My first day as a productive member of society...

The morning's activities started out a bit rough. The orientation schedule said I was supposed to bring a deposit slip or a voided check. However, they didn't like the deposit slip I brought. The instructor told me I needed to go and get a different one. So I went back to the bank. There I was told that they were sorry, but there were no other kinds of deposit slips. In the end I had to get a counter check with my savings number on it and void that one. They took that one, thankfully.

Anywho, orientation lasted a very long time and encompassed an enormous amount of paperwork. We watched several cheesy training videos from the sixties and took some competency tests and whatnot. I passed the food handlers' test, so I'll be getting the permit shortly.

I had to go get a TB test too, and for about three hours, my arm felt like it wanted to fall off. It's okay, now, though. I have to go back on Wednesday and get the results figured out, then take the paperwork into the office. Then I'll be able to start right away. My problem at the moment is that I'm only scheduled for ten hours a week. For two hours per day, five days a week, and all the pay that would earn me, I could pretty much just work at McDonalds and not have to bother with all the health tests and certifications. Therefore, I need to have a chat with the supervisors about this.

I also registered my truck. I still have to get a safety inspection for it; I'm doing that tomorrow. Then I take in the results and get my new SUU license plates. Woohoo!

Anyway... more complications with Jason's daughter. Apparently, now that Jason has arrived, the girl's mother is changing the story, saying that the hearing is closed and he can't come. It's just to determine the guilt of the stepfather, not to decide custody of the girl. It's starting to look more like something the girl's mom made up in order to gain control over the girl. Which, I think if that's the case, she ought to be taken away anyway. Children shouldn't be used and humiliated in that fashion. Sickening. If it does turn out that it's the truth, though, there's a good chance that Jason will get his daughter, we hope. At any road, he'll have to get another job when he gets back home. It will be seriously upsetting if he had to use the last of their savings and fly down there for a farce and a power play.

The road winds ever on and on... down from the door where it began...
--Anna Grace