Saturday 14th June – First day of work

Morning
I woke up at about 6 this morning, having got a decent 9 hours sleep. I’m surprisingly un-hungry, I was expecting to be starving as I haven’t really eaten anything since yesterday lunch time. Made myself a cup of tea for breakfast, but they don’t even have a kettle in the staff kitchen! Turns out that by ‘staff will be provided with all meals’ actually means ‘a lot of the time, staff will be given lunch at 11am and tea at 5.30pm. The rest of the time you can fend for yourselves’. I wouldn’t mind, except that we don’t seem to be that close to anywhere serving food. The nearest place with shops is Glen Cove, and that’s about 3 miles away. If I get some time off today I may have to rob a bike and ride over there to buy some stuff.
When I woke up, I initially felt pretty apprehensive about my situation. I lay in bed for a couple of hours just thinking over and over about maybe I could have landed a more relaxed job in Manhatten, working in a café or restaurant there instead. The fact that I need to go and get a crew cut is bugging me too. I like the way I have my hair at the moment.
However, after getting up, showering and having a brew, I did begin to feel a bit more positive. I’m putting the initial down that occurred this morning down to the fact that I’ve been thrown into an environment where I’m going to have to comply to a few rules – something which I haven’t really had to worry about for the past couple of years. I’m at least going to try and get a couple of weeks work under my belt before deciding. I don’t know when Rob wants this (beautiful) head of hair gone by, but unless he gives me a break today to ride into town and get it done, it’s staying as it is.
I need to remember to ask him about getting the internet sorted too, otherwise I’m going to posting a weeks worth of blog entries at a time.

Afternoon
Just got back from my first ever lunch-time shift. It was pretty easy work to be honest. I was serving three tables, but as it was my first shift, I was paired up with a girl called Leah who had been here about 3 weeks. So for the first few customers, I just watched what she did, and then I got left to fend for myself. Fucked up taking an order of some arrogant git who wanted the tuna salad with fresh fruit and extra crackers, but except for that it everything went well. The staff lunch was chicken and rice, which I thought was tasty, but everyone else seemed to be sick of. Apparently that’s what is served for most meals.
Don’t know yet whether or not I’m working tonight. To be honest I think I’d rather work. Pretty much everyone else is working, and there’s not much to do here. Also, I think that everyone’s working at the beach club tonight (less glamourous than it sounds!), and I think that that will be where tea will be served for the staff too. So I’ll miss out if I’m stuck here.
Internets still not working, apparently it’s up and down all the time. Apparently I have Monday off, so if it’s still not up by then, I’m going to find an internet place and upload everything from a flash stick.
Hair’s still not been cut :P

Evening
Hair’s been cut. After a long discussion, it was decided that it would be best (and the most fun) for one of the girls, Natalie, to cut my hair. Instead of someone who knows what they’re doing. Cameron is the sort of guy who shaves his chest, so naturally he provided a set of clippers and scissors. I probably lost about a stone in weight from this ordeal (partly hair, partly because I was shitting myself), but to be honest, she did a pretty decent job. I think it hair looks ridiculous, but it does atleast look smart, and smart is what Rob wanted.
I worked in the evening too today, bringing my total hours to about 10. It looks like I’m going to be working a lot more than my contracted 40 hours a week, but that doesn’t matter as I’m getting paid hourly, and if I’m not working when everyone else is, I’ll probably just get bored anyway.

I'll post hair photos as soon as I find who has them!