Random Babbling Post #100

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Woot, got out of school today! No more classes until Jan. 2! (Which is a terrible day to return on because that means we have no time to recover from New Year's!)

 

Still feeling a bit irritable- some of my flatmates came back at 3 in the morning (with a friend or two) and proceeded to play music, screech and shout for what felt like an age. Needless to say, I was not best pleased at being woken at that time.

However, heading home tomorrow for 3 weeks Christmas break. Should be rather good.

 

Darn, I'm really bad at explaining my chaotic thoughts on complex matters. I prefer to deal with them in a written manner so I can structure them appropriately.

 

A good day: Peep Show, couple new records, fourth disc drive for my compy (one only plays CDs, one doesn't burn and the third can't burn DVDs, the new does everything) and beer for christmas.

 

I can't concentrate today. The only thing I seem to be able to focus on is making sarcastic remarks to my co-workers. Oh well, only two hours until I'm out of this infernal place for the weekend.

 

Working in half an hour, good thing the place is near here, like five minute walk. Anyway received my first pay check today, now the job makes sense. Go money!

 

Soooo close to the end of classes, it's rather frustrating. I wish I could just POOF! and be finished with these last few little things that need to be done (you know, finals, major essays, the little things). I'm completely done with piano, will be finished with french tonight and english tomorrow, then physics after that...

 

Well, the holiday rush has begun in earnest at my store - we had trouble getting our meat, cheese and other perishable stock into the cooler due to the shelves being filled with sandwich, cheese & meat trays prepared for orders. I think we ended up having over twenty trays picked up today...which is about the same what we sell in a week normally.

It was BUSY, but a fun kinda busy; all of us were coping and could joke around a little. Though entering into the eighth hour of my shift, my hips and other leg joints were really achy.

I'm still kinda bummed I missed an appointment I had last week at work with some kinda 'occupational therapist' (I got laid low by the flu and was all feverish the day of the appointment ) because he apparently would've been able to give me advice on lifting stuff and working to compensate for my arthritic knees and legs. Gotta speak with the boss about making another appointment...

(Ironically, my back is GREAT; never so much as a twinge...probably because I took "lift with your knees not your back" to heart about as soon as I could read...so my back was spared at the expense of my knees! )


But yeah, I'll be taking my copy of Ghostbusters to work tomorrow - I hope a twenty-minute break will be long enough to wait in line for an autograph and a chance to thank him for all the fun!

(BTW he was on the phone with a local radio station generating some buzz for the signing; he sounds totally different and much older over a long-distance phone connection that's broadcast on the FM waves )

 

Have a truckload of wood to go out tomorrow and really need to get some wood thrown in. My knee is getting better, but I think my happy thought for tomorrow is going to be Tylenol...

 

That's not bad. The glasses I wear every day costs $175 for the frame and an extra $50 for lenses. My new pair of Oakley sunglasses cost $95 for the frame and $200 for the lenses.

But you get what you pay for...my last Oakleys last me over 6 years...

 

Had a LAN on Friday, and a MOC meeting today. My spaming has suffered.

 

Yeah, I was about to say that the lenses cost so much due to their durability - I'd sat on mine so many times and merely popped the bows off the frame; click-click and I'm back in business.

Eventually I simply lost my Oakleys (just about the only thing the maker can't guarantee ) by leaving them behind at the barber shop and not noticing until the next day.

 

I'm on call for people who can't see Dan Aykroyd today if the lines are too long.

Veggies need wedgies 'cause meat can't be beat!

 

I hit something painful in my eye when I wanted to take out my contacts yesterday. Now it feels weird. I can see just fine, but the corner of the eye acts weird.

 

But monkeys can be spanked!

OK, that was very juvenile, but in my defense, so am I.

 

I got one of my teachers BG2 and ToB for christmas! He had played BG1 before, so I got him this because it is one of the best games ever. He is excited.

 

Pants are so overrated, why do I have to wear 'em at work? I mean I'm just working in client services as a clerk. Oh well workin' in an hour and a half.

 

I was supposed to babble something about Salmari (Salty liquorice + vodka).
But now I'm feeling too philosophical to be able to babble.

 

Not to mention cold.

And don't pull that nonsense rebuttle "Winter was invented by the clothing companies!"


ION, I never bothered using my "Phone-A-Friend" because the lineup was WAAAY too long after even a half-hour beyond the start (see below for why I wasn't in there just before the start like I planned).

Never saw Mr. A ...but I did see the lineup...beginning to stretch back into my store.

I'm pretty ambivalent about not getting an autograph now, but that was a miserable lunch break I took - after waiting almost four hours before I took my first break (started at 10am and the signing started at 2pm) I found that everyone else decided to leave on break/lunch, with only me and the chicken guy, who was busy cooking wings at a breakneck pace for party orders, and I'd be damned if that poor slob was gonna get stuck in the same position I would see MANY A TIME when I worked chicken. (but I'm not bitter )

So I hung on longer, my arthritic joints beginning to throb and pulse with uncomfortable heat, and served the meat and salad cases while we waited for someone - anyone - to show up.

Half an hour later, the regular employee came back from her break, and I'm off like a shot. I pass the checkouts and start down the hallway towards the liquor store, and I see one of my bosses (Deli Manager and her immediate subordinate - Deli Supervisor - were both working today) smiling and grinning like she always is and waving me away "Don't bother; the line's too long...blah-blah-blah".

Yeah, thanks <CENSORED>. (which is weird; I like her a lot - very cheerful and friendly)


So I went and ground my lunch up in my mouth and swallowed, instead. At least I got to sit down, I guess.

IOON, my estimation that yesterday my deli was swamped with tray orders was dwarfed by TODAY's raft of tray orders.
(For more details, check out my impending post over in "Work/School venting" thread or whatever its name is)