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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1990)
I [Back to school despite summer cemetery fun By Robert Richardson Staff Reporter If a summer job made a per son rich and included as little work as possible, it would be paradise. I, of course, could find no such job. So I had to settle for manual labor at Parkview Ceme tery in Hastings for $3.80 an hour. The job really wasn’t as de pressing as it sounds. It included some very light moments and very touching ones. Most of the time it was just there. Lighter moments included rac ing mowers around the ceme tery, sneaking up on headphone wearers and perpetuating the ghost rumor to those impres sionable youngsters. Li ke any city employee, ceme tery employees loved their work breaks so much they extended them. We look a pre-morning break at 9:15 to get ready for the morning break at 9:30. We would also take a post-morning break at 9:45 to get revved up for the job we were going to do: lean on our shovels, then drive around to find a new place to lean. This wonderful cycle was repealed at lunch and also before and after the midafternoon break. But no matter how much fun you make a cemetery job, you’ll always have moments etched in your mind. These special times always came around Memorial Day. Hearing a trumpet echo through the cemetery while play ing a “Taps” solo for a deceased servicemen was beautiful. See ing a family praying or leaving flowers at the grave of an infant givesyou a pain in your stomach worse than doing a belly-flop off the high dive. Away from the cemetery, I never stopped trying to utilize my journalistic talent this sum mer. I bothered my hometown newspaper until it finally gave me my big break. Belinda Car lisle was to be in a neighboring town. 1 was going to do a con cert review and a possible inter view. Only allowed to ask the for mer member of the Go-Go’s three questions, 1 flubbed one and called Carlisle’s former band The Bangles. I couldn’t under stand why she wouldn’t kiss me after the short interview, so I yelled out her age to everyone in earshot and was briskly es corted out. So now where did I stand? The pop queen hated me and I couldn’t become a “lifer” at the cemetery. Obviously, the only choice I had was to come back to college and spend more of rny parents’ money. | Student Rush $5 | Sam Shepard's True West 7:30 pm with Student ID (i 00 Sep 1) at Johnny Carson Theatre Box Office Lied Center — nth & Q entrance Aug 29 - Sep 1 Curtain at 8 pm (l :30 Sep l) Hotline: 472-2073 . rfli .Lm^m MBL. JBHlBk ---~a r\_sBm a play obout toast and violence Nebraska Repertory Theatre Professional Theatre in Residence at UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA—LINCOLN. Montauk Continued from Page 8 tal and get to the airport for my flight to Block Island. I arrived at the hospital 10 min utes before my flight was to leave. 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