Given

Life is running along on a drop-bottom basis- it feels like I'm sitting on a street curb and watching the traffic go by as my toes get run over. I feel so disconnected but there are some times when I'm gratefully distant; it helps when on any given day you have at least three different personalities to fill. For instance, I work at a law office that my mother used to work at, a pizza place in the mall (the corporate version of a local place I used to work at), and I live with my dad (recently unemployed and constantly annoyed with the universe). The law office personality deals with the concrete and legal, the fat calories and diet cokes of this world; there is always a process or a document, a problem to solve and a multi-line phone to attend. This whole place reeks of coffee and the smell of 300 sheets of paper printing.
The pizza place is completely different. It's a corporate-furnished slacker house. There's so much red in that place; pizza sauce, advertising, cookie coupons, worker's shirts, name tags and neon-lighting. Anything to induce hunger, I suppose. There's always a story to tell, a person to laugh with, a cup to fill and a tray to wash, someone going on a smoke break or someone sobering up. I love doing dishes in that place- it sounds wierd but there's something oddly fulfilling when I wash a pan or spatula there.
It's as if we're all just waiting for something better when we're all working, but we're ok with working until it's done. I can't really explain as best as I want, but I hope you get the idea that it's a unique arrangement of work. Each place is the opposite of the other in almost every way that I can think of.
Ok, this was a wierd rant, but it's hopefully on to something.