I am a Joss Whedon fan.  I adore Firefly, and I like the two seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer I have gotten ahold of so far ( Read more... )

1. The cashier would really like to give you things for free.

However, the cashier hates giving you things at a discount. Free is easy. We had a Military Appreciation Week discount at the zoo where I sell tickets. Military and veterans, and their immediate families, were to be given free tickets, with I.D. However, because giving out the free ( Read more... )

I am no longer going to post a food diary here. For one thing, I'm having trouble remembering what I've been eating, and for another, the diary's novelty and resulting effectiveness in getting me to control my food intake have worn off. Also, I don't think anyone was really that interested in a blow-by-blow of my calorie inhalation ( Read more... )

I worked gate by myself for the first time yesterday and when I counted out, I found that I had handled over three thousand dollars' worth of transactions.  It was ridiculously trippy.  I came up a dollar short, but apparently that's really good for one's first day.  (The more experienced person ahead of me in the count-out was over by two dollars ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm treading water.  I'm holding down a job to make rent and save money for grad school, which, every day, draws nearer, which is exactly what I intended to do this summer, but I don't feel like I'm accomplishing anything.  I hate this feeling.  It makes me eat far too many donuts, which makes me feel worse because it means I can't ( Read more... )

I worked the carousel at the zoo today (taking tickets and making sure people were sitting safely).  I spent all day saying the following things ( Read more... )

I had my first day of work on Wednesday.  I got my uniform (khakis and a blue button shirt and a nametag) and filled out a lot of paperwork and then spent all day shadowing the people who were selling tickets.  I made a friend; she seems quite nice.  I had lunch in the breakroom.  I got a bizarre thrill from entering a seeeecret code to enter a ( Read more... )

I accepted a job at the zoo.  I go tomorrow.  Wish me luck ( Read more... )

For darkladyothsith's birthday I am beading her a chessboard.  Each square is 30 by 20 beads (since the beads are 2/3 as wide as they are long) and there are 64 squares on a chessboard.  The board will contain 38,400 beads total.  I need to make a stop at Michael's and pick up another few vials of white and black.  Conveniently, a beaded chessboard will be ( Read more... )

Had an interview with the grocery store Thursday morning.  The lady who interviewed me gave a very short interview (I arrived fifteen minutes early and left ten minutes before the interview had been due to start).  She seemed nice enough, although she didn't give me a chance to ask her questions (compensation, dress code, length of training period ( Read more... )