Keeping it to moderation...too hard?

Waking up after another night of drinking, not binge drinking but drinking nonetheless, made me wonder; how hard is it for us college kids to keep the amount we drink to a moderate amount? I recently turned 21 and therefore it's a lot easier for me to get ahold of alcohol, but i realize on a casual basis i go up to 54th street and drink/eat two or three times a week...and then i turn around and actually get beligerrent (sp?) another two or three times a week. I can control myself quite easily, but it seems that the only shit that happens now days involves drinking.

Don't ge me wrong, i obviously like the stuff. I mean, when i go to get some appetizers for half price, why wouldn't i snag a beer or two?

Oh! This is a counterproductive insert, but for you people that do go to 54th street often and are of age, you should get a GOLD CARD. This gold card costs 20 bucks for a year, and when you buy it you get 2 free 25 oz drafts. Every time you visit and purchase your first beer of the night, the next one is free. On top of that 50% of what you spend on sundays and mondays is put onto your card for you to spend later. Good deal? I think so.

Anyway, back to what i was talking about, what i'm asking is how many nights is too many when it comes to drinking? Should the 4-6 beers that i drink those 2-3 times count as a night of drinking? I personally see people that are in a far worse boat than i am, and this makes me wonder why it's so hard for college kids to find stuff to do that doesn't involve simply getting hammered.

WoW vs. Halo

I know there's a lot of people who consider anyone who plays the popular computer game, World of Warcraft, a huge nerd. However, what you don't really realize is how one sided that comment can be. There are a lot of people who fit the typical prototype of "nerd" and play no other games outside Halo 3. So this beg's the question, why is it so much different if someone plays WoW in their past time instead of Halo?

Personally, i play a little of both, and have at least one more friend who play both, so it really confuses me as to why one is worse than the other. It's simple, a game is a game unless you make it something more. I don't think i matters what the game consists of or why you play it, it's a matter of if you let it consume the majority of your free time or not. Some of the friends that i have that actually consider WoW a nerd game and halo not have the argument that Halo isn't because it's not a "computer game".

If i'm not mistaken, isn't that like saying that you hate spending money on watching movies at the movie theater, but you rent movies to take home and watch? It's the same shit! You can spend $40 a week renting as many movies being a lazy bum as you want, or you can spend $8 a week watching a movie at the theater once a week and keeping balanced.

So instead of rambling on with the same question put into different forms, i'd like some response. What makes a computer game any different than a console game, if either of them are played in a casual manner?

Part Time Freezing Hell. Worth it or not?

I recently started working a new second job at an express car wash, Rain Tunnel, and the more I work the more I really wonder if it's worth the effort. Honestly, I have trouble working at nearly any place where your role is easily replaceable, and regardless of how "good" you are at the job you aren't going to be a voice in the company or play a vital role without dedicating 10+ years of your time to it. RTE (rain tunnel express) is a perfect example of this, and for many reasons doesn't seem to be worth the minimum wage that you get paid for doing it.

Don't get me wrong, the job is nowhere near what i would consider terribly difficult. So you have to stand outside and spray down cars for 8 hours in freezing weather...it could always be worse. In fact, when we're busy the stupid shit that bothers me doesn't really even come into play. Being busy just means instead of having a few mnutes of unimportant conversation or small talk with the one other person that is working, you get in your zone and handle your job as efficiently and smoothly as you can. That's easy.

Unless there is an ungodly amount of cars and a line out of the tunnel 6+ cars for several hours, there will be two workers. The cashier/supervisor, and the operator (my dumbass job). Again, not to make the job sound terrible all the time, and maybe it's just me complaining about small problems that every job has, but when I have to work that 7+ hour shift with someone i can carry on a conversation with and isn't the RT Hitler, the job is fine. It's working with the general manager that makes me hate my life for 1/3 of the day.

Her name is unimportant, but in her mind she is the rain tunnel goddess. She has worked there for 12 years and is the general manager, and sometimes being headstrong about something is good...unless its about being the head honcho of a damn car wash. A car takes about 3 minutes to leave the tunnel after a wash has been entered, and when its 35-40 degrees out and you work with anyone other than her, you walk inside after it gets past the first set of Flex Wraps (eta 20seconds vs 180). When you work with her, you stand out there, in a military style stance (not kidding, we're on camera and if the stance is wrong, the king of the tunnel will call and complain) facing the tunnel for the entirity of the time it takes the car to leave the tunnel. Normally, another car pulls up to be washed somewhere inbetween that time, so the countdown starts all over again.

Sure, if you're standing out in the cold you at least get to talk to the other employee, right? Wrong. Queen Bee will go inside and make herself some soup and hot cocoa inbetween her 15 second task of collecting the money and saying the type of wash. High quality person right there. In the short, few times she does stand out with you, do you think she talks about life, goals, interests? Well, sometimes...when she isn't correcting you on things you don't do wrong.

For example, a six foot employee such as myself can spray off the under part of a cars bumper just fine by reaching right? Again, wrong. I am supposed to "bend down" in order to get the under side of the bumper. Not even to get it cleaner...she says this. In her words: "It doesn't even get the car cleaner at all, but it makes you look like you're working harder. That's what [King] likes." Now if that is not a load of shit i don't know what is...but she repeated the same line almost verbadum about the front bumper. Bend down more, to give an appearance that i'm working harder, not even if it raises the quality of the wash. What-the-f***-ever.

So sorry that was entirely too long, but there are more and more little things about this damn car wash i could talk about, but I'm sure you get the just of it. So, if feedback was to be left, i would ask you to put it in an answer form to a few simple questions.

Would you bother keeping a minimum wage job such as this, and just keep working through the bullshit for a 20-25 hour a week job in which you'll make ~600 a month?

How much is too much...how much degrading can you take from a high strung headstrong manager of a completely unimportant place before you just say screw it?

And...the most important question. I realize that most of the people who read this haven't even worked there, therefore haven't experienced it, but do you think I'm just over examining the simple problems you'll get at an average part time job?