A big shock.

Today was just going to be any other weekend that I close on.. Stay up ’til 3 in the morning the night before and sleep in as late as I can before waking up and going to work. Well it turned out to be way crazier than that. Those CD’s that I had ordered that said 2-4 weeks? I got them today before work. I was shocked, but happy. I ripped three of them and added them to my Zune and took that with me to work. I haven’t even listened to all of them yet! I just opened the last two and ripped them. I’m gonna stay up and listen to them all since I don’t have work until 4:30 tommorrow.

At work, something shocking happened there too. While opening a disposable camera, I got electrocuted. Sharon had always told me how bad it hurts and how she screamed/cried from the pain because it hurts so bad… Well, it does. She really wasn’t kidding. I felt a jolt and then my hands involuntarily dropped everything in them. I fell over onto the counter and started breathing slowly. I was seeing the shit that you see when you get up too quickly and the blood isn’t all in your head… I started feeling pins and needles in my finger where I got shocked and it worked its way up to my elbow for about a minute in a half. Then the pins and needles stopped and it was just burning pain on my finger/hand. I told Katie who was the LOD for the night and she requisitioned out some Ibuprofen for me. She gave me the option of leaving work and going to a doctor or something but I stayed at work because I had a job to do. Besides, I need the extra money because I keep buying CDs. Anyway, I was disoriented and kind of dazed for the rest of the night until I came home. Now, i’m just listening to some Six Feet Under… and I ordered more Six Feet Under. Awesome, Eh? Anyway, I’m going into Second Life. Hit me up on Xfire. My Xfire name is PJesus.

Phillies.

I cut school today. I went to hang out with my boss John before Him, Me, His kid Jacob, Tim, Rick, and Rick’s friend Andy went to the Phillies game. I didn’t go to school so I could spend time with John and his family before the game. We had all decided to wear out Target name badges so we could be the Target crowd. However, it rained at the game every so often and it was really cold to the point where I wish i had my winter jacket.

I selpt in until around noon when John woke me up by calling my cellphone. He wanted to see if I wanted to get lunch with him and his family. He ended up picking me up at my house and we went to the Cherry Hill mall. We went to the food court and I got two slices of pepperoni pizza. Unorginal, I know but it’s what I enjoy. We saw an asian kid fall out of his chair by flipping it backwards. The kid couldn’t have been more than 4. He just picked himself up, set his chair back upright and sat back down. That kid is going to grow up to be a damn ninja.

After that, we went back to John’s house and chilled for a brief period of time before we had to go and pick up Tim. He got in the car and was kind of a jerk like he usually is. I don’t think he really understands how obnoxious he can be but whatever. We then went back to Johns house and watched TV but realized that Tim forgot his name badge! We had to go back and get Tim’s name badge on the way to the ballpark. We then started driving towards Philly but we decided to stop at Wawa since we were all pretty hungry. John and I went inside and we got a bag of potato chips, a bag of beef jerky (which i’m munching on now), a donut for me, an energy drink for me, an iced tea for Tim, and a Rockstar for John. When we got back in the car we cranked up Pantera and blasted it the whole way to the ballpark.

When we got there, Rick and Andy were very late and didn’t get there until much later. To make things worse, there was some confusion in my directions of where we were waiting for them! They ended up going to a different arena and waiting there for us. We finally realized this after about 10-20 minutes of standing around and we met up and bought tickets. They were $44 each. We sat in section 116, row 25 which in right next to first base and behind the Phillie’s dugout. The Phillies were playing the Washington Nationals. The final score was 9-3 with the Phillies winning. The game was very exciting because there were atleast 2 home runs that I can think of. John and I made a lot of funny comments reguarding hot women. My favorite one that I made was when the Kick’s dancers were done dancing with the phanatic ontop of the bullpen and were coming back up. Those girls were amazingly attractive. The thing I jokingly said was, “Hey baby, theres room in this Poncho for one more…” I made sure that only John could hear me and he got a giant kick out of it.

After the game we went home finally and listened to Tool on the way back. I can’t really remember most of what happened tonight since I waited so long to write about it. After all, it’s 3:16AM and I have to get up for school at 6:30 AM. I’m going to try to atleast rest for a little while..

Paperwork Nightmare.

I went into work today thinking, “Alright, Henry said last night that it was going to be nasty weather and it wouldn’t be busy, so I shouldn’t have to do much today…” I was totally wrong. I walked in and Sharon was running around with stacks of photo envelopes towered very high. It was totally insane. Not only that, but when I got clocked in and in the photo lab, there was stuff all over the place. To make matters worse, Sharon wasn’t able to do all of the paper work since it had been so busy. You know what that means, I had to do it! I hate the paperwork so much, it’s such a pain in the ass.

Anyway, I not only had to do all the paper work, but I had to try and clean up some of the mess, file all of the orders, and help the storm of guests that kept pouring into the Photo Lab with huge orders. I wasn’t able to get half of what was put in tonight done and I feel bad for Sharon because of it. I ended up doing atleast 3 pages of paperwork which is more than I do in three days. I’m really exhausted from all of it now, so i’m going to go muck around Second Life or play some Vanguard.

“You aren’t allowed to do that.”

