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Country: United States
State: Maryland
Metro: Baltimore
Gender: Female
Interests: reading, manga and some anime, listening to strange music of all types (except country - bleh), indie movies, caffenine ingestion, playing PS2, rugby (USA Sevens in LA, AWESOME!)
Occupation: Entry Technician
Industry: Consulting
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AIM:  Dani34T00
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1/28/2004
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| Hmmm. So much went on, but so little to type about....
Went to see Metric in Philly... fucking amazing. I see why they can get away with only a dozen shows a year, as hard they work.
Changed jobs, now working at APG, for a firm called MCFA, LLC- since June 1. I love nepotism since I got my job through Jason. The pay isn't a huge step up after the damn health insurance and 401K deductions, but I feel a lot more secure here. The co-workers are all very nice, despite the fact that I'm the long bleeding heart liberal in the joint.
Trying hard to scape together as much as possible for Dragon*Con in September, plus Keri and Jay's wedding. Raiding the collection of every fellow fan to catch up on stuff before I see these folks in person. Sad that the cancellation list all seems to be all Farscape peeps I wanted to meet and get autos from. I suppose this limits the amount of cash I have to scrape together for $30/sig. (My assumption.)
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| Random entry, so forewarned:
First of all, Mel's in town, yay! Haven't seen her in forever, so we're hanging out tomorrow after I get out of work. Hopefully I don't fall asleep on her, working 5 am to 4 pm.
OH MY GOD! I have seen no doubt the best childcare device ever. It's a four point harness for child control. You stake them out like a beagle. But it's okay since it has a teddy bear or panda backpack attachment so it doesn't traumatize them. Seriously?! Have you ever seen a the kid snap backwards when they pay out the full length of the tether? It's hilarity watching them flail as they fly backwards!
TSA is just pissing me off. Three days off this week and still a goal of 103 pr. of shoes. I think they just want the excuse to not pay us. In the district, we are kicking ass and taking names for overall sales, ECP and add-on. They just jump on us even more, which just annoys me. I swear there are times when I'd happily trade the human interaction for a a cubicle cage again....
The other job at MI is about 3 weeks in, and the client is all bitchy that the score set isn't up to par. They want us retrained or removed from the project. Well, they taught the kids and designed the complex scoring rubric. Who's fault is it again? Damn No Child Left Behind and the testing... good money or not.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine just pissed me off, since it was equally so predictable and counter-jammed the years of canon in 90 minutes. I enjoyed the flick for what it was, but I swear to God, one most stupid jump-cut or CGI blade sequence and I would have stormed out of the theater. What is it with every FVCKING director that insists on using slow-motion and CGI together? (And yes, Roman spelling. I choose to be snooty.) Just because you can make the particular shot on the supercompy AVID doesn't mean you should.
Also, Metric's Fantasies is the best album they've had since "Old World Underground..." I think I'm headed up to M's for the O's/Phillies series in June and may see Metric at the Tracodero (I think I spelled it right). It's 5 miles from M's new place, which I actually haven't even seen yet.
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| So, work is instituting a sort of hostage system for footwear. Sell the quota or you're fired. The best part is they have this sort of reverse commission BS, where top sellers get extra cash based on quantity. But only after you've trampled your fellow co-workers in other markets. Basically they are out to make my softlines manager and myself insane by mid-Feb., between all this new shit, the spring reset and general chaos that comes from working with the public. Since I'm like the only full-time, experienced footwear associate, my number PER WEEK is 74 pairs. Plus they expect add-ons for every transaction. Everyone else has to sell five or ten pairs.
I am SO looking forward to the local FarPoint convention, fairly crappy guest list or not. (http://www.farpointcon.com)
But ALAN TUDYK is coming!!! *fangirlsquee* I love my Wash. And the beer. So far, everyone has committed to a bottle of booze and a case of beer. My cooler will be full, I will be vaguely inebriated all weekend.
Hard to believe I'll be 28 the end of the weekend. And I still have waaaay too much crap in my life that is of my own causing. I need to hit the lottery or just slit my wrists. Decisions, decisions.
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Worlds Apart
By ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
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It's been interesting week, with only two days occurring so far. We have the Ravens playoff hopes all but shattered by a stupid referee call... (check the damn photo on the front of the Dec. 15 Baltimore Examiner! His hand and wrist are clearly outside the plane of the endzone!) They had it right the first time, 4th and 4 cm. The game should have never come down to that, since we couldn't tackle anyone in the second half anyway. All these dudes need to play rugby off-season. Why do you think Heloti Nata is so quick on his feet and can bring anyone down to the dirt?
Everyone at work was crazy-snippy, between customers that had the nerve to complain we were low on sizes or styles (check a calendar, folks-- nine days to Christmas. Hanukah is this weekend, or was it last weekend? I need Jewish friends) or the fact that my manager was just in beotch mode from the words "Hey Sunshine!" as I came in the door.
I think I just need to sleep, get a workout in tomorrow and not think too hard until I go back to work Wednesday.
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| Just saw "Twilight" this evening and I have to say I was less than thrilled with it. I guess that's what I get for getting caught up in the crazy hype. This is what's sad... the free excerpt of the audiobook on iTunes didn't suck. The cast list didn't seem too bad. I actually like Kristen Stewart (I've seen Cold Creek Manor, The Safety of Objects, Panic Room, Zathura and The Messengers) and I only knew the male lead Robert Pattinson as that guy that played Cedric Diggery, the teen wizard killed by Voldemort in the last Harry Potter flick. Peter Facinelli also deserves a mention for not sucking for once. Although as a blond doctor/caretaker? I guess that's why it's called acting.
The studio had to go and further angst-up a love story that is so based in the author's and character's head... as usual, translating a popular book well means facets suffer: the characterization seems forced, ancillary events. Actually, the final fight scene with all the mirrors is cool, but super-shimmer vampires?! Who the hell are they trying to please except the 14-year-old girls? And the fact that the vampire vs. goth kids was just immortalized by South Park in their season finale in November... cue the shark. (Hell- this damn movie got the new Harry Potter movie slot. They dumped Half-Blood Prince to the new year to hammer this into the 4th quarter coffers.)
The most fun out of all this is the news that a partial chunk of Meyer's draft of last book of the series got leaked on the Internet before it came out this summer. She swore to stop writing the series with that violation of her "creative process." I need to find that damn URL, but I doubt she'll carry through. Found it! Click here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/31/leaked.book (Hell, if TV did that, they'd never produce a single show.) Also the movie did obscenely well for the opening weekend, the biggest US opening of any film with a female director (Catherine Hardwicke, if you care).
Ultimately, I'll probably wind up renting the rest of them, just to see what happens. Or grabbing the books when they go cheap, the mass market paperback editions.
Now, back to the boring stuff. Work is equal parts insanely busy and random tasking to assuage the boredom. I just wish people would make up their minds: spend obscene amounts of cash or don't bother coming in at all. I'm so sick of leading people to every single product they ask for, or choosing an item fitting every specification only to have them balk and walk out with nothing. It just pisses me off.
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