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I find myself faced with an interesting problem, that i've never encountered before. What with having no book to read, and not really any friends down here, and having a great job, i find that instead of being at work wishing i was elsewhere, i'm at home wishing i was at work. Last night was my first night spent "taking tickets" or in other words actually helping people with their in game problems, instead of merely training. It went pretty well and i got to deal with some interesting problems, and do some neat stuff. Its a disturbing amount of the time though, that there really isn't much that i can do to help someone. I mean i think that most of them felt like i was helping them, but i didn't feel like i was doing much. Maybe its just that all of our tools are set up to make it really easy. Anyway, its still a great job, and all the people that i work with are really cool, although i owe a few of them dinner, since i've been broke until tomorrow when i get my first check. Also my schedule doesn't really make sense yet. This week my schedule is/was tuesday thru thursday 3pm to midnight, friday saturday noon to 9pm, sunday off, monday 5pm to 2am, tuesday wednesday off, and then thursday thru monday 5pm to 2am. Its a good thing i don't have much else going on in my life or i might be confused. I regret however, that i've been unable to catch smallville the last three weeks, but starting next week i should be home on wednesday's again. Hehe, being home, i've only had one whole day at home since i started work here so far. It sounds like i might get sunday to myself again, i wonder what i'll do with myself...i felt so lost last monday when i was home with nothing to do. Depending on how things are going in both locations i might go up and visit sarah again on tuesday and wednesday next week. Its an awfully long drive, but well worth the trip. Things are crazy at work though, what with the stage the game is in, in development. We just got our email about what holidays we can get off, and it == none. Actually we can email in to request one and only one of thanksgiving, xmas eve, xmas day, new years eve, new years day, off, and are required to work all the others. but only a limited number of people are going to be allowed to have them off, and its on a first come first serve basis. And only those people who have been there over three months are entitled to holiday pay, and only for xmas eve and new years eve, all the others are just regular work. And interestingly enough, as bad as that sounds, no one here seems to mind, not even me. Everyone is just really into the game and the company and really liking their jobs and what they are a part of. Maybe next year i'll have someone i want to spend the holidays with who wants to spend the holidays with me also, but this year i'm just as happy to have the excuse to avoid them. I just hope that my mother doesn't take advantage of me being unable to leave to come down here and harass me over christmas and thanksgiving, she prolly will though, just to spite me. So thats basically my life update, for anyone that is still keeping track. I have the game/job, avoiding my family, and going ridiculously far out of my way to visit my girlfriend. Not a lot to it i guess, but it keeps me going, and happy for the most part. I hope all of you are finding happiness also, and i wish you a Happy Thursday all the same.