Today was an interesting, yet frustrating day at work. I did get to spend a little bit of time with Sharon, my supervisor though since our schedules interlapped for the first time since my training. That was always fun. However, some woman dropped off 19 rolls of film for a Next Day order. Talk about a nightmare…

At first Amanda was working Guest Services, which always sucks. She’s fucking crazy and drives me insane, she just doesn’t stop talking and is so damn strange! To make matters worse she talks down to everyone like they are a small child, I don’t even think she realizes that she does it. However, Janelle came in later and that always makes my day better. She’s such a cool girl that I don’t think I could have a bad day when she’s working with me at Guest Services. In fact, I only offer to stay after when she’s there because she’s willing to give me a ride home and I trust her. I spent most of the day working on those next days anyway.

I bought the new Sevendust album today called Alpha. I’m listening to it now. I’m on the second track and so far it’s pretty decent. The album art on the cover and inside is utterly crazy…

There was this woman today who has by far the hottest daugther I have seen in years. Apparently her daughter and her son are both actors and do stuff like movies and tv stuff for channels like Nickelodeon and the Discovery Channel. That’s crazy! Almost as crazy as how I was able to get the woman’s MySpace page from her. The mother, not the daughter. Apparently there are trailers on her page so I can see the movies that her kids are going to be in. I found all this out when I asked her about some pictures that she had since her daughter was just so ridiculously attractive…

Carl is starting to get on my nerves. He’s like a white Steve Erkel in a way. I swear the guy is a 40 year old virgin and has good intentions, but he’s just too creepy and doesn’t know when to stop talking. He’s obsessed with trying to get me to talk about women I find attractive and insinuates about our female co-workers and such. It’s just strange and wrong. I don’t want to take a part in any of it so I usually just blow him off and laugh him off… He’s so strange and creepy…

L.O.D. Henry said I could stay after to work on photo stuff. However, Linda found out and said I couldn’t. I suspect she got Henry to change his mind which sucks. So I was there working until 10:30PM and they made me clock out. I had to sit around and wait 30 minutes off the clock for Janelle to get off so I could get a ride home. I ended up helping them clean up anyway so in fact I was working off the clock which is total bullshit. I should have just been able to stay on the clock since I was going to stay… I have work tommorrow as usual and hopefully Hakim will be back from vacation soon so I don’t have to work as much. I know i’m around 35 Hours this week on top of going to school…

Exhaustion.

I made the brilliant decision last night to go to bed and take my sleeping pills after 3 AM in the morning when I had to get up at 6. To cut the details short, I fell asleep while in the shower, while drying myself off when I got out of the shower, and when putting my clothes on. I’ve been tired all day until very recently where i’ve suddenly gotten a ’second wind’. Either way, i’m going to be going to bed shortly.

Target assumed my Spring break was this week and it wasn’t. They originally had me on the schedule today for 12PM-8PM. Yeah right, i’m still in school. Anyway, it was a half day so I ended up getting home at like 1PMish or so. I decided I would go to work early and get there at about 2:15PM. I kind of wish I hadn’t had done that now, seeing as how tired I was all day but it turned out to be kind of wacky and strange. A little bit after I got there and started working, Quintus came walking in smiling with his mother. He came to apply for a job and he listed me as a referral. That should actually help him seeing as my attendance record is nearly impeccable. Anyway, after he filled out his application and went and got his hours sorted out, I decided to buy us pizza from Pizza hut which was fun. We ate and talked for a little bit but then I had to get back to work.

Later on, some very strange older man came up to me mumbling about something I couldn’t understand at all. He had this crazy unibrow going on and this thick eastern-european accent where I couldn’t understand him. I don’t think he spoke much English actually. He kept saying something like “Lotreh” and “Lotrey”. Eventually, he pulled lottery tickets out of his wallet and was showing them to me. I had no idea what this guy wanted so I tried to go find Linda who was the GSTL at the time. The guy followed me and paced around behind me while mumbling various things, I was actually pretty scared. Eventually he said something like “You no have?” I finally understood that and I was like, “Yes, we don’t sell lottery tickets. Sorry.” Then he just turned and left and I never saw him again…

Anyway, I got Vanguard:Saga of Heroes recently. That game is actually pretty damn deep with the customization of your character and skills. I’m really enjoying it so far although it takes a lot of time to do much of anything. However, the amount of stuff you actually do makes up for it and the time passes by extremely quickly. I think i’m going to log on Second Life for just a few minutes while I still have this second wind.. then i’ll go to bed…

Where I’ve Been… (Spring Break, or lack thereof)

I haven’t posted since I was in the middle of a post last friday and my laptop crashed and took all I was typing with it. It utterly killed my desire to write for a while. Anyway, My spring break was last week although it wasn’t really anything special. All that really happened was me staying up waaaayyy too late every night playing various games and waking up in time for work the next day. I didn’t even hang out with anyone… Well, except for Sarah. She’s the best, we went and got Guitar Hero 2 for my 360 which is fun but hard.

 Anyway, I found this thing called Second Life… I know some of you people have heard of it and are stopping right here because of it, but I don’t care. It’s the craziest place i’ve ever seen on the internet (other than 4chan). I mean, there are people paying real life money to use in virtual online strip clubs and such. I actually got a job at some online club to be an online bouncer and so i’m turning around and selling the online currency for real life cash. It’s a nice little bit too, I mean people are actually having cybersex and other weird shit for this fake money so they can turn around and sell it to make a damn living off of it. By far the craziest experience i’ve had in a while…

I’m not feeling like writing much right now because i’m really tired and stuff.. My new computer is friggin’ awesome by the way, I <3 it. My dad got me a Zune last week so if you see a Pheonix running around on yours, it’s me. I’m gonna get some rest after I check up on some things in Second Life…