Pay for your own mistakes!

Ah, another rant about stupid customers. But it's all the same really, in that they won't take responsibility for themselves. "Oh, I thought the ad applied to me" Well then why didn't you call in to make sure? "Oh, the dealer told me it'd be cancelled and I wouldn't be charged anymore" So you'll believe what another company says about your account? "The bill's too high, it's never been like this" Well, then you should shut up and quit using the phone so much. Whine whine whine.

Anyways, my fish has settled down now that I found what food it'll eat. He'll actually come to the side of the tank, and watch me tap out the bloodworms in my hand, and kinda follow my hand up when I go to drop in the food, but since his face is pressed up against the glass, he does't notice the food drop behind him. Silly fish :) So I have to then pantomime my hand going up again, and waggle my fingers over the food and eventually he'll turn around and see it. And then it's chomp chomp chomp, and he'll kinda hover and eat it, and then when he's ready, he'll come up against the glass again and wiggle for more food. Yes! I'm finally starting to read my fish! However I find the colour still isn't that brilliant, and I'm worried that feeding him just bloodworms is like giving cake all the time. And no, I've still not given him a name. If he did have yellow on him, it'd be Magikarp, but he's blue and red. Argh!!!!

Anyways I gave my dad a rectangular vase for his birthday. Actually it was supposed to be his Xmas present last year, but I'd been using it for my Dracaena Sanderiana experiment. It's still on the dinner table. I'm very tempted to take it back and fill it w/ water for another betta fish. I kinda have room for another one. And this one I'd start on just pellets. For another experiment. And I won't give in this time b/c someone's gotta eat all the damn food I have lying around. I guess eventually I might have 1 fish for every type of food I bought. And then that'd be bad b/c I'd have to keep buying that specific food and I'd actually never get rid of it! I just need a fish that wasn't so damn picky.

I'm hungry. Even though I had breakfast, lunch, a wrap, dinner. I had dinner about 3 hrs ago. I don't get it. And I've drank about 750 mL of water at the same time as dinner. Anyways, got a wrap b/c it's employee appreciation week. So over the week they offered cupcakes, popcorn, candy, wrap and ice cream tomorrow. But I don't work tomorrow. Oh well. Packing too much weight anyways. I know T means well when he says I'm not fat, but if I can't touch my toes w/o feeling like I need to rearrange my stomach fat b/c it's getting squished, I need to lose weight. I figure, it's not how much you weigh or even how the clothes fit but what you can do.

Quiz: The Three Question Personality Test

Your Personality Is

Artisan (SP) You are both grounded and flexible. You adapt well to new situations. You are playful and free spirited - but you are also dependable and never flaky. You don't do well in conservative, stuffy situations. It's probably very hard for you to keep a normal job or stay in school. You are always up for fun and adventure. Most people are too boring for you. You take risks and bend the rules. And if things don't work out, you chock it up to life experience. In love, you tend to take things quickly - but you have a huge problem with commitment. At work, you need to make your own rules. You're best suited to be an entrepreneur. With others, you are animated and physical. You prefer doing something with friends to just hanging out. As far as your looks go, you tend to be buff and in good shape. Your spend more time on your body than your clothes. On weekends, you need to keep active. From cooking up a storm to running a 5K, you wear yourself out.

The Three Question Personality Test

It was pretty darn close, up until the part about being active. I'm really like a cat. Short bursts of energy, followed by lots of lethargy. Kinda like when I start cleaning, I end up cleaning everything. Then I'll pass out in front of the PS2. And I'd say I'm able to keep a normal job. I've never been fired, and the shortest time I've been at a job is a day, but the longest is 2 1/2 yrs and going. As long as it stays interesting, or there's something I can look forward to. My current job sucks b/c the training that we were supposed to get has been put on indefinite hold, so we're stuck in the same old system as for the last 8 months. However my previous job, which was working at a big box grocery/merchandise store wasn't bad b/c there were always new magazines that came out (I did the magazine/book aisle) and new toys. Too bad the pay sucked, the supervisor was psychotic and too much politics. Although I didn't mind the physical aspect of it when I look back on it, since I'm tubbing up right now at my desk job. Must play more DDR.

Quiz: What Kind of Food Are You?

You Are Chinese Food

Exotic yet ordinary. People think they've had enough of you, but they're back for more in an hour.

What Kind of Food Are You?

Okay, that's kinda funny. And I suppose that's true, since I was used to my Dad's cooking which is very boring and bland. Then I started watching Iron Chef w/ Chen Kenichi and reading Iron Wok Jan. And there's so many types of Chinese cooking, Cantonese, Szechuan, Peking...But Chinese can be very filling. And there's those 12 course dinners...

Quiz: What Pattern Is Your Brain?

Your Brain's Pattern

Your brain is always looking for the connections in life. You always amaze your friends by figuring out things first. You're also good at connecting people - and often play match maker. You see the world in fluid, flexible terms. Nothing is black or white.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

Eh, and all I thought was "Purple!" Yeah, I was wandering in Ikea w/ J and saw something purple and went to look and he's like "Where did you go?" And I just go "It was purple!" I'm so sad.

