June 30, 2004
I have been spending a good deal of my summer selling books in an area of the US that is actually at poverty-level and below. I’m no longer in that area, but I have worked in an area very similar to it today.
I talk to most of these people. In the process I learn about who they are, because I ask them lots of questions. I am generally curious, but I am especially curious about why these people are living in these conditions. I have heard people say that poverty is caused by the wealthy people of the world. I refuse to believe this now that I’ve talked to all these people.
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June 30, 2004
Today, I stopped at a two story brick house that had a wrap-around wooden balcony on the second floor. It didn’t go all the way around, but it reminded me of my parent’s office building — only smaller. Anyway, there was a section where the guard-rail was missing. Beneath that section there was a hugemongous black trampoline!
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June 28, 2004
“When doing Southwestern, your schedule is your lifeline. If you break it, you die.”
I know you don’t die, but this saying of theirs is not too far off from the truth. If you alter your schedule in a significant way you suffer. You suffer badly.
Here’s my lifeline to the best of my memory…
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June 27, 2004
Well, it’s Sunday night and Marcus is kinda getting the shaft again. This is actually something that usually happens on Sunday nights and Mondays. This time he is having to move out of our HQ and into Clerison’s HQ. This isn’t really all that bad, and the other stuff isn’t either, but I like to joke with him about it because he always takes it hard.
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June 26, 2004
This door-to-door sales stuff gets pretty boring pretty quickly if you don’t do things to entertain yourself. The managers suggest things such as giving grandmas high-fives, messing with small dogs, exchanging clean jokes, inserting the word of the day into every other sentence as you talk to a non-buyer, performing slapstick comedy at the approach, etc. I’m into some of that stuff, but I have an idea of my own — the question of the day.
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June 24, 2004
I was just looking back at some of my April entries. I was wondering what I was like before Southwestern. This trip down memory lane caused me to realize that my stress level was pretty high even in April. There are several things that are different about this time in my life and what I was going through in April.
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June 24, 2004
Here’s a long story that I’ve been meaning to blog for nearly two months now.
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June 24, 2004
There was a Thunderstorm the other day. I think it was Monday or Tuesday. I was really excited about it at the time because I kinda missed the thunder and lighting of a “normal” SW Florida summer.
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June 24, 2004
I am trying to figure out the best thing to eat when I am out in the book field, and I am having problems with it. First I lost a lot of weight and ended up really thin. Now I think I am gaining it all back and more in about a week and a half. I am gaining it back so quickly that I am now in pain because of it.
The only really big change I made was to stop eating Peanut Butter and Jam on whole wheat and to start eating Pop-Tarts instead. I guess I am also eating a w more free cookies, but I was eating cookies beforehand too. It’s so weird. The Pop-Tarts may have to go.
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June 24, 2004
One thing about Southwestern that is kinda cool is all the free stuff that we get. Not only do we get free stuff from contests that happen every week, but we also get a constant barage of free stuff from “Ms. Jones.”
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