Yeah.

So I just did some research and it seems that FLSA states that movie theatres are exempted from paying overtime. So it doesn't matter if I work over 40 hours, they have the choice to pay me or not. What the fucken bullshit. I'm really angry. I only know a few people who got overtime, and it's because they did over 80 hours of work. I'm really glad they got overtime. But I'm sure they don't plan on doing that ever again. But by law, I am supposed to get at least ONE FUCKEN BREAK. So if I don't see overtime on my paycheck, I will put that out there for them and argue if I have to.

Hysteria

So I hung out with Wayne for like an hour. But pretty much he talked.. about himself.

I went to Roberto's afterward and waited like 20 minutes for my fucken burrito. I've never waited so long before. This family right before me were so indecisive and fucken awkward. I've never seen such a dysfunctional family before. I don't even know how to explain it and I don't plan to.

Afterwards I went over to Jila's finally. Tried ketchup flavored Lays chips. I'm still disgusted with the idea but I started getting addicted to it. It's a Canadian thing I guess. They even have pickled and curry flavored Lays. Doritos too I believe. Haha.

Jila showed me this 1000+ dollar dress that her friend stole for her from Neimen Marcus. It was on sale for 800. It wasn't even nice looking but I guess the designer is amazing or some shit.

Crista finally came and tried to figure out what to do for 20 minutes. Crista and I didn't want to go to the Jr. Anti Sex League show at the Beauty Bar so we decided to go to GameWorks. Got some M&Ms. Tried the all around the world soda flavors. Never doing that again. Went to some gift shop and got some magnetic rock things. Trisha, Jila's friend, still wanted to go to the damned show so we headed over there. Got very lost because we didn't know where to park and after about 20 minutes of driving around, we finally decided to just drop the two of them off.

Crista and I are already at about Chinatown when I get a call from Jila on a payphone. Apprently it was 21 and older. So I went to go get them with my car. Haha. Wow.

Good news is, I found out two of my worst managers quit Rave Motion Pictures. I've never felt so much joy after tonight. My god. Maybe that's why Zach and Steve are going to be managers. Haha. Noice. At least they deserve it. Now if only the general manager would resign...

Gotta Hit That Bitch

It's kind of sad how much people influence my beliefs. Well, not entirely, but it does have a slight affect. Tonight I realized how much differently I view certain people and wonder why I even wasted my time getting to know them. More like putting such an effort to be accepted in a group. I'm so over it though. It just intrigues me of how annoyed I get now of people. I used to get annoyed by the littlest things but now it's starting to come back, and I think it might be because of the influence of some conversations. I feel awful about it but it's always easier to keep a distance.

I don't want to be bitter and put down anyong but man, don't you have anything better to do? Seriously. And don't ever give me looks about certain people who have a knack for things that you don't possess. It's very low of you and don't ever think I'm thinking the same thing as you. And don't ever touch me. It should be a rule.

Other than that, if I don't get my time in a half for Christmas shit, I'm going to demand for it. I also have decided that if I don't get a decent raise for the 90 day review, I'm going to quit. Actually, I probably won't, knowing me, but it's worth a shot writing this here to remind myself that I can do so much better. Everyone's quitting and it's a shame because I really do love my co-workers. But I should probably plan on it as well because they really don't pay us enough for the shit we do. They really don't.

And I'm going to make sure they never make me close then open the next day ever again.

And I will never do trash runs ever again. I've never held back so much vomit in my life.

I hope work at Hollister will be chill and not all bullshit since it's the night shift. Fuck, do I hope so.

I forgot today was pay day for Hollister as well. I need to get used to getting paid every week. I hope I can do direct deposit. I don't remember the last time I cashed in a paycheck.

I need to hang out with Jila. I'm so busy and I feel really bad. I mean shit, she only came down here from Canada.

I hope I can see Wayne at least one more time before he leaves. I don't get why he always gets sick the few days before he leaves Vegas. Every single time he comes here it's been like that. And he's going to China for the next 2 weeks.

I feel like Christmas just barely came and went since I worked with such irritable customers. Plus I haven't received or given any presents whatsoever. It's kind of weird not celebrating Christmas at Ron or Alma's house and trying to rip open masking taped presents. I miss it.

I wish my computer would stop being a piece of fucking shit. I wish this break was longer. I wish people would stay just a little bit longer. And I wish there was more time to do things.

oops

No, not really oops. I just have no time to blog. I don't even want to right now. I have to wrap Ron and Alma's presents. I kind of don't want to bring it over yet though. I'm not sure if I'm done with Alma's present. Sooo maybe I'll put it off until we're alone or something.

I spent over $250 today. Shopping and food. I still can't believe it. But at the same time, I don't remember the last time I shopped. I didn't even go shopping for presents. I bought half of them online. So yay, I have clothes. And I got the Heroes Season 1 DVD for 19 fucken dollars at Target for myself and my sister... as well as The Office Season 3. I just need to get season 2 of The Office for myself and her and then we're all set.

I haven't had a day off yet with the .. OH YEAH. I started working at Hollister. I forgot to put that in here. My god. Anyways, it's gay. I hate it there. It's getting better though. I don't think it's because Jessica isn't there with me.. I'm sure it's because I've been doing morning shifts with barely any workers there. It's chill, good music (upstairs) and I just deal with clothes, no customers. It's nice for a change.

I haven't even used my 50% discount yet. It's probably over now. There's seriously nothing I would buy though. And if I did, it would be this nice sweater but only if I can somehow rip HCO off of it.

Wayne, Tiffany, Ron, Yan, Sabina, Rachel, Jila, Salome, Sarah, Vaniah, Joanna and many others are in town. It's kind of weird cause I don't have the urge to run up to anybody and say OMG HEY HOW'VE YOU BEEN. I forget that they've been out of town and think I just haven't seen them for a week or so.

I watched most of Being John Malkovich. Wow.

I have to go watch Juno ASAP. I'm so glad my theatre finally started showing it.

Oh yeah, so I haven't had a day off since the 13th. Only 1 day off between then and now. And I spent it by getting new tires I believe.

I don't remember my days anymore. Half the time I'm living out of my car/Hello Kitty bag with a change of work clothes in it. So I guess that makes Town Square my second home.

I just hope working this much pays off in the end and hopefully I get hefty paychecks. Or at least it'll accumulate to it. The best thing about have these jobs is the pay day doesn't fall on the same day. So I get paid weekly.

Oh and I hated working on Christmas. By far I had some of the rudest and pickiest customers alive. And do I get paid overtime for working on a holiday? No. Doesn't matter that we're the only place for entertainment open on a holiday. Shit, Wal-Mart wasn't even fucken open. So fuck that. And to top it off, I HAD to work overtime. 1hr. 30 min. of bullshit. So I better see "overtime" in bold on my next paycheck.

Yeah, I think that's all. Now I'll just save money for books and tuition. Bah.

Fallback

Good news, Julay responded. The exam should be fairly easy.

So English went well. The teacher was glad to know I was alive and well. Haha.

We had to read these essays for the contest thing we were doing. My god, I've never been so pissed off reading before. One of the essays I read was so poorly written. Not only did I find over 10 grammatical errors on the first page, they used the phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong". What the fuck. But seriously, they didn't know their THEIRS, THERES AND YOU'RES. I was so fucken angry. They even put a hyphen between un-successful. I really wonder why I'm in ENG101E sometimes. I think I'm more qualified than these idiots seriously. I've never had such easy essays in my life. That's what I get for slacking on the SATs.

I lost the number to the math department to find out about testing into a math class, so I just went home. I kept having a feeling that there was something I was supposed to be doing. The second I pulled in at home, I had an epiphany that I needed a haircut. So I had my mom call up her friend and I went straight over there. Yay new hairstyle for the first time ever. Don't you love it when people wash your hair? I love it. When they lather your scalp... haha.

My head feels so much lighter and it's amazingly easy brushing my hair now. Love. I can actually do things with my hair. Haha.

Niki called me right when I was paying but I had more errands to do. Went to Target. DVDs. Bad addiction seriously. Ran into Nathan. Then realized what I had to do right when I turned on the radio. The Killers was on and I remembered I had to go pick up the damned CD from the radio station. Got lost but finally found it. It's so far. Desert Inn right after Eastern. Bleh. Got stuck in traffic then went to Sushi Mon to meet up with Niki. lol sorry for the wait. Got super full then went to Barnes and Noble to read. Hella passed out. Went home and took an hour nap. Got ready then went to Jessica's.

Went to go check out the trailer premiere of Jumper at Luxor. Couldn't figure out where it was and found out it was just this little screen in front of the Sphinx. Dumb. The way they made it sound, I thought it was like on the actual glass of the Luxor and shit. Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen and that chick were there as well. Pretty cool. We snuck in through a gate thing finally and I tried to take pictures. Maybe I'll post when I have time.

Went to Malachi's friend's party afterwards. I've never seen so many black gay guys. There were many gay guys there. It was quite fun. Watched Mike and Alex get super drunk. Took care of Mike. Then decided to take a shot of Patrone and Goldschlagger. Was pretty good for the night. But the double shot of Jack Daniels did it for me. I don't know what happened to my tolerance level but next thing I know, I'm in Jessica's car vomiting outside the window. I felt so awful. We dropped off Alex at her house then Jessica took me home and stayed the night. I went straight to my bathroom, vomited, then passed out. Woke up right at 8am. Took a nap and was hoping to wake by 8:30am. No. 9:10am. I had work at 9:30am. My car was at Jessica's still. Oh fuck.

Had to get ready as fast as possible without vomiting. Got to work a little late. Forgot nametag in the car. Vomited several times before really doing anything during my shift. While working, I had to leave and just run to the bathroom. It was possibly the worst hangover I've ever had in my life.

Though this guy was trying to tip my manager on my register and he kept pushing it back. Then when I came he gave me 3 dollars and my manager let me take it. I was confused. I told him it was my first tip ever and he believed me. Hah. Then Mr. Hubble comes by asking me if that was my register. I tell him yes and he shows me a report of all sales. It states that I got the least customers out of all my coworkers, though I made the most sales out of all of them. Pewpew. MVP.

After getting let out early, Jessica came back and picked me up. Gave her my tip money to help cover for her car wash. Went to her house, got Alex's phone then dropped it off at Alex's house.

Then knocked out from about 6pm-8am. Was supposed to take Jessica to a party that night and let her get drunk and I'd drive. Haha. I guess she passed out too. So it worked out.

