Well, I Would Walk 500 Miles

(My god, my skin is blue!)

Hey everybody, it's Ethan (Tyeisha's boyfriend, and fellow blogger), here for a guest post. And it being the weekend, I guess today would be a good time to recap the week. Starting out, there's somethings that Ty has left out (though, not on purpose, I'm sure) from the past weekend, and I feel I should cover it (in some detail).

This past Sunday, as Ty, alluded to in an earlier post, a couple of our fellow improv members started dating. One of them later said Ty would be the one who called it, sooner or later. I kind of saw it, but really didn't much thought into it. So, when Ty told me this from a trip to the local Walmart, I was, well, surprised. Anyways, I'm happy for them.

Fast forward 24 hours, and a few other members, including Ty and myself, head to a nearby Applebee's for their late night, half off appetizers. And we just so happen to sit next to the newest couple on the block. Ty was happy because we had an "improv double date", and I was happy because Applebee's chips and queso were like $4.00, and it's easily split. Win, win!

Moving ahead to Thursday, because honestly, Tuesday and Wednesday were boring and uneventful. Thursday night, Legends had their obligatory fire drill for the semester. I understand why they do, and why it needs to be done. Doesn't nullify the fact that I was in tee-shirt and shorts, about to go to bed, and it wasn't much warmer than 35 degrees outside. Brrr...

So, because Ty is vetoing my plea for making me "Hot Guy of the Week" this week, I think I'm going to close this post out. If you want more blogging, check out my blog! My next post is going to have dolphins, phones, and sitcoms (Only one of these will appear, the other two are a maybe). So, until next time I get the chance to guest write, I'll be off.

-Until next time,
Ethan.

Beautiful Liar

Well, this week is already looking to be a TON better than last week!:) My work schedule is turning out great, and Ethan and I went out on a nice double date with some good friends of ours from improv. (More on that story later! And pics.)

Well, I know it's the middle of the week, but I think it's never too late for Hot Guy of The Week. Sooo, without further adieu, our HGOTW is Stephen Colbert, of The Colbert Report.

Here in Ty's World, there is nothing sexier than an older white guy, in glasses, who knows his politics. Yum.

Tyeisha Neicole, signing off:)

What Up, Gangsta

Warning: This blog post does not reflect the opinions or views of UNT Dining Services management or staff...just MY opinion.

As anybody knows who goes to school with me, I work at Bruce Cafeteria. I used to work at Kerr Cafe, but I transferred after last semester. I've been working for UNT Dining Services since Halloween. In the short time I've been there, I've learned, seen, and heard a few interesting things. This post is dedicated to the stuff I've seen, and heard. Oh, and also a few simple "rules" for eating in the dining halls. From the viewpoint of a disgruntled food service worker.

Ear Hustling:
Never underestimate how much of your conversations I can actually hear while I walk around with my bucket and my broom. I might be invisible in your eyes, but my ears still work. I've heard a little bit of everything during my time on the job. Here's a few tidbits of interesting talks I've heard on the clock.
-"I mean, I'm not attracted to her at all. But I just can't tell her that. You think she'll get the picture if I just start ignoring her? I've pretty much told all her friends that it's not, like, going to happen."
-"I mean, I think I might be pregnant. But I'm not sure. Like, how will I know?"
-"Like, how do I file my taxes? Is someone supposed to do that for me?"
-"Dude, I gotta figure out how to squeeze a whole month's worth of sex into a week."
""So, I wanna date a football player so bad. I think we should go get an apartment next year in case they need to crash."


No, these are not made up. Those are all actual conversations.


