Rumors...

I feel like such a slacker. I haven’t even thought about what I want to do with my future. I know that I should, but right now I’m just so focused on getting out of here. Whenever I talk to people, they ALWAYS ask me what I’m going to do and my answer is always, I dunno. My friends that are restaurant consultants suggest opening a café. My world traveler friend suggests going to Japan to teach English for a year. My real-estate guru friend is hounding me to buy some land in Georgia or the west coast of Florida. Right about now, I don’t want to think about anything. I’m still working crazy hours. I got home at 10pm last night. That’s a little later than normal, plus I’ve been getting in earlier lately. I don’t think anyone will be shocked when I go.

In fact, there was almost a rumor started that I was going to quit. Juan was asking me about my upcoming vacation. I was telling him that I was excited to go and I was smiling, which doesn’t happen much at work these days. He asked me why I was smiling and started questioning me. (FYI, I’m going to be meeting a friend up there, which is why I was smiling.) I didn’t answer Juan and he started to get very suspicious. I thought he had dropped it, for now. He never really drops anything, but I had figured he’s give me a break for the rest of the day. No such luck. Coincidentally, an old co-worker of ours came by for a visit. She moved about an hour and a half north of here and hasn’t been back since she quit. We still keep in touch and I try to see her whenever I can, but it really isn’t that often. She was in the area and came by for lunch. I knew about it, but it was a surprise to everyone else. Apparently, after lunch, Juan called another ex-coworker/good friend of mine who I spoke to not long afterwards. She knows the whole deal with me and didn’t tell him anything. She said he thought I was going to quit and not come back from my vacation. That’s in a week! He though our other co-worker came by to say a final goodbye to me before I quit. Now, she didn’t tell him about my friend because she didn’t want the rumor when I actually left to be that I went up there for a guy. Of course I broke down and told Juan, so that will be the rumor, but it’s better than having the quitting rumor floating around now. Plus, when I am gone, I won’t care what they say/think about me. I tell you, it’s just crazy around here!!