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That whole hurricane/tropical storm thing they've been warning us about. Yeah, that was huge. oooo, it rained. There was wind. Come on, this is Mobile, Alabama....if there's a day without wind and rain, THAT'S when we call the National Guard. Yet people were still freaking over it. Whatever! Just get out of my way and continue your freak out.

In other news, there is no news really. My life is dreadfully boring. I'm mostly just biding my time until True Blood starts up again.

The search for a part time job still continues. Classes are going pretty good, anxiety over Algebra not included.

Oh, we got the announcement for our Computers project today. WTF? We had over a month to work on project 1, we have less than 3 weeks to do project 2? And project 2 is WAY more difficult than project 1? Are you freaking kidding me?

Oh oh oh oh!!!! V is tonight!! I can't wait. I know there's only been 1 episode so far, but I have loved V since I was wee little bitty, and this re-imagining is like letting my wee little bitty self free in a big ass candy store with no limits.

Anyone have any V icons that are shareable as of yet?

Please tell me there's someone else out there squeeing over this show with me? Don't leave me hanging people!

I'm at work. My sanity is only saved by the fact that we now have free wifi.

Today has just been the most awful day. So, I'm going to do this letter thing that I've seen so many of you do.

Dear redneck trash woman:

It is not MY fault that you waited until after school started to try and get your kid's summer reading books. Of course we're sold out, everyone else has already been in and bought the same damn book!!! Stop screaming at me about MY incompetence when it's clear by the way you keep smacking your kid that you don't really give a damn anyway.

Fuck off,

CJ

*copy this to nearly every customer I've had today, changing woman to man as needed*

Dear Employee:

It is not my responsibility to call you and tell you when you have to be at work. If you're too stupid or lazy to check your schedule when it's posted on WEDNESDAY, do not come crying to me that you didn't know you had to work on SUNDAY!!!!

Stop calling me!!!

CJ


And, I think that's it. I'll be much more relaxed once my relief manager gets here and I can finally go to lunch.

Sorry for the spam,

Love,

CJ

I'm hoping someone can help.

Does anyone know where I can find the full version of the original theme song for Veronica Mars?

Please please please?

ETA: Song has been found. Thanks, viciouswishes

ION: Today was possibly the most boring day in the history of the world. The satellite is dead, we have no antennae for the TV, so we've been sitting around, staring into space until we decided to ransack the DVD shelf.

And now, it's very late, so I'm going to bed. Have fun guys.

So, I've watched all the episodes of Chuck that are available, at least until after the strike, and I've recently gotten my hands on all the episodes of Jake 2.0, which I just finished watching the first episode of.

The trend? Apparently, if you want to be a top covert super agent, working for the government, you must be early to mid 20s, cute, and never brush your hair. Also, you must be completely useless in social situations.

A friend of mine is loaning me the episodes of the Sci Fi miniseries Taken to watch, anyone out there seen this? If so, is it any good? I read the book, not sure which came first, the book or the show, but the book was very good.

ION: After having spent the entire weekend, with the exception of a short day Sunday, off work, I find myself in the situation of actually looking forward to work tomorrow, just so that I'll have something to do. I will, of course, completely change my mind when I have to wake up in just under four hours.

Some things I have learned over the course of this weekend? Going to Bumpers and playing pool while drinking is a great thing to do. Must convince friends that we need more nights like this. Rockband is an extremely great thing to play when your smashed. Even more so when you're sober and you find out that you're not as good at it anymore.

Crossing fingers that I get Guitar Hero 3 for my birthday!! I can't wait to piss people off by playing that at 4:00am.

And now, to bed I go. Have fun guys.

New manager started work today. He seems to be doing fine, except he kept getting verklempt because he couldn't find stuff. I found out quickly that he doesn't want you to tell him where it is, he wants to find it himself. I find that to be a waste of time and it kills my soul.

And now, since I can think of nothing else postable at the moment, I bring you a list of the things I've thought about on a long and boring work shift tonight.

*I wish I knew how to do bulletin points*

1. pretty boys are pretty.

2. ugly boys are not pretty.

3. ugly boys can be made pretty by the placement of a bag over face.

4. this doesn't work unless the body is pretty.

5. morons should be shot.

6. repeatedly.

