observations from a nobody

Things got interesting at work yesterday. One of the guys is back from his vacation and from getting married and various things were going around the store. I expected to hear something from him about not going to the wedding. I already told him I had prior engagements for that day and an stupidly early shift at work. When I got there I saw him in the hallway to the office and he asked to speak to me in one of the backrooms. I followed and he closed the door. The first thing he says is “So what’s with all the fun and jokes last Friday?” I was like “I told you that I had stuff on Friday and that’s why I couldn’t…” He cut me off and said “No not that. I mean the whole thing about how long until I cheat. What the fuck is that about?” Then I remembered.

Last Friday someone started up a conversation about how long until he would cheat on his new wife or something along those lines. One person mentioned a specific time while the rest of us strayed from the conversation altogether. We expected this to stay on the down low but apparently some people can’t keep their mouth shut.

Back to yesterday and I tell him what I remembered and he seemed pretty pissed (even though I told him I didn’t say anything). So he opened the door and walked out. For the rest of the night he didn’t say a word to us. I talked with the others who were there and we all felt it was way overblown for what it was and were pissed that someone would open their mouth about such a lame duck joke. After he left the store was more talkative.

There was one interesting moment when a mother brought her son in and the guy on register called a manager up front. I looked out the window to see what was going on only to notice the kid. It was one of the skater kids that the manager called up front and me talk to every so often. Apparently he and his friends tried stealing some candy and his mom busted him. Tisk tisk. We were nice to those kids too, but now they are banned from the store.

The rest of the night sucked though since it was just two of us on the floor and a manager. I teamed up with the other person and cleaned up the store. The only good news to report is that the annoying dumb bitch on register is history. She has moved and the world is once again better. The only bad thing is that we were about to hire this 19 year old girl who one of my managers thought matched me perfectly but she hasn’t called back so I guess we’ll be getting this 36 year old woman instead. Damn.

After work I headed home and changed for a party in Dixon. I got somewhat lost on my way there (stupid Google Maps) only to find I was right in front of the guy’s house. Once I got there I chilled and chatted with people. Then I played some Halo 3 and Soul Calibur IV. I ended up leaving a bit before 4am and got home just after. Somehow I managed to wake up at 7am all fine and dandy. Work is going to suck because I have to be there by 2:30pm. I’m going to be out of it in no time.

So today has had its fair share of awkward moments.

First off, the girl in history who I mentioned earlier this week got a lower grade than the guy who wanted to copy off her. Her and myself were surprised at his score since he isn’t exactly a good student. The guy and myself got the same score with her being a point lower. On an earlier quiz the girl and myself got the same score. One of the others in our group said that we should start a study group for next time. We’ll see how that goes.

Skipping ahead to work now since all I did when I got home was play Dead Space. Anyway, I get in and one of the assistant managers (the one another co-worker and myself hang with) comes over and says “Your mom is here.” I first thought “what?” but then realized it was my co-worker’s girlfriend dropping off a meal for me. I bought drinks for my co-worker the last few times so he said he’d get me lunch for today. Chinese food! So once I get started working on my totes the second in command of the store (who apparently didn’t quit, still unknown WTF happened) talked with some of the other employees and whenever I walked by he got quiet. When he did say things to me he told me I was acting weird today. He is gay and everyone is cool about it but I think he has a crush on me which had me thinking all day. The irony in this situation is crazy considering the girl who I have been flirty with came in for her paycheck. When she came in I went over to the office and chatted for a few minutes with her and then she went off with one of the assistant managers and talked. She did the same thing as the SiC in terms of me walking close and her getting quiet. Something is up. Quite a weird day for me.

As for the irony in the situation with the SiC, I seem to be able to attract a gay guy (if it is so) without being gay and flirtatious but my efforts towards the opposite sex I fail miserably. I really haven’t bothered since my last outing way back in March. Back then I was with someone I really cared for but things happened and now we are just friends. Since then I have told my ex how I really felt about her and that I will always be there for her no matter what and that I am always a friend to her. Many of my friends say I shouldn’t live in the past but I can’t help it. It is also probably the reason for my failing at hooking up with someone these days. I’d love to be with someone and a lot of my friends believe that I should have someone because of how good of a friend I am and how I care for them. I don’t see anything happening anytime soon because I can’t seem to escape the past and my introvert/shy/random personality fucks shit up all the time. Maybe I’m just being pessimistic and emo tonight.

Blah.

The last few days have been interesting and also really busy, hence the lack of anything. The long weekend was nice. Mainly just played the shit out of Mercenaries 2. Tuesday work went by decently. Photo being crazy like usual. Hung out with Will that night and the next morning was school. I basically slept through them. During the first class I got a message from Kathy asking if she could borrow my Heroes season 1 DVDs. I said sure thing and told her I would drop by after my classes. Since my political science class was canceled for the day I got to head home early and picked up the DVDs and then went to Kathy’s house. We ended up watching a few episodes before I had to go to work which was cool and a nice change from just being bored at home. Work was another story. I had a list of dumb shit to do such as painting garbage cans and sorting chips by color. Yeah, fucking retarded. After work Andrew, Will, and myself hung out and played Magic. Today I finished up Mercs 2 and then Andrew stopped by. I showed him the game and let him blow shit up.

Tomorrow I plan to breeze through my classes and then stop by work to get my paycheck. After that it will either be more Mercs or something else. We’ll see I guess.

I am one step closer to getting a house in Lord of the Rings Online. Reached level 15 today so now all I need is the gold to buy the house (it will be a cheap one for now until I get super rich). Apparently I also have to pay upkeep or some such nonsense so I will need to save up a good amount of silver to do that. The other thing I did is replace the three month subscription I had plan and took advantage of the anniversary deal and did a lifetime subscription. I’ll be billed for $200 on August 19th so I need to have enough money in checking to cover me for that and still keep it over my “better have more than $200 in my checking or I will punch something” limit. Hopefully my next paycheck (next Friday) will help with that. I estimate it will be about mid-$500.

In other news I plan to work on the site either tomorrow or before work on the weekend. My plan is to add a status page of sorts, either on the site itself or as a page on this blog. Hope to get Xbox Live status, Last.fm, and anything else I may be forgetting. Should help locate my sorry soul.

Another thing I seem to have to do tomorrow is head down to the college and check out prices for the books I need for this coming semester. Hopefully they aren’t too much and by too much I mean money and quantity. Since all the classes are back to back to back to back I don’t seem to have enough time to run over to the car and swap. Should be interesting to figure out a routine. All I know is that once school starts I will be busy as fuck with work, school, and homework. Be prepared for rage and emo-ness.

I’m too busy with work and Civilization Revolution do to anything else. Annoyed? Good.