Then today... I went for an interview at Hollister. The main manager, Jared, was not there on time as usual. So I went to look around at H&M then returned my sweater at Aero. Back to Hollister and the manager apparently was pissed off and didn't want to see me. I got really irritated because if it wasn't going to happen, then I quit trying to work there. But Jared pushed the interview onto the supervisor, Michael. And thank god. He was great and we conversed. And I told him I had work at 11:30 and we started at 11:11. So we rushed through the rules and didn't bother with some questions. I'm pretty sure I got it unless I got Ladine, the other manager in trouble and if Jared hates me now.

I worked in the box office for the first time. Was scared at first because I didn't know how to do anything but it worked out in the end. Loved it. Chantel helped out a lot. Nathan came and she was sent home. Got Alex, Alexa, Alma and Chris in for free. I think I got Mr. Anderson in trouble for that as well. Woops.

Courtland and Viola came so Nathan and I had to go home. Chipotle after work with the 4. Then to Alexa's for a baking competition. I tried to study but couldn't and got tired. The end.

Now I Think I'm Ready

Okay seriously, from the time I wrote my earlier entry until 9pm, I just watched The Office season 3. I finally decided to stop and start on that essay. And how long did it take me? 1 fucken hour. Why did I put it off for 3 weeks? I barely even used Elena's essay as a reference. I just wrote shit and used her facts. The end. I suck. I need to stop putting off shit.

Oh, and good news, Tyler, David's brother, is getting me a good discount at Discount Tires. 200 for all 4 brand new tires with warranty.

I wonder how much I'm getting on my paycheck. I really hope I get a lot for Thanksgiving.

I'm going to go back and watch The Office now.

Mission accomplished.

I forgot to mention. Yesterday I was listening to Creme Soda by The White Stripes and I was feeling all B.A. and shit. Then I tripped up the stairs. Someone asked me if I was okay and I tried to play it off and walk away fast... except I heard him calling for me again cause I guess I dropped my sunglasses. GG. Haha

For today, I was running late so I decided to park by the CBC building and pay the meter. I go to class seeing only 6 people in there and thinking wtf, where's the other 150 students? I figure it was a make-up exam day and I got sad. Mainly because this professor goes over what's going to be on the exam and I also didn't know when my final was going to be. I decided to go workout at the Wellness Center for the first time. I ended up just doing the tread for an hour and left because my car was still at the meter.

Saw a lot of people in the library. I guess it felt like I haven't seen anyone in such a long time mainly because I barely go to school. Got hot cocoa twice. I also got this free gift bag from them and the first thing I saw was the vitamin water. But when I turned the bag around, I saw a condom. I guess all these little pamphlets and etc. in the bag were ways to help relieve stress for finals week. Such as a condom. Ha.

Actually went to History of Rock. Bryce, Victor and Max seemed really surprised at me even being there. And I ended up not even sitting with them in the end. Haha.

The Japanese interview was way easy. I forgot to study and prepare and it ended up just flowing out naturally. I knew what she was saying and I ended up getting a 100% on it. So woo. I can speak Japanese.

Courtland answered the phone for customer service, so talking was just more comfortable. Found out I'm off tomorrow, which is amazing. Off on a Friday? What the. And I believe Golden Compass will be out tomorrow. But whatever. Though, I'm only working 3 days this week which is irritating me. A good 8 hour shift for Saturday. Sunday will be the first time I'll be working in the Box Office; super excited. I have to make sure I make time to go do my interview with Hollister as well. Then I'm off Monday through Wednesday. Which is good since I have finals. But I work from 6-9pm on Thursday. What's the point in working a 3 hour shift? Seriously. What's gay is, I saw on LasVegasInsiders that there's another special screening for Sweeny Todd at Palms and it just happened to be on Thursday. That stupid 3 hour shift.

I hope Julay responds and doesn't think I'm weird for asking for help. I haven't talked to her in.. I don't even know how long. But I need info about poli sci. badly.

Hopefully I'm going to start and finish this stupid Subway essay tonight.

I Used To Care I Was Being Cared For

When Wayne was here, we ended up talking about random things. He asked me if I felt any different after graduating. And it literally took me a few seconds to say that I feel no different at all. I haven't accomplished anything. College doesn't feel any different. Well in a sense, but at the same time, I'm slacking so much. And I don't even know why. I was doing such a great job. And it's not that ever since I started to hang out with Alma, Alex, Alexa, Dallas and Niki at the time, they influenced me. Maybe they did a little bit but that's all on me.

Niki and I talked about how we wished we were good at something. Whether it be photography, art, music, etc. Like I really do wish I could do photography. I wish I had the money to just buy a Nikon D40 and take a beginning Photo class. I totally forgot to sign up for it and it's full already. Plus I have no money to buy a new camera anyways. I'm not great at taking photos, but I can say I do a decent job for just have a digital camera. I really wish I understood grasping the subject in ways with just a picture. I find such beauty in so many photos and I wish I could do that. It is a goal I'll pursue eventually. But it's not something that I know I'm great at. At least Niki has poker. I really don't have anything to seriously say yeah, I'm fucken good at it. Maybe I don't know my potential, but I really don't know.

I feel like I'm failing and just wasting money going to college. I don't even know what I want to do anymore. As much as I want to do psychology, it's just hard to go through with it. Nursing involves like 10 biology classes. And I have to go to a different school to pursue EMT. It's a shame they don't get paid much. I don't know what to doooo.

I Used To Be A Burning Example

I don't really feel like listing what I did each day. Pretty much work and how my hours have been getting cut. To the point where I do 3 hour shifts and go home out of my 8 hour scheduled shift. Dumb I say. I almost had an interview at Hollister but they were super busy with training so I'm going in on Sunday. It's really great that the manager remembered about me and let Jessica know because I know how hectic it was over there. And willing to give me a one on one interview? Even better.

This tall white guy went up to Janice while we were working. Janice is shorter than me by the way, Chinese and 16 years old. He was pretty much is trying to hook her up with his friend who for some reason is really interested in Japanese chicks. And he wouldn't stop mentioning that he was buff. It was awkward and we told him she liked tall guys cause apparently this guy is like my height. Gross. What is wrong with people. I didn't think anything would go on at a movie theatre, seriously.

Jenna and I stole half a bag of the nacho chips we use to make the trays and cheese. She was about to watch Hitman with me but she left right before it started. There was this preview I really thought looked badass, called 21. It stars Jim Sturgess from Across The Universe. I got super excited when I saw him. I'm definitely watching it. I thought Hitman was alright. Olga was super hot. Timothy as well. It was a typical action movie with a lack of... the usual. But I liked it. Then I hopped over to Awake right after. The ending was a little rushed, but I did like the movie. Maybe I just like these movies because I don't have the burden of paying anymore. I guess I wouldn't go and pay to watch Awake, but it was a fairly decent movie overall.

I keep stealing things from work. Yes, food related. But whatever, I can use stuff at home now.

I found out I got a 70% on that psychology retake exam. I was pretty proud since I got a higher grade than Melyssa and Andrea. When they told me they got D's, I tripped out. Too bad though. I really did feel confident about the test and how well I did. But seriously, it's impossible to take a test in that hallway with all those people talking.

So I didn't go to school on Monday. I watched the entire season 2 of Scrubs. I've been addicted. It's disgusting. I have no life.

I will tell you what happened yesterday. Quite the day.

I ended up just going to Japanese yesterday. Mainly because I had to present my memorized speech. I got a 98% on it. So yay. Well since I was running late, I decided to park behind the hookah lounge by 7-11. I have before and left it there for like 5 hours and nothing happened. I figured 1 hour wouldn't hurt. Well after class, Jennie walked with me and I was going to give her a ride home. And low and behold, my car is gone. I called the stupid towing truck number immediately and they said my car just arrived. Told me that it's $174 to impound and I need to get there by 5pm or they charge extra fees. What the fuck. I panicked. I had work at 5pm. All my work clothes were in the car.

I call my sister and luckily she had me on speaker phone because I said it and David was there as well. They came to my rescue with money and we went to go get my forsaken car. I call in work and Mr. Anderson tells me that I have to still come in by 6pm. GG.

I like how the directions they gave me mentioned how they were under a billboard with a girl in a purple bathing suit. I found out it was an advertisement for Sheri's Cabaret. Nice.

After getting my car, I drive immediately to work. I listen to the radio for traffic reports the entire time and hope that I get there in one piece. I avoided 2 accidents because people don't fucking look when they're changing lanes. I wish my horn was louder, but it did do my justice. I find out I have like 30 minutes to kill before my 6pm shift so I get Jack In The Box and go to work. I'm in the middle of changing and eating when I see my coworker, David, walking around the building. It occured to me that he knew what my car looked like so I hurried and by the time I turned to my left, he was there already there. I open my window and he tells me he got fired. Found out Sarah got fired as well.

I was really pissed but I fucking guess. I closed on Friday with them and I noticed they were getting close. At one point she was sitting on his lap because he pulled her to him, but she didn't look uncomfortable or anything. I could care less. Found out Latoya has a crush on David, told the managers and got them fired. Funny thing is, this happened in the break room. But I guess on the confession sheet, it was in the auditorium. It's a shame really. They just happen to be over 18 years old. I'm sure they're going to make me close more often now. Fuck.

Work was alright. I finally had a walkie talkie and took advantage of it. To be honest, it makes me feel more responsible and I hope they give it to me more often. Meaning a good raise. I wish.

I don't know why they're hiring more people if they can't even afford to have us work a decent amount of shifts now.

The Golden Compass was such a bitch to clean up. Fuck that shit. Fuck 468 seater auditoriums for movie premieres.

I got super jealous that people saw Sweeny Todd that night too. Godddd.

That's been the highlight of week mainly.

Elena sent over her Subway essay so I can figure out what to write. Haha.

The other day, I don't remember when, but Kevin and I finally discussed our feelings that we had back around prom. It was actually pretty sad when it got laid out. I don't know why. I guess it was just because it lasted so long without anyone saying a word about it. I don't even know why I brought it up. I guess I was jealous he likes someone now and they actually returned the feelings. Except we both agree, she's a big promiscuous and I'm not approving. But we decided we're gong to be really good friends again. I'm glad. Yay for more off topic stuff.

Oh, and on Friday, the day that it rained all day, Kevin got hit by a drunk driver. I really am grateful that he made it out okay. Fortunately, the person in front of him happened to be a FBI agent. So gg.

