hotel x contd

i'm working overnights now - 11 PM to 7 AM, five days a week. it's been interesting and awful. it's funny  how i can't trust my body to do what's best for me anymore, within the constraints of my sickening work obligations. i sleep from 8 30 AM to about 3, and then maybe take a nap at 7 or 8. on my day off, it was funny lying in bed at 4 in the morning, being v nice to myself, telling myself to just stay awake a couple more hours because thats what was best for me. its like if i took charge of my heartbeat.

i don't have a hat for the job. dad said i oughta get a picture of myself in my uniform, and ill have to do that.

for overnights, i mostly just need to get a list of 24 hour food places memorized. thats the main thing. ppl occasionally need cars parked or retrieved or taxis called. ive seen a bunch of famous ppl the last couple days because of the all star game. i brought down grant hill's luggage at like 4am this morning. and ive seen shaq and charles barkley and kenny smith and chris webber and rick fox. webber and hill are esp beautiful human beings.

i drop off newspapers in front of ppls doors around 4. i worry that it makes too much noise when i drop them, but i cant be bothered to bend down. the hallways are really creepy, or maybe the shining just affected me too much. i don't know why it's so creepy. is it because there are so many people everywhere and i cant see any of them? it occurred to me at one point that somebody could open a door and snatch me. or is it that the hallways are immaculate but there's no one around? the carpet is gray overlaid with swoopy red shapes. there's definitely at least a couple miles worth of it.

the food part of the cafeteria gets unlocked at like 2, and then we can get the food from earlier that day out of the fridge. i never bother to heat it up.

i work with one other guy (ill be alone after im done with training). it's unpleasant because he's not smart and takes the job seriously. and he's very kind so i feel bad about wanting to run away from him all the time. there's data entry to do on all the cars in valet parking. it's offensive how clunky it is to do - how worthless my time is. for instance, one section requires you to punch in a password every time you change the parking spot number of a given car, which you reliably have to do 30 times.