Taking the scenic route to being an adult

So my goal for this year is to post at least as many blogs as I ever had prior to 2010, which is only 15. I think that's a perfectly attainable goal, don't you? (Not that there is really a you, I think it's mostly just me).

School is going wonderfully. It's a lot of work - mostly reading, hence the lack of the blogging. I'm enjoying it terribly. Every day I'm more and more glad that I finally found "what I want to be when I grow up." I've always been kind of jealous of the people who knew right from the start. My brother pretty much always knew what he wanted to do, and has been working in his field since college. I find myself jealous of him for that.

Not to say that I'm not happy with the course my life took. I don't think I was meant to know right away because I needed the detour to find some of the people in my life who are the closest to me, and to learn some things about myself. I just think it would have been nice to have it all figured out at 18, or at the very least, easier.

Change is terrifying

But liberating. I can't wait to start class tomorrow.

I love how every time I'm on the verge of something big in my life, I feel the need to clean my room. I'm doing laundry like a mad woman. It must be a key step to changing my life, clearing out bits of the old, a little at a time.

I'm so excited. I even did the nerdy new student thing, pulled out my pens and my notebooks and all that fun stuff.

Isn't it funny

...how much can change in a year? In reading through the very few posts I have on this blog (commitment much?), I discovered one that I know find to be incredibly untrue.

I really wish I did blog more, because I'm curious how much more has changed that I just didn't bother to write about?

~Kit<3

I blog!

Can you stand it?

I always make commitments to write more, and do it diligently for about a week, and then I get distracted. So, I will make no promises about the consistency of my writing (not that I have all that many readers... or even more than 1 or 2...)

Anyway.

Two more items to check off my list of things I need to be a sub - fingerprinting is completed, and my transcripts arrived yesterday. Now I just need to take a physical, and spend another obnoxious amount of money, and then I'm good to go!

I think it's funny that I'm leery of any other job that requires you putting out money before you get any money, but in this case it makes sense. Also, I'm truly, incredibly excited about my upcoming career. I'm just so pleased to have found one, and not feel like I'm floating around hopeless anymore.

I think I'll leave off there. I'll possibly see you tomorrow.

~Kristen<3

Nonsense and mishmash

Annoying things from this evening:

-The editing of the store map. That thing hadn't been updated in... I'm guessing years. It took me most of my shift to finish.
-Missing the series finale of BSG to work on that freaking map. And that I'm writing this before I've watched it.

Funny things from this evening:

-The guys who came in for coffee five minutes before close were arguing about why one of them is nihilistic as they were leaving. It took all I had not to laugh until after they left.
-The police car that tried to bait me into speeding on the way home tonight. He tried three separate methods - slowing down to 10 mph below the speed limit (I was already doing 5 mph below because I'm in no hurry and would rather not get pulled over), moving to the other lane, and then finally, pulling over completely and then pulling out behind me. As though I were a retarded monkey incapable of realizing that he was still right behind me.
-"My brains are leaking out my ears and eyeballs." "It's not even nine yet..."
-The guy who truly thought that a book that teaches real chemistry to children (not just the Periodic Table or fun "experiments," but, like, actual chemistry), would be available in a bookstore on the day that he needs it.

That's the gist of my day. I also finished reading the new Maximum Ride book (I can't believe I'm reading them...), and I must tip my hat to James Patterson for reaching out to young readers as he has been. Between this series, the Daniel X series, and the one about Witches that's coming out this winter, he's really all over that. I have a lot of respect for authors who try to engage children.

Alright, it's time to let the BSG saga end.

<3 K

Why I'm here...

I sort of decided it might be a good idea to start blogging again, mostly because I've been feeling uber-stressed lately, and have felt no real means of release. Sadly, reading, while enjoyable, is not really enough to make me forget how annoying certain aspects of life have been of late.

So I'll be expressing them here. It will probably mostly be tales of stupid customers.

So enjoy.

<3 K

Why I hate people...

Some days I just can't take working in retail.

After the store closed today and I was getting ready to lock the door, this woman and her son pushed their way in.

"We know exactly what we want," she lies, which I only find out when I take her to the Study Aid section and she, in fact, has NO IDEA what she wants, and wants to look at everything.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, we closed five minutes ago, and we're taking our registers down, so if you don't know what you need, then you need to leave."

And I'm ignored. So I sent one of my male booksellers, who chased her out. And at the registers, while checking out, she asked for calendars, and took her sweet ass time.

It was all I had not to tell her to get the FUCK out of my store and never come back.

I don't need that kind of bullshit from you, especially when I was NICE and let you in when I could have just told you to leave.

My mom says I should have called the police.

BLARGH. People suck. I think everyone should be REQUIRED to work in the service industry (retail or food service) and get treated like CRAP by someone. Then there would be a lot less assholes in the world.

Rant over. Thanks for reading!

<3 K