so it looks like some jackass is taking time out of their pathetic life to cruise some of the GLBT related web comics out there and posting 'fanfic' of the characters within the comic that are gay being brutally beaten and/or shot by himself. i first heard of this person/occuring when the gal who does YU+ME and Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space did an LJ post about it. and not too long after that, the gal who does Simply Sarah got something from them as well. sigh.

sadly, this person has been at the whole GLBT hate fanfic thing for quite a while since their livejournal has been around for about a year. of course, like most hate crap, it reads like it's written by a preteen that doesn't know how to use grammar or spell check even if they were on by default.

it just makes me sigh and shake my head... and you got to love that he hates christianity and says the bible is full of lies and deceit but still love to use it as 'proof' that God hates teh GAY. seriously, dude, if you're gonna quote something, don't say it's full of shit and expect me or anyone else to buy your bullshit. it's like the prime example of counter-fucking-productive. it's just...fucking sad...

so before we get to the good, let's trudge through the bad.

- ( that guy's asshole was puckered so tight, you could make diamonds! ...yeah, work grumbling... )

- ( man, south bay courts/city halls must LOVE getting my money... )

...i think that's all i have to bitch about for now so now to progress to the good shit.

- ( yay movie day and half-assed reviews! )

- FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES. ( g33k g4m3r grrl squeeing ahoy )

only other thing i have to report is that after training today, we officially saw that we had campers for the iPhone outside our doors. small group but DANG. they like had a complete set up! i saw a monitor at least but i didn't linger around to see where they were getting power or what they were hooking the monitor up to. i just hope they don't roast too much tomorrow. i totally should've gotten a picture of them though... maybe i'll get one tomorrow... XD

groo~ i've been meaning to LJ for a while but either i was too tired, lazy, distracted by school work, distracted by a movie/tv show or distracted by a game. take your pick. so here goes the digest version. first, some good news...

( *does the FUCK YOU dance in Fry's direction* )

( *does the happy celebration dance in Apple Store's direction* )

( ugh...a year already? )

shit...birds chirping, sun rising. sleep needed. to be continued...

so you have to love that Edgar Wright is rather "huh...this is news to me," over the whole thing. leave it to FOX to throw the news out there without even consulting the original creators first? n.n;

in other news, zomg earthquake! a delicious 5.6er centered here in the south bay. felt it pretty darn strongly in Palo Alto, which is a few miles north of the epicenter. i was highly amused that none of the customers (yeah, i was at work) were really phased by it. hell, i don't think any of them really felt it. THEY JUST KEPT SHOPPING. darn Silicon Valley-ans or something. n.n; left me feeling kinda dizzy/lightheaded for the rest of the day but that's about it. only one thing fell over in my room so i was relieved. apparently, the poor cats kinda went nutso during the quake then hid under beds and such for a good while after. poor Toboe was still a bit wide eyed even when i got home from work at 11:30. but hey, at least the pressure on that fault is relieved and at least it happened YESTERDAY instead of tonight when all the kids are out.

dinner with Erica was very pleasant and i was happy she enjoyed the food from my favorite restaurant, Gochi. XD tried a couple of new things: the sweet corn tempura and lychee mousse. i love sweet corn. i love tempura. putting them together is just awesome. basically stripped the cob of the kernals, dipped them in the tempura batter, then fried as a corn ball of sorts. very good. the lychee mousse though...MMMMM. the wonderful taste of lychee without having to feel like you're eating an eyeball. SO GOOD. a lot of the other specials looked really good too but i ordered some of the 'regulars' that we generally get. Erica muchly <3'd the yakiniku kimchee meishi, as she rightly should. X3 possibly driving up to SF tonight to hang out with her s'more before she heads back home. still need to find a bowler hat. groo~ =_=;

Hellgate London is out and shiny as evar. i still need to go pick up a copy and am hoping that Fry's was able to get theirs though it kinda worries me that i didn't see our Fry's put up their copies when we were closing last night. =/ oh well, gonna check the SV store first anyways. paying the founders fee for lifetime subscription? very likely at this point. :3

so it was a somewhat stressful day at work with us being a few people down. closing was oh-so-fun. but even prior to that, i got a real winner of a customer on the phone. i don't remember the conversation word for word but you'll get the jist of it.

Me: Fry's computer department, this is me, how can I help you?

Customer: Hi, I needed some help with a laptop.

M: Okay sir, do you have the model number of the one you're interested in?

C: Oh, I'm not sure which one I want yet. I just kind of want to see what my options are for a decent laptop without spending too much. There are some features I'm specifically looking for.

M: Okay, unfortunately all of our sales people are currently busy at the moment but I can assist you until one of them is free. What features would you like?