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is "Wrong"

Nice little tidbit that I'm not sure where it first started, but oh so true.

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is "Wrong"

1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans

Please post this in your journal if you are for gay marriage.

power...Power...POWER!! Heh heh, Power.

That was by King John from Disney's Robin Hood. Peter Ustinov was awesome.

So I went w/ J on our biweekly shopping trip (biweekly b/c that's how my weekend rotation for work is), and T came in when we were there. T had to exchange a book b/c he'd already gotten that volume of Naruto but didn't have his receipt and already opened it, and luckily Lin was there (which is the other reason we always go to Warp on Sunday). Still it wasn't very good for T since he isn't a regular regular there, and Lin was kinda looking tentative, so I went all friendly friendly to T (not that he's not already my bud, but just to emphasize my relationship to him), and so T was able to exchange the book no prob for FMA. Yeah, so after we left and T went thru my bundle (over $150 of books cause it was a biweekly haul and a lot of Viz came in), we were talking how Lin basically looked from T to me and back again to decide whether to cut T any slack. We've come to the conclusion that if T needs anything from Warp, he should come in w/ me, since I usually spend at least $200 a month there, whereas T usually spends $25. Same thing w/ J, although he spends more than T and is a regular there (b/c he comes w/ me and is the driver), he still uses my account for the GST discount. That's the kinda power trip I like.

But anyways, T walked us to the car, and J was saying how there are so many silver Corollas around so we always get lost, but he wanted to add PowerPuff racing stripes so we could find it. So T said "and maybe add some pink triangles?" And J's like "Yeah, that seems like a good idea." Basically T had to say that he should enter it into the Gay Pride parade, before J got it, and then he made some comment about PowerPuff stripes being manly b/c they beat people up. Talk about clueless. Ah, but it was good to see T outside of work. Sometimes it surprises me how much he looks like a guy, even though I've known him for over a year and a half. I guess it still shows why I sometimes still refer to him w/ the wrong pronoun, b/c when we were talking at work, and I was mentioning how difficult the operation would be for that big of a change, he told me to keep it vague b/c some people don't know, and I was kinda surprised. But it's not the sorta thing that you put into your introduction to someone. *sweatdrop*

Anyways X'mas shopping is done for the twins. Too bad the gift receipts don't last longer. They really should. Some of us do start shopping right after people's b-days. Er, well maybe just me. Oh, so I went to Wal-Fart. Saw Shawna there, and we talked a bit about work. And then afterwards J was like "Who's that? What was her name? You have so many friends, it's hard to keep track." I was going to say that Shawna's more an acquaintance vs a friend like T, but you know what, just let him think whatever. If he's going to be jealous, he's going to be jealous. The other day, I waited for T to finish, and told him that we had to pretend that it was me that was late b/c of a call and T found me instead. So T said that he should pinch my butt and then ask if I was going to his place like last night. While T shouldn't tempt me like that, I was giggling and said that J would flip. But T said that he wouldn't try it b/c J would probably beat him up and knew which apt complex he lived in, b/c J scares T. And I would agree, since when we were in Uni, and we were trying to study for a test, and J couldn't get it, he started banging his head against the metal railing. Hard. And it wasn't once, but like for a minute.

Anyways, I've spent enough today. Me poor credit card. Well I guess it's time to read my manga. I've had to move my Vampire Game into my Finished Series drawers, even though it's not quite finished, b/c I'm running out of space in my In Progress drawer. That's right, drawers. Malms to be exact, from Ikea. Drawers are more useful b/c they keep out the sunlight and dust, show the spines nicely, and you can use them for other things, versus the manga boxes that they were selling at Warp which only fit a certain size of manga. The Malm drawers are deep enough to fit the A5 sized manga (like Blade of the Immortal) and long enough for 2 rows. But b/c mangas are heavy (if you have enough of them!), you have to use the smaller drawers to fit them 2 rows deep. The wider drawers are only useful for 1 row, b/c otherwise I think the bottom of the drawer could break (it's just a thin sheet of particle board after all).

Oh, gotta feed the fish....*3 1/2 bloodworms later* So I still haven't really named it. Well it's either Fish or Stupid. I told T my dilemma, and that it was mostly swears I called it, so he told me to use the most common insult I have for it but to rearrange the letters. So far I have Diptsu, Pidtsu, Pitsud, Ditsup, Pustid, Dustip (which is very close to Dustox, but I hate insects)... maybe I should name it Magikarp. Both are useless, non edible, and takes a lot of work to make them evolve into something better. What's that Pokemon called in Japanese? I was looking on Wikipedia for Bulbasaur, Ivysaur and Venusaur. While I was at work, of course. I've used Wikipedia more at work when I'm on Duty Desk than at home. So Bulbasaur is Fushigidane, Ivysaur = Fushigisou, Venusaur = Fushigibana. Magikarp is ... Koiking. Hmm, more similarities, both can withstand waters that would kill lesser fish and used to be a more useful pokemon in the past. Hmmm... seems to fit quite well.

Quiz: How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

You Are 60% Boyish and 40% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

Okay, I've got to stop taking quizzes and go to bed. I think most my friends would agree that while they don't usually see me in a dress, they wouldn't think hell froze over if I did wear one. (ok, I've really got to go to bed, too many typos and correcting needed) On the other hand, I play a lot better w/ boys than girls. And identify more w/ male protagonists than female protagonists although I like to see strong female characters who don't think about relationships all the time.

Quiz: What name is best for you?

Meirta.


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What the heck does Meirta mean? Hmm, well no exact match found, but the closest on the Name DB is Meira(Hebrew) meaning Light, bright one w/ variations of Meiri, Meirit, Meora, Meorah. Huh, well, it certainly doesn't seem to match the picture.

Quiz: What kind of eyes do you have?

Your eyes are Fantasy. Dream Angel eyes. You hate
reality.


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Egads, that's true! Fictional characters are on my thoughts as often as real people. Or more. I can spend all day and night in bed daydreaming. Mmmmm, Iori Yagami.

Well I always did wonder...

So today I reveal that I am falliable.

No, I didn't split my pants, drop my food on the floor or told a customer to go f*ck off. I misread my schedule and came to work when I wasn't supposed to. Yup, didn't know about it until Grace told me I had training today, so I go to my schedule to write it in and ... why is there so little space? Wait *look over to date on sheet, look on phone, back to sheet.* It's not Wednesday? No it's Tuesday.... So I don't have Wednesday off?... Crap! This can't be right! .... *run to find supervisor* Crap, I need to see my schedule.... Nick's on the phone *jogging in place* Judy? No, Abdullahi's not busy! Crap!...*run back to Grace* I'm not supposed to be here! No, I don't know why the schedule you looked at said I was. *head over to tell T, T pats me on the head, then I spot Kyle* Oh uh Hi Kyle, I messed up my schedule... But anyways, I don't know why HFX didn't RTA me, but whatever. Whenever I called reps to ask them if they're supposed to be here, and it turned out they're not, I always wondered how you could misread the schedule. But I ended up w/ 1hr of training and b/c I'm taking tomorrow off, I got to go to supervisor training today for 2 hrs. To go over how to handle escalations. Wow, that was extremely interesting. As in a load of malarkey. For some reason my handout had a lot of doodles of # and piles of poo.

So my fish, which I still haven't named -- unless its name is Stupid, Bastard, Shithead(although J claims it for his cat), DumbAss, Moron, Retard, or just Fish -- will only eat freeze dried bloodworms. I've given it 2 types of pellets, bloodworms flakes, but that's all it'll eat. Basically if it's anything other than bloodworms, it'll come close enough to look at it, and then swim underneath. And the other day it made a huge poop, and I mean huge, the fish is only about ... *goes to measure* 4 cm long and... "hey Shithead, quit eating your poop!", anyways the poop is about 5mm big. Not 5 mmlong, but 5x5x5mm. So I was trying to get it to eat pellets b/c it'd just been eating bloodworms, maybe there's fibre in pellets? but nope. It's basically toss 1 in, wait about 10 min, fish it out, toss in a new one... ad infinitum. So basically in the morning I feed it about 3 bloodworm (cause I don't time to fight w/ it) and when I get home, the battle begins. Then after a while, the blue on it starts to fade b/c it's stressed and hungry, and then I get worried, and feed him some worms. Argh!

There's being possessive, and being a total b*tch

So my sister-in-law had a son on Wednesday Sept 21, which I guess makes my brother happy since he won't have to move to another house w/ more bathrooms. But I had today off, so I called my brother to see if I could see the baby at the hospital(apparently Krystal is still holding a grudge that we didn't see her at the hospital when she had Melissa) and if she was coming home from the hospital already to basically pick her up. Well, she was being released today (so if it wasn't for the fact that I had today off, there would technically be no way in hell that I could see her in the hospital since the stay is so short. Does this woman not understand that people work during hospital visiting hours?), so it was that I was going to go w/ my brother to pick her up. Then it was that I was going to babysit the 3 girls while he went to pick up his car from the shop. Then it was he was going to pick up Krystal from the hospital and bring her over so we could see the baby. Well what really happened was that I hiked around for about 2 hours to the different stores looking for a congratulations present for her and a baby present for the nephew. And when I say hike, I mean it, I don't have a car and didn't feel like taking the bus(b/c I'd been sick/stressed lately that I haven't done any exercise so need to use up calories).

Just a rant here, but all the gift books that I saw related to motherhood featured Caucasian women in there and maybe the token African/Latin. And there'll be a mention of god. And will be related to American lifestyle. I don't mind the latter too much, although god should go, but why Caucasian. Some may say it's b/c those are the type of people who buy things like that, but on the same point, maybe it's b/c other people don't buy them b/c they're not represented. It's kinda circular logic.

