Night of Pointlessness

I worked Guest Services almost all day yesterday. :P Not a bad thing, really, since I *did* want the experience... and it *is* better than Concession... But of course, it was kinda lonely, and I did screw up twice. Forgot that "Free Night at the Movies" excludes Special Engagements, and I also neglected to ask a customer who changed their address what their new address was BEFORE I re-issued the card. Well hopefully the system isn't stupid enough to send a new card out to the old address... *pray*

Most of the phone calls were either employees wanting to see movies or people that had lost stuff at the theaters. You know what? When you go see a movie, DO NOT bring useless stuff in small bags. People lose the dumbest things-- and you wonder how or why. How do you forget that you have...
(1) an umbrella on a rainy night
(2) a scarf on ANY night in San Francisco
(3) an entire bag of EXPENSIVE makeup
(4) jewelry of any sort

I mean jeez. And then people call about other weird things, like wallets and cell phones, and I wonder how the hell they lost them in the first place. When we don't find them, it's not our fault-- the more expensive the item, the more likely that someone in the theater saw it and STOLE it. Oh well. It's sad to have to be the bearer of bad news, but then, you're the shmuck that didn't keep a better watch on your own stuff...

Oh, and guess who I saw at work? It wasn't shocking, just sort of vaguely amusing.

Lonnie. Hahaha. He practically broke my spine hugging me. He was there with some girl who apparently recognized me from Wash, (probably Presidio too) and Lafayette Elementary. O_O Never a good thing, yo. I hate how my reputation precedes me... and how my memory SUCKS. Well, my number hasn't changed, so I gave it to him for his new phone, but I doubt he'll call. I did remind him about my DVD, but... :P Well, I HOPE I get it back.

Left work after a round of DDR (Did it progressive-style-- a 4 Difficulty Song, a 5, then a 6! I got a C overall, but hey, I PASSED!!!) and went to Walgreen's-- I even went into McKenzie's bar on the way there, since Mom was inside with Helena and Gary (how did I know? I'm psychic). Then I picked up Coyote Ugly (after all this time of listening to the soundtrack, now I've finally seen the movie!!) from Blockbuster (the girl there was so nice; she took the movie off the buyer rack and made it a rental just for me! ^_^). Too bad though, they didn't have any strawberry shortcake bars, my favorite Great-Day snack.

In fic news, I think I'm cursed.

You know how people complain about writer's block? I'm complaining about... I think they're called plot bunnies or something. I have *too many* ideas. I just got TWO new Yu-Gi-Oh fic ideas from out of nowhere... and you know, WDKY started as a plot bunny from "The Joke's On You," and yet TJOY is the one I can't seem to work on. I don't want that to be the case with WDKY since I've been planning it so religiously-- I even plotted out the timeline, for the most part. I'd wanted the fic to be 20 chapters long (nice, long, round number) but then I discovered an entire year's GAP in my story. -.- Being the zealot I am, I can't just say "And the months passed, and..." and make the story just keep going like that. So there's going to be over 30 parts, and that's *if* I can keep it down to 1 chapter per month (or less) for the "year" gap. So, lots of speedy action, there. Good thing I have Janime.biz to tell me what's going on in the original series, so I have some ideas for plot fillers. Doom Syndicate and the KC Grand Prix.

OH MY GOD, SETO KAIBA IN A SUIT! I mean a real suit! he is so HOTT! ;_; Why can't guys like him be real? I mean the asshole parts are, but the handsome rich parts, too? ;_; So impossible to find at my age...

I feel gypped. My hot cocoa has .01% caffeine. ;_; I've been thinking all this time that cocoa is a coffee alternative, and I'll be able to stay awake with it, and enjoy the chocolatey ness, but here I go and read the label (again, Mer is a shmuck) and O_O! 99.9% CAFFEINE FREE!!! ;_; NOOO! I don't care about gluten, but I want my caffeine!! This isn't true for all cocoas, is it??? o_O

Angel and Smallville offered very little in plot, aside from Lindsey's reappearance (this is his second appearance this season, I believe) in the former show. And judging by Smallville's preview, Lana's new interest, Adam, is going to be evil. -.- Big surprise. :P We all know Clark and Lana aren't going to end up together anyway, so whyyyy do they keep prolonging it??? ;_; The teenage angst just isn't doing it for me anymore. Alias on the other hand... I only recorded 15 minutes of last week's episode. *kicks VCR* Where do I find out what happened? ;_;

Okay, so I have to go in a few minutes, assuming I have my timing right. Dad wants me to be at AHS by 11:20 or so, and if I leave the house now, I should be able to get downtown and done with money, BART, etc. by 10:20, leaving an hour for Bart and the Alameda buses. Here's hoping I don't get lost or have a bitchy bus driver again, eh? ^^;; I'm kinda scared...