(I really don't know that much about the specifics of computer innards and have no problem admitting this. This is why I have other people build my computers for me. Of course, it'd probably help if I were to help along with it. Anyways, yeah, I'm so not one of the actual sales people who get the shiny commission. Dah well.)

C: Well, I want it to have Vista Premium and Microsoft Office.

M: Alright, well just about all of the systems come with Vista Premium or better but as for Office, they do come with a trial version of Office Word but not the entire package.

C: That's fine, I can purchase it and install it myself. How much does it run?

M: Unforunately sir, they have all software in their own department so I'm not certain what the price is.

(So at this point, I was about ask about what version he wanted and looking it up on the computer once I got the item number...but apparently, the fact that I didn't know it RIGHT NOW really offended him or something...)

C: *irritated sounding* Well, you sound pretty nonchalant about that. Are you going to help me or not? I mean, I AM the CUSTOMER, y'know?

(I *think* I might've sighed juuuuust a bit when I said that I didn't know what the prices were so maybe he took that as me being exasperated or something? Of course, it might've been due to the 2 other phones ringing, multiple customers lining up at our help desk with NO ONE ELSE being there, not even a supervisor even though they're SUPPOSED to be there, and the fact that I still had about 50+ pages of sales ad signs to do for the department... JUST MAYBE.

Anyways, I figured I'd let him vent and then I'd go on about saying that I can look up the price once I know what version he wants and blah blah blah...but NUUUUUUOOOOOOOOO!!!! Instead, I get this...)

C: GOD. WHY DON'T YOU GET OFF YOUR FUCKING LAZY FATASS AND FIND IT. *CLICK*

M: ..... *click* :D?! *goes about helping other less fucktard customers and doing signs*

Apparently, the guy called back a few minutes later and my supervisor picked up the call. I was told I got called a great deal of things more than fucking lazy fatass and he just kinda kept rambling on angrily to the point where my supervisor was just like 'Look, we're kind of shorthanded here and I'm sure she did the best she could to help you under these circumstance. I really don't appreciate the disrespect you're directing towards her.' And this is the supervisor that generally people have issues getting along with. I'm not buddy-buddy with him but I do my job so it keeps me on his okay/good side.

Anyways, getting back to the asstard, these were my thoughts on it:

1) Dude, I fucking WISH they'd let me sit down while typing on the same computer for 5 or so hours so I could get off my fucking lazy fatass to get you your information. Alas they don't. Pity.

2) Who's the fucking lazy fatass who can't be bothered to WALK HIS FUCKING LAZY FATASS into the store to see the products for himself? POT. KETTLE. BLACK. Unless you have a debilitating illness or are otherwise handicapped, CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER, TIMBERLAND.

3) Even if you don't have a ways of getting to the store, there's that whole INTARWEB THING, y'know?! God, what I would give up if customers actually took the time to do a bit of fucking research on their own before calling/coming into the store. And I'm not talking just computer innard shit. Like the whole 'What's the difference between an MP3 player and an Ipod?! :D?!' CHRIST WITH A HULA HOOP!

Just...fucking ARGH. At least I got complimented on my help just a few hours after that call. I've been told by many a coworker and supervisors that I'm really good at customer service, and I do my fair share of work and then some at Fry's. So yeah, I got a bit miffed after being called a fucking lazy fatass. It just sucks because the Holiday/XMas season hasn't even started yet and already we're getting shit like this. It really makes me want to NOT work during the fall but I don't really want to give up the benefits I earned after working there a year already. Meh...

Fucking customers.

in other news, i caved about bought Brain Age 2. it was on sale for $17.88! :D now i can see how old my fucking lazy fatass brain is! \o/

(no, i'm not gonna let that go for a while.)

so i'm pretty annoyed now. mind you, i was already kind of annoyed at my mom prior to now. basically, my dad had phoned up and asked whether i could watch over Kouji for the weekend since they'd be away. i said sure. of course, this is the week i picked up extra hours at work, namely closing hours. so i figured 'hey, i'll just bring him over to our house for a bit. he can run around with Toboe and get fed. no biggie, right?'

apparently, my mom views Kouji as a Tasmanian Devil of a cat. i admit, yes, he's rather spunky and rambunctious but he's not a terror or anything. anyways, i bring it up with her and she's all 'ZOMG NO! TOO MANY CATS ALREADY AND HE'LL RUIN THE CAT AMBIANCE!' or something to that effect. i'm like 'he's not that bad anymore (he really isn't, he's a lot tamer than when he was still a kitten) and it'd be easier for me since i have the extra shift tonight and if i leave him there, he won't eat til like 11:30 or midnight. unless YOU would rather go feed him.' she responded by saying she'd much rather do that then have him here for all of 2-3 days. fucks sake... so that irks me and so i huff off with a remark of 'gosh, FINE. i might as well just sleep over there too.'