Anyways, I got a bouquet of flowers, a balloon on a stick and a soft plush ball w/ a bell inside. They came over, and I got to see Melissa for the 2nd time. I'm not kidding. She's about 19 months old, and I'm not really sure if she looks like Krystal b/c I don't even remember what she looks like b/c we don't see her. Melissa doesn't really make any sounds, maybe a short "Uhn" and pointing at something, and crying but that's it. But she's really smart and understands quite a bit. She likes to type on the computer and even figured out to press the backspace key to delete stuff. Anyways, I thought that my brother was only going to hang around for a while to make sure the kids were settled and then head off to pick up Krystal, but he stayed for about 2 1/2 hours, and we had pizza. I'm not sure if it's universal for kids, but the twins love Hawaiian. I gave them their presents. I was really disappointed that Sabby said that she doesn't read. They had fun w/ the Dino Links but I did't think the pieces would be sooooo small. Even I would end up losing some. At first the twins weren't interested in the bubbles, but then we went out to the deck(which I guess might not collapse after all) and made lots of bubbles and tried to get them to fly to outer space. Some even went past our neigbours house, so that's about at least 25 m away, And I showed them my fish, and we played Leprechaun which consisted of hiding chocolate coins and having everyone else find them. At about 8:30, we get a call, and it's Krystal on the phone, telling them that it's time to leave. She's got a really loud piercing voice(like her mother) and told them to get home. So we were going to walk them over, since their house is 2 blocks away, not that I've ever been there. Apparently my dad and middle brother have. But then Sabby said that they were coming to pick them up in 10 min, and it's like why? that's the same amt of time it'll take to walk them over. So I had Sabby call her back, and I couldn't hear what she said, but we just sat there at our house waiting. I ended up reading a Pokemon story to them, but only Jada seemed interested. Then when they came, the baby and Melissa were in the mini-van, Krystal told them to get in, didn't say a single word to us, my brother came out to say bye and to grab the presents, then they drove off. And the twins weren't waving bye. Even my Dad was pretty annoyed, it's like if it was too cold, we could always bundle them up in some clothes, and if she was too tired for a visit, we could just come in to see the baby for a min. We keep extending the olive branch, and she just takes it and tosses into the fire. So while it was fun to see the kids, their mother is a real hag.

Great, YTV just killed the feed for GITS: SAC. Thanks, so now I won't know why the Jeri unit betrayed her owner.

Victor needs to learn how to read again

Watching Reviews on the Run, and they reviewed Inu-yasha:Feudal Combat. Aside from calling them androgynous characters (were they upset that they got a chubby when they saw Sesshomaru?), Victor Lucas only said the title correct once and twice called it "Inyu yusha". Please Victor, if you need glasses, just wear them. It's "Inu Yasha". Sheesh! But I was quite surprised w/ the review that they gave it, b/c the reviews on GameFAQs meant that I didn't buy it right away and am waiting for it to go down in price. I'm not that interested in paying $49.99 for it. I'm thinking $29-35 for it. I was really shocked that Tommy gave it 8.5. So I got Growlanser Generations... wait I wrote about that. F*ck I'm getting tired.

Don't know why they call it Friday Night Smackdown when I see it on Thursday. Sylvan's right about Christy and Stacy. And that dress on Stacy made her look fat.

Anyways, the other day they had to evacuate the building b/c of smoke and the rumour is that there was an electrical explosion down in the basement w/ one of the air conditioning units. It was great b/c T and I were out on our break, and we first watched the pedway fill w/ smoke and then the security guards told us to move, so we went to his apartment to pick up the fish food that his fish wouldn't eat. T suggested some tea, but we didn't think we'd have enough time b/c it didn't seem bad enough that the centre would get evacuated. So we hung outside w/ the rest of the people for about an hour, but I really needed to pee, so I ducked into a restaurant. Then T and I were talking about having lunch there and that we didn't come back right away b/c we broke something so had to wash dishes. But we were good, and went back. But it was still a nice break.

Orlando, it's only good to celebrate when you win, not b/c you lasted over 30 sec w/ the Crippler. Well I guess in a few more matches, you might be able to beat the 2 min mark. *snigger* Boy, if they get paid a set amount per appearance, these have got to be the best matches for them.

So if you had your name legally changed for gender reassignment, how long do you think it would take for your job to change the info in their system? All the govt paperwork is done, company insurance issues you a new card, everyone under the sun knows you have a new name. A month? 6 months? It's been over a year and it's still not done. That, combined w/ false promises about promotions, a full page ad in the newspaper looking for new hires but the company treating tenured reps like ...not quite like the stuff you scrape off your shoes but like sinuses: source of trouble, and only tolerated b/c somewhat useful sometimes, ignored until overrun with problems, and when control methods don't work, move to burning the sinus tissue away instead of understanding why it was reacting. For some reason, resumes everywhere are being updated.

I think my fish is defective. It'd rather eat its poo and food that I couldn't get out of the jar instead of bloodworm flakes floating on the surface.

Light on the wallet at a bar

You Are a Bloody Mary

You're a fairly serious drinker, who's experimented a lot with different drinks. You're a drunk, but a stable drunk. You don't ever let your drinking get out of control.

What Mixed Drink Are You?

Well, I usually nurse my drinks, b/c all it takes is really 1 bottle to get me happy. And a shooter. Never gone beyond that. And I'm cheap. Lee keeps telling me that he has to take me to the bar to see how drunk I can get, and what I'll do. I've had margaritas, martinis, but my fav is Mike's Hard Lemonade. Mostly b/c you can't really taste the alcohol.

BiPolar Day

So it was back to work today. Whatta drag, and I forgot to bring my mug so I had to buy a drink. But this morning (cause I don't sleep until it's am), I had a dream that I went to my supervisor to request a leave of absence, but for some reason when I requested to speak w/ him, my call went to another supervisor whose team I usually sit with. So, 1)if you have a work dream, it probably means you're stressed out about work 2) if in your dream, you're asking to take time off, it probably means you need it. So aside from not answering calls until I've pulled all my systems up, instead of waiting for them to load and answering general questions, I think I basically answered all my calls w/ a growl in my voice. Although oddly enough a older guy said that he would take me to dinner if I lived closer to him. Then I found out that I was supposed to be on Duty Desk an hour after I'm supposed to start, and the person(Deb) who was working at the time, didn't check to make sure I knew and neither did the person filling in until I went for my break. So I spent an unnecessary hour listening to people. But actually that wasn't the part that pissed me off, it was that Deb as usual took off and let other people do her work.

Anyways, since I'd been gone for 4 days, T thought I'd been fired b/c so many people have been canned. I told T that they couldn't fire me for anything, but T's right, they'll find something if they want you gone. Anyways, did some work at Duty and then hunted down my supervisor to talk about LOA. Basically his advice is to brush up on my resume cause compared to how I was over a year ago, I'm not as bubbly or perky as before, and if I want LOA, it's better to go for a medical one instead of a personal one, unless it's something like I need to care for a family member. Of course if I wanted it right away, I could always freak out at work in a bizarre manner. Angry wouldn't be noticeable b/c everyone's always pissed b/c of the customers. And of course today I was wearing a T-shirt that said "Compulsive, Neurotic, Antisocial, Manic Depressive, Paranoid, Psychopathic, Schizophrenic... But Basically Happy" So I'm just trying to look up the frigging policies on their stupid HRDirect, and it's taking 5 years to load. And b/c I use Firefox, it's not displaying correctly.

Anyways, b/c I completed this PAR quiz, they give 1:5 quizzes a $10 gift certificate, and a balloon. The money is always appreciated, although Abudi who was helping hand them out, made some smart ass remark about my ACW b/c my supervisor and hence his reps, are part of the team of supervisors that he supervises. Ya gotta love hierarchy. So yippee a balloon, which I nearly forgot to take home. And then I was trying to see if T wanted it b/c he had just finished with some dumbass customer who escalated on him, and he was pretty pissed. Not to mention that I had to walk home after taking the bus and train, and it would be a bit of a bother to transport it that long. But T, being the rascal that he is, wrote on it "I hate my life -- and I want to DIE" and put smiley faces and hearts over it. And I told him that I should've asked him to write on my balloon earlier, b/c coupled w/ my T-shirt, that'll probably get me a LOA, but T said that he can only think of something witty when he's in a foul mood. So we were both in a better mood, and I got a lot of wierd looks when I was going home. Tee hee!

So I had a dumbass customer too. Quite frankly with some customers, empathy is just something you do so that if anyone's listening, they can mark that you displayed it. Says that they'd called in earlier to cancel the svc. Yep, it's notated but last time they called was 3 months ago, and it wasn't done b/c she hung up when waiting for the supervisor. Of course she denies it, but you couldn't call back in?! We're just open 24-7-365. Account holder had throat cancer so couldn't use phone anymore, but they also had 3 other lines on the account, and wouldn't transfer the account to anyone else. Needed a new phone but wasn't willing to upgrade to a new plan. And for some reason thought that they shouldn't have to pay an Early Termination Fee. I offered to CR back for the months after she'd called in to cancel b/c there hadn't been usage, but there was no way in hell I'm waiving the ETF on 4 lines. And she calls me unreasonable. So I tell her, after she f*cking tells me to shut up and listen to her, that just b/c her dad had a medical problem doesn't free him from legal obligations. So she asks me how she can get out of the ETF, and I was so tempted to tell her that if she kills her father, we'll waive it. No really, if the account holder is dead, we can waive the ETF.

The fish is not eating the pellets I bought it. It's very annoying and frustrating and worrisome at the same time. It hasn't really eaten since last night which makes it about 24 hrs ago. T is going to bring me some fish flakes that his fish won't eat to see if mine will. Damn picky eaters, maybe if it's hungry enough it'll eat that stuff that sank to the bottom. Yes, I know I'm supposed to fish it out if he doesn't eat it in a couple min, but they fell back in after I moved them up the side of the jar.

