i (possibly) actually like my job? what?

wow. i have the weirdest love-hate relationship with my job. today was awesome, enough to make me wish i worked on a commission basis. seriously, people just love to talk, and if you let them talk about something they like, they like you a lot more. last week just made me cranky- it didn't help either that i was working the evening shift so people were pretty uniformly in the middle of dinner- but this afternoon was so nice. you call people in florida and let them make fun of you about how much your weather currently sucks (the river is frozen here) and they get so much nicer! you can hear them smile and everything, it's almost ridiculous!

nonetheless, it is a stressful job sometimes.

but seriously, i talked to a fulbright scholar today. it was mind-boggling.