May 4th, 2025: Cereal for breakfast and then heading out to work, I sent the photo of Luigi and the tall girl looking at each other to the tall girl. On Instagram the Art History major posted another story which said:
<y’all someone on tiktok just equated converts to people that are cultural appropriators… girl i’m sorry i didn’t grow up catholic i can’t help that 
I replied:
>I did and I give you the pass.
Then the conversation went as followed:
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<this whole discourse is so funny especially bc it’s a bunch of people that don’t even practice anymore as far as i can tell so why do they even care atp
>It’s just the Ishtar Gate but with religion.
>Like the Iraq government didn’t care to maintain it and now they’re mad that Germany has made it beautiful.
I hopped on the bus (the other one because there was an inconvenient gap in service of my preferred one) and waited around before clocking in. It was Rama’s 21st birthday today so I sent him a happy birthday wish, he replied to me:
<Aye thank you Gemerson! I appreciate it
I had some cleaning tasks and sadly also the task of stocking the frozen aisle. For my first break I bought some peanut butter squares to eat and I ate the entire thing yet it didn’t fill me up. I continued working and said hi to Sabrina a few times. I had to stock the shelves for some of my tasks and even saw Biker. My lunch break was pasta with sausages and I got it while Folsade was refilling them.
“Are you taking my pasta Gemerson?”
She joked.
“Yes, because it’s lunch!”
I replied, we had a good laugh. I went upstairs and then microwaved it for lunch, I said hi to one of the bakery people and then went back to work. I got a notification from the tall girl saying that she save the image and replied:
<aw that’s a cute photo
We then had a back and forth of me asking her if she likes Luigi and she said no because of religious and political differences, she talks about how she works at a Methodist church as a singer while being Agnostic and also how she doesn’t prioritize relationships while just waiting for one to fall into her lap. I found that stupid to be honest. I got done with all my tasks before my second break and then went on break to chill with fAsherah, I asked her for some workplace drama and she told me that Biker apparently got the puff on his hat from a mauled rabbit he found on the side of the road and another thing was that he had made up something about him cheating on the girl who drove me home from work once which resulted in his girlfriend angrily calling her, another thing fAsherah told me was the BPD girl trying to get Mr. Blundstone to buy her alcohol for her “friend’s birthday” (she had used this excuse a lot). fAsherah also mentioned that he sometimes came into work with scratch marks on his face but I have never seen this happen before. She also told me that the bakery was a tough nut to crack because of how insular they are, but Lebanon was a nice guy. The Italian lady was here and she asked me to empty her personal garbage, which I did, and she told me about these expired cheese spreads in the cooler that I could take. I then got assigned another task by Jesse to wash a bunch of windows so I did that and then started on my closing tasks before saying bye to Tony and the new hire before buying a Cherry Limeade Sprite after clocking out and then catching the bus to the 5:30pm mass. I then went inside after a bit when I saw Kaitlin and her boyfriend attending mass so I asked to sit with them, but next I saw the girl who graduated in 2019, whom I finally decided I will be calling Naomi. I sat next to her instead because she was sitting alone. Naomi had an amazing voice and we went through the mass as usual and saw the guy from my Machine Learning class and waved to him during the sign of peace. I noticed that Naomi was wearing a ring with a ruby heart in it on her left hand’s ring finger so after mass was done, I went into prayer and then decided to subtly inquire about her love life:
“Congrats on the engagement!”
I exclaimed.
“Oh no I’m not engaged at all.”
Naomi replied.
“Oh, wait why isn’t your husband here, who doesn’t go to church with their spouse?”
I dug further.
“Well I’m not married, I just have the ring because I’m not dating.”
She said, I realized that I was absolutely trapped, if I had stopped attending church with her or even any mass, she would just think of me as another guy trying to get into her pants, or even worse in her eyes, her hand in marriage, so I would have to remain her friend and never even try to do anything more, I lack the charisma and the immorality necessary to get her to change her mind so I’m not going to try. I then walked over to the bus stop and got home. I went over to this Arabic place and got 2 spicy chicken shawarma wraps and a Vimto soda for $17.00 (including the tip)
I then walked home and worked on my homework assignment and my quiz due tomorrow, I then decided to ask the girl I went on a date with last Tuesday this question:
>Would you like to go on a second date?
She replied:
<Honestly?
<I think we are probably better off as friends
I took a screenshot and blocked her, I’m not giving her attention. I took a shower and went to sleep.
Song of the Day: Coyote - Harold Budd (1988)