4 days, 14 hrs of sleep

So I had a 4 day weekend. Well, actually it was that work had me scheduled to have Thurs off, work Fri, and weekend off. Which is bullshit, so I put one of my vacation days on the Friday. And on Monday, I left 3 hrs early, called in sick on Tuesday, so I really only worked 2 1/2 days this week. Sweet. I hate that fucking workplace. Job: it's the same bitching and complaining so my skin's kinda think enough to take it, although my dentist doesn't think so. But office politics suck.

Anyways, enough of that shit. So on Friday, I was supposed to see "The Exorcism of Emily Rose." But I knew that my DVD player was set to come, b/c I was tracking it on the website. So I ended up going to sleep at about 4 am on Friday morning, thinking that my dad was going to be home to get the door when the delivery guy comes. Nope, he actually goes out that day. So I was awake from 9-2 until my dad came back. Waiting. Breakfast. Waiting. Playing Star Ocean. Waiting. Lunch. Waiting. Dad comes home, I pass out until 3. Come out of my room, and it turns out the stupid mailperson didn't even bother to try the door, they just dropped the delivery card in our mailbox b/c they only have 3 min window to deliver packages. Or at least that's what TT says b/c he knows a few people that work for Canadapost. Gawd, was I pissed!! Then I had to get ready to go out to the movie, and I'd made reservations for dinner beforehand. And then my dad tells me that he and my middle brother is going out to dinner w/ my older brother and his kids in a couple hours. Well, thanks a frigging lot! I'd already made plans w/ my friends a week ago, and there's no way I can cancel them. So I look like a jerk, and my dad gets to say that he asked me, and my dad tells me to quit my "hee hee haw haw". So I go to dinner and get there at 5:30 sharp, sit for 15 min waiting for people to show, called TT and he said that A was just coming to pick him up. And then Lee says that he came in at 5:15 but I wasn't there, and I'm like, I made reservations for 5:30, why would I come earlier when Robert and Jamie don't get off until 5:30? So anyways, people were late, we had to constantly flag the waitress down, food took forever to come, and we ended up missing the movie. And I think I got sick from the food too, b/c my stomach felt like crap. The first time I ate at L'azia's, they had ginger in the pineapple sauce w/ my burger, and I hate ginger! So I don't think I'm going to eat there again. But speaking of better service, went to Eastbound for the 1/2 price sushi. The waiter was cute, and apologized profusely for only having 1 menu, and then forgetting some of our order. So since I usually decided tip when I go out w/ J, I said we should give him extra tip b/c he was nice, but it was actually b/c he was cute. Tee hee!

But at least after missing the movie, we went to EBgames, and I found used Growlanser Generations for $49.99 - 10% b/c TT had a membership. It's a tatical RPG but it's much faster pace than FF Tactics, and they have very beautifully drawn bishounen. Yes, I was making very many innuendoes thru the game. Although there is no Japanese track on it,(I am a mite obsessed about that too) I think they got a lot of VAs that do animation work b/c some of them sound familiar. So I'll probably end up spending about 200 hrs play time btwn the 2 of them b/c it's supposed to be about 80 hrs playtime. I already have over a 100 hrs on Star Ocean, and I'm probably only about halfway thru. Arc the Lad almost has 100 hrs, and I'm kinda close to the end.

After my brother and dad get home from their dinner, my brother tells me that the twins are coming over the next day, but not when or why. So whatever, it's not like we see them that often (maybe every other month even though they literally live 2 streets over). Well I was in the middle of cleaning my bathroom when my brother and one of the twins show up. The other twin was taken by their mom, to who knows where. But it was like we'll just make the best of it, so we played Pokemon Sorry for while until pizza came. And then my brother's says we'll have cake afterwards. And I still hadn't clued in that Sabby wasn't over just for fun. (having only 5 hrs of sleep does that) Well, it's a b-day party for my dad and the twins. The twins' b-day is end of the month, and I didn't have any presents wrapped. I had presents b/c I like to stock up when I see something good, but still. I guess I'll finally get to see their house when I drop off their presents when it's closer to their b-day. But anyways, that was yesterday.

This morning, I went to bed at about 6 am b/c I'd fallen asleep in front of my TV after I finished cleaning my bathroom at 1 am. Then my brother starts vacuuming at 10:30 am, and our house has 0 sound proofing. And I'm a light sleeper, so I figure, I'll play a bit of Growlanser 2 until he finishes and go back to bed. And he'll vacuum for like 1/2 hr, stop for 1/2 hr, and start again. So I never went back to sleep. And J and I went shopping for reading material at our usual haunt, picked up my DVD player from the post office, I bought some 2000 flushes packs and sponges. Finally replaced my bathtub cleaning sponge, which was starting to wear thru the scouring side. Literally. Cellulose sponges are much better than those other artificial sponges. Had sushi as previously mentioned. And picked up a betta fish from Wal-mart. I hate Wal-mart but I don't feel like spending $6 for a fish that may not last a week. B/c I've never taken care of fish before. Except when I fish-sat my friend's. But it's got red fins and blue scales. So I paid $3 for the fish, got food, water conditioner, and a jar from IKEA for $4. I was thinking of a vase, but none of them were quite the right size or shape for it. So far I haven't named it. If it makes it thru the week, I'll probably give it something. Probably something Japanese. Course my friends know it takes me forever to think of names b/c I think about what they mean and if it sounds good, etc. For our RPG campaigns, I usually end up changing names, although my quick picks for our Catholic church campaign, I think I'll keep. My char has a dog and a bird, which I take to the different orphanages to entertain and teach the kids. And they're called...Genghis and Saladin. Bwahahahaha! Thank you Terry Jones' The Crusades!

