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| So, while watching an old episode of Boston Legal, I was surprised to hear, featured prominently, Five Iron Frenzy's Oh, Canada. Hilarious! Unfortunately they trimmed out the part about William Shatner.
A while back someone in IV said something that reminded me of These Are Not My Pants and I tried to reference it, but apparently none of the IVers are Christian Ska listeners, 'cause they all looked at me like I was totally whacked...
Oh, memories...
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| So, lately I've decided that I need to get out and socialize more. When I have days off work my normal inclination is to be lazy and antisocial. It's somewhat justified in that I spend all day at work talking to strangers. That said, it's kinda sad when work is the vast portion of my social life. So I've been making the effort to spend more time going out or at least hanging out with friends.
On Emily's birthday we (Emily, I, and an IV alum Joe who was visiting Seattle) grabbed dinner nearby, went to a country bar for line dancing, and then hung out a the arcade playing Dance Dance Revolution, Skee Ball, etc. Later in the week Emily and I went to an excellent stage version of Persuasion. Did I mention that it was really well done? Amazing.
This past evening I went out with some of the work peeps. Three of them have birthdays within a week and one of them turned 21 this evening. Really it was a pretty tame party compared to some of the tales I've heard about 21st parties but it *was* at a bar. It was nice to actually get to talk to a couple of the people who I rarely work with or don't cross paths with much at work. I also had a good chat with a manager who moved to another store some months ago. She's now at yet another location and she said she'd like to steal me for that store. If nothing else I may get some more hours since they just lost a cashier. Wizard. All in all, it was good times.
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| So, Emily and I decided that we should start a singles' grocery store. I think it'd be funny. The newest fad in dating services: find your tomato while picking out lettuce. We could call it Meat & Meet. It's kinda sad how much I'm amused by this. | | |
| Now I remember what else I was going to say. A few days ago I had a conversation with a customer that was funny, but slightly bad. Keep in mind that this is a regular who knows me and has joked with me before. He's Australian, short, and has a cute smile. I've had a totally unrealistic distant mini-crush on him since I met him and I'm always trying to get him to talk more because I love his accent (and I'm apparently not the only one to do this). Later I saw he had a wedding ring, but of course that doesn't stop me from thinking he's adorable every time I see him. So, anyway, he was telling me that he accidentally let his residency lapse and he's had to go through the hassle of re-proving everything, including that he's married (to a US citizen). I, having a slightly sick sense of humor, said, "Well, I guess if you want to call it quits, now is the time." He laughed. I laughed too, but secretly I was thinking "And, you know, you could always marry me." It was quite amusing. At least in my head. Even worse, I then repeated the whole conversation, including my comment to myself, to the other cashier who rolled his eyes and laughed at me. Ironically, I also have a mini-crush on him. He's a sweetie and I love talking to him, but besides the fact that we've got some major value differences, he's just too young for me (he's 20). Also, sadly, my other work mini-crush is leaving to go to school full time. I'm going to miss having him make fun of me. As a disclaimer, these are of course, all completely superficial relationships and I am not for a moment really considering anything more that friendship with any of them.
On a related note, at work I sometimes joke about the cliché of going to the grocery store to meet singles. So far it's not working for me. I only meet married men, grandpas, and guys who are a little too fond of beer. Well, and my male coworkers who are all about 17. Is there some singles grocery store that I don't know about? Or do young single men not buy food? Of course, it's mostly just the demographics of the neighborhood, but I still think it's funny.
Doesn't this post make me sound totally boy-crazy? I'm not, I promise, I'm just easily amused.
On a totally unrelated note, I'm considering dressing goth at least part time since everyone seems to think it makes me cute. | | |
| Yesterday, upon arriving at work I was greeted with the news that the bank directly across the street from the store had just been robbed. It amazes me that someone would even attempt it in the middle of the day at a busy intersection, but they did and got away. On a less interesting note, we had two people call in sick and were hit like crazy for customers so I ended up staying over 3 hrs late at work. I can always use the money, but I was dead when I finally got home around midnight. | | |
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