so i go to work, finish around 11:15, deposit my check then decide to check up on the cat. he still had food in his bowl from the morning but i go ahead and give him a bit more anyways. i start watching Little Miss Sunshine as i missed watching it before and by the time i'm done, it's 1am. i check his water, litter box and do a sweep of the house, etc then head home at around 1:15 or so.

all i want to do is get the fuck out of my monkey work suit and zone at the computer. what stops me? THE FUCKING FRONT SCREEN DOOR IS LOCKED. grumble. fine. doorbell. wait... ... ... ... doorbell. ... ... ... ... ... call mom's cell. ring. ring. ring. ring. voicemail. ANGER. DOORBELL. ... ... ... ... ... slap windchimes in hope of SOME response. ... ... ... ... ... consider going fucking Hulk and just ripping the bitch off the hinges. ... ... ... count to ten. starts to cut hole in screen. works on this for 5 minutes or so so that i can squeeze my hand through to unlock-*CLICK* PROFIT!

so yeah, FUCK THEM if they want to bitch about there being a hole in the goddamn screen door now.

time to go empty some clips into some Bane on Tabula Rasa.

y'know, some people look at Die Hard and say 'oh man, not ANOTHER one.' but you have to realize just how DIE HARD it is to come up with a sequel to follow one that had Samuel 'Badass Muthafucka' L. Jackson in it. it's DAMN HARD.

while it didn't have the same level of bickering as Die Hard with a Vengeance did, LFoDH is still very good. and WOW at all the actors/actresses they pulled into it. Kevin Smith, Cyril Raffaelli (Damien of District B-13. and yes, much parkour he brought to the movie), Sung Kang (Han of Better Luck Tomorrow/FatF Tokyo Drift)... Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Gwen/Royal Pain in Sky High) as Lucy McClane was TOO PERFECT. that girl can do good angry. :3 Maggie Q had the silent but deadly beautiful asian kung fu girl role. meh. Timothy Olyphant does crazy weirdo again but is better dressed than he was in Scream. not quite as menacing as i'd like a Die Hard villain to be but again, it's hard to follow after Alan Rickman AND Jeremy Irons. i mean, they have evil in the voice only. Timmy can definately do creepy but i dunno about evil. ah well.

either way, many laughs were had, much cringing and OOOOH! at deaths and body impacts. McClane is still crazy as fuck but hey! he got to keep his shoes again! :D if you liked any of the other DH's definately see this one in the theatre. it runs pretty long but it keeps your attention very well.

too bad the evening kinda ended on a WTF note. -_-; we were just a block away from muimi07 and stormdragon's place when some dude started crossing the street as our car approached. okay, fine, he needs to cross the street. ...or not. suddenly, we have this latino guy, saying 'Wassup, homes? Whatchoo want, eh man? Norte muthafucka!'

... *sigh* thankfully, the guy didn't start really beefing with us and actually attack the car but dude...what a bad night to try to pick a fight/defend his territory. i mean, c'mon...gangster vs car full of people that just saw John McClane use a car to kill a helicopter. not the best idea evar. i guess i can kinda understand why he's doing it if they've had problems on 'their turf' but meh...

oh well. grasshoppers (the drink) are yummay! it's like drinking liquid mint ice cream! :D

WARPED TOUR TOMORROWZ! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! PARAMORE LIIIIIIIVE!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!! XD

also, the ending for the Nodame is WEEBLE. XD must get the del rey releases for the manga... *_*

so...i guess the fraud protection section of wamu called my dad's place on saturday to try and verify some charges i made. i figured 'oh, okay, this might be the reason why all my transactions are being declined.' for whatever reason, i've only gotten the message from stepmom today about it so i call up fraud, verify everything and everything seems hokey dokey. except for the part where my shit is being delinced. they tell me to call up just the normal wamu customer service to see if they can clear things up...

...so i am now calling wamu customer service. they seem confused as hell as to why i was told to call them since they see postive funds in my account and things should've cleared when i talked to fraud. he puts me on hold to do whatever customer servicey magik he could, in the end, saying that i should give fraud a call back since there's some kinda fuckin' memo or some shit attached to my account...

...so back to fraud with me. they go 'UH BUH?! :D?' at me being sent back there, saying that it's something internal and they're external, so get back in touch with internal, which can be found at *ding* you guessed it, customer service~. i make sure they look at the memo thingy, and i get the equivalent of the 'nod, smile, prs go deal with this elsewhere'...

...so back to customer service. i get the same dude on the phone. he 'DURRS' over it for a bit then just decides 'i'll just send you a new card.' whether or not this will magically fix things, i have no idea but i'm thinking NOT because in order to order shit online, