Spring Season: Week 14
Jun. 8th, 2020 12:09 pmAgh, I keep forgetting I have new Dreamwidth passwords, this is the worst. And I still have so many to change!!
One of my low-key favourite co-workers said goodbye yesterday and it was very bittersweet. I will miss Body Shop Joe very much, he was one of only two people left from when I started back at the tire shop in 2013 (Ex-Con Coworker being the other, and he's stuck on the cross-shift so we can't even scream at each other about movies from six feet apart anymore), but I'm also very happy for him getting to retire and go back home for some well-deserved rest. Even once I moved over to service and we saw a lot less of each other, he would always stop by to say hi every time he was in the building, and he was also the guy who made me realize that people who get by without being fully fluent in the primary language of the place they live are some of the smartest people alive; his English was not great, but he never had trouble making us understand what he was saying, even when he struggled for vocabulary. Once, we were having a conversation and he offhandedly needed to refer to an abstract concept, one of those things that we all learn the meaning of as children but will still ruin your Pictionary game because it's super hard to explain out of context, and he just didn't have the word for it, so instead he spun me this elaborate metaphor, just off the top of his head, that instantly conveyed his meaning with perfect clarity. It was more impressive than any beautiful turn of phrase I've ever read in a book and that moment has always stuck with me. Also, he would absolutely destroy the dance floor at Christmas parties, so shout out to Jose Moreira, I hope you and your wife have a kickass retirement~
No work reads this week, as I made the horrible mistake of rediscovering Conceptis Puzzles, one of my biggest work time wasters of yore. My credit balance was still there after all these years! I'm doomed! Here's the movies I have watched so far this month!
( Le quattro volte, Death Race 2000, Neighbours, Would You Look at Her, Sergeant York, The Milky Way, Antonyms of Beauty, Whirlpool, The Devil and Miss Jones )
One of my low-key favourite co-workers said goodbye yesterday and it was very bittersweet. I will miss Body Shop Joe very much, he was one of only two people left from when I started back at the tire shop in 2013 (Ex-Con Coworker being the other, and he's stuck on the cross-shift so we can't even scream at each other about movies from six feet apart anymore), but I'm also very happy for him getting to retire and go back home for some well-deserved rest. Even once I moved over to service and we saw a lot less of each other, he would always stop by to say hi every time he was in the building, and he was also the guy who made me realize that people who get by without being fully fluent in the primary language of the place they live are some of the smartest people alive; his English was not great, but he never had trouble making us understand what he was saying, even when he struggled for vocabulary. Once, we were having a conversation and he offhandedly needed to refer to an abstract concept, one of those things that we all learn the meaning of as children but will still ruin your Pictionary game because it's super hard to explain out of context, and he just didn't have the word for it, so instead he spun me this elaborate metaphor, just off the top of his head, that instantly conveyed his meaning with perfect clarity. It was more impressive than any beautiful turn of phrase I've ever read in a book and that moment has always stuck with me. Also, he would absolutely destroy the dance floor at Christmas parties, so shout out to Jose Moreira, I hope you and your wife have a kickass retirement~
No work reads this week, as I made the horrible mistake of rediscovering Conceptis Puzzles, one of my biggest work time wasters of yore. My credit balance was still there after all these years! I'm doomed! Here's the movies I have watched so far this month!
( Le quattro volte, Death Race 2000, Neighbours, Would You Look at Her, Sergeant York, The Milky Way, Antonyms of Beauty, Whirlpool, The Devil and Miss Jones )
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