The only people I see are people from work, it seems.

[judecorp]

Aah, the beach. I so love the beach, with its beachy smell and its beachy breezes. I'm so glad that Marti Maraschino gave me a last-minute phone call. (Seriously, people, I love the last-minute plans, because I HATE planning.) I had just pulled out all of my geocaching stuff and was getting ready to go check some out, but the beach offer was much more tempting. So I whipped out the I'm-too-big-to-wear-this-in-public-but-I-will-anyway two-piece bathing suit, got a bag of stuff together, and waited for Funk and Marti to arrive.

We headed off to Nantasket and spent probably 2.5 quality hours at the beach. There was some laying around happening, with Marti reading us ridiculous sections of her most recent fashion magazine (gah, really). There was some submerging in the frigid water where I almost lost my prescription sunglasses in the ocean (oops). And I was clever enough to bring a frisbee so Marti Maraschino and I got in the water and threw the frisbee around and gabbed while Funk napped on the rocks. And yes rocks, because the tide came in so much that there was no beach left! Ha ha, Nantasket, you are so weird.

I'd put on a ton of sunscreen before I left and I don't think I got a single smidge of color, which is sad but oh well. I got to play frisbee in waist-deep frigid ocean water, so it all evens out. Good times.

Movie Club saw The Hidden Blade which is SO not a movie I would ever have seen on my own. I mean, it was okay and it wasn't terrible, but I really was just waiting for it to end by the end of it. Parts of it were funny and there was a flying body part, but yeah... not the best $9.25 I ever spent. Afterwards we went to Cambridge Brewing Company where we had such terrible service because we were a party of seven and the gratuity was going to be included. I HATE THAT. It took us over two hours to eat, so we all had to pay for extra parking (the movie theatre validates for 4 hours). Grrrrrrr.

I got painfully little sleep last night so I'm going to call this one an early (yet still eventful) Saturday.

And I can't believe I spend so much freaking time with my coworkers. I am SO WEIRD but they are SO FUNNY.

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[lemur68.livejournal.com]

we had such terribly service because we were a party of seven and the gratuity was going to be included. I HATE THAT.

Ohh, since they know they're getting their 18% or whatever they have no motivation to be good servers. I never thought about that.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Now it COULD be that he's just a jackass server and would have been terrible no matter what, but I was LIVID that gratuity was included for him because I had no intention of tipping him 18%. He was the worst server I've ever had. We had to ask him for silverware, ask him for refills of drinks, and a SEPARATE server came over 15 minutes after we'd asked him for to-go boxes and ended up boxing up our stuff for us.

Grr.

[mightywombat.livejournal.com]

You are so funny the way that you make such close friends with your coworkers! I am almost jealous, because I don't have that many friends at work. I mean, I'm friendly with them, and most of us like each other okay, but we don't make plas outside of work that often. like, once most of the people on my floor all got together and went to a club (they actually do that pretty regularly, but I only went with them once; clubs in NYC are *expensive*) and once or twice I've gone out for a drink immediately after work, and once I went with one of them while she went shopping, but really, that's about it. Going to the beach with them or really doing anything extracurricular just seems weird because we don't have that much in common... I envy you your cool coworkers.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not like I am BFF with any of them, and this is really the only job where I've actually hung out with multiple people. (At one job I buddied up with Coworker Hope, at another job I buddied up with Coworker Sarah, and then there's Coworker vorpalbla from another job and we were bike pals...) Although I /do/ like to keep the office light and try to stir up trouble. ;)

I think part of the deal is that social service jobs tend to suck in a lot of young women... so these people are pretty much all my age and we're kind of into the same things (except for Marti and the fashion mags, SRSLY). I dunno. When I worked in office jobs, I don't remember being all that friendly... or the jobs where everyone was way older than me. *shrug*

This is definitely not the norm, not even for me.

[volumeat11.livejournal.com]

You missed a good'un. We beat Charlestown 33-13. I got me some snaps in. It was cool.

I'll letcha know when we go to the Boston area next...

...how's about Friday, August 11, 8 PM, at Brockton?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Dude, I am SO there!

Send deets.

[volumeat11.livejournal.com]

Um...yeah...about that Brockton game...I'm not too sure if I'm going to be there...I'll send you an email soon to explain why...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Got it. I e-mailed back but my e-mail is being wonky. It might take a bit to get to you.

I'll just say this: OUCH!