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Yar!
2002-12-13 18:14:06
Yar! Today is casual day at work, and oh do I love it. I've come in wearing pajama pants a sweatshirt before, but today I'm just pulling off the Disturbed tshirt and the black pants. I look evil today, I have to say. I like black ^_^ Much of my wardrobe consists of black stuff: socks, tshirts, pants, hats. I don't own them to be "goth" or "different" or anything. Hell, wearing all black became cliche and normal years ago. I just like the color. Most of the time I try to mix it up a little, adding a splash of blue or green here and there, but today just seemed like an all black day. *shrug* Who am I to argue with intuition?
Man, I love my job. The people are all friendly, the hours are extremely accomodating, and the pay is decent. They matched my starting pay to how much I was making when I quit my last job. Now, many people will say I'm a pig or a bigot for saying this, but one of the best benefits is the attractiveness of my coworkers. Just being around them keeps me peppy and happy to work. It's amazing! Not that that is the only reason I'm happy when I'm here. I'm not such a bastard that a friendly smile and a nice attitude don't mean as much as a pretty face. They mean much more, in fact. However, a pretty face doesn't hurt -_^ My friend Vazor can agree with me here, I think, because we work in the same office.
Above everything else, probably the greatest benefit to working here is the discount we get at Best Buy, Sam Goody, and Suncoast. What that boils down to for me is as soon as I get my DVD player, I get cheaper anime DVDs! Working at a corporate office is so great. All the benefits, none of the stupid people you have to deal with when you work retail (and believe me, I know).
I love my cube, too! Two of the walls are half-cube walls, and the third is like a nifty back wall, and is full height. I brought in lots of little decorations, like an Outlaw Star poster I got out of the latest issue of Animerica, my Trigun kitty plushy, my LOTR daily calendar, and a really cool painting I bought in Mexico. It was made entirely with spraypaint, and is really quite amazing. It took the artist about a half hour per painting, and I watched him make about 10 of them before I decided to buy one.
Yay! I just got the cell number of the cutest girl that works here! She said I could call her on it anytime!
...Too bad she meant if I had any work questions. - Huzzah! 2002-12-12 11:47:57 Good news today. I found out that I have a place to live, and a car. I am going to move in with my birthmom and my half-sister and half-brother. They live about a half hour from where I do now, so it's not too inconvenient. I'll have a futon, I can sleep in the basement, and they're even letting me use my brother's old car, which just needs a little work. I can easily afford to pay for the car, and then it will be mine to use! I'm going to buy it off of them eventually, I hope, and therefore save myself a lot of trouble in that regard. But seriously...whew. This is such a relief. I really had no idea what I was going to, or where I was going to live. I'm going to keep my office job at Best Buy, and get another job waiting tables at a restaurant. Friday's seems my best bet, as my birthmom's boyfriend is a manager for a few of them. I'll have an easy in. My sister is amazingly cool, and we get along very well. She's only 15, but she looks about 20, and has the maturity level of a 20 year old as well (yes, I know the maturity level of a 20 year old isn't anything to shout about, but it's better than a 15 year old). There is a technical college about five minutes from their house, so I can begin taking classes there this summer. I don't deserve any of this, but maybe it's a sign, telling me to get my ass in gear. I have a second chance, now I have to use it.
- More Ouch 2002-12-11 09:23:50 I woke up this morning to a wonderful note left by my mom. Instead of 60 days to move out, I have 20! Yay! Jan 1st is my moving day, and now I don't know what I am going to do. I'll have to take loans, if the bank will give them to me, otherwise I'll never be able to get my own place. I have no credit, because I've never earned any. I'll have to have someone cosign on everything with me. My office job is only part time, and when I asked my boss if they could take me on full time, she told me no. They have no full time positions available right now. So that means I get to get another job on top of this one and UPS. And with the 20 days notice, it doesn't give me enough time to even get a paycheck at the other jobs. I have a feeling I'll just have to end up joining the military or something. I don't relish the thought. Oh well, enough bitching. At least I'll finally be on my own, if not in a manner of my choosing ^_^ It's something to be happy about.
- Ouch 2002-12-10 22:17:13 Well, this is my first journal entry, and luckily it's a good time to start one. Today my mom told me I have 60 days to move out. I'm 20 years old, and I've only been living at home because I've been going to a community college to complete my basics. However, the same thing that happened to me at the University of Minnesota happened to me at the community college. I stopped going to classes. I start off each semester going strong, ready to learn and enjoy my classes. This wonderful elation lasts about a month. Then I realize I can't stand my classes because they're too much like high school. Isn't college supposed to be about challenging you? Making you feel like you're learning something? Well for me that wasn't happening. At the U of M they put me in General College, which is basically like expensive high school. I was placed there because my class ranking in high school was below 50%. Now, this is deceiving. At Eden Prairie High School, the average GPA is higher than 3.0. I was barely under half. For acceptance into the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, they have a formula, which is something like 3 times your class rank plus your ACT score. I scored a 28 composite on the ACT, but combined with the ranking, it wasn't enough to automatically gain entry to the CLA. I have no one to blame but myself, of course, so all this complaining isn't doing anyone any good, but it helps me vent. I suppose. So, back to what I was originally saying. My mom finally asked me up front what was going on with school, and I told her. No lying this time. We've been having some trouble with the way I spend money, lately, and this was the huge, bigass straw that broke the camel's back and completely squashed the rest of the camel. I've basically been a worthless son and human being, and I deserve everything I'm getting, but I never actually thought I'd be forcefully removed form home. Oh well, rude awakening, I suppose. I have a lot to make up for, and it will take years and years. At least all my dirty laundry has been aired. I don't feel so icky inside anymore. I'm not trying to make myself seem any less wrong, but carrying all those lies around inside of you for so long really has a bad effect on you. I would get depressed and emotional over nothing, freak out and worry myself rotten. I'm surprised I don't have an ulcer the size of a baseball yet. I have no idea what I'm going to do for living arrangements, as of yet. I have two months to find an apartment. I'm thinking a cheap studio apartment, somewhere near bus routes, preferably. As for moving in with someone, I have one lead that could go well. I'm talking to a friend of mine from the U right now on AIM, and he's moving out of his house and into an apartment with a friend of his, and they're looking for a third person. I'm a bit wary of this, though, because it would be so far away from everything I have here, like my job, and...oh wait, just my job. Speaking of my job, tomorrow I have to go and see if they'll hire me full time, starting NOW. I'm trying to get a second job at UPS, doing package handling, or possibly a driver helper. Then there's the weekend job, if I can swing it. That's a lot of hours :( Oh well. If I want a good start, I need to work as many hours as possible now. Money is the key to everything, here. If I make a bad budget, or decide to spend when I should have saved, I could end up on the streets. Well, not literally, there are plenty of places I could go. Like the military. I said in a post the other day that I had been thinking about it. It's always an option, and right now it is seeming better than it did last week, though I will probably not go that route anyway. I just can't imagine myself in the military. Maybe if I dropped a few pounds, first :) So anyway, I'm going to watch some Outlaw Star now. Since I've started this journal thing, I'll try to keep it updated. Yay!
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