Sonic, Metal, and The Farewell to Grease

I hate to have two of these in a row, but if you watch the video, you’ll see that I’ve been busy.

In this video, I find myself in the car a lot, a beard magically appears on my face (I grew it myself) and we rock.  Is rock the right term, or does that apply only to rock and roll?  Because the concert I went to was for metal.  Does that mean I should steel?

I thought a lot about that pun.  It’s still a stretch.

France and the French Press

You heard it here first (or second, if you came here from the video.) I am quitting my job in the grease pit deli.  I am moving to France for three months with a program called Interexchange where I will be tutoring for a family that I am going to live with.

I want to keep making these vlogs because they are fun, and trying to make my life seem interesting is interesting in its own right.

Six-Pointed

Hell to Pay: Chapter 2

Tievel went to the Rabbi.  “Where does evil come from?” He asked.  “Evil comes from humans.  All humans commit sins, even from a young age, sometimes without even knowing it.  However, God knows that no man is perfect, and their sins can be forgiven. Their sins and evil will be eventually separated from the goody by the passage into Gehennom.”

Evil.  Teivel suddenly felt it within him.  He felt the evil of those around him.  However, if humans were also part good, that means that both parts were weaker than a pure embodiment of such a force.

The answer came to him in a mural within the synagogue.  A war between angels and demons.  The forces of good versus the forces of good and evil.  If he wanted to be able to call upon such force, a pure spirit of the force had to be summoned.Continue reading “Six-Pointed”

Five-Pointed

Hell to Pay, Chapter 1

Teivel was marked.  His marking was not like the others.  Let’s begin long ago.  Even as a child, he knew he was different, but he didn’t know why.  “You’re special, dear,”  His mother used to say.  Her words comforted him when he came home, dejected that none of the other children would want to play with him.  He had no obvious affliction, yet people were innately hesitant to approach him.

This stigma grew more and more until he reached adolescence.  It was clear that he was not the same as his peers.  He had once been found out back in the school yard; holding down a stray cat by its neck.  Scratches ran up Teivel’s arm.  “It had tried to bite me,” he said.  A teacher was called, and they had him release it, and watch it run off into the bushes.  Continue reading “Five-Pointed”

See, Store Ep3: Raspy Voice of Reason

It was another night at the store.  This was during a particular long stretch where my manager decided not to change up my schedule at all, which was good for me.  This meant I could make plans ahead of time, knowing that I would be able to keep them.  This also meant that I would see her very little.

During the times when we had enough people and the assistant manager was there to do orders for her, she would take a few days away from the store.  When she did show up, mostly when she needed to make contact with the higher-ups, she was there during the early hours of the day.  I guess it gave her a chance to get food from the grill in the back.

When not hidden back in her office on the phone, she was up at the registers doling out a list of things for us to do and buying snacks and cigarettes.  That’s actually how I was trained on the register, by having her rotate constantly back to my window to check something out using various methods.  I think she even had me check her ID for her Marlboro Gold 100’s, which I discovered were her favorites.

It had been about two weeks since I had seen her in the store.  The only contact with her was hearsay from the other employees.  I was standing up at the register, most of the way through the night already.  Everything was pretty much done, and my coworker was taking his lunch.  That’s when a familiar sounding hacking come to my ears.Continue reading “See, Store Ep3: Raspy Voice of Reason”