the great saturday night swindle

four days into the new job. it's alot more involved than i thought. i thought i would be asst. manager in one store, it turns out that i'm supervising 3 within the airport terminals, which means i'm usually in transit from one to the other. closings are staggered and i have six registers to shut down and balance plus some closing inventories. in addition, i have to do spot checks on each register periodically. the time flies. all of the staff, so far, are very nice, no attitude. management is cool, too, i'm almost tension free. what a difference it makes to work with people who make an effort to be pleasant. i initially freaked out when i discovered how many stores that i'd be doing and wednesday morning, they just threw me into the mix on my own and told me to open. i'm always really nervous, initially, re: balancing, so i have difficulties. but i'm feeling more relaxed and everything came out even last night when i closed and did spotchecks, so i'm feeling more confident.
i'm sitting here listening to "with the beatles", their first album, as i write this. i can still remember how different these songs sounded when you first heard them. and they still sound good. john lennon had such a great rock and roll voice and the harmonies were so fresh for pop. it's really a lift when you hear them. i've been reluctant to buy the old albums, afraid that the nostalgia would be depressing but it's just the opposite. it makes me feel like i'm in that pre-teen mindset of the time, when everything was so exciting and there were so many possibilities. maybe that's still true?