe it got lost in the mail? (J Lo is such a whore.)
This upcoming weekend will be spent at home. The next, Alex might possibly come to see me. He has a 4 day weekend. The weekend after that I'll be home. Then I'm going to NJ and the John Mayer concert. Then the following weekend Alex and Seth are coming up here to see Dave Mathews Band at Saratoga (of course I'm not going). Basically July is going to rock. August is gonna pretty much suck. I'll be down to the wire (saving, getting an apartment and finding a job) and will be working way too much. It's too hot.

I'm bored which means that I'm going to be making some changes.

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What a night and it all took place over IM. The ex...aka Ryan...and I had an interesting conversation as always. It concerns me that he really doesn't seem emotionally or socially stable. After being kicked out of college a year ago he still hangs out on the campus trying to make friends with students. The friends that he did have are now college graduates and yet he still hangs out on campus hoping to make new friends. New friends that go to a college that he got kicked out of over a year ago. He walks around campus and finds women that he is attracted to. Once he becomes attracted to them he begins to think about them. He doesn't think it would be strange to just e-mail them even though they have only spoken once. He claims he is home to earn money to move back out in September, yet he is not working and doesn't plan on it. I just don't understand why his father isn't worried about his 21 (going on 22) year old son who doesn't see too emotionally sound.



In other news I made a big boo boo. Alex had e-mailed me with news that didn't make me very happy. I was pms'ing and responded in a not so nice way. He responded in a not so nice way. We haven't been able to speak to one another because he is now working from 3-11pm and i work from 7-3:30pm. This of course will all end after next week. I do hope he calls me tomorrow. I really don't want to be the one to call him.



Side note. My new pet peeve are people who start these journals and then never update them. Never updating them is fine but at least let us know that you never plan on updating. Just add a note saying: Hey I started this but I don't really feel like keeping it up. Thanks for visiting.

I had my first run in with Human Resources. I had reported a fellow co-worker for harrassment. This co-worker, who happens to be a man in his 20's, started with me two thursdays ago. First he came up to the water cooler, that is in front of my desk, and stated "Kristin, you're rude." I began to ask him questions as to why he thought I was rude and he claims it is because I "look at (him) and don't say hi." I apologized and thought the issue had been resolved. About three days later I'm getting out of my car and walking into work when I hear "Kristin, you're rude." It's this particular co-worker again. I begin to explain to him that I'm shy and really don't talk to a lot of people. He continues to walk in in front of me. The next day he comes up from behind me at work, brushes my hair and says "thats not harrassment." Then finally on Thursday he comes up to the water cooler again and says "HI KRISTIN." I begin to say something to him about what I'm working on and he replies with "HELLO KRISTIN." He then leaves. It was about this time that I went to my boss and told her about it. Next thing I know he is being called down to Human Resources and is basically told to knock off the shit or he will be fired.
In other news...Alex was up this weekend. He was very playful and cute. The two of us went up to Blue Mountain Lake and then back to Utica. By the way, Babes sucks. We got the worst service. He is know gone. Next is my turn to go see him. We have come to an agreement that we will trade off visits and not go longer than two weeks without seeing one another. Sounds good to me.

I officially want to kill one of my co-workers. This would be the temp a.k.a. Dee the 61 year old woman who is retired but is working to support her 35 year old sons 8 children. Let's just say that he couldn't keep it in his pants. If this woman comes to me for help one more day I'm going to take out my scissors and pull her heart out. Enough said.

The first Long Island weekend has come to a close. Friday (on four hours of sleep) I arrived in Plainview around 4:30pm. Ate momma Leicht's tasty homemade dinner and then Alex and I went out to Jillian's and Borders with the famous Seth (the only friend Alex talks about non-stop). Saturday we fixed up the bikes and took a quick trip around the neighborhood. I pointed out that 3 out of 5 house looked just like his. He replied that most houses on Long Island look the same. We swung on swings and froliced like children. Then we went to his friend Stan's house and took a trek on over to the Roosevelt Field mall. Alex and I got back around 5pm and decided to take the bikes out to the Bethpage State Park. We rode about 8 miles in one direction until we reached the Surise Highway. Stopped at Dunkin Doughnuts and then back home. Got back home around 9pm very hungry. Stayed up late. Sunday was the graduation party. Many family members and friends. I felt overwhelmed. Left on Monday at 1:45. Alex will be arriving in the greater Central New York area Friday evening. I'm tired.