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*humming* Adorable ukes, so sweet and innocent...La laa la...a little ropework never hurt as long as you let them out when they ask... do do doo... *presses submit* Holy crap! Jeez, Muraki, that evil bastard?!... Who's so hot, and I'd love to see go all the way with Tzuzuki, and who wouldn't want to do naughty things w/ Hisoka, although killing him was waayy too much. Uh, yeah, Muraki.


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I'm a very special person...

So I went to the dentist today, and my usual dentist is on vacation, so I saw his associate. Which is ok, it was just a checkup and maintenance. So she checked my jaw and tongue, which my other dentist never did. And ask if I do a lot of jaw clenching, and first I'm like maybe, then I think upon those escalations, and it's like Oh, Yeah I definitely do at work.

I really hate it when the caller tells me to shut up and listen or some variation of it. Like seriously, especially when I've already let them yammer about their problem, but they wanna tell their whine story. The other day a guy did that to me, so I just put him on mute, and had the headset next to my ear so I could hear when he shut up, and read my email and worked on a puzzle. So he finally starts asking if I'm still there, and then I take the mute off, and repeat the same thing I told him 5 min ago. I don't even go "I'm still here" or threw in any empathy statement, I just start saying the same thing I said before. I'm not sure if he even noticed.

It's so sad, Booker T has been around for a long time, and still all he can say is that he's the "5 time! 5 time! 5 time World champion!" I know he's gotten some serious push before, but he's never gotten to win the WWE championship. At least not that I remember. I know they're writing Charmelle so she's totally useless, and I wonder if that's just what they're trying to push all the women to be. From the height of Chyna and the Trish-Victoria street fight, to these stupid diva searches. Yuck! At least Trish is back, but she's really doesn't have any competition except for Victoria. Lita's just Edge's bump bunny and even when she was active in the ring, she sucked.

But back to the dentist, she told me that I'm missing both my mandibular lateral incisors. It's not like they were pulled out like my wisdom teeth or both my maxillary premolar 1 for my braces either. It's actually a congenital abnormality. But the rare thing is that both of my incisors are missing so you can't tell unless you're a dentist. Or an forensic anthropologist. So that combined w/ my small blood cells, makes me a mutant. Tee hee, I'm a mutant! Hmm, my special power? Um, I can break thru almost all the crab shell w/ my teeth except for the claw tips and the body. Well, actually I never tried using my teeth on those parts cause there's no real meat in the tips, and the body is already opened up to take out the innards. But the body of the claw, I've split open. Mmmmm, crab...*drool*

Must think Lemonade...but there's no sugar or water!

So for the last couple of days I've been having headaches throughout the whole day, from when I wake up until I go to bed. Yesterday morning I was tempted to call in sick b/c every part of my body was either aching or had gone numb during the night. But I had 4 hrs of duty, so I toughed it out. And then I...oh I wrote about that already. Ok, I forgot. Anyways, today at the meeting there's this group of SLRs for the Attendence Wellness Management program, who were just lying their ass off in the Duty Desk meeting, saying that they didn't know about certain processes, or trying to pass the workload to Duty Desk. But I managed to get my shot in about their stupid statistics that they've been keeping on all the reps, like avg call time, amt of transfers. Basically management was wondering why reps kept missing training even though they've been reminded many times, and I basically pointed out that w/ the huge focus over the past months on these stats, reps are more concerned about improving their stats by taking more calls instead of listening to some person drone on about some new rate plan or policy.

After the meeting I took about 3 1/2 hrs worth of calls. About 45 min of it was just a guy who kept asking me the same stupid question about whether he should go to prepaid or lower his plan based on his usage, and whether he should unlock his phone to go to prepaid. And he kept asking the same thing about the plan and how many min he used. I repeated myself over and over again, and kept telling him it's his choice to make, it's his finances, I can just supply him with information. And he wouldn't shut up. So I just started working on my wordsearch, talked w/ my friend and didn't hear a thing he said for 2 min, and then when he asked if I was there, I just repeated my info again, and i swear he didn't notice b/c I'm sure that he just asked the same question he asked me 30 min ago. Near the end I was seriously replying in monosyllabicwords, just Yes, No. I know we're not supposed to release the call, and he was hanging up, but I couldn't wait the 2 sec for the call to disconnect, I was so sick of him. The rep next to me was just watching me, b/c I would be slouching, having my head on the desk, pretending to pull my hair out, rubbing my temples, the guy was such a moron. After that I had lunch, worked another 1/2 to make it an even 5 hrs and went home sick.