I still can't believe finals are just next week. I can't believe I want another job. I totally forgot it's going to cut into my winter break with spending time with people who're coming in town. But I need money so.. :/

Marcio told me he went on a date but the girl ended up not wanting to go any further. I told him I've never been on one and I think that made him think I opened a door. Why do I keep doing that. I need to keep my mouth shut seriously.

I had breakfast with Niki the other day. I can't remember which day. It was cool. Talked a lot. I still owe him back for food. I went to Alex's after to crash. Woke up and everyone was there. I left for a long night at work.

I think I'm going backwards with this entry.

I told Niki about the Wayne situation. I haven't told anyone except Tiffany, Michelle and Kevin. It's not hard to talk about but it's kind of awkward at the same time. I wish I knew what to do but it really is a difficult decision. I guess I just have to wait until he comes back for winter break to figure shit out.

Today after class, I went to the library to catch up on Japanese homework and tutor Jennie. Tomorrow we each have a time slot and when we go in, the teacher is going to ask us questions in Japanese and we have to answer them. I'm sure I'll do well. Putting sentences together is so difficult though.

I had dinner with Alma at Tofu Hut. To be honest, I was wondering if anyone else was coming or if it was just the two of us. I figured it was just us but then when she said she was at Dallas', yeah. But they didn't. Not that I appreciated it or anything, but it was nice. Like for once, I was able to spend time with Alma with the other 3 tagging along. I love the talks we have. It's so random. And we judge each other half the time. Haha. Ever since she's been with everyone else, it really does feel like I haven't seen her in ages. I enjoyed tonight a lot.

I wish there was a way where everyone would just get along. I figure there won't be any drama when everyone comes home to Vegas just because it's not necessary. But I do wish everyone can put their differences aside and just cherish the time we'll have with the reunion of friends. It's difficult going back and forth. And I really don't want to pick sides. Nor have I even made such a choice. I believe I've made good ties with everyone and don't think there's any need to have a fuss over petty things. And it's not that shit should never be resolved, but I hate to be in the middle of things and I'd really hate for things to get blown out of proportion.

Sometimes I wish I didn't know what was going on and just be oblivious. Too much information is really pushing my limits because I just feel bad for everyone.

Honestly, it's a little difficult in what to write in this blog. I guess it's because I know it's being read but mainly because I don't want to hurt anyone. Mainly myself.

On a lighter note,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tsf-ugfCyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw

The most badass fucken videos I've ever seen.

Sorry for the most random entry ever. My god.

I Used To Walk Outside My Door, But I Don't Go Outside Anymore

So I went to political science and totally forgot about the extra credit. Bah.

I went home right after so I could pick up my phone and deposit money so I could buy Flight Of The Conchords season 1 DVD. Freaking only 13 bucks on bestbuy.com. I got super excited, especially with the 60% off. The Dane Cook DVDs will have to wait.

I ended up going to Japanese thinking I had a quiz to do. I really wasn't planning on going but I forgot there's barely any classes left. I'm glad I went. I found out I have my conversation answers and presentation speech due next class. Neither assignment I knew about from the lack of attendance in the class. So good fucking game. And ever since our last major test, I haven't done any homework whatsoever. So that means I have about 15 assignments to do plus those projects. And it's not just an easy paper. Each assignment takes me at least 30 minutes minimum to complete. So damn myself for being such a procrastinator.

Work was super slow today. This lady gave me a dollar tip. I got put on break and when I came back, they decided to clear our my register. I balanced okay and when I got back to the concessions, there was this huge line and we only had 2 registers open. It got bad and I helped as much as I could. One guy tipped us 1.75, so I took the 75 cents haha. Yay tip.

There were so many gay couples tonight. Probably a good 6. Tuesday's a special night?

I think I'm going to pop in Hard Candy and do some Japanese homework.

Don't Bore Us

I'm getting REALLY irritated that I can't burn anymore CDs. I can't figure out what the problem is and it's usually a certain mp3 that refuses to comply with the whole process. I spent like an hour downloading a trial version of the new Nero so I could try it out and it ended up being the same problem. I found out my version is 3 and the newest one is 8. I'm really outdated.

Well I didn't do jack all day and finally took my mom's car to Target. I ended up buying 5 DVDs and cereal for Rei. I got excited when I saw $4.75 DVDs. I wish the Nip/Tuck seasons were on sale again. I did cash back so I could try to take my money from that stupid checkcard.

I went home to get my car and went to my sister's so David could change out my brake pads. I'm glad he knows how to fix things like this. It saved me a good 75 dollars from going to Brake Team and etc. for labor costs. He also showed me how to change a tire. It looks like when I ran into that slight curb that one day, it damaged my tire and in probably about 2 weeks, it's going to pop. So I'll be careful when I go over speed bumps and such. Hopefully David's brother still has connections with Discount Tires and can get me a cheaper cost on all 4 tires. And I guess I'll pay back with free movies. Haha.

But man, driving is so different. I'm so used to hearing that squealing. Even with my mom's car. Yay for new pads.

My sister showed me that she was going to give David this book for Christmas. It happened to be the script to Clerks 2 and I got super jealous. I skimmed through it and loled a lot. I'm going to look for that and get it for myself. That would be such a great thing to have.

I got home and went to eat at this 'new' Taiwanese restaurant with my mom. The food was really weird. I got their advertised steak special thing. Except when I got it, there was a pile of noodles that pretty much resembled spaghetti. An egg that was still cooking on the skillet. It was weird, the whole spaghetti thing over flowing my steak. The entire thing was bland. I was disappointed. But the boba was good. Okay, I think I'm going to go watch Hard Candy since that came in mail the other day. It better be decent.

Do Me A Favor, Baby Don't Reply

Hokay. So let me tell you something about November 21.

I worked at 10am and they put me at podium for the first time. This term means that I rip tickets for people who come in the theatre. So yay, easy job. I got several interesting customers. Like these 2 old black ladies who I just absolutely adored. They reminded me if I were to be best friends with someone for more than 60 years and still spent my free time with them. They came up to me and all they did was talk. One of them went off to the bathroom while the other stayed with me and told me about how their day went. The other one comes back from the bathroom and asks to complain to a manager because there were no toilet seat covers. So cutest customer award goes to them. When they got out of the theatre, they even waved to me.

Next customer was this drunk guy. It was 11:30am. He asked me if I've been to the Fish Camp restaurant right there and I said no and asked why. Apparently they had the best beer ever and he was totally wasted. He asked if I watched Hitman yet and I said no because it just came out today. He decided that it'll be good no matter what since he's out of it and he walked to his theatre. He came back and asked me if I thought he'd have time to leave and come back. Then he left to go back to Fish Camp to drink more beer. Funniest customer.

Lastly, I got this guy who came in and mentioned how my name was really nice. He came up to me about 2-3 more times to talk about Beowulf and about random stuff. Surprised that my major was psychology and asked if I could tell what he was thinking about. I responded with, "you want me number." I was pretty straightforward and felt bad about saying it when he said no. So I said you want to be friends? And he said no. Apparently he meant if I could just read him like a book and tell what his interests are. I was totally distracted by the mounds of customers piling in and he finally asks me for my number anyways. Right when I gave it to him, Ms. Osiello puts me back to concessions to help out since there was such a large crowd of people. He thought I was following him to his theatre and he came to conclusion that he got me in trouble. I saw that he sent me a text already apologzing and pronouncing how to say his name. I went back to podium for the rest of the shift. I got a little paranoid and decided to push my break until I knew when the guy was going to come out of his theatre so he wouldn't go looking for me.

When I finally go on break, I call this missed phone number back forgetting that it was his number and hung up fast when he answered. He tried calling me back but I forwarded it to my voicemail and he was talking about how he hopes to hear from me soon and etc. I was disgusted and went back to work. Got another text with just a smiley face from him.

I get off of work and try to rush to Sue's house for that surprise party. My brakes give out and almost crash into the car in front of me. I swerve fast and go over the slight median and luckily my tires don't pop. Thanks brakes.

I change and finally get to Sue's. I realize when I get there, I'm surrounded by all these Koreans who are still in high school and felt really awkward. I only knew 4 people out of the 10 there. Sue came home with her cousin, Esther, and we surprised her with a ton of food. Yan came eventually and we talked about college stuff for a while. That creepy guy called me while I was there and I wanted a guy to answer to fuck with him, but I didn't know any of the guys there. Eventually we left and I dropped Yan off at home.

I go meet up with Alma and Alex at Sushi Mon and stand out in the cold for a little bit. Alexa, her family and Chris come out of the restaurant and we all go drive to Alex's house. It ended up just being Alma, Alex and I in the end because everyone went home. We chilled. Alma left and I told Alex about the whole stalker guy. Alex tries to mess with the guy through texts on his phone. The guy suspects that it's me anyways and when Alex tried to say, "oh sorry, wrong number", the guy responded with, "Well what's your name? Maybe we can still be friends." :(

I ended up passing out for an hour or so. Niki texted me that Vaniah was in town but I was way too tired to go meet up with them. I felt bad but I figured there was plenty of time for the week to do that.

That day was full of surprises. I think so.

November 22
So I get to work at 10am again. Around 11 or so, the guy calls me. I was already paranoid the night prior and Alex kept making fun of me. But my worst fear was if the guy came back to visit me. I worked in concessions that day and for the first time, I got put on register. I was really scared because I never did it before and I didn't know the combos and etc. I had Jenna back me up for a few transactions and learned quickly.

Out of nowhere, Ms. Donnelly comes up to me and says "Someone by the name of --- is here to see you, would you like to see him?" I panicked and said no about 10 times and she said alright, go to the restroom. I log out of my register and run to the back. I didn't know what to do. I text Alex and then call Jessica freaking out. I walk out to the auditoriums and I'm not supposed to be on the cell phone, but I did it anyways. Ms. Osiello didn't say anything when she saw me. But I was panicking a lot. I ended up tearing up a little bit. Jessica and Alex wanted to come and pick me up but I wasn't off for several hours. I went up to Kevin and Mike and told them what had happened and if anything were to happen, I'll go find them.

After work, I went straight to Jessica's to have Thanksgiving dinner. She had already ate with Ariel so it was me, eating alone once again. It was kind of weird that Ariel was there because we haven't talked since she left me a voicemail of her bitching me out for no reason. We didn't speak a word to each other except me saying "Excuse me" because I needed her to take her feet off of my work clothes. I left and went home.

Wayne came to pick me up and we tried to go get boba. Volcano Tea ended up closing at 7:30 and we didn't want to pay for Tea Planet's shitty boba. We went back to my place to catch Scrubs when I realized, oh yeah, I have satellite and I don't even have those channels. So we just talked for hours. He talked to my mom. He ended up spending the night.

What an interesting Thanksgiving.

November 24
I had work at 12pm and got put on floor staff. I didn't even get to go Black Friday shopping because I was so exhausted. I was pissed but whatever. Plus, my paycheck went to that stupid pay card thing again and not to my bank account.

Today was by far the most busiest day we've ever had. We not only were behind in cleaning auditoriums, we were low on staff. I was angry with popcorn on the stairs. I don't mind cleaning the chairs and the floor under them. But when the popcorn is on the stairs, for some reason the popcorn doesn't like to come out easily and you have to start scraping shit. We were so behind in cleaning that people would go in the auditoriums and already be waiting for the next showing. We had to kick those people out so we could clean. I was pissed off at the bathrooms as well. I'd clean and people wouldn't stop piling in. When I finally left because I had just cleaned it, this couple goes up to me. The male says that there's no paper towels in the restroom and the female tells me that the restroom looks disgusting and is a mess. I go back in and it's totally torn apart. It was just a really bad day and I'm glad I was getting off at 8 and didn't have to stay until 2am to clean up. On top of that, everytime I'd pass one of the guys on podium, he'd always say I was his favorite usher and have me clean all the little popcorn pieces around his area. That's when I finally talked to one of our security guards, Scott. I think he has this Asian culture fetish, or so it seems. But probably our nicest security guard there.

I got my paystub and learned that they paid me for a shift I didn't even work. So yay, more free money.

I ended up just going home and passing out. I was supposed to hang out with Tiffany, Yan and Jessica to go to a strip club or something since none of us have gone yet. That didn't happen.

November 25
Work at 9am. Main concessions was fun. I worked next to Sarah who kept me company almost the whole time. I love working there. I don't realize that time is going by so fast because I'm always busy. I didn't even get my break until about 6 1/2 hours into my shift. Didn't even know that much time went by.

Michael Clarke Duncan was there at the theatres as well. The big black guy from The Green Mile. My god, he was huge. I couldn't stop staring.

I heard Penn was there as well when I was on break.

I seriously love my co-workers. At first I was really skeptical about this job, especially that majority of the people who work there are black. But for some reason, they're the main ones that I get along with. Yeah, hella stereotypical. I judge.

I went home and showered. Tiffany picked me up and we ate at Tofu Hut. Talked about love lives again. Ha. I really miss her. But just a few more weeks until winter break.

I was supposed to hang out with Wayne as well but he had this project that was due Tuesday and he didn't start yet. So I'll see him during winter break.

Jessica and Niki invited me to parties but I wasn't really in the mood to do anything. I guess I was hoping to spend time with people and just chill.

November 26
I went to work at 12 and got put on the high side concessions. The side where we have 6-18 auditoriums. I was with these 2 guys I haven't worked with before. They were talking about music and such for about 2 hours straight before they finally started to talk to me. I guess DeAngelo saw me at orientation and thought I was a super bitch and unfriendly because I kept to myself. I get that a lot. And Anthony kept hasseling me about projecting my voice more so people can hear me. Bah.

Out of nowhere it got super busy. Mainly because Ms. Gibson's free loading family kept coming with their tubawear and asking ME to refill their slushees and popcorn nonstop. I was really pissed about that because we had such a long line and they couldn't take into consideration about the customers.

While Anthony was on break, DeAngelo was asking me about random stuff. He thought I was this spoiled bitch who has a nice whip and a boyfriend who treats me well. Haha. It was kind of sad but entertaining. He kept saying he was going to go to church and pray for me. D: He really didn't believe I work for the things I have.

One little girl came up to me asking if I could give her a new large cup and I said no because if they're already getting free refills, why would I give them a new cup. I was rushing and ended up spilling it. So she got her new cup. >:O

Jenna came by and told me that Aero was having this 50% sale and today was the last day. So we decided we'll take our 30 min. break together so we can run over there. Mr. Arias kept yelling at me to take my break but I kept waiting. Haha.

We end up running to the store and browsed as fast as we could. I bought a jacket and a shirt and took a shirt as well. Yeah, not paying that much for a shirt like that.

I took a hotdog when I got off work because I refuse to pay 4 dollars for that small thing. Changed and let Jessica in. We watched Beowulf. My first free movie. I wasn't really moved by the movie. I thought it was going to be so much better. The animations, 3D approach was really great. The story was alright. I guess I expected too much since so many people thought it was so awesome.

I was trying to say bye to Sarah, but Scott kept talking to us. It was kind of weird but whatever. It occurred me while I was driving home that my mom dated someone named Scott a few years ago. And he really reminds me of him. Not too young but yeah. I got a little worried but I don't remember what he looks like. I don't think it's him though. D:

And for today. Psychology class is cancelled. So yeah. Maybe I'll finally hang out with everyone. I got a text pretty much everyday from them and I feel really bad but yeah. I wanted to hang out with people from out of town and I had work. Couldn't be helped.

Baby Girl, I'm A Blur

I signed up for my first credit card last night for Capital One. The only one that would accept me. haha. Wells Fargo was like fuck that because I wasn't making enough pay. Gay.

I woke up late today to my mom punching me. I decided fuck school and finished season 2 of The Office. I eventually got ready and got to Japanese 10 minutes late. I was paranoid because I parked in the staff lot by the Student Union. Nothing happened though, so yay.

I tried to go find area 108 to go pick up my Killers CD that I totally forgot about, finally. But I couldn't find the place and it was all the way on DI and Pecos. the fuckk.

I went to my dad's afterward and passed out in the car waiting for him to come home. I went inside and passed out until my sister and her boyfriend finally came. We celebrated my grandma's and stepmom's birthday, plus Thanksgiving. I love my dad's home cooked meals. It never fails to be amazingly good.

David [sister's bf] and I were talking about games, movies and shows for a while. I guess I should check out How I Met Your Mother. I've never watched an episode in my life. Or Prison Break. Or Lost. We also talked about laptops and what I should do. I may go check out LaptopXchange tomorrow if I have time.

I went to Alex's afterward. Alex, Dallas and I drove to Alexa's to watch House. I should really start watching that show, it really is interesting. I guess I really don't watch much TV.

We ended up watching a soccer game between Belgium and Poland. It was actually interesting enough for me to pay attention. Plus Alex and Dallas picked teams and tried to compete each other. Then we watched a rugby game and I totally passed out. What a fucken weird sport to play. Seriously.

I got work at 10am-5:30pm. And hopefully if I get out on time, which I doubt, I have to try to run to Sue's house. Her sister called me and planned a surprise birthday party, which I totally feel bad about because I didn't know it was Sue's birthday. So hopefully I can make it there early enough before Sue gets home. If not, I have to wait until she's already inside then go in. Haha.

Matter Of Time

I don't even know what to say besides I've been working so much. I wouldn't recommend reading this post because it's just about me complaining about work more than half the time. Yay. So ctrl+F to find your name. Haha.

I started my first day of work on the 13th from 6-10. I really enjoyed my first day of work. I was running late and I saw Courtland in his red car running late as well, so I kind of chased after him up the stairs. We sat in auditorium 6 and it was the VIP seats. Amazingly comfortable.

Today was the first day we were open to "public". We had only 1 special screening of Beowulf going on and critics were there. So before the crowd came, I went to go stock the bathrooms with toilet paper and paper towels. Which reminds me, I still have 2 of the bathroom keys and I still have not yet given them back. Uhh, hah. I ended up sweeping around a lot and acted like I was doing something. I got a 10 minute break and found out we were able to drink soda and popcorn. Except, I hate popcorn.

I did the exit greetings and talked to the people leaving. I ended up talking to this one lady who happens to help out her friend do the LasVegasMovieInsiders stuff. It was interesting just talking to her and I guess she just volunteers to do it, so she doesn't get paid for it at all.

When I walked outside with Simone, we had to clean the windows. I noticed Courtland was out there with an older black lady as well and all she did was talk. We kept giving each other glances and it was really funny.

There's this older Asian lady named Mindy. She seriously wouldn't stop talking. I was trying to listen to her at the same time do work and my god. So gg for laughing at Courtland. I guess she's already had several complaints against her and the managers kept going up to her to talk.

I was scheduled to work the next day but I realized I had to retake my psychology exam and also, they had me scheduled from 10am-4. All I could think of was wtf? If they really looked at my availability sheet, they would know I have class at 4pm on Monday and Wednesdays. Dumb. And the only other shift was from 4-10pm.

So I worked instead on Thursday from 5:30pm-1:30am. Mind you that on T R classes, I go to school from 10am-4pm. GG. So I go with it. I eat a powerbar and change in my car on the way to work. I get there and I'm scheduled for concessions. I was kept busy and whatnot. I just stayed as 'runner' and just helped put popcorn in the bags and pretty much did that for about 4-5 hours straight. It was entertaining. I learned how to cook popcorn and I also burned myself against the kennel. It left a nice mark that is still here today.

Though, there was this manager, Mr. Morgan, who wouldn't stop hasseling me. Saying how I wasn't fast enough, or why am I opening bags when I should be stuffing them or etc. I learned to not stick my hand inside the popcorn bags because oh yeah, it's gross. And I learned how to open them faster than stuffing my hand down in them anyways. But he was just constantly breathing down my neck. When I put popcorn in the bags, I take 2 bags and I just throw the popcorn in there. He walks up to me and says, "It doesn't have to look pretty". Why on earth would I try to make them pretty. I gave him attitude for the first time and he finally laid off for the rest of the night about popcorn. I was so pissed.

Let me tell you, I will never stay for closing ever again. Not only did I get home at 2:30am with an 8:30am class in the morning, but I'm not that strong. Mr. Morgan had Angel and I mop the lobby and when we were pretty much done with it, a manager from another branch came by and said that the janitor can do it instead. So mop the back and concessions instead. Thanks.

Oh, and I never hated popcorn so much in my life. Since everyone was noob, we all dropped popcorn on the floor nonstop. It was such a bitch to clean up. And I was pissed that I was transferring popcorn from warmers for about an hour, then interrupted by hearing forget it, just throw them out. It was constantly Mr. Morgan changing his mind and I really couldn't take it anymore. I don't think he's paying us for overtime.