Nobody knows, the trouble I've seen...
The cafeterias I've worked at have fed up to 1700 people a day. Most of them freshmen. I've seen a bit of everything at these places. 
-Do I even need to mention the guy who threw up in the grill line while I was at Kerr? I have a whole blog post about it. Still traumatizing. Eww.
-People, if you're that broke to the point where you're smuggling in Tupperware to try and steal food, then it's time to go get a job. UNT Dining stays hiring. Get off the couch.
-No, the apples at the salad bar are NOT fair game. Again, go get a job.
-If your favorite pastime is sitting in the school cafeteria for two hours with your laptop and your friends, then you need to seriously evaluate what the heck you're doing with your life. Period. Seriously, I don't spend that much time there and I WORK there. I make money when I walk through those doors. If you and your friends enjoy spending the duration of my shift sitting there in filth, then you have issues. In my opinion.
-Yes, I can actually see you get up and leave your dishes. Don't be mad when I go up to you and (often aggressively) tell you to pick up your trash. I'm not your mother. I'm not getting paid to pick up your nasty dishes. Sorry not sorry.

Rules of The Road:
-Don't ask me when the ice cream machine will be fixed. No, I have no idea what's wrong with it. Yes, it's really broken. And no, I'm not asking my manager. Get over it.
-Again, I'm not your mother. I'm not cleaning up after you. Pick up the freaking dishes and take to the dish machine. Not hard. If that's hard for you to do, then you need to step up your exercise game. Do cardio.
-Don't complain that there are no clean tables and then mean mug me when I try to clean the table before you sit down. Be patient. I'm doing this for YOUR good. Unless you LIKE sitting in food crumbs?
-Better yet, how about we try to NOT eat like two-year-olds and keep the table clean? Unless you weren't taught that at home, either?
-I'm a student, just like you. I have homework, a boyfriend, and a life waiting for me at home. Just like you. WE CLOSE AT EIGHT. NO EXCEPTIONS. Eat and move around. My co-workers and I would like to go home, just like you would. At 8:15 when I close, I have no problem politely asking people to leave. Simple. 
-Don't get rude with me, I won't get rude with you. But don't think that just because I have on this uniform that I won't clock out as quickly as I clocked in. You seem to forget that I go to school with you. You probably live on campus. So do I. Don't put on a facade while I'm at work that you wouldn't keep up if you saw me on the Square, or in class.
-Respect me. And my co-workers. We're not slaves. We're just here to do our jobs and go home.


Love Letters:
The cafeteria has a little section where you can write your comments on cards. Here are ACTUAL comments I've seen on the cards, and MY answers to them.


Dear Bruce Cafeteria:
"I want to know why I can't walk in here with no shoes on. I feel that it's my right to be able to go wherever I want with no shoes on. I live here."


 Dear Barefoot and Confused,

I won't even ask why you want to go barefoot. That's your business. While you feel like you should be able to go anywhere with no shoes, society seems to feel differently. When was the last time you were allowed to walk into say, IHOP, or Wal-Mart without shoes? Huh? Well, here at Bruce, we're doing it for your safety. We break dishes all the time. And the floor has tons of diseases. Unless you enjoy the possibility of a staff infection. Put your shoes on. Save the barefoot freedom for next year's Harvest Fest.:)

Dear Bruce Cafeteria,
" Can you please put the drink dispenser machines on the other side of the room? It's creating a lot of unnecessary walking to have them so far away."


Dear Convenient,  

I don't think that's happening anytime soon. Until the next renovation, how about getting on some cardio if it's that hard to walk across a small room? Or talk to a doctor. I tell you this in love.

Dear Bruce,

What's up with this music?"

Dear Hipster/Rapper/Punk,

I actually agree with you on this one. We play some crap. But I'm working on that.:)

Until next time, 

Tyeisha Neicole, signing off:)

 

 

Good Feeling

My weekend...

This weekend was somewhat of a "manly" weekend for me. Ethan and I went to Wal-Mart this weekend more times than probably healthy. Saturday night we went to a basketball game down at The Super Pit. It was my first time there, and it was pretty nice. But I've never had a good time at sporting events. The crowds make me nervous, and the fact that I just don't care about sports is the icing on the cake. But Ethan had a good time. It was a pretty good game. We won at the buzzer, in overtime. It. Was. Amazing. The crowd at the Pit went ballistic. Then when we got home, I decided I wanted to be a big girl and put on Inglorious Bastards.  Yeah, see if I ever do that again. We didn't get halfway through the movie.

