The Code Cracked

Well, I finished the book today. I spent most of the afternoon and evening working through the last two-thirds of the book and my eyes are very fuzzy. It was a good read, but not as great as the media storm and popular frenzy had led me to hope. By the end I was putting the clues together more easily than the characters. Also, it seemed to take far too long to get through some parts of the plot. I give Mr. Brown full marks for the Teacher, but the ending as a whole was rather a let-down. I'll still see the movie, though I'm not expecting terribly much from it at this point given its poor reviews.

New subject!

Today I opened the salad bar with Amanda, Kristen and Nikki. None of us had gotten enough sleep last night, which led to far too many funny incidents to mention at this late hour. Kristen's quote from break time, "Muffin, why do you break?" was repeated in altered form throughout the shift to outbursts of giggles and Amanda entertained herself by making us nametags of our new "condiment" nicknames. I say "condiment" because they weren't really condiments. Amanda is Dillweed, Kristen is Worschtershire sauce, Nikki is Saucy and they eventually decided on Mellow for me. The best part of the day was when Kristen lost her nametag (which read "Worshy") and realized that it was on the bottom of a fruit pizza out in the case. She and Amanda rescued it before a customer could purchase the pizza and be bothered by it, but it was by far the funniest thing that happened all day. (She realized that that's what had happened to her nametag when she saw another sticker from her apron get stuck to another pizza [the sticker said "Ready to serve Deviled Eggs"-Amanda had given one to each of us at the start of the day].) We couldn't breathe for lauging so hard after Worshy was rescued.

Well, there really wasn't time for much else in the day, except that I got to see Kevin since he was home briefly. Tomorrow, my first day off i a while, mom and I are going shopping. It should be fun.

-Kim