So class went well. I only passed out for 10 minutes. Found out I'm only 1 of 5 in the class that has everything turned in. Everyone was bitching and thinking they're going to transfer classes when the new semester starts. I don't see the point if we're already used to his way of teaching, but whatever. The class is super easy and they're hella dumb if they can't turn in a sheet of paper after reading a short story. A MINIMUM of 3 pages for an essay with the choice of 10, 11, 12, Arial and Times Roman font.

After I went home to change. I wasn't really feeling hungry. I just ate a powerbar and started out my 2:30-10:30 shift. I worked on floor staff so I pretty much cleaned the auditoriums and did bathroom checks all day. Ms. Ausiello followed us around which was fine, I enjoy her company. I hate people who watch Beowulf. They seem to be the most messiest and laziest people. I get families who come out of Fred Claus and such and they carry all their trash out.

I noticed Cara (another manager) up on the concession counter screw driving in combo orders on the wall and look who's just standing there staring? Mr. Morgan. Mind you that all the woman managers have to wear a dress for promotion, and that's what she was wearing. Morgan has to be sexist. I hate him.

I made friends with Mike and Kevin. Except, I've met Kevin before and I remember Ariel stealing his pipe for weed or something. Then broke it. I remember his name was KC but I don't know where that comes from when his last name is Lucido. Anyways.

We learn that the second floor on auditoriums 1-5 is the best place to movie hop. It's dumb how they did it but whatever. Then we decided to go up the stairs to the 3rd floor and saw the projection room. It was really eerie looking since it was just this giant dark room with digital projection going on. Literally, you just touch the screen to start the movie. It was crazy.

We freak out from hearing someone walk down the hallway and ran to the first floor and cleaned.

We finally find out what our schedules are and I have to work 10am-5:30pm the next day. It's really irritating how they don't know our schedules before hand and tell us if we work the next day or not.

I overslept and ended up being an hour late for work. I knew I was working on floor staff so I immediately went to Mr. Arias and asked for an usher time let out sheet. They didn't even know I was late. GG.

Mr. Morgan took Mike and I with him to unload the truck outside. We went out there probably 6 times and after we did a count of all our supplies, Mr. Morgan had us carry all of the shit to all these storage rooms. Not a big deal except when we had to carry the 5 gallon sodas and butter. I was already irritated that Mr. Morgan would just stand there and watch us work and not help us at all. It's another for him to watch me struggle pushing a 5 gallon coke box over my head on the shelf and just stand there panting. He's such a piece of shit.

The unorganization is really ridiculous. They were supposed to have Sun-Thurs. schedule up already and it wasn't even done yet. So I went home to change and went to Alexa's finally for the Pre-Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone [Alma, Alexa, Dallas, Alex, Niki, Chris & Maricela] had already ate when I got there. Alma and Alexa pretty much packed my plate with everything they could and I managed to eat almost the entirety of it. The food was great. It was the first real meal I've eaten ever since I started working.

Niki and Chris ended up leaving early and the rest of us just watched TV for a while. I eventually left because calling the theatre several times didn't do me any justice. I had to go drive back to the theatre and find out my schedule.

After that, I went to Arabela's and played some Resident Evil with Emmanuel on Wii. Passed out for probably 15 minutes. Went to Nalani's with the other two. Went to go meet up with their friend Cole and got alcohol. Went to Nalani's apartment that has no electricity in it. I wasn't really feeling drinking so I didn't. Laughed at Nalani getting super drunk and played with her dog.

Cole left and later Nalani's boyfriend left. The rest of us just passed out on the floor but it was fucking freezing. I couldn't stand it anymore and I took Ara and Emmanuel home eventually. I went home and watched Transamerica. Amazing movie. Let me tell you, Felicity's performance. My god. And her son in the movie, wow. He starred in the Airbud movies. He's amazing.

I ended up napping at the last minute and woke up, yet again, an hour late for work. I went through the back and just went straight to concessions to help out. I ended up making nachos and eating them as well. Keane helped me for a bit. I got really annoyed with my co-workers who kept coming out and complaining that there weren't enough chips in the nacho trays and trying not to blame me but did anyways. I literally just got there and it wasn't even my batch. So GG. I got pissed. And all the older co-workers would walk by and sing "Nacho Nacho Man". ugh.

I guess I got on Mr. Anderson's good side because whenever he'd see me, he'd give me praise. Isn't that what a manager should be doing? I was so glad Morgan wasn't around. I found out all the managers left to go eat a fancy dinner and left Mr. Anderson to supervise us. I felt pretty bad but they brought back dessert. Uh.

I didn't think I'd be closing since I knew people were leaving at 1:30am and I was leaving at 12:30am. But I still cleaned. Except this time it wasn't that big of a deal. We don't drop much popcorn anymore and it wasn't that busy that night. Although, I still can't mop for shit.

I learned that they made people supervisors by the second day they worked there. Angel for concessions, Andrew for floor staff and some chick for box office. It's crazy but I guess they deserve it.

I wanted to ask Mr. Anderson if I could watch a free movie the next day but I got scared to ask and wanted to go home anyways.

I called the next day to see if I could but Mr. Morgan answered so I hung up immediately. I knew he'd give me shit for it or write my name down on a list or something.

Oh, and I had a psychology exam going on but my teacher never sent anyone the study guide. We went to class and ended up having a group exam. We were allowed to talk to anyone in the class for help and whatever. Andrea, Melyssa and I ended up staying in our own group struggling and hoping we guessed right. We got a B on it, so I'm really glad.

Jessica and I watched like 6 episodes of The Office Season 2. Man, I can't get over how much I love the show.

And last night, Tiffany and Yan came back to town. I'm so glad to see them. I miss them so much. Tiffany and I met up and talked about our love lives. Uh haha. Then we went to go meet up with Yan, Joe, Freddy and Sue at Ichiza. Good stuff.

And today, Rachel comes back. Hopefully I can go meet up with her at least once because we didn't hang out during summer at all. This weekend Wayne should be here as well. I hope I don't have to work lousy shifts because I want to spend time with everyone. I wish my days off didn't land in the middle of the week. Damnit.

All in all, I do love all my co-workers. I didn't think I'd make friends so fast but everyone is just so nice, and we're all struggling together.

Kevin told me that our upcoming paycheck only consists of our training time. I really hope not because I would really feel like I've been working for nothing.

Cure For The Itch

I didn't know anyone read this besides Alma and Niki. lolol.

Finding work shoes is difficult, when all they're looking for is appearance.

Alma and I were discussing about black Friday ads that we've seen and how I saw Nip/Tuck ones for 15 dollars and was so stoked about getting them. Then she tells me that she's seen it at Target that day. What thee. So I ended up going today and bam, seasons 1-3 were 15 dollars each. I ended up just getting season 1 since there was one left and the lady told me they'll still be selling until Saturday. Man, I wish I had money.

I gave into my guilty conscience and bought Resevoir Dogs.

I think I'm going to exchange my work pants tomorrow.

I wasn't even scheduled to work but they ended up putting me down from 4-10 tomorrow. Even though I told him I would be done with school by 4. I guess I'm going to have to ditch Japanese or leave early to try and manage traffic and change all at the same time.

Oh, and I know, you're probably tired of hearing this, but I won something on the radio again. I decided why not, so I called in for 107.9 and won the new Killers CD. It puts me in a drawing to win an XBOX 360 and Guitar Hero 3. Uhh, yeah, of course I'm going to give it a try. They've been giving out CDs every hour today since 6am. So pretty much, it's only out of a little over 10 entries. I hope I win.

I was really hoping to go to Brand New last week. I'm sure they will come again.

On Friday night, I hung out with Nevielle for the first time since she's left for the Phillipines. I had fun walking through FAO Schwartz tipsy and I guess just acting dumb. Except one of the workers kept chasing me with those life-like dolls and freaked out I guess.

On Saturday night, it was my ex's birthday party. Decided to go to it and I'm glad I did. Besides the two annoying guys hitting on me, I ran into an old friend, Malachi. We used to ride the bus in middle school together. I haven't seen him since. It truly was amazing talking to him again and got caught up on a lot of stuff.

I was Speed champion of the night. Jessica tried stealing someone's guitar hero controller but failed and hella people found out about it and made fun of her. I ended up taking care of birthday boy and Jessica. I felt bad that Mike had to work at 5am and didn't even sleep.

Yesterday I was supposed to go to Michelle Gu's and Kristine Recto's birthday dinner. I bailed because I didn't want to go spend money at Cheesecake Factory and was planning on meeting up with them after their dinner. I ended up watching Gone Baby Gone with Alma, Niki, Alex, Dallas, Alexa, Ashley, April and April's friend. Ha, I spent money.. I didn't know what the movie was about at all prior to watching it, besides a missing girl. Alex and I tried to look up the synopsis and we didn't understand it. But the movie was directed by Ben Affleck. Not bad. I did enjoy it. I felt it was a little long, but it might be because I was really tired. I'm still not sure what I would've done still. Really fucked up shit.

Ended up not seeing Michelle because they wanted to go to a hookah lounge that was located on Tropicana and Pecos. Are they out of their minds? Who travels that far to just hookah?

Oh, and believe me, I'm not trying to avoid you guys or anything. I just don't like dropping what I'm doing to just hang out with someone else. All in all, I always feel bad whenever I turn down whoever calls me. And besides, I've been sitting at home catching up on all the Office seasons, which btw, is amazing.

Oh, and I'm jealous of Niki. He went on a second date on Saturday. I've never been on a date before. I really want to one day, seriously. It's sad.

Hoo Hoo Hoo

That's all I think about whenever I hear The Rolling Stones song, "Miss You". I was trying to figure out what this song was for the longest time not realizing I already had it on my computer. I ran through the Hard Rock to look at the playlist on the wall. Hah.

So these days I've been pretty busy. But it's been good.

November 6
I went to go obtain a health card. This lady was coughing all over me and I was just so disgusted and anxious to get out of the place. The lady who kept coughing on me was bitching nonstop and her boyfriend was telling her to shut the fuck up and how she was embarrassing him. It was amusing. Why was the health card 50 bucks? Jessica got hers last year for like 20. At least 30. But what the fuck. I was really pissed cause they wouldn't let me pay half with cash so I had to overdraft.

