For those of you who go to MU...
Incase you aren't aware, most of the fall book listings are up over at the bookstore's website, along with at Stadium Books. All of mine are up already except for my comic lit class. I'm rather peeved that my IT book is $81.50. Bah. My British lit book is $53.25 -- used. My writing book is $45.50 used. Granted, I'll probably hang onto that one, but come on! $45! I'm telling you guys this because hey, mock my ebaying all you like, I spent roughly $100 on all fourteen books I needed last semester by buying all of them (except for the two I had to buy at school) online. Saved beaucoup bucks, too. I'm telling you, Ebay, Half.com, Amazon's auctions, and ABE.com are absolute godsends. No joke.
So. Yesterday was my first day at Client Logic. That was . . . well, I'd like to say it was interesting, but it really wasn't. Training runs this week and next week, seven a.m. to three p.m. every week day. Vicious. But our trainer guy is kinda hot, and totally adorable. I can't decide if he's gay or just very very metro. But he's from out in Wayne (like, WAY out in Wayne, apparently, as he graduated from Wayne HS) and makes an honest attempt to cover up his accent. He does fairly well at it, but his grammar could still use work. I should offer tutoring lessons. Paid in cash and/or dates. But I digress.
Today was slightly better, insofar as talking about coffee for eight hours can be. Yes, that's right: I, the most non-coffee person alive, will be spending my time enrolling people and taking orders for Gevalia. I've learned more about coffee today than I ever wanted to know, and I'm only two days into training. Good Lord.
Ironically, I get a 35% discount now that I work for the place. If I liked coffee at all, I might be interested. They have other things, though...I found a cereal dispenser in the catalog today for like $24, and I was excited. That's just the coolest thing ever. I've only ever seen them in the Twin Towers cafeteria, but the trainer assurred me they have 'em for $15 at Target, so....yeah. Maybe I'll try that instead.
But then I saw the set of four I Love Lucy mugs. I fell in love. Hard. They're a bit, erm, pricey though. So I'll probably pass.
I've made a few chat buddies in class so far. The girl who's sat next to me both days is named Jae. She's really quiet but really nice. Yesterday I played Tetris on her cell phone at lunch -- she was reading The Godfather and I was staring at the wall, bored out of my mind, and she took pity on me. Heh. Today I kind of buddied up with this guy named . . . er, I think his name's Matt? I'm not sure. He looks a lot like my pseudo-emo boy, but with reddish hair and beard. He's adorable. He tells very entertaining stories about his crazy pregnant wife. Today I heard about her method of reorganizing the kitchen in ways that make absolutely no sense. But, as he said, "I've been through this once -- this is our second kid. I've learned to never, ever, EVER argue with the pregnant lady." Indeed. I think my brother can attest to that by now.
Today during one of our breaks we (that being him, me, and some other girl whose name I don't know) sat in the break room watching some kind of bizarre event on ESPN. I've seen it before and have no idea what the competition is -- this particular one was called the "boom run" where two people compete running across logs in the water. Yeah, I don't get it either. So the three of us provided amusing commentary throughout. I tried to get Jae to join the announce team but she was absorbed in her book. I brought a book as well and got maybe four pages into it -- The Picture of Dorian Gray, if you're interested. Matt (I'm going to call him that until I learn his actual name) saw it at lunch and kind of raised his eyebrows. "Wow, light lunch reading, huh?" I shrugged and blamed it on being an English major, and I learned he is as well, so we had fun comparing stories from the English dept. and sharing our loathing of Dr. Hood. Good times.
Hmm. Okay, back to book shopping now. I'll be damned if I'm giving Marshall $300 (or more) for books I'll probably never even use. Cheap bastards.
So. Yesterday was my first day at Client Logic. That was . . . well, I'd like to say it was interesting, but it really wasn't. Training runs this week and next week, seven a.m. to three p.m. every week day. Vicious. But our trainer guy is kinda hot, and totally adorable. I can't decide if he's gay or just very very metro. But he's from out in Wayne (like, WAY out in Wayne, apparently, as he graduated from Wayne HS) and makes an honest attempt to cover up his accent. He does fairly well at it, but his grammar could still use work. I should offer tutoring lessons. Paid in cash and/or dates. But I digress.
Today was slightly better, insofar as talking about coffee for eight hours can be. Yes, that's right: I, the most non-coffee person alive, will be spending my time enrolling people and taking orders for Gevalia. I've learned more about coffee today than I ever wanted to know, and I'm only two days into training. Good Lord.
Ironically, I get a 35% discount now that I work for the place. If I liked coffee at all, I might be interested. They have other things, though...I found a cereal dispenser in the catalog today for like $24, and I was excited. That's just the coolest thing ever. I've only ever seen them in the Twin Towers cafeteria, but the trainer assurred me they have 'em for $15 at Target, so....yeah. Maybe I'll try that instead.
But then I saw the set of four I Love Lucy mugs. I fell in love. Hard. They're a bit, erm, pricey though. So I'll probably pass.
I've made a few chat buddies in class so far. The girl who's sat next to me both days is named Jae. She's really quiet but really nice. Yesterday I played Tetris on her cell phone at lunch -- she was reading The Godfather and I was staring at the wall, bored out of my mind, and she took pity on me. Heh. Today I kind of buddied up with this guy named . . . er, I think his name's Matt? I'm not sure. He looks a lot like my pseudo-emo boy, but with reddish hair and beard. He's adorable. He tells very entertaining stories about his crazy pregnant wife. Today I heard about her method of reorganizing the kitchen in ways that make absolutely no sense. But, as he said, "I've been through this once -- this is our second kid. I've learned to never, ever, EVER argue with the pregnant lady." Indeed. I think my brother can attest to that by now.
Today during one of our breaks we (that being him, me, and some other girl whose name I don't know) sat in the break room watching some kind of bizarre event on ESPN. I've seen it before and have no idea what the competition is -- this particular one was called the "boom run" where two people compete running across logs in the water. Yeah, I don't get it either. So the three of us provided amusing commentary throughout. I tried to get Jae to join the announce team but she was absorbed in her book. I brought a book as well and got maybe four pages into it -- The Picture of Dorian Gray, if you're interested. Matt (I'm going to call him that until I learn his actual name) saw it at lunch and kind of raised his eyebrows. "Wow, light lunch reading, huh?" I shrugged and blamed it on being an English major, and I learned he is as well, so we had fun comparing stories from the English dept. and sharing our loathing of Dr. Hood. Good times.
Hmm. Okay, back to book shopping now. I'll be damned if I'm giving Marshall $300 (or more) for books I'll probably never even use. Cheap bastards.