Sorry for the lack of activity on this blog, I've been busy doing actual adult things!

2 weeks ago I stopped working for the carnival since school was starting up and I couldn't travel with them anymore.

I also started dating my boss practically as soon as I stopped working for him. I know what you're thinking, 'this sounds like a fanfiction I've read online'. But no, I'm really dating my 30 year old, ex-boss. I don't want to talk about him too much on here since this is a pretty new relationship and, as I've mentioned before, my first ever. As time goes by and I get a little more comfortable and used to the idea of having a 'boyfriend' (oh god, I thought the day would never acually come) I might start to blog about him (and us) a bit. Or maybe not, whatever.

Thursday through Sunday I had a job cleaning upholstery at USD. Not much to say about the job, it was just a 4 day thing buuuuuuut I'm excited to say this job helped me make rent for september! I will officially be living on my own for another month.

Slowly but surely it seems like I'm being integrated into the world of adults, paying rent and acquiring a boyfriend? Kids can't do that kind of stuff!

Sexual harrasment in the work area is not a joke

So as soon as I made my previous post I realized I should probably specify on the altercation I had at work. 


It has been dealt with and I'm not embarrassed about it so I think here's a good place to talk about it and sexual harassment at work in general.


First of all, sexual harassment is never OK. It's defined as 'the persistent unwelcome directing of sexual remarks andlooks, and unnecessary physical contact at a person, usually awoman, esp in the workplace', as I'd mentioned in my earlier post everyone at the carnival is very friendly so I didn't get too freaked out when he'd put his hand on my shoulder/back even though it did make me a little uncomfortable.


I work in the buoy pitch (sometimes the Duck Pond, which is the big money maker) and he works in the water race, and on Saturday he thought it would be appropriate to make a joke about me 'loving to be wet' over the microphone.


All I could think to do was turn around and tell him 'Stop, that's disgusting'. He realized that he made a mistake and that we are not on that level and tried to make non sexual jokes over the mic to get me to laugh it off or something. Luckily only one other guy was there to hear his 'joke' because otherwise I'm sure that would have made me a lot more upset than it did.


When my boss came around to check up on me and see if everything was cool I told him what happened, and he said he'd deal with it. I didn't get an official apology from the guy, which would have been nice but definitely not necessary.


I know this guy has made these kinds of jokes about the other women that he works with and I know a lot of them let it slide (because they probably think it's no big deal and that these jokes don't really hurt anyone) so I don't think this incident is really going to change the way he acts towards his coworkers but at least I did my part and feel a little better that he'll at least leave me alone.

Everyday I'm hustling

Since last updating I've continued to work at the carnival (Wednesday-Sunday), which is tough but is quick , easy money. If you know how to hustle. I don't want to make it seem like I'm a pimp or anything but I'm pretty good at getting people to spend money at my booth just by smiling at them and being friendly, that's kind of hustling right?

That's my super legit work polo

Working for the carnival has been great so far, pretty much every one there is friendly and very, very nice so I haven't had any trouble fitting in. There's only one time I've had trouble so far, which was when a male coworker made a very inapropriate joke about me over the mic at his booth. I told my boss and he said he'd deal with it, which I assume he did since the guy has since stopped making those kinds of jokes and tries to be 'gentlemanly' (it makes him seem like more of a pushover imo) since. I didn't get a formal apology though, which I would have liked.


I had a bizzare interview at Pizza Hut yesterday which literally lasted about 7 minutes. They called me 2 hours later to say I didn't get the job, which lead me to believe they'd already found someone great before interviewing me and were just trying to be polite. OH WELL. I'm filling out some online applications right now.


I've also registered for the local community college and have a counselors appointment on Tuesday to help me choose calsses since I'm too dumb to do it by myself. So there's that.