I'll have to finish WDKY8 while I have the chance; my next day off isn't until Monday (and then Thursday, again). So. regardless of whether I figure out what's wrong with the PHP *this* time, maybe an ad for help *in* the chapter will help some. *shrugs* Who knows? I gotta get goin', yo.

If you're a shmuck and you know it, clap your hands! *clap clap*

'Shmuck' is such a fun word. But don't go around saying it, because it's bad! And if you can't do it with a proper Yiddish accent, you just sound stupid, anyway. I would know. ^^; It reminds me of Smuckers Jam, though... yumm... Jam...

Okay, so I'm back from AHS, and it was actually a very productive day! I'd say, anyway. So Dad pretty much plopped me into the college and career center... which I like SOOO much more than Wash's. Don't get me wrong, Wash's Mrs. Lupis was NICE and all... but Ms. Irvine, though intimidating, had the attitude that I needed to actually get me WORKING, rather than procrastinating. Heh. One thing I love about their Media Center is that it has this cool program called Choice, where it's like taking the ASVAB, a career placement test, and doing a college search-- all at once. You specify the kinds of things you're looking for in a college, the types of majors you want available-- there's so many choices to narrow it down, plus they have descriptions of everything, how much of a degree is offerred, blah blah... it was great! ^_^

So one of the colleges on my narrowed down list was (please don't kill me, Eva) University of Southern California. Dad wants me to stay "local," you see, and local to him is in California. He knows how badly I want to get away from Mom --San Francisco, at the least-- so I'm applying all over SoCal-- and then there's Rutger's. Obviously it's a weighted decision; any school in SoCal, I can live with my Grandparents for free room and board, and simply commute to wherever I go. CSUN is my #1, USC as my #2, and Rutger's as my #3.

Turns out my Grandfather went to USC and got his Pharmaceutical degree there, so I have legacy rights or whatever-- which could mean $$$. Which would be GREAT for a school whose tuition is upwards of $40,000! ;_; I don't know much about their programs, but they DO offer Print Journalism as a major, and Japanese language and literature as a course. Which are two of my "requirements" for any school I attend; I'd especially like a school with a study abroad program, where I could go to Japan for a while, maybe even work at a paper there! That would be such a dream...

Anyway, so that gives me a bunch more to do-- and a lot more money to spend. Thankfully, Grandpa gave me $100-- so $65 is going straight to USC for the application fee (once I get it filled out...) and $15 or so for the CSS/PROFILE from CollegeBoard. It'll be another $13 for my transcripts (ugh, I have to go back AGAIN!) from CCSF and SFUSD... I NEED to have the CCSF credits, even if they screwed me over for SFSU, because I'm aiming for the February transfer student deadline. And I finally emailed CSUN about the foriegn language waiver. So I might hear from them on that, now that I've explained my situation/circumstances in more detail.

O_O This is paranoia! I finally finished with all the Rutger's stuff, and now this! Plus, at the end of the month, taxes and the FAFSA! I have to make it to my next pay period on Very Little Funds, since I have something like 50 cents in there now. I have no idea how it got so low, as I *have* been keeping track of my spending, but still... *wince* The next paycheck will have to go to sending out my SAT and AP scores *again* which is another $40-something dollars.

USC Expenditures (is that the right word?)
* $65 - application fee
* $23 - CSS/PROFILE fee
* $29.50 - SAT scores (rush)
* $10 - CCSF transcript
* $3 - SFUSD transcript
* $23 - AP scores (rush)

TOTAL: $153.50

I don't think I left anything out. But geez, that's a lot for pre-college stuff alone. *sigh* The rush feature always costs extra, but so many deadlines are coming up, so I can't take the chance of being denied based on a postmark. :P

There's still much to do-- finish the application, think about what to write for the personal statements... I'm kinda glad I finally get to write one! The thing I wrote for Rutger's wasn't even that long... hardly very personal, at all. I think I wrote a personal statement in Senior English, but for the life of me, I can't remember what it was about. I'm pretty sure I kept the best of my school papers, so they're in my room somewhere (oh yeah, like THAT'S helpful). I *do* have work tomorrow from 11-615 (BOX!!! ;_; WHYYY???) and I am tired... still, I should find an hour or so tonight to work on my room-- make my bed, at least, put the few clothes I *don't* have in my hamper or the Black Bag of Dirty Laundry of Doom in my dresser... yadda, yadda. I have much to get rid of, too.

Maybe I can find some helpful papers. I should try and get like, a whole week off to get some of this stuff done, but I have a feeling I'd just procrastinate, watch Yu-Gi-Oh and play video games all day. It's what I've been wanting to do for a long time now...

Speaking of which, I still need two strategy guides for existing games, maybe 3 if there's one for Persona 2: EP, and X-2. *dr00ls* I want my next paycheck...