Ow.

[mephistophylis]

So normal people work eight hours a day, right? Five days a week? ... I respect people who can do that, because I don't think it's in me. At least, not for this job. I've had two seven and a half hour and one eight and a half hour shift...and am getting ready to embark on my second eight and a half hour shift. Even in flat shoes, this is killing my

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[sokhar85]

Most wonderful time of the year indeed. And yeah, long shifts are a real bugger. Nothing better than starting a 6-8 hour shift at 6am though. And I loved those "special" customers just as much as you obviously do. Nothing was more fun than having a ten-minute argument with a women who insisted we should offer free coffee. Not because anything was wrong with her coffee or because she had a discount or any such, but just because some other restaurant (she didn't name which one) she'd been to sometime in the past supposedly offered free coffee. Oh the humanity. People at a bookstore can be a pain in the ass, but nothing is more fun than the food service industry. I swear people will send back toast because its cut in half vertically rather than diagonally.

Anyway, I liked the "bastion walls" description of the front counter. Seems apt. Guess that would make every day at B&N during the holiday season the siege of Helms Deep. :-P God what I nerdy joke. I blame you entirely, my arsenal of corny football jokes fall on deaf ears, so I have to make do with even worse ones.

[mephistophylis]

Yay, Helm's Deep. XD By the way, I'm having to cancel the New Years party because no one can come, but I need to give you your christmas present. Any chance of you meeting me somewhere in raleigh when I'm passing through on christmas evening?

[sokhar85]

I'll give you a call tomorrow (or later today, whatever), and we'll see if we can't work something out. Sound good?