Anyways, the Inu Yasha 3rd movie was released, and Future Shop said they were offering a free keychain, but at one store it was like, the keychain was packaged on the DVD so if it's not there, we don't have any. And then another store said that they never recieved any. But I think what it may be is that the bonus item is a lenticular pencil board. We managed to find one unopened copy w/o the shitajiki, so we figured that might be it. And I don't remember at the other Future Shops, getting a headache while looking over the DVDs. The bonus thing was that the sticker was 23.99 which is the price for the DVD w/ the keychain, at least that's what we think so b/c the other stores w/o the gift had them at 22.99 and online it's 22.99, but I was like it's only an extra buck, and shitajiki's are usually $8, but it rang in for 22.99! Anyways, also at FS, I checked out the DVD I'm ordering, the LG LDA 531, and during the sale, none of the stores had them, but at this FS they had them and at the sale price, even though online it went back up to $199.99. But I had ordered it online, and it still hadn't shipped last night, so I was thinking of buying it there, and then cancelling the online order. So I used the FS computer to check my order, and it'd just been shipped. DAMMIT!!! But the tracking number isn't working. ARGH!

I'm debating whether to call in sick tomorrow, it's only 1 occurrence, and I'm really sensitive to sound now. I have to turn my volume down on my games from my standard 15 to 13. I wonder how I get a leave of absence?

Halos of light from around a star known as V838, taken with Hubble's new Advanced Instruments Camera.

Apathy & Adversary

So for the last 2 days, my supervisor had been talking to me about getting the SLRs organized to go to one of the OM's w/ our grievences. No, really forming an SLR union. Of sorts. It's not like we'd go on strike if our "demands" weren't meant, but basically trying to get the upper management to notice that a lot of us are unhappy about the favouritism and poor treatment we've been getting. I wonder if it's b/c he's overheard me telling reps that my two lanyards aka nooses/collars/yokes don't mean anything anymore, even though I'd gotten one when I became Floor Support/Redhat/Resolution Specialist, and the other when I became SLR. Although it is entirely the truth, I don't get pulled off to provide extra support when they're shorthanded, even though I know 2 out of the 3 systems we use, and the only SLR duties we have nowadays is Duty Desk. Which is only a few hours a week. If we're lucky. While there are other SLRs who get to be permanently off the phones and spend their time IMing their buddies while waiting for someone to call in sick or surfing the Net. So anyways, it's not like there haven't been SLRs who've quit out of the program or just plain quit b/c of all the bullshit. But it just keeps going. So I did chat it up w/ some of my peers, and basically no one thinks that management will listen or do anything about it. And come to think of it, I think my brain'd hurt too much to try and think of any examples when managment has responded to reps' concerns. Except maybe for hiring new janitorial staff. Or moving the TLs to sit w/ their team. Getting more cleaning supplies. Adding toasters to the lunchroom. Giving board games to play on breaks. But none of those would ruffle any feathers like responding to charges of favouritism. Nope, don't think much will happen, and they love to tar us all w/ the same brush. Good lip service to Diversity.

Anyways, got a call from this guy, after it was passed to me from another rep b/c the rep was too stupid to change the profile on the phone. So the customer says he was told that after a year on the 2 yr contract that he would get new phones w/o signing for a new contract or paying for it. And on top of that, he says that he didn't know that he owns the phones. So I ask him straight out, "Then what did you think you were doing w/ the phones, renting them?" Yes, he actually thought that. Well buddy, there's this bridge in Brooklyn that's just come onto the market...

Update: I was mistaken on the length of the Friday night Smackdown. It's actually 2 hrs, it's just on the digital cable, it said it was 1 1/2 hrs. So I was a bit surprised when it when so much longer. And how is it Friday night, when I'm watching it on Thursday?

I've been feeling under the weather, migraine, insomniac, aches, muscle cramps, hearing wierd sounds and being overly sensitive to sound/smell. Last night, the opening for .hack//SIGN was hurting my head, little stabs of pain on certain notes. So I changed to my Hiro Yuuki CD and it didn't hurt, but usually w/ his voice, it's like a lullaby, but I still couldn't get to sleep. It's really f*cking annoying being awake thinking whether or not I should call in sick. And I didn't b/c I had 4 hrs on Duty Desk, which meant I only had to listen to customer's yammering for 3 hrs. Tomorrow, I'm thinking of calling in sick, b/c I'm starting to get a headache from the computer fan and listening to my mp3s and deciding which ones I want to burn. But I have a frigging acct I have to cancel tomorrow. And some stupid meeting about Duty Desk. As long as it's not about surfing while you're sitting there bored out of your skull looking to see if anyone's in aftercall, I don't care. Anyways all I look at is Pokemon, Discovery Channel, and Wikipedia. And I have a picture from the Hubble Telescope as my background for my SLR acct at work. Which I've posted. Cool, huh?