These past four weeks have been the most interesting weeks in my life.  

Everyday it is the same repeated schedule.  I wake up, eat, get dressed into a random pair of sweatpants and a sweatshirt, start doing work and listening to lectures I usually never finish.  Then I go and eat some more. I try to spend time with my family, once they get too annoying it’s usually time for me to get ready for work. Once I get to work I deal with some really stupid and crazy people.  Eventually when my shift is over, I go home, get the world’s longest shower trying to get all the gross people germs off me. Finally I go and eat again, watch some more tv and then go to bed. When I wake up I get to do it ALL over again.   

Most people are really sick of being with their families and not leaving their houses in over a month.  Instead, I’m really tired of working. I work at Wawa, which doesn’t really get many people in it right now.  Less people means less busy you are, which then means the shifts take FOREVERRR. There’s only so much you can clean in that store, so eventually it just ends up everyone who’s working just talks in the back until someone walks in.  Plus the fact that we now have to make people’s coffee’s for them really sucks! People are rude and picky and if it isn’t EXACTLY how they like it, you have to completely remake it and it is a true waste of my time.  

Please next time you go into a Wawa during this pandemic, please be patient with the employees.  Most of the rules and guidelines you are annoyed with are more than likely annoying us more, but we have no control over it.  Please be nice and patient with us, most of us don’t really want to be at work risking our and our families health. But hey at least we’re getting another $3 an hour, plus a free shorti hoagie every shift.  

Other than having to be at work I have started trying to take up new hobbies to occupy myself.  I’ve attempted cleaning my room (that hasn’t gone well). I have also started baking again. I’ve painted pictures of animals for my friends and family.  This past weekend I also tried seeing my future as a barber while I cut my dad’s, brother’s and boyfriend’s hair…I think I’m just going to stick with teaching.  My mom and I have started watching the corney Hallmark mystery movies, they seem lame, but they’re actually pretty good. My boyfriend has tried to teach me to play some video games, but that also hasn’t gone so well.  Finally another passtime I’ve tried when I’m REALLY bored, I sit next to my living room window and watch all of the people and their pets walking by that I never even knew lived in my neighborhood.  

These past few weeks I’ve been really off.  It sucks not being able to see my friends, all you can do is just text and FaceTime with them.  The only places I go are my house, work and occasionally my boyfriend’s house. I have been highly unmotivated to do anything, especially school wise.  That’s why I’m sitting here at 7:39, 21 minutes before it’s due, writing my blog post. Also my anxiety has been through the levels because of a stupid man and a bat.  I really wish everything could go back to normal because this shit sucks.

– Mikaela