Hey there, everybody.

So school's out and I'm back in the grand old land of Hinton, Oklahoma. And by God it's good to be back.

I'm sitting at Legacy Bank of Hinton right now, in between training to be a teller and shredding paper. I've got to say, I'm pretty excited about this summer. There's something that's just good about having a clear task in front of me and having a quick solution for it. If there's a customer in front of me, I deposit his money. If there's paper to be shredded, I shred it. If I have to drive to Duncan, I drive to Duncan. I don't have to write any papers, spend any time in a practice room, prepare documents for pledges or anything else of that nature. All I have to do is get up, go to the bank, and let somebody tell me what I'm supposed to do. I realize this sounds like I'm settling for being some kind of peon or underling, but after three years of people expecting me to be at 100% capacity all of the time (and whether they really were expecting that or not they certainly made me feel that way), it's nice to just be told what to do. And to top everything else off, I'm getting paid to do this. Paid well.

After shredding paper, I spent most of my morning observing the tellers in the drive through. Mostly this meant catching up on all of the various around-town gossip/happenings that I've missed ("so-and-so is married, such-and-such died of cancer," etc. etc.) in the three years that I've been gone while watching customers come through and trying to figure out from moment to moment what the tellers were doing. I think I learned a good bit of stuff, but then I'm sure when I start the online training is when I'll actually have a workable knowledge of the station. Should be fun times.

So I just checked my email address from Legacy Bank, which I hadn't checked since January 22 of 2003. In said email box, there were 51,260 unread email messages. So far, all of them have been spam, and I've only managed to delete 15,000 of them or so. This is taking a very long time. So while requests process on the server, I sit here and type. Exciting, no? I know.