journal - writing and dreams

I managed to write something that I think is sound last night just before going to bed. As I lay seeking sleep, I thought about the next scene; I'm considering a seer waking in the night and writing up notes about the scene I had just finished ... that she had "seen" it in HER dreams.

This morning I dreamt of a dreamer dreaming the dreams that I was having and what he would do with them to help his family of impoverished, homeless immigrants (Latin American) living in Texas. There were some Freudian images in the dream ... the flow of ants too tiny to stem their onset, for example, and the rain coming in the open window in the unused window that soaked everything. At least I could shut the window.

It was reassuring to have such a vivid dream. These days I seem to mostly dream about cashiering at the store and I'm pretty much chained to the register.

Journal - Work

I was hired as a cashier at the local grocery store at the beginning of August. To my surprise, I enjoy the work and I am good at it. What I enjoy about the job is talking to the customers and playing grocery bag tetris.

That said, we are ferociously under-staffed.

This week we started a new cashier ... or she will be once she's trained on our cash registers. When the front-end manager has time to train her. She started yesterday, hanging around bagging. At my register.

And she talks to the customers.

Leaving me there doing nothing except ringing up the purchases ... which is boring.

She was there again today with no chance of the manager finding time to train her in sight - at my register. Now, I spent almost 20 years hanging around the high school sharing what I know with others and besides which ... she was in my space. So I starting telling her about the register. Showing her how to work it. Encouraging her to ring up a few items.

Next thing I know, it's pretty much accepted by everyone that I'm training her. Which is all well and good but ... she's using my register and switching things around to suit herself!

Well, at least I got to bag but my knee is VERY sore from standing on it all day.

Also, I "won" a coupon to buy stuff from the company store ... I *think* it's a reward for raising the most for the local food pantry but because they are not officially handing out rewards for that because of some cheating ... :: shrug ::

I've already ordered another uniform shirt and a vest for my son, so easy come, easy go.