It's a little sad with my money situation. I even went to coinstar to cash out coins to cover the overdraft costs in my bank account. Then I realized, oh fuck, I have to fucking pay off my parking ticket as well. That didn't work out because they wouldn't accept my card online. bah.

Pretty much I missed Poli. Sci. cause I was already running late, to go get a health card. Uhh.

After all that shit, Cathleen came and picked me up. I forgot the first UNLV basketball game was the same night but Cathleen had bought me a ticket to Circa Survive already.

So the first band we walked into was just terrible. The band itself played alright, but the singer. My god. The singer. He was out of tune, and I think it was on purpose. I really don't know who they were. I'm looking through their MySpace's right now and no one sounds like them. I think they only had 2 songs and the only people who have 2 songs on their MySpace is Ours. But I don't think it's them...

Well the 2nd band was Dear Hunter which was just great. Made up for that shitty band.

3rd band was I believe was named Ours. Longest shittiest set of my life. The last song they played lasted 30 minutes. On top of the 30 minutes of music they already sang. Their lyrics were so fucking awkward. Like "Don't look at me and say you see a white boy, I am different from you". And another song he just kept chanting the MURDER over and over. Goth faggoty shit. I was so angry that their last song wasted my life.

I kind of think they did that on purpose. Fear Before The March Of Flames were supposed to play before Circa but I don't even think they came out.

Anyways. worst set of my life. Though, Circa Survive definitely made up for it. Anthony Green grew out his hair and looked cute. They opened up the first song with confetti and threw out big balloons for everyone to hit and pop. They did this twice more, while the balloons got even larger. It was crazy. Reminded me of the balloons when I saw Muse. Anthony Green got so much better at performing live.

Cat and I ended up talking in the car until like 2am. I really do enjoy catching up with her. It's very much like the old days.

November 7
I went to go deposit the coin cashed money and went to go watch the health video. I was falling asleep. That video was a fucking hour long. My word. But I got my card first and left so fast. Went to go to the library so I could print out the new notes for Psychology and found out there was a power outage. This guy kept staring at me trying to log on. He could've told me. Douchebag. I found Andrea and we went to BEH to try to use the lab there, failed. Ran into Melyssa so went to the MSU lab and printed out shit there.

I got to class realizing that today was the last day to pay off my parking ticket before they double it. Fucking shit. And I didn't get out of class until after 5 and that's when they close.

Luckily when I got home, my card went through. Christ. Went to Isaac's to battle him at guitar hero except he sucked. I remember him being really good. Found some info about 4chan, Jessica's favorite message board site. Crazy people.

November 8
I knew I was on a big time constraint with my essay and with all those training stuff. I pretty much had a full schedule today, so right after poli. sci., I went straight to the library and started my essay. I seriously forced myself and amazingly, I wrote for a straight hour in a half. 3 pages about why message boards should be regulated. Especially with that guy who posted about how he was going to shoot up his school and actually did it in Finland. Actually, that happened yesterday. Kind of sad.

I ate and drove around for a bit before I finally went to Town Square. I parked in the garage and had no clue where the fuck to go. So I started walking through the shopping district. It was really nice. There were so many construction people there just staring at me but I just kept looking around. Lucky Brand, Aldo, Perfumania, Guitar Center, etc. is going to be there. Not all the signs were up. And there is so much more work to do. I don't even think they're going to be done by Friday. I finally found these stairs that led right to the entrance of the movie theatre but then one of my managers were there and told me to go around to the back of the building. I got there and found a some people waiting. There was a large parking lot where we were at and you could see the 95 right past it.

I grew some courage and finally started a convo with this girl who was next to me asking how long she was there for. Bam, she talked so much. Thank god. I finally made a friend. We had like 5 attempts to be in the same group and finally we were together. We had to play ice breakers and remember people's names and relearn about ushering. We ended up not being able to go in the building because they were conducting some electricity tests, so we went home about 2 1/2 hours early. Yes.

They wanted us to walk to the garage in pairs because of the creepy construction workers. I was trying to walk with this one guy named Cortland. And I guess it worked out in the end. We talked about psychology and philosophy while walking to our cars, which happened to be right next to each other. He really reminds me of David.. but 6ft. Too bad him and Kristina aren't in my training group tomorrow. Bah. Good news is, we're still getting paid for not working all the hours.

November 9
So I was on my way to UNLV and I decided to take Flamingo down cause it's not so busy at the time of day. I watch this red Nissan Maxima tail gating the shit out of this red sports car. The sports car decides to brake check their ass because they just wouldn't stop. I watched the Maxima tail gate all these other cars and when we finally hit a red light, a little after Las Vegas Blvd., they happened to be parked right next to the sports car. I notice they're yelling at each other. The passenger out of the Maxima, happens to be black, comes out of the car and walks toward the sports car. The guy from the sports car, being white, got out. They both happened to be the same height and they started doing the whole trying to make each other flinch and then the white guy tried to push his door into the other guy. This started this huge fight and they started wailing on each other. Except, they didn't do a very good job and it just looked really sad and very sissy-like. I was really shocked and a little scared that someone was going to pull out a gun. Mind you, this is all going on right in front of my car. Not down the street, but directly, in front of my car. The lady from the Maxima is screaming for the black guy to get back in the car and everyone is honking at them and telling them to cut that shit out. And then, the light turns green.






So, I actually got my essay and outline done. I was really proud and got to class early and for once, not freaking out about being unprepared. It was a chill day. Got candy. Loled at the fucked up similes we made about how we feel about the class.

Went home to eat and watched 2 more episodes from The Office disc I got from Netflix. I'm kind of mad they sent me disc 4 first out of season 2, but I figure it won't be that big of a deal. God, I love Jim. He is way too funny.

I went to training and the second I got there, they pretty much told us to go home cause we couldn't get in the building still. I got my first paycheck stub stating I got $17.53 for one of my orientations. lololol. I didn't get my visa card yet, so it's useless to me. But I have to go buy work shoes and a belt to get it approved tomorrow at next training. I really want to train in the movie theatre so it'd be easier. This is ridiculous. We have to train at the Mariott shit again roleplaying with Monopoly money. Bah.

But again, good news. I'm getting paid for the 6 hours. So yay, free money.

I haven't hung out with the others in a while. I kind of feel bad, but I haven't been spending money. And since I have no money to spend, I don't want anyone to be paying for me so I rather not bother. Plus I don't want to waste gas. Man. I've never felt so poor in my life. My god.

Go Forth And Die

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Shit, I haven't been updating.

I'll be brief.

October 31
I got the money from Tina. Before that I ended up borrowing 40 from my mom to pay for gas and etc. I already paid it back the next day.

I had my first orientation on Halloween for the job. It was 3 hours long of don't laugh at handicapped people and always make eye contact. Bah.

This is the first time I haven't gone trick-or-treating... like ever. Only one year I didn't and it was during that 9/11 year. But that's it. It's kind of sad, but I wasn't even up for it anyways. Plus I hate candy.

I went to UNLV right after and met up with Marcio and his friends and waited with them for Dethklok. No one was there except them and one other group of people. I guess they wasted their time waiting for 3 hours just to see Dethklok. Isaac came and we got some Dethklok posters and postcards for free. I felt like a dumbass with my bag going into this metal show. I was reading my English book so I could start on homework and there was this girl taking pictures of the line. And there I was, right in the front of the line, reading. Hah.

Brendon Small is not bad looking for a 32 year old. Kind of reminds me of Dane Cook. Not so sexy voice though. Ha. Or maybe it is. It was interesting. I was dead center in the front so I took some pictures. Isaac and Marcio were really excited. I felt bad, cause I didn't know any of their songs really. It was great how the show was put together though. It was pretty much in complete darkness while Metalocalypse was playing behind them and it synced with their performance whenever they'd stop playing a couple of songs. Brendon made it a point that he was into college girls. uhh haha.

It was sad when everyone ended up leaving and no one really stayed for Trails Of Dead that was supposed to play after them.

We chipotle'd after. Then Isaac and I went to Joannah's for some Halloween party. Isaac got super drunk and I just took pictures and laughed at him. I ended up not drinking. Wasn't really feeling it. It was fun though. Saw some old friends from high school.

November 1
The Chevelle show was quite awesome. The last time I saw them, I believe I was in the 9th grade. I was right up front after the band prior made everyone make a mosh pit. So I ran up to the front with my sister and just stood there. It was fun. Pete is super hot. And he cut his hair. I got pictures too. Ahhh. I found out the bassist is new? They kicked out their brother or something and recruited their brother-in-law. wtf haha.

Oh, and I got a guitar pic. :)

November 2
Then the next day I went to yet, another show. This time with Cathleen. She picked me up and we came just in time for the first band. I believe they were called Un Minded or some shit. They were terrible. There was a pit going on and all the kids were just wow. I've never seen so many hardcore, scene kids in such a big mass before. It was kind of disgusting. And everyone had lip piercings. It made me jealous, but disgusted at the same time.

Next was Devil Wears Prada. Not bad. Then Scary Kids Scaring Kids. I was a little mad that I only knew one song cause they sang a lot of their new songs from the new album. And then Emery did the same thing. I only knew like 4 songs. The last time I saw Emery, I knew every single one and it was amazing. A lot of people seemed to respond the same way whenever they'd play an old song. It was sad. Chiodos was about half and half. All in all, everyone did well. I was just weirded out that 3 bands came out with a new CD within the last month or so and based their sets off of them. Lame.

Cathleen and I ended up sitting in her car and just talked for a while. Then went to her house and ate and watched Mozart And The Whale, with Josh Hartnett. It's such a good movie. The entire thing was about autism. Watch it.

November 3
I had another orientation for work to go to. This time at Mariott Inn and yes, another 3 hours. It was the longest thing of my life. Even though we had breaks, it was horrible. Then the last hour they tried training us with Monopoly money to see how we'd react to a customer. Except my first group, the guy was just talking to us. And when we switched groups, right when I was supposed to go up and practice, we were running out of time. :)

I saw Saw 4 afterwards. It was a lot better than I expected. I think I liked it better than 2 and 3 put together. Though, there is something that I'm still questioning about, so I'm hoping they'll cover it in the 5th movie. Oh it's never going to end. At the same time, I'm over the whole Saw thing but whatever.

