Back to the one-job life
Saying this first because it's important. I'm sending good vibes to you Gin-Gin, and everyone else please send her good thoughts too. I hope things are getting better or that they get better soon and you know I'm here if you need me. <3 I love you bb, don't forget it. *hugs*
Well, yesterday was it. The last day of Borders. I'm using its real name now because a) I'm not saying anything bad about it and b) WTF could they do to me now anyway? ^^;
The day was pretty hectic and kind of sad. Our liquidator was driving us crazy though. He was wayyyyy on edge and snapped at us constantly. Like he would randomly make up new discounts to give to random people, but when I dared sell a woman three e-reader covers for a dollar he flipped out. "IT'S TWO FOR A DOLLAR. NOT THREE." Like I care? That fifty cents isn't going to make a difference. I thought the point of the last day was to just get everything out of the store. And Kelly dared to joke with a customer at one point, and the Boss flipped the fuck out. Then the next thing you know he's going to Starbucks and buying us all coffee. (I really am turning into a coffee convert. Damned if cappuccinos aren't delicious.)
We sold the last books at around 4:30. (All to one guy because he had a gift card with a bunch of money on it and didn't want it to go to waste. So we were like, "just buy out the store! There's maybe 40 books left here! You can give them to friends or the library or whatever and you're basically getting them for free. Just take them!" And he did.) After that was a lot of cleaning the store, throwing things out, and the only people there were the ones coming in to pick up the bookcases they had bought. It was just sad at that point. The whole store was torn apart, we were throwing out everything, it was all so empty and desolate.
On the plus side, we were pretty much allowed to take anything we wanted at that point, and I got the bell. =D You know the little bells that hotels have that you can ding? We had one too, so I nabbed it. I don't know why I needed the bell, I just did.
I'm going to miss Borders. Both as a store and as a job. The good news is now my schedule will be less insane. No more hour-long drives or not getting home until 10:30 at night. And I'll actually have days off again! /o/ I only need to make it another two months at Office Ghetto (My new name for it, courtesy of someone on Retail Hell Underground) before I can start looking for a new job and leave gracefully, and who knows, maybe by then it will have grown on me. Sometimes it's almost okay, but then something always happens to make it suck again. (Don't even get me started on this haggy old fuckwad who showed up and bitched me out the other night. Literally backed me into a corner and screamed at me condescendingly like I was an idiot because of the way I took her fuckin zip drive out of the computer. I would have loved nothing more than to see her bitch ass die in a car fire. I'd like to point out I was at Borders for several months before I had a customer make me mad enough to want to punch something.)
Farewell Borders. Onward and upwards. At least I got a nice big stack of discounted books out of the deal.
GOOD NEWS. They're going to replay the Doma arc on the WB 4Kids! /o/ Angst and puzzleshipping and shippiness and episodes 160-164 and more angst and Yami crying and lots of random hand-holding for no real reason (I can count three times in that arc that they held onto each other for no real reason, okay, other than that they're in love.) and hurt-comfort AND DID I MENTION PUZZLESHIPPING? Now cross your fingers that they don't cut out a huge chunk of it like they did with the Noa arc they just played. If they seriously cut out any of episodes 156-164 I am going to be flipping tables.
Stole this meme from strawberrykaoru and finally got a chance to do it. xD;;
The "If fandoms were people you had relationships with" meme
(This should be amusing, an ace filling this out who would never have the majority of these relationships in the first place. xDDD)
The one who seduced you and screwed you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it.
(No. 6 might be on the path to doing this. >_> It better not be.) I make it a habit to avoid series with depressing endings ostensibly because I hate it when fandoms break my heart. I guess Harry Potter kind of did that, although the ending was basically happy. Didn't stop me from bawling all over it and having the impression JKR enjoyed our angst. Legal Drug also did this by coming out with three volumes that got my attention, AND THEN THE SERIES WAS DROPPED. Now I'll never know what happened, sob. ;_;
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets.
Azumanga Daioh. I still love opening my omnibus of it to a random page. No matter what, I'll always find a strip that makes me smile. That series is full of feel-good happiness. Gilmore Girls and Boy Meets World make me feel the same way, but less with the "always happy" and more of the "just generally enjoyable and funny, but also deep."
The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized she really was fucking crazy.
I guess Yugioh GX? I used to be a lot more into it, but then it started getting really...weird...and I think I missed some episodes someplace because the plot got all jumpy and I didn't know who was who or why someone was doing what they were, and then I never even saw season 4, because they never dubbed it. And by then I barely understood half of season 3 so watching the subs of 4 just made me more confused. I still want to see season 4 though. I kind of want to re-watch the whole series, to make sure I didn't miss episodes this time, but committing to watch over a hundred episodes is a lot for someone as easily distracted as I am. OTL
Pretty Little Liars probably also falls into this category. It IS completely fucking crazy and terrifying, and I can't stop watching it.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to get with again although you're relieved she doesn't actually live in town.
