Wandering Aimlessly

Can you believe I'm almost DONE here? Ahhhh!!! I have three more days off of work: next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (for CFTC). That's it. I don't even think I'm going to get to go back to Animal Kingdom, which is SO my favorite park. I've only been to Epcot once. I haven't eaten at Hard Rock yet or at any of the sit-down restaurants in the parks. I talked to Stephen last week about him talking to a woman he knows at Guest Relations about an internship, and I HOPE I have enough time to go talk to her at some point. I've tried to go over to Magic Kingdom three times now to talk about an internship, and every time I plan to go, something happens and I don't get over there. Grrrrr. I'm running out of time here. I'm not ready to go home!

What have I done since I last blogged? Oo, Sunday after not going to HoB, Carolyn and I "decorated" the house for Amy (put out her presents, displayed her two cakes, decorated the table with her feather boa and picture frames, put on her favorite music) and waited up for her to get home so we could sing Happy Birthday. It was fun. She was really surprised. On Monday. . . I worked 9-5, which wasn't a bad shift at all. Stephen ERed Jessica and me at 4:30. I was supposed to go to MK with Carolyn, but she got off work late. I forget what I did after that. Oh, Heather, Andrea and I went swimming! Heehee. We had a little pool party at the Vista pool, did hand stand contests, raced, splashed around, and were total goofballs. That was a good time. <.g>

On Tuesday I had my last day at the Science Center. I feel like I wasn't there nearly at all, which I wasn't, but I did get a lot of experience and some things to put in a portfolio once they come back from Graphics. Malia promised she'd send me copies of all the pamphlets I made. I was supposed to go to MK with Heather when I got home, but she'd gotten off work extra early and went to play in the parks with her friends. Diana has been really sick, so I took the Reel NSYNC over to her apartment and we sat on her bed and laughed at the guys. That was fun. Afterwards, Karen, Jessica and I went to the Roxy. It was a bit of an adventure, since I-4 was closed down and I really don't know other ways to get into Orlando. Or didn't. Now I do. Heehee. We made it there right in time to meet Karen. We're 95% sure Joey was there, too. That was exciting. I haven't seen a current picture of him since probably before I left Illinois, so there was that shadow of a doubt, but the guy we think was him was all shaking everyones hands and all the girls were trying to get into the VIP area to talk to him, so... unless there's another famous Joey-look-alike... (that was a really long "sentence.") We needed Carolyn there to tell us for sure. =oޠ

Jessica and I decided to go to Daytona on Wednesday so that we could relax and get some sun. Got home around 2:30 from the Roxy, finally fell asleep at 3:30 after watching the last half of Austin Powers. 4:30, phone rings. Someone has been calling in the middle of the night lately and it's pissing me off. I didn't answer it. 7:00, got up to take Amy to the car dealership (her car died on I-4 the other day... poor thing!!!). Got home at 8, went back to bed. 10:30, phone rings. I didn't even hear it until Minhee came into my room to wake me up. My manager. Why is my manager calling me on my day off? Oh yeah, he needs me to work. No beach for Kate. Turns out, there had been a little fire in the transformer at Epcot which resulted in half the park having no power. Which means no lights, no AC, and yeah, no rides. They shut down all of Epcot, which displaced 30,000 guests into the other parks. Five people had called in sick, so Pizza Planet had some outdoor foods cast members helping out, some catering people, and a couple people from Epcot. Jessica and I both went in. We gave Stephen a hard time about having us in on our day off, and we got free pizza for lunch and a free ice cream at the end of the night. heehee. Plus he was all "I owe you the world... anything you need, let me know." <.giggle> That's a dangerous thing to tell a person.

Then last night after work, Stephanie came back to Vista with me, and then she, Jessica and I went bowling. Wednesdays are cast member night, so it was cheap. Heehee. Cheap is good. I bowled probably the best game of my life! I got a 131, which, when I only break 100 about 1/3 of the time, and when I do it's only by a few points, is amazing to me. After bowling, we tried to go to Margaritaville to meet up with Carolyn, Amy, Gina and whoever else was there, but they were carding at City Walk! They NEVER card at City Walk. I mean, there are tons of restaurants there (one of which is Margaritaville, which you don't need to be 21 to get into). Well, Jessica's 20 and Stephanie's 18, so it was a no-go for us. I wasted gas driving all the way there and back for nothing. Grrrrr. I have NO idea why they were carding last night. The guard said something about it being a Teen Night, which makes like negative since to me... if it's Teen Night, why won't you let teens in? Whatever. So that was a bummer.

And that was that. I'm heading in for Day 2 of 9 straight days of working before my next day off. Which I guess isn't a whole lot, but it's going to seem like forever by the time Thursday comes.