7. with a very big gun.

8. i like Xander.

9. a lot.

and that's about it. I didn't even come up with any new plot bunnies today, that's how boring it was. I even vacuumed the store, before being told to do so. OMG!!

Shhhh! No one tell her, but I've stolen all of crazydiamondsue's notes.

ION: Bad day. Very bad day. What ever in my entire life made me decide I wanted to close these few nights to get out of having to do inventory? If I'd had any clue that I'd be the one in charge of getting the store set up in order for them to DO inventory, then cleaning the store up and getting it back into order AFTER inventory, then I'd have jumped right on top of that inventory bandwagon with a "Yes Sir!" firmly entrenched in my heart. Can you imagine having to "pre-count" all the books in a bookstore? I mean, what's the point of even having an inventory team come in and do this, if I have to spend an entire night making sure that every book in the store gets counted? Wouldn't that fall under the heading of redundancy? If I even spelled that word right.

IOON: I'm in need of more McShep recs. I fear that I am heavily taxing the bonds that have developed between me and my straight girlfriend eternalmusings. I have been reading the hell out of some McShep fic lately. And every episode that I watch just makes me want more.

You guys love me right? Write me some long, epic McShep fic. I like the whole gamut of emotions. From them first discovering that they like each other, right up to the bondage and s&m, bring it on.

I gotta have my crack fix.

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That last line looks a little funny when you're vision is slightly blurry.

I think I shall go to bed now, I have come to the realization that I'm doing nothing but rambling.

Tonight, I got promoted. Again. Second promotion since the beginning of the year. This is good?

I started out this year (and I don't mind telling you guys this, not like I'm bragging) as Cafe Specialist at work, making roughly $14,500 a year. At the end of January, 2 days after my birthday, I got promoted to Co-Manager Cafe, which brought my pay up to $19,000 a year. Today, when I get to work, I get told that I'm being promoted again. This time, to Co-Manager of the entire bookstore, and will be raised up to $20,500 a year. Good news? In under three months I've gone up $6,000 in yearly pay. Bad news? I have to change locations. I can't stay at my present store, #626, and keep the promotion, I have to move over to store #628.

Which isn't really that bad, I just would not pick to work under the General Manager I'm going to be working under. I mean, don't get me wrong, he's a great guy. I've just heard through the grapevine that he's not all that great a manager. And that he doesn't really do anything other than sit on his butt in the office, answering the phone, or showing the occasional customer to a book they want. But, oh well, that's what us Co-Managers get paid the big bucks for, right? And, in the long run, if I don't like where I'm at, it still looks good on a resume that I can take to Barnes and Noble and get paid probably twice what I make now.

( And now for the part Lyndee should skip )

Okay, now progress yourselves out of my bedroom antics and on to the fandomish stuff. I have recs for a few different fandoms that I'm involved in.

BtVS/Angel: Ulterior Motives by yanagi_wa - A wonderful story that's just getting started. There's the Prologue and Chapter One already up, and it's promising to be a fantastic fic.

Stargate SG-1: The Cost of a Used Spaceship by Marie Blackpool - A truly beautiful story. Plus, it doesn't hurt that I love fics that include the robot SG1.

Stargate Atlantis: General & Dr. Sheppard - For lovers of the long, epic length AU fic. I was given this link just last night, and though I should have gone to bed when I said I was, I kind of got caught up reading this and devoured the entire thing in one sitting. I was a wreck trying to get up for work today, let me tell you.

Supernatural: Don't Know How to Let You Go - OMG!!! I can not stress enough how much I love this pairing. Before this fandom, I'd never really gotten into the whole incest thing (unless you count Xander/Xander). But these two brothers were made to be each other's bitches. I can't say it any better than that.


Hope hope hope you enjoy. I also hope that I can get back to you soon with more recs. But right now, I am foregoing fic to read the second installment in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. You guys should so check out The Lightning Thief. It's a new series by Rick Riordan, and is rumored to be the next Harry Potter. It's that good. I just got the book and I'm already half way through it. I'm totally addicted. So go, read. I swear, you'll enjoy it. And if you don't, you can pretend to sue me.

Night guys.

and other worldly news of no importance.