Afterwards, talked at Volcano Tea with Cathleen and Jessica for quite a while. Saw Nelson and Jazzy randomly. I saw a poster with this Japanese drama I watched but it was in Chinese and with different actors. It was weird. I saw Hana Yori Dango season 1&2 at the store and I really wanted to buy it but it was 30 fucken dollars. While Ichi The Killer was like fucken 8.50. Maybe I'll go back and buy the movie. And maybe Hana. Fuckkkkk, I want it.

Jessica and I went to go rent Guitar Hero 3 and played it at her house. I passed out for like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to beat Rage's guitarist. Pissed me off. But when I got home, I passed it in one try, so I don't fucken know haha.

November 4
Daylight Savings Day

Went to the ramen shop with Jesse and Joannah. Went home and played Guitar Hero some more. Ended up going to watch Lars And The Real Girl finally with Alma, Alexa, Alex, Dallas, Brittany, Niki & April. It was such a cute movie. I shouldn't have laughed at a lot of parts, but I couldn't help it. Oh, I love Ryan Gosling. I seriously went to watch the movie not knowing what it was about, just that Ryan was in it. I'm glad I still enjoyed it.

Carpooled to Alexa's afterward and got owned in billiards by Dallas. I don't even know why I sucked. Maybe I just suck now. But I played Bryan last week and owned the hell out of him. Maybe those tables at UNLV are 6ft.

Got Sonic finally after hearing Niki mention it about 7 times and no one responded. I felt bad for just walking off but Niki, Brittany and I really were hungry and mentioned it.

November 5
And today I went to the post office to mail Tiffany her birthday present and postcard. Finally returned Reign Over Me. Realized the second I turned on the movie, I actually had seen it already. I must be going braindead or something cause I can't remember shit anymore. Like right on cue, I just can't. There's something wrong with me.

Actually got to campus early and caught Andrea just in time. Printed all our psychology notes and went to class. Harlow's monkeys make me sad :( Those videos of the monkeys being recluse and hugging themselves is so freaking sad. Omfg.

I bought so many sunflower seeds.

Oh and I have 4 days worth of training from Thursday-Sunday. 4 hours on Thursday, but 6 hours each for the rest. I'm kind of angry but whatever. I need money. I'm sure I'll be getting paid. I better be getting paid for those orientations as well.

Well, I'm excited to finally see the movie theatre.

Not so excited for training. I'm going to hate practicing and fucking up a lot.

Around The World

Okay, I'm going to be completely honest.

I was a little annoyed that I kept trying to hang out with everyone [Alma, Alex, Alexa & Dallas] but didn't. I got over the whole waiting outside thing cause that was probably my fault for telling Alma to just call me when they got there.

The dinner lasted a bit, but I didn't run off. Mainly, I felt bad for last time, and plus I was driving my mom and her friend with her car. I had texted Alex probably 25 minutes prior to me getting home asking what they were doing. They were still at Dallas' so I decided to take my mom's car to go over there cause I'm really pushing on gas.

My mom was concerned but I lied to her that I had money, when I really didn't. And at the first of every month, they take 25 dollars from my checking account to my savings account for the college savings thing... and I don't even think I have 25. So great. I'm going to overdraft. I can't get the money from Tina until probably Thursday because today is her fucking birthday. Fucking fuck fuck.

Anyways. When I was just leaving, but I didn't turn on the car yet, I called Alex. He tells me they're on their way to the airport to pick up Niki. So at that point, I gave up in trying to hang out with them so I went back inside. My mom was confused as to why I wasn't leaving but I didn't say anything. Tried to burn a CD but my computer froze up and wouldn't stop being a piece of shit to me. And I just forced myself to sleep.

I restarted my computer and it was still frozen. Even after the restart. What the fuckkkkkkkkkkk. I hate you computer. Fucking stressing me out and shit. I just want to print shit and fucking make CDs but no, you can't even do that for me.

And I just saw a text message from Dallas asking where I was last night. Then I saw that Alexa posted a comment to me saying that she was waiting to see my car pull up last night. Now I feel really bad. Really bad. I'm a piece of shit.

Psycho

Funny how I came how and was about to blog, but Alex called me.

I seriously have 15 dollars in my bank account right now. Tina and I keep conflicting our schedules, even though she isn't working or going to school. I really need money. Bad. She has $240 so that should be good for a while, especially since I'll start working soon. I wonder if you get paid for going to orientation.

I put in 4 dollars for gas today and i felt super poor. Yet I spent like over 6 on chicken alfredo at the MSU. Bryan wouldn't stop talking about it so we got it and we got super full. I ate way too much and I ended up passing out in history of rock.

After school I went straight to Dallas'. Alma said they were on Charleston so I figured they would just take an extra 20 minutes or so longer than I would so I drove slow. I waited at Dallas' for probably... 45 minutes. It was good alone time though to just sit and actually write in my little journal thing. I was watching some of his neighbors ride their bikes and scooters around. The neighbor with the big truck seemed concerned that I was parked where I was. lolol.

Eventually I left and went home and yeah now here. Waiting for Angie and David so we can go have another family dinner for her birthday + my mom's friend, Judy. Too bad I'm still full...... I really want sushi but I'm just not hungry at all.

I just realized that my shirt doesn't even say Daft Punk on it. It says A.L.I.V.E. for their tour name but no one would know that. Whatever. Today was the first time I ever wore anything pink since 6th grade. Oh god. I don't know if I'll ever wear this shirt again forgetting that it just says A.L.I.V.E. on it and that's kind of weird to sport something that just says that. Though, someone from my Japanese class noticed it was from Vegoose and we briefly talked about it. He went on the second day so he missed Daft Punk.

I just realized that my Japanese class is the only one that I actually know the people and get along with every single person there. Pretty much because the teacher has us communicate with each other in Japanese every 5 minutes or so, but not when we're out of class waiting around or we see each other on campus, we do greet each other. It's nice.

There's this guy in there named Oh-san [I don't know his first name], and when he speaks, it sounds so fluent. I thought he was Korean cause I heard this other guy speak to him in it. Maybe he is. But he's amazing. And he isn't bad looking. Then I found out he's 27 today. Why am I the youngest person in there, seriously.

Suliman

It's weird just listening to Infected Mushroom songs. They're really good for like race car game music or maybe for working out. Possibly driving music. It really is such a big difference seeing them live.

I just got back from Alexa's eating all her food, watching Alma burn Alexa and Alex's ear wax, and watching Heroes. Too bad I was more than half lost during the episode. I have to catch up on the last episode of Heroes and the last 2 episodes of The Office. Gah.

I should watch Reign Over Me as well. I forgot I signed up for Netflix. I didn't understand how it worked and I was really surprised when the movie came so fast. It's crazy.

The "debate" in psychology was bullshit. I thought we were debating each other but instead, it was more like a presentation. And the teacher would butt in with her opinion constantly interrupting us. We screwed up ours and she hated us for not having our shit together. I couldn't even read the paper since I couldn't find my glasses.

I was pretty happy that Dallas texted me about playing guitar hero. I know Alma got the 3rd one and I'm seriously so excited to see what's on it. Also the fact that I even got a text. I always get excited whenever someone text or calls me to see what I'm doing. Cause seriously, I'm always the one doing it. And... Yeah. I pretty much have no friends now that I think about it. Or not no friends, but I know most are working or they're not usually people I'd go hang out with as a first person that comes to mind type thing. Although, I really am glad I have a broad range of friends that I can check up on every now and then and catch up with. If I didn't start hanging out with everyone [Alma, Dallas, Alexa and Alex] I probably would be at home every day. Haha. I guess I should start doing that actually but it really is nice knowing you're being thought about. Or just being considered in activities, especially with a different schedule or whatnot.

Oh, and obviously I started including names now cause apparently whoever reads this isn't going to enjoy knowing about my activities with other people, though about them. And Alex showed me that he checks for his name prior to even reading, just to see if he's mentioned in the paragraph. Maybe he was just joking, but I believe it, especially if a post is super long. Seriously, who the hell wants to read all this? It's so long.

Oh and I hope my English professor fixes my attendance schedule cause he totally fucked it up. Regarding to the absence and the super late marks when they were completely wrong. But I guess I have an 88 as of now without all the other stuff he graded. So yay, I'm passing.

AND. I never mentioned this, but I really wished Dallas, Alex, Alexa and Niki a safe trip. I know I said it outloud as I was leaving Dallas' to Niki but yeah. Airplanes scare me.

I sent Alex a text while they should be on their way to Cali, and Alexa texted me back. I texted Dallas to have a safe trip back home but I think he was already home. haha.

Also. I already brought it up to Alex and Alma cause Alma was asking me about if Wayne ever said something about if it was my time of the month if I was ever bitchy to him. That if it was bad that Wayne and I just hung out 3 or so times a week. I really thought we saw each other too much. Not that I was annoyed of him or anything. Just the fact that I didn't want to get like Joannah and Jesse where they'd see each other 24/7 and bicker nonstop. Of course I wanted to see/hang out with Wayne as much as I could, but I was really happy with how we were doing and it was enjoyable nonetheless. Even though we saw each other pretty much everyday at school, for like 5 minutes, it was nice. Like when you finally hang out, it's the longing and time you've been waiting for and you try to make it last or count every minute you're with them. Instead of spending time with them everyday, you might get sick of them. Well, that's what I think. And I think it went pretty well for the most part. Never had anything to fight or stress about. It was always comforting.

Oh, and I decided when I came home, I'd put up my mom's shoe rack thing. She wasn't home to my surprise but as I was putting it together she did come home. She seemed surprised that I was home before her, and actually doing something nice.

I say 'oh' a lot to start out my sentences/paragraphs. Oh well. So anyways, I finally wrote Tiffany and Ron postcards that I made. FINALLY. On Friday. I mailed them out on Saturday so they should be getting them tomorrow hopefully.

Knights Of Cydonia

Okay. Continuing on.

Well, about the dinner at Tofu Hut. I don't think it mattered if I was there or not. There's something about eating dinner with my family that I truly hate. It's either I stay quiet and just eat and listen or I try to talk about something cause I really want to but then I get interrupted. My dad and grandma ALWAYS does it. I'm trying to tell my sister about the Vegoose tickets or something I heard and I get interrupted every fucking time. Do they not hear me talking? Seriously. It's so annoying. I was actually kind of glad to leave cause when I'd think it would be a good time to talk, well it wasn't. Sorry Angie.

