Ugh.

For a first day on the job, that was pretty bad. The 12-hour double shift turned out to be 13 hours, and with the hour drive to and from, I left home at 6 in the morning and arrived back at 9 PM. And on 5 hours of sleep. The girl training me in started out pretty nice, but about halfway through we both got rather bitchy and irritated from exhaustion. That job is non-stop. I had 15 minutes for lunch and the rest of the day I didn't even got to sit down. We were constantly hustling, and even so we ran behind and didn't get all the jobs down. There's literally hundreds of animals there and the two of us were responsible for cleaning the cages of almost every single one. And I felt like an idiot because there was so much to take in and I kept making stupid mistakes.

Thank GOD the boss decided to give me a break tomorrow and only make me work one shift starting at 9:30 (but probably still going through 8 PM). And then, being the idiot that I am, I agreed to do overnights for the next week for the pet-sitting job. I guess it's just that I've been so worried about money for so long, I can't turn down an opportunity to earn some. But I hope this job improves. It HAS to, as I was told that today's was the worst double shift you could have, and as I get the hang of things I'll make friends and stop making stupid mistakes. Hopefully.

On the plus side (because I hate bitchy, pessimistic posts):

• I'm raking in the money this month!


• During my lunch, some of the trainers had the young orangutan in the office where I was, and he came up to me and touched my leg. That's kinda surreal.


• I'm hafway through Lost's second season and loving it.

Anyways, I need to thank you all for the great response to my last post. It was heartwarming and I'd love to respond individually to all of you individually right now, but I'm exhausted, hungry, and I ache all over. I'm going to bed.