HI! Hope everyone's doing better than I am.

I attended an interview and information session with Vector Marketing today. Perhaps you've heard of them. They market CUTCO cutlery products -- good stuff too. The demonstration included the interviewer cutting a penny into a corkscrew with a pair of CUTCO scissors, not to mention cutting through thick ropes with single swipes and extra clean cuts. Still, I don't think selling knives is my thing... and besides, there would be issues with transportation since the job would require me to go to people's houses to show off the merchandise. But I didn't want to do it anyway. Meh. (more...)

I didn't get back from work until 11:40.

Somehow, I lost my watch.

I am tired and hungry.

And my ass hurts.

And it's too late for a drink.

But I think I'll have one anyway.

And ice cream.

Which will melt.

Because my life is Hell.

Blogger's having some problems at present, so I'm typing this post up in Notepad. I'll paste it over when things are back to normal. Who knows when that'll be. Rah. For the record, the time is presently 11:18 AM.

Anyway, I'm working today at 5 PM, so I've got some time to kill before I have to go in... I'll probably leave between 2:30 and 3 and do a bit of browsing around the area shops before I don the BAM apron and the nametag of the retail slave. Not in the best of moods right now -- I guess this is always the case, but right now it's wearing on me that everyone else around me seems to be doing so much better than I am. (more...)

Yesterday was my first day of (paid) work since 2001... I am now an employee of Books-A-Million. First day wasn't too bad, but it's still retail. Oh, and it's a bookstore, so I saw quite a few things that really irritated me, not the least of which was seeing Oprah's name stamped all over Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, since apparently it's the latest title in her book club. You might think that's a good thing, since tons of people are reading the book just because Oprah recommended it, but also take into account that most of these people will get nothing out of the book (assuming there's something to be gotten out of the book, given its classic status; I haven't read it myself) because they're already mindless Oprah zombie-slaves. I remember when Oprah was pitching Steinbeck's East of Eden and she dedicated an episode of the show to "discussing" the book. (more...)

Already had 'em, but I made a few changes to the way they're working. Unfortunately, I was working with an older version of the comments template (apparently the latest version wasn't the one on my hard drive), so I unwittingly overwrote some of my later changes and had to try and do my best to recreate them. I may not have done so as well as I'd like, so if you notice anything drop a comment or send an e-mail and let me know. And I kicked up the comment maxlength quite a bit (since once or twice people have had problems with that), so you should be able to post some pretty long comments now. If you want. (more...)