Friday June 18

A few interesting days.
Thursday I went into work at 7am, the cafeteria opens at 11. I kinda had a bad feeling about this one... I wasn't sure if Chris was still sick or not. He showed up for work but was sent home by Frank. Still sick. So, I got to stick around and be the storekeeper again. I had a little bit to do, not much though and much of my time revolves around when our supply truck shows up. Jokingly, Jen stopped me and asked if I did my order correctly and if we were going to see the supply truck soon or not. She was just giving me a hard time, and we both laughed. A couple hours later she finds out that we were NOT getting our supply truck. She was very clear that it wasn't my fault... Thank God! But I know that's my responsibility and I still feel like it's my fault, kinda stresses me out. What had happened is our issuing warehouse changed their computer system or something so they lost EVERYEONE's order lists. They made phone calls at 8AM and we never got the message. Anyway, I got out of there about 6:30, a nine hour day I was pretty tired. I finished off the day eating a burger and fries from the Geyser Grill, (I wanted a decent meal for a change) and reading. I finished the second book of the Circle Cycle, Red? or is it White? All I remember is coming to the title page and wondering how you could end a book like that. I always remember Brett telling me how he finished Black(or was it Red?...) and throwing the book across the room because of the cliffhanger ending and he didn't have the next book yet :) I had a good talk with Niah later too. One question he asked me was if I wanted to be a pastor. I told him I don't know yet, but it was possible. He told me that Buddhism and Christianity are the 2 major religions in Vietnam. I asked him what he believed and he told me he's a businessman haha.
Friday, I went into work at 11- once again as a cook. I've got my order in now for my new uniform, 2 actually. A full cooks uniform and the storekeeper uniform. Again, Chris is still sick, and since we missed our order yesterday, we had a LOT of food coming in today. I had cooks and front runners coming to me asking if we had any of this or that... all out, I told them it'll be in with the truck. 4pm rolls around and still no truck. We tried calling the warehouse and didn't get an answer. Jen was getting a little frustrated... she walked me out to her car, handed me her keys and told me how to get to the warehouse, and to ask if our order was ever going to get here. It's just on the other side of Old Faithful, fairly easy for me to find. They said that they were going to get to it, but I guess on Friday's they normally run late. The truck finally came in at 6:30, I already went through and estimated our order for tomorrow. After seeing the food that we got today, I think I did alright. Somehow, our moving dolly disappeared, and we didn't have enough room in the freezers for the warehouse guys to move it all in there so they piled a lot of it in the hall. My arms are going to be pretty dead tomorrow, but at least I already know that I'm working storekeeper tomorrow. I had another cook tell me today that I'll probably be taking Chris' job soon.
Our "college" ministry group met tonight to work on our service for Sunday. We're doing the service at the Madison campground this time, and Amber is giving the sermon. Afterwards we went to the pub and got 2 large pizzas. We had a great time just getting caught up with each other, I really wish we would do that more often.
Also just got back from a midnight hike. There is a short trail, less than half a mile up a hill overlooking the geyser basin called Observation Point. We went up there and watched the sky for about 2 hours. It was all really really bright, we could see the Milky Way and satelites and several shooting stars. The other guy who went with us (Staci, Sarah, and myself), was a real interesting character. He's the type who has experienced everything, and his main passion in life is cooking. I liked him quite a bit, he was great to listen to. Many stories to tell. However, it was slightly frustrating, more sad hearing about his views on Christianity. He had a lot of it right, I could definitely stand by him on many issues and beliefs, but he still misses the main focus. For all of his knowledge it seems that he lacked understanding. His overall view of Christianity and God was right, but I felt like he misunderstood the main focus: God.
I'm going to bed now, I think I really need some sleep!