So I was at my L.A. client again yesterday, hopefully for the last time in a long while, and the building was having 'Hawaiian Day' for it's tenants. So everyone that came in, tenants, visitors, messengers, they all got this big, gaudy plastic Hawaiian lei's. I got one when I came in, and wore it for a bit, until I realized that everyone else had taken theirs off and hidden them. I left the building for lunch and when I got back, the security at the door offered me another lei. 'Uh, I have one upstairs already,' I said. 'Please....' he said, as he looked desparately into my eyes. It was then that I realized, these people had a lei quota to fill. They HAD to give away all their lei's. So I said sure, and got another one.

But I worked so hard today, I didn't even get to enjoy the Hawaiian luau they had in the plaza. Thankfully, it was my last day, because I was starting to have dreams about working there. Not only that, but people around the office, who weren't part of the project started recognizing me. And security gave me a tenant badge instead of a visitor badge. The sushi lady at the food court cried, 'Oh, where have you been? I've been making spicy salmon rolls for you!'. But the biggest thing that send the red flag to my head that I've got to stop working there is once I hit the 12th hour of my workday there, I think to myself, 'Ahh...it's 7:30, I still got two hours in me!' That's when the other part of my brain yelled 'What the hell! I don't get paid overtime! I'm paid for 8 hours of work. Get outta here, fool!'

So yeah. I'm done!

As for my mom, she's been moved to another unit of the hospital, and they're doing tests, tests and more tests. She hasn't had much of an appetite, I mean come on, even I have a hard time eating hospital food, so I told my sisters so sneak in some Krispy Kremes to fatten her up. She complained what I mentioned to her that she needs to eat more Krispy Kremes to gain weight, because it will affect her cholesterol. But hey, cholesterol is the least of her worries! My sisters have told me that my mom, though still pretty weak, is still pretty fiesty when she's talking, so it's a good sign.

Still pretty homesick, though, but it's good to know that things are going better!

Posted by Yano at September 26, 2003 07:45 AM