Day 152

Today turn glorious at right around 2:00, and I would have given just about anything to be out hiking. However, it was not meant to be. I was lured into an information meeting thinking it was an "internship," which wound up being an attempt to recruit me into being a commissioned door-to-door salesman for educational products. Once I found out what it actually was, I turned from an enthusiastic notetaker -albeit mostly due to the request of the presenter- to a sardonic pain in the butt. Irritated that I could have been out hiking and was snatched from the trail by the claws of a capitalist, I tried to make as clear as I could without saying it bluntly that it was a waste of my time, the customer's time and money, seeing as that would have been something my mom would have gotten me while I couldn't have cared less how "valuable of a resource" it was or how much it cost. This was real-deal capitalist exploitation of the masses and manipulated statistics, and it made me sick. And while I play the part of consumer to survive in this country, I will not become a bourgeouisie.

I politely sat through the first segment, then when the presenter asked if either of us (there were only two of us at this meeting) were still interested, and immediately said "This is DEFINITELY not for me."

"Ok. Then you're done."

"Thanks for your time."

And I was OUT OF THERE.

Otherwise, I got some reading done, which is important, since I don't do most of it. Got some skating done, which is good, since I needed the excersize. Hopefully I'll get out for a hike tomorrow, though I'm not getting my hopes up.