Danny Phantom and Avatar: TLA probably fit into this. I loved them both, but I'm glad to stay out of the fandom and just enjoy remembering them. I re-watch them sometimes and enjoy jokes and stuff from them, but I'm okay with not having to hang out with them all the time.
The steady.
Yugioh. <33 That fandom will never leave me or stop being my One True Show.
The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with.
Zexal was this for a little while, but now I'm getting pretty into it. as in kind of keeping up with it, anyway. xD The thing with Zexal is that you can't be serious with it. It's made for flirting with and just having a cracky old good time.
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't.
Fullmetal Alchemist. I like it a lot, and heck, I co-mod a forum based around it, but it's not a One True Fandom for me. I just enjoy it.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool chick except it's never really gone anywhere.
Several people have tried to get me to watch Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Apparently it's cute and full of lesbian subtext and all the gifs and stuff I see look cool, but it's also apparently full of Nightmare Fuel and will make me cry tears of blood. I'm...not really into starting a series that will give me nightmares and make me cry blood tears. So I keep turning it down.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at her and thinking, "her? how the hell did she land all these cool guys?"
I really don't know what to answer for this. Pretty much any super-popular fandom that I dislike could fall into this category? IDK.
The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom he keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for him except you just know it's going to end badly.
NO. 6. I'M ALMOST POSITIVE THIS IS GOING TO END IN TEARS AND HEARTACHE. I'm in love with this series and the last episode is tomorrow. Oh gods I want a happy ending so much but this show has "bittersweet ending" written all over it. I've already got tissues ready for it.
The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and who you measure all other potential partners against.
Gonna have to go with Yugioh on this, too. All my fandoms end up being measured against it. When it comes to books, Nightrunner would also win in this category, because I can't start a series without thinking that Nightrunner is probably better.
The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better and who you think you might have a crush on.
This answer doesn't quite fit, but My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I discovered it months ago and I DEFINITELY have a crush on it, but I'm choosing it as an answer because of the "want to get to know better" part. I loved season 1, but it left so much room for questions and speculation. I'm so psyched for season 2 because I can't wait to learn more about the characters and plot and world and everything. <33
The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only he cleaned himself up a bit.
I don't know...Pokemon, maybe? I quit watching it when Misty left and pretty much couldn't stand it after that, but I wouldn't say no to re-watching some of the earlier episodes or movies.
And now I have to go buy a black belt because apparently even though my pants are capable of staying up on their own, it's a required part of the OG uniform. =|
Well, yesterday was it. The last day of Borders. I'm using its real name now because a) I'm not saying anything bad about it and b) WTF could they do to me now anyway? ^^;
The day was pretty hectic and kind of sad. Our liquidator was driving us crazy though. He was wayyyyy on edge and snapped at us constantly. Like he would randomly make up new discounts to give to random people, but when I dared sell a woman three e-reader covers for a dollar he flipped out. "IT'S TWO FOR A DOLLAR. NOT THREE." Like I care? That fifty cents isn't going to make a difference. I thought the point of the last day was to just get everything out of the store. And Kelly dared to joke with a customer at one point, and the Boss flipped the fuck out. Then the next thing you know he's going to Starbucks and buying us all coffee. (I really am turning into a coffee convert. Damned if cappuccinos aren't delicious.)
We sold the last books at around 4:30. (All to one guy because he had a gift card with a bunch of money on it and didn't want it to go to waste. So we were like, "just buy out the store! There's maybe 40 books left here! You can give them to friends or the library or whatever and you're basically getting them for free. Just take them!" And he did.) After that was a lot of cleaning the store, throwing things out, and the only people there were the ones coming in to pick up the bookcases they had bought. It was just sad at that point. The whole store was torn apart, we were throwing out everything, it was all so empty and desolate.
On the plus side, we were pretty much allowed to take anything we wanted at that point, and I got the bell. =D You know the little bells that hotels have that you can ding? We had one too, so I nabbed it. I don't know why I needed the bell, I just did.
I'm going to miss Borders. Both as a store and as a job. The good news is now my schedule will be less insane. No more hour-long drives or not getting home until 10:30 at night. And I'll actually have days off again! /o/ I only need to make it another two months at Office Ghetto (My new name for it, courtesy of someone on Retail Hell Underground) before I can start looking for a new job and leave gracefully, and who knows, maybe by then it will have grown on me. Sometimes it's almost okay, but then something always happens to make it suck again. (Don't even get me started on this haggy old fuckwad who showed up and bitched me out the other night. Literally backed me into a corner and screamed at me condescendingly like I was an idiot because of the way I took her fuckin zip drive out of the computer. I would have loved nothing more than to see her bitch ass die in a car fire. I'd like to point out I was at Borders for several months before I had a customer make me mad enough to want to punch something.)