After Martian Child we [Dallas, Alex, Alexa & Alma] all went to Swish. Alexa and I didn't eat but the others did. It seems like they got a stomach ache afterwards though. I'm not sure if that's from eating too fast or something was wrong with the food. Weird. Oh, and we were watching this sports competition thing on the Japanese TV. It was awesome just watching. I wish shit wouldn't go so fast cause I was seriously trying to read the names.

After that, I dropped off Alma and went to Dallas'. Then we went to Alexa's. I sat on the couch with Dallas and Alex using me as a pillow thing while watching some guy digging salt. I'm not really sure what was going on cause I was falling asleep. Next thing I know I'm passed out and I wake up cause I guess my mom was calling me. I'm telling her I passed out at my friends house and she starts screaming at me. She's never done that before and it was really awkward how concerned she was. So I had to leave the room cause it got really loud. She wanted to talk to one of my friends to tell them to take me home and all this bullshit. Why I didn't have my car. That I probably have a boyfriend and that's why I stay out late every night. All these things spewing out of her mouth. It was crazy. She's never acted like before and I don't know what made her think that. But I guess I haven't really been home and I don't really talk to her. But it just got really bad and I refused to go home cause she was being such a bitch. I had to calm down so I went outside to just sit and get some fresh air.

Thanks Alexa for coming out and checking up on me. Sorry Alex for snapping at you when I was laying on the floor. Sorry Alexa and Dallas for being a downer.

My back really hurt after being on the 'dog bed' so I tried to straighten out by laying on the floor. I remember passing out on the couch with Alexa for several hours and I woke up randomly and saw Alex and Dallas already staring at me. It was 11:30am. About a few minutes after my mom called me. I just let it go to voicemail and we eventually left.

I got home and after changing, we eventually started talking. It was just bullshit. She thinks I drink every night as well, cause you know, school nights and that's why I'm so tired. I don't care anymore. She doesn't trust me anymore because I don't go home and I go to college and have a car. I'm over it. I'm still mad at her but she acts like nothing has happened and is kissing ass to me now.

I think I spent the rest of the day [October 26] pretty much cleaning. I went to Cathay House for Kevin's birthday dinner. I thought I was late but they just walked right in right before me. Familiar faces. Andrea, Freddy, Sirena, Tyler, Danny and this one guy I totally forgot his name but I rode rides with him at the Stratosphere before. Eventually Chung and Erica came and others I didn't know. Kevin's family was there as well and it was pretty nostalgic when I'd have dinner with Ron's family or something. Especially when his relatives would come visit.

It was cool at first cause I was sitting between Chung and Danny and talked to them. But after we changed our tables, no one around me would talk to me so it was awkward. Haha. And I guess I was the only one who brought a camera so Kevin borrowed it to take pictures with his family and such.

After the 2-3 hour dinner, I went to Alex's. I couldn't get ahold of Arabela and I really wanted to see her cause I haven't in such a long time and I really miss her. Plus she's going to start full time, graveyard, and I'm going to start working as well.

Alma and Alexa eventually left and I guess Dallas, Alex and I just passed out. I didn't mean for that but damnit. We didn't wake up until like 6am. They thought I was naked, but I wasn't. : I was wearing a shirt, damnit.

Dallas left first then eventually I left and wished Alex's mom a happy birthday.

I went to Target first to find my mom a shoerack but I couldn't find one, so I went to the Target up on the 215. Found it and went back to Wal-Mart to get some stuff. Went and waited for Q Mode to open cause I needed to find a skirt for my costume. Nothing. Then I went to Ross and didn't find anything but a shirt. Jessica was already at my place when I got there, so I just gathered random clothes and went to her house. I ended up borrowing all her clothes and we eventually went to Vegoose. We had already missed Lupe Fiasco, so I was a little sad but it's okay. Jessica decided last minute to change into her costume in the car. They didn't even check Jessica's purse. They just gave it a bit of a squeeze and we were in. I don't know why on the ticket they were all pushing no cameras/recording devices/etc.

We get inside and already someone hits on us. Funny thing was, this lady walks up to us and hands Jessica these 3 things and says have a fun night. We were confused, looked at what she gave us... and it was Trojan condoms. The guy ran off. Hahahha. Another guy came to us. Then we find out Atmosphere is just about to play so we go over to that stage. They were quite awesome. I enjoyed it very much. Then we go walk to Public Enemy cause I really wanted just see if Flava Flav would come out. We keep on waiting and he starts talking on a mic telling us to scream Flava Flav then says, 2 more minutes. And at the same time, we hear Cypress Hill already performing so we were like wtf. We keep waiting and they finally start. We ended up leaving after a couple of songs but I didn't even see Flav.

Cypress Hill was just awesome as well. Oh man. Everyone, and I mean everyone, was smoking weed. That's all you could smell and nothing else. I think I got major contact high.

Everyone at Vegoose were dressed up as hippies, or maybe they are hippies. Tie-dyed shirts, long brown skirts, dreaded hair and a dub in their hands.

I even saw some chick dresed up as a marijuana leaf and holding a sign saying Legalize. A lot of people were dressed up so it was just fun pointing out random costumes. Like I found Waldo, and when I said that, apparently Jessica saw one behind me as well.

We walked over to see The Shins for the rest of their set. It was really good and they even dressed up as... I'm not sure actually but it was fun. I really didn't expect them to get as much feedback as they did cause all the other bands were just rap, or at least the ones we watched. This guy tapped me once to get a look at the stage listings and then he tapped me again to see it after The Shins were done. He was super fucking tall. I thought maybe he'd want to hang out with us since we were watching all the same sets and then he eventually just runs off. We kind of tried to follow him but then he stops out of nowhere and turns around probably looking for someone. uhh haha.

We go walk over to Queens Of The Stone Age and then Jessica mentions she thinks she just saw Crista. I was like wtf where? I turn and I see her, Shantia and Dustin. I go walk up to her, poke her and we hug. First time I've seen Crista since the Washington trip. It was so good seeing her. I talked to her for a bit and Shantia and Dustin just left her. So we talked some more, Queens opened up with No One Knows and after Crista finds Shantia, Jessica and I go to the bathroom. Which was totally disgusting. Someone was walking around handing all the women toilet paper. haha.

After we go back to Queens and sit down finally. I text Crista asking if she was going to just stay for Daft Punk and Jessica points out she's right in front of us sitting as well. I text her back telling her I'm in front of her but she just keeps texting and eventually saw us. Jessica and I are just listening to the music and whatnot and out of nowhere Crista comes up and sits next to me. We talk about what we saw at the show and etc. I wasn't really digging Queens Of The Stone Age. They played the only songs I knew in the beginning and everything was just meh.

Crista eventually left. Jessica and I go walk over to Iggy & The Stooges to check them out for a few minutes. Interesting. Haha. Then we walked back over to Daft Punk to wait for an hour in a half with the crowd. I see Crista to the left of us. I don't know why we kept running into her. Then I look to my right, and it's the guy we talked to at The Shins. We kind of glanced at each other and smiled and that was about it. Jessica and I sat down for probably 30 minutes next to other people but people were being bitches and stepping all over us. Eventually we got up and stood for another 30 minutes or so waiting for Daft Punk. We were at a decent distance considering the thousands of people that would be done with the other sets and running over to Daft Punk.

Let me just say, Daft Punk was probably one of the performances that I'm really glad I'm just alive for. One of those once in a lifetime events you just have to go to just for the music. Plus, I've always wanted to go to a rave and that's what it felt like. Everyone was jumping, singing and just enjoying the music. It was amazing. Yeah, Daft Punk seriously just sat there and DJed the entire time, but what else can you expect from them? The lights and music worked perfectly together. I just loved it. I tried to get pictures and got some footage. Oh man.

When they were done, Jessica and I thought we would be smart and run to the car. Except, we couldn't find the car. Haha. The traffic was not all that bad. Tried to get In N' Out, except we took the wrong turn and ended up on the 515. Picked up Jack In The Box on the way to my place, watched an episode of The Office and watched the footage I got from Vegoose. We were both exhausted so Jessica went home and I passed out.

[October 28]

I got up at a decent time, but I had to do a lot of random stuff. Like trying to upload all the pictures/videos and burn my mom several CDs. My computer was just taking a shit on me and I couldn't work with it at all. Plus, my battery wasn't charged so it was aggravating in waiting for it to charge and I go try to upload pictures as fast as I can. I wanted to kill myself.

I ended up leaving super late and when I got to Jessica's, I uploaded everything on her computer. We EVENTUALLY left and go. I felt a bit too dressed up. Blah. I wanted an excuse to wear my boots so I could be taller and I got mixed feedback. I felt gross. lol.

I get there and watch the rest of Infected Mushroom's set. Wow, that was pretty good as well. Completely trance and electronica but it was a band. Guitar and drums. And then I realize who was in front of us. The same guy I was talking about the day before. At The Shins and Daft Punk. What the hell hahahaha. I didn't talk to him though. He probably knew it was us but he kept dancing.

I think Infected Mushroom is better live than when you just listen to their music.

We leave right when they did their encore and go wait for Muse. It was disgustingly packed and I couldn't see over anyone's heads. They come out eventually and opened up with Knights Of Cydonia. Oh my god amazing. Bubbles and huge balloons and popped glitter and confetti. It was just a huge performance and even though I could barely see anything, it was amazing. I couldn't get pictures for shit but I got SOME footage.

We leave and walk around to all the booths. We got tickets to some local band competition going on from 107.9's booth and I get a Daft Punk shirt.

We watch someone get married with all these celebrity look-a-likes hosting it.

This guy dressed up as a girl with this plastic body with hands already touching the boobs on it, comes up to us. And says "Hey ladies, want to make some bad choices tonight?" lawl.

We go over to Rage Against The Machine and sit and wait and watch all the people running to it. They finally start playing and it was just crazy how the crowd got so huge and how everyone got into it even though they were so far away. I wonder how Daft Punk looked. We're not really a Rage fan at all so we eventually leave so we can just beat the traffic and change at home to go to The Shins night performance at The Joint.

At Hard Rock, I lost my ID on the way to pick up my tickets but when we walked back, someone was waiting for me and handed it to me. Thanks so much.

Everyone there was dressed up in the sluttiest costumes, including guys, to go into Body English.

The Shins was just as amazing as the night before. I got a video and really good pictures. People kept poking me telling me how good the pictures came out or how I almost had a good shot. It was funny.

That was it.

And now I gotta find a quick article for my debate in Psychology which is in 50 minutes. Oh fuck.