Like Shooting Stars

 I didn't even see that part, but I did watch the whole 'Big Bada Boom' stuff and whatnot, so I have Fifth Element on the fron...


Anywho, much of today was NOT made of win. Not only did I wake up feeling more than a little tired (and i don't know why - I got up at 11!), I had to work a register today, and that is never something that's fun when you're feeling lethargic and blah! Well, i get there and start doing the whole 'nice cashier' thing because I know I hate getting a bitchy cashier when i'm at the store. Things were slow today, so it wasn't that bad. There was this ONE guy that came to my register and was HARASSING me. First he walked in the store and said something to me, and i didn't understand him. So I asked him to repeat it, and he said 'nevermind.' Then he bought a candy bar at my register (after 'pretending' to walk out with it), and then hovered around. One of the floor boy brought a watermelon to my register for the guy this man had come in with, and the creepy dude walked off to find that man. Then he came to my register AGAIN with two bags of chips, and walked away. A woman came up between the creepy dude and the man he was with, so the man he was with let her go. But the CREEPY dude was like 'who put that  up there? Who put that up there?' the whole time I was ringing the woman up. By this time, his badgering was getting on my nerves and I was trying to ignore him. So i wrung up all the stuff the guy he was with was getting (including the watermelon, which the creepy guy kept asking if I've wrung it up. 'Did you get this? Did you get this?' Finally I said yes, and he said 'Yes sir!' all snippy - like i was gonna sir him.), and started to bag it. Well, creepy dude (who kept calling me 'young man') began snatching up the bags almost right out of my hands before i even had a chance to put them on the register. Then when I had finished with all the bags, he reached out and snatched my wrist. I told him to leave the store, which he did. But  I was so aggravated and upset I started to cry (remember i was feeling groggy and crappy to begin with), so Madre took me in the office to calm down. 


I swear, if I didn't know Chicago was gonna be worth all this, I'd quit in a heartbeat. 

I calmed down after a little bit and got back to work (though I told Madre later that if that guy ever came in the store again while I was working, I wouldn't help him), but not without some serious contemplation on quitting. Why do I put myself through all this hell week after week?!


As taraleesg1texted me during my break - CHICAGO MY LOVE!!! CHICAAAAAAAAAAAGO! (I have to repeat this mantra daily or I'll sure walk right out of that hell hole.) 


I know some of you are thinking 'well at least you have a job and i'm sure it's not that bad.' Yeah, try working in South Louisiana at a grocery store where arrogant meets stupid! These people think they are the greatest things to walk the earth, and are too damn stupid to realize just how messed up they REALLY are. GAH!


Moving on, the crappiness reached it's peak when I managed to spill Mountain Dew Code Red all in my purse. Thankfully I realized it before anything got majorly ruined (such things as the current SG-1 Novel I'm reading, my camera, my iPod, the RETURNED letter for taraleesg1), but it's still the fact that is happened to me on THIS day. Now I have to wash my purse and use a spare for now (in all honesty, i want a NEW purse but can't be spending the money on the type of purse I want. *headdesk*)


The crappiness did ease up eventually and I found myself in a good mood by the time i clocked out, but it's just the fact that i always seem to have my worst days WHEN i'm working that pisses me off. I hate that i'm only working for the money right now. If I didn't need it so badly for next month, I probably wouldn't be working at all!


Right now I'm seriously debating DLing the Wall-E OST. I really want a new OST (there's a few of you who understand this NEED for a new one!), but I want to wait and see if Wally World has it first b/c I HATE DLing whole OSTs from iTunes. It's just more satisfactory to have the CD in hand and the case to display with all the rest of the OST cases. *sigh* And also, I shouldn't be spending the money. *headdesk*


On a fanfiction front, I stayed up last night to work on a post AOT DV piece who's brabbit was insistant and whiny and wouldn't leave me alone. I actually like the way it turned out because it's friendshippy DV stuff, with a HINT at something more. I have a hard time keeping it away from the relationship stuff with them, so I'm proud of myself that I stayed within that friendship box. Of course there is another post AOT DV fic that would have them breaking free of that box into the romantic stuff (it actually could work as a follow up to the one I wrote last night), but the one last night turned out as i hoped it would - Friendshippy with a splash of future something thrown in! XD


I'm also planning on posting the rewritten chapters of Family (which was the first fanfiction I ever posted) tonight before bed, along with the latest fanfic done for mission_insane. Speaking of my mission_insane, if you go my master table post and see a prompt you want me to write something for, just comment here or on that post and let me know with the prompt. Right now, the only prompts that aren't linked to their proper fics, or don't have the fic posted for them yet, are Bite on the Saucy Table, Don't Dream it, Be It on the Phrases table, and Worthless on Un-themed #4. Feel free to pick any of the others. I know I'll think of SOMETHING for them!


I have just eased my need for a new OST. JUST ordered the Mamma Mia! OST from Amazon (okie donkie, preordered) because i am SOOOOOOOOOO excited for this movie! I mean WOW, you have no idea how excited I am. I am the biggest sucker for musicals EVAR, and this one looks to be an EXCELLENT one!


Okie donkie, I think that's it for now. Time to go perused the flist one last time before posting all that fic!


~Pip