Farewell Borders. Onward and upwards. At least I got a nice big stack of discounted books out of the deal.
GOOD NEWS. They're going to replay the Doma arc on the WB 4Kids! /o/ Angst and puzzleshipping and shippiness and episodes 160-164 and more angst and Yami crying and lots of random hand-holding for no real reason (I can count three times in that arc that they held onto each other for no real reason, okay, other than that they're in love.) and hurt-comfort AND DID I MENTION PUZZLESHIPPING? Now cross your fingers that they don't cut out a huge chunk of it like they did with the Noa arc they just played. If they seriously cut out any of episodes 156-164 I am going to be flipping tables.
Stole this meme from strawberrykaoru and finally got a chance to do it. xD;;
The "If fandoms were people you had relationships with" meme
(This should be amusing, an ace filling this out who would never have the majority of these relationships in the first place. xDDD)
The one who seduced you and screwed you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it.
(No. 6 might be on the path to doing this. >_> It better not be.) I make it a habit to avoid series with depressing endings ostensibly because I hate it when fandoms break my heart. I guess Harry Potter kind of did that, although the ending was basically happy. Didn't stop me from bawling all over it and having the impression JKR enjoyed our angst. Legal Drug also did this by coming out with three volumes that got my attention, AND THEN THE SERIES WAS DROPPED. Now I'll never know what happened, sob. ;_;
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets.
Azumanga Daioh. I still love opening my omnibus of it to a random page. No matter what, I'll always find a strip that makes me smile. That series is full of feel-good happiness. Gilmore Girls and Boy Meets World make me feel the same way, but less with the "always happy" and more of the "just generally enjoyable and funny, but also deep."
The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized she really was fucking crazy.
I guess Yugioh GX? I used to be a lot more into it, but then it started getting really...weird...and I think I missed some episodes someplace because the plot got all jumpy and I didn't know who was who or why someone was doing what they were, and then I never even saw season 4, because they never dubbed it. And by then I barely understood half of season 3 so watching the subs of 4 just made me more confused. I still want to see season 4 though. I kind of want to re-watch the whole series, to make sure I didn't miss episodes this time, but committing to watch over a hundred episodes is a lot for someone as easily distracted as I am. OTL
Pretty Little Liars probably also falls into this category. It IS completely fucking crazy and terrifying, and I can't stop watching it.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to get with again although you're relieved she doesn't actually live in town.
Danny Phantom and Avatar: TLA probably fit into this. I loved them both, but I'm glad to stay out of the fandom and just enjoy remembering them. I re-watch them sometimes and enjoy jokes and stuff from them, but I'm okay with not having to hang out with them all the time.
The steady.
Yugioh. <33 That fandom will never leave me or stop being my One True Show.
The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with.
Zexal was this for a little while, but now I'm getting pretty into it. as in kind of keeping up with it, anyway. xD The thing with Zexal is that you can't be serious with it. It's made for flirting with and just having a cracky old good time.
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't.
Fullmetal Alchemist. I like it a lot, and heck, I co-mod a forum based around it, but it's not a One True Fandom for me. I just enjoy it.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool chick except it's never really gone anywhere.
Several people have tried to get me to watch Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Apparently it's cute and full of lesbian subtext and all the gifs and stuff I see look cool, but it's also apparently full of Nightmare Fuel and will make me cry tears of blood. I'm...not really into starting a series that will give me nightmares and make me cry blood tears. So I keep turning it down.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at her and thinking, "her? how the hell did she land all these cool guys?"
I really don't know what to answer for this. Pretty much any super-popular fandom that I dislike could fall into this category? IDK.
The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom he keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for him except you just know it's going to end badly.
NO. 6. I'M ALMOST POSITIVE THIS IS GOING TO END IN TEARS AND HEARTACHE. I'm in love with this series and the last episode is tomorrow. Oh gods I want a happy ending so much but this show has "bittersweet ending" written all over it. I've already got tissues ready for it.
The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and who you measure all other potential partners against.
Gonna have to go with Yugioh on this, too. All my fandoms end up being measured against it. When it comes to books, Nightrunner would also win in this category, because I can't start a series without thinking that Nightrunner is probably better.
The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better and who you think you might have a crush on.
This answer doesn't quite fit, but My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I discovered it months ago and I DEFINITELY have a crush on it, but I'm choosing it as an answer because of the "want to get to know better" part. I loved season 1, but it left so much room for questions and speculation. I'm so psyched for season 2 because I can't wait to learn more about the characters and plot and world and everything. <33
The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only he cleaned himself up a bit.
I don't know...Pokemon, maybe? I quit watching it when Misty left and pretty much couldn't stand it after that, but I wouldn't say no to re-watching some of the earlier episodes or movies.
And now I have to go buy a black belt because apparently even though my pants are capable of staying up on their own, it's a required part of the OG uniform. =|