Sunday we went to go see the new movie Red Tails. It was a good movie, but I got pretty emo at the end and started crying. (Yes, I did, people.) I was embarrassed. But Ethan didn't make a big deal about my emo moment. Yay. Then we went to Wal-Mart and bought a new printer. I no longer have to go to the library halfway across campus just to print out papers.

Today begins another work/school week. I hope I can get on a steady schedule this week and I pray that this week is nothing like last week. But I have faith:) 

Love, Ty

Get Well Soon

1. Ethan and I doing our Psych Stats homework. Sexy.

2.The dining room at work that we had to evacuate during the electrical shortage Monday night. That image was a little spooky for me.

3.My new Converse! That I've only worn once.

4, I bought that backpack for all of $3 at Hot Topic and stuck a button on the front of it. Cool, huh?

5. Ethan wrote on my wall the night of the fire at work and the next morning some nice person on our wing wrote me a message. Best part of the day.

My first week back to school and work was rough. Really rough. Monday there was an electrical shortage at work because the rickety old 1940's elevator got stuck between floors. We had to evacuate the building. Which meant after the shortage was contained, we had to clean up all the abandoned dished in the dining room. Which was a TON. Shoot me. I was at work until 10:30. Luckily I didn't have class until ten the next day, and the class was online. Tuesday and Wednesday at work the dish machine broke down. I spent hours shoveling through dirty dishes. Disgusting. The earliest I got off work this week was 9:30. It sucked. Last night I had to close down for the weekend, so that meant wiping off the biggest section of the dining room, and stacking chairs on top of table. Shame, shame. I was so sore that when I got home I was nauseous. Ethan gave me a back rub, and I went back to my room, took some sleeping meds, and was so out of it, I fell asleep at my desk chair. 

On the plus side, my managers let me change my schedule, so I don't close anymore. (Huzzah!) And most of my teachers seem to be interesting. I just hope next week is WAY better than this week. Really hope.

I hope this weekend will be fun. Ethan and I are going to the basketball game tonight at the Super Pit, so I get an excuse to wear my new grey North Texas sweatshirt I bought myself as a treat for making it through the week from hell yesterday. :) 

Love, Ty:)

King of Carrot Flowers

(Ignore how obviously bad I look in this picture. It was my first day home from work.But Ethan looks cute.)

I can't sleep. It's been a long week. (But more on that later.) My job is killing me. But on the bright side, my managers agreed to let me change my schedule so Friday is my last day to close. I was so happy I could cry. The job has been really hectic lately. I haven't been this stressed in a while, and school just started. But I'm hoping next week will be better. 

The other night when I got home, I was on the verge of a panic attack. We had a fire at the job. (More on that later!) I couldn't sleep that night, so I came home and talked with Savvanah that night...it was fun. But I still couldn't sleep. So I called Ethan and begged him to come down (he lives on the top floor) and see me. He did. At one in the morning. He hugged me and told me it was going to be okay. I needed that. 

Then I came home Tuesday night and spent time with him. He rubbed my feet and watched The Colbert Report with me. The only thing to make that heaven would've been a pint of ice cream.:) 

My life isn't always easy. I don't have good days all the time. Some days I just want to cry out of frustration. Others I just want to run to the door with all my bags packed and head back home to East Texas. And others I don't want to get out of bed. But it's days like those that I'm thankful for the fact that if nobody else is in my corner, Ethan is. I know my family loves me, but they're not here with me every day. Days when I don't want to leave my room, I know someone would miss me. I'm not always the nicest woman in the world, and I don't always look like a movie star, but I know someone still likes me for who I am.

You're my best friend, and biggest supporter. (Here in Denton, anyway!:)) I love you, Ethan. 

This has been an emo moment. Carry on, nothing to see here.

Here's to hoping the sleep meds kick in soon.