( First the bad... )

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( And now for the good... )

( In closing, I have a couple of requests. )

Um....I don't think there's anything else. If there is, I'll be spamming you. I'll be up for a while watching my shows. See you guys later. *smooch*

ETA: Sorry, I didn't realize I'd rambled on quite so much. LJ cuts have now been added to save my flist readers. If I'm on any, that is.

I've signed up over at The Great Write Meme. You'll find me on page 3 of the comments, if you so desire to go and see.

( gakked from  )

ION - My week has not been great. It all started Friday night at work when my mother called to tell me that she needed to go to the emergency room. She'd had a fever and a bad cough for a few days, and when she went to go to bed that night, she couldn't get to sleep and started feeling a tightening in her chest which was making it difficult for her to breath. She hasn't had the best health for the last couple of years, so my first thought was 'heart attack'. Scared me so bad, I almost wrecked my car three times on the way home. Turns out she'd strained a muscle (or something like that) with all the coughing.

Was off over the weekend, but it went by much much too fast due to having too much to do and not enough time to do it.

Monday, had a doctor's appointment with my general doctor that I'd completely forgotten about until about 20 minutes before I was supposed to be there. Had to call and let them know I was going to be late for work, again. My diet pills have started wearing off about halfway through the day. I thought my body was building up a resistance, and that still may be the case, but she just said to start taking 2 pills a day instead of one - one in the early morning, and another in the early evening.

Dental appointment was today. It was supposed to be the final appointment, but it turns out that the root canal I had two weeks ago this wednesday was completely unnecessary as the tooth can't be saved after all. When she removed the temporary filling and was filing around the edges to get it ready for the permanent filling and the crown, the tooth started crumbling. Great news for her, not so much for me. $945 later, my tooth is gone, and I have a temporary replacement tooth in now. In two weeks, I go back to get my permanent replacement. Oh yeah, because of all the extra work on my tooth, I wound up being late for work - AGAIN. I'm going to wind up getting fired, I know it. Luckily, I was smart enough to get notes from both doctors to turn in to the manager.

It's now almost 3:00 in the morning and I can't sleep because all the numbing agents they used in my mouth today are wearing off - AT THE SAME TIME - and it's an excruciating little pain party in there. Alcohol would be heaven, but can't have any because of meds I'm taking. Someone, somewhere, hates me with a passion that I can't even begin to imagine.

Oh yeah, we started scanning for voids tonight. Got almost the entire fiction section scanned (for those that don't know, the fiction section is the largest section in our store. We're talking hours of scanning). About 10pm tonight, we found out that we were scanning under the wrong program. Instead of Feb. Voids, we should have been scanning the March overstock. Too late to go back and start over, and we can't put the books back into the system. So we're screwed and behind schedule now. Greatness.

So, how's your week been thus far?

Today at work was just hell.

I got almost no sleep at all. For some reason, I kept waking up at every little noise. And that's just not like me. When I sleep, I sleep like the dead. No, I mean like the truly dead, not the bitten-and-will-rise-again kinda dead.

But, my keyboard works again.

eternalmusings and sam_gamgee, I owe you two a huge apology. I meant to get on MSN and chat tonight, I swear I did. But maybe you'll forgive me in a couple of days when you see why I couldn't.

I got involved in a yahoo chat with spikedluv and truly_tazi and got such a neat little bunny from a comment that spikedluv made. I don't wanna jinx it by talking about it, but it's really looking good, I think. I just hope you guys like Human AU's.

Another wierd thing about tonight?

Remember the email I spoke of last night, rejecting my application for a promotion at work? Well, I didn't get a chance to speak to the manager today, he was too busy on conference calls, but tonight I got the oddest email. It was an announcement letting me know that a job had been posted for an Assistant General Manager at our Daphne location and that it matched my criteria and they wanted me to apply for it.

The position I was just rejected for was for a Co-Manager job.

The wierd part comes in because you CAN'T be Assistant General Manager without first being a Co-Manager. It's completely against policy. You're not even allowed to apply for Ass. Manager until you've been a Co-Manager for at least 6 months. So, what I want to know is, wtf were they thinking? Are they torturing me?

This, to me, just smacks of disrespect to your employees and truly lets me know once and for all what this company thinks of us.

But, I will be speaking to the General Manager tomorrow. Phone calls be damned, he will make time for me.