Charlie’s Blog

I’m giving up on self check-out at Ralph’s. Today, I realized that it only saves time if all of your items have a barcode. When produce gets involved, it gets more complicated. You have to enter codes and quantities, and if there’s no sticker, which happened with a bunch of my items today, you have to wait for the attendent to help you! She was trying, but one of the stations broke down so she was fixing that while I was waiting for a code on Italian squash. Ugh, some jerk waiting behind me tried to give me advice on the machine, but I ignored him. That’s another thing. You feel the pressure of the people waiting to check themselves out. I’m pretty good at pretending like I don’t notice them, but it stresses me out nonetheless.

I finished the third and final book of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. It’s about these four girls who have been best friends since they were born, and they cry all the time. Like, the little sister of one of them broke her arm, and when they heard about it, each of the four girls cried. Another one’s dad told her he wouldn’t pay for art school, and they all cried. I don’t know how they get through a full day if they have such intense reactions to their friends’ problems, let alone their own! I was pretty disappointed by the ending, though. I was hoping this one girl would have sex with the really hot guy who she lost it with in the first book, but instead they decided to take it slow and just hug! Young adult fiction is always trying to be so moral!

I guess I’ll bike to the downtown library today to find something new to read. Ugh, I don’t want to battle the hill coming back (they don’t call this neighborhood Hill-crest for nothing), but the local library doesn’t have the book I want.

I can’t wait until tomorrow for the North Park Farmers Market! I’ve been craving those sapotes since Sunday which I guess wasn’t that long ago, but I want one or ten so badly! I’m going to bring my big backpack and buy out the sapote farmer!

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