Love, Ty:)

Pictures of You

I was writing my last blog post, and The Cure was playing. "Pictures of You" came on, and I started to cry. I'm not sure why, but I thought about my Great-Grandma. Herma Jean Woods. Not sure why I'm so emo today. It could be the fact that I only got a good six hours of sleep. Or it's the fact that I'm starting the second part of my Junior Year of college tomorrow and the woman who got me to this point isn't here to see all her hard work pay off. In August 2007, she passed away in the nursing home. After I left home at fourteen to live with my mother, she got sicker. She didn't have a funeral, so I never really said goodbye. Last week my family dropped me off back in Denton. Her daughter, my grandmother, mentioned the fact that she would be proud of me if she were here. I certainly hope so.

I miss you. Someday I'll get a chance to tell you about all the adventures I've had in college.

With love, Ty:)

From Yesterday

Well, even though I considered my break over when I got back to Denton last week, the break is pretty much officially over. I start my second semester at University of North Texas tomorrow. (Yikes!) Here's a list of the things I'm excited for (and not so excited for) about this semester.

Hits:
-I finally have two steady jobs. Bye-bye, financial worries!
-I switched providers to Metro PCS last Thursday. My phone bill is now only $52. (I was paying over $100 on Verizon) AND I have a waaaay better phone. I love it.:)
-I bought a new backpack during me and Ethan's bargain-shopping extravaganza on Saturday for $3 in Hot Topic. Which totally makes up for the fact that I spent $140 on new shoes, right?;)
-I don't have any eight 'o clock classes this semester. First time that's happened since my college career started.
-The majority of the classes I have left to take are electives. Most of my classes didn't require books, so let's hope that  means they're easy?


Misses:
-I have to take Quantitative Research Methods this semester. Eww.
-So does Ethan.
-Having to get used to my new work schedule is weird. Closing every night sucks.
-I have to buy a new graphing calculator. Bye-bye, $100...:(


Ethan and I went out last night. He took me to Whataburger. Yay! Then we went to Wal-Mart and I forced him to take a really cutesy picture in the Valentine's Day aisle. 

(I know it's hard to tell from this picture, but he likes me. He really does.:))

On another note, it's Hot Guy of The Week time! In honor of improv club starting up again tonight, our HGOTW is Greg Proops, one of the guys from Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Happy MLK Day.

Love, Tyeisha:)

Change (In The House of Flies)

As I sit here, budgeting my school expenses and waiting on the EDGE of my seat for my refund (which is giving me a HEADACHE!) I have TWO days until I head back to Denton for my second semester. I'm a bit nervous about going back to work. I have no idea what the new cafeteria will be like. I hope it's easier to work than Kerr. I am excited to see my friends and Ethan. ( ;) ) I'm actually excited to go back to class. Here's a list of things I'm looking forward to in the new semester: The Awkward & Awesome list.

Awkward:
-Trying to budget my school expenses is making me feel old.
-I'm waiting on the EDGE of my seat for my refund check. Come on (big?) money!
-I have to go buy a new phone and I'm having a hard time deciding on a new provider. Who knew buying a cell phone could be such a hard decision?
-I have packing and washing to do. Blah.
-My job never mailed my paycheck. Irritating.
-There are still TWO WHOLE DAYS left until I head back. Why can't time hurry up??


Awesome:
-There are ONLY two days until I head back! Yay!
-This semester will be a LOT easier financially. I also get income tax and have finally got two jobs.=)
-35 Denton is this semester. For those of you who don't know, that's this big music festival that totally takes over the downtown square. I. Am. Excited.
-Over half of my classes didn't require books. So all of my books before tax were under $200. Pure bliss.
-I have my finances balanced! (Even though I'm broke now:/)
-Ethan and I will finally see each other for the first time in a month on Wednesday<3 (Mushy!)


Well, our Hot Guy of The Week (and first one for 2012!) is none other than Drew Carey, who was my first (and only!) celebrity crush!=D

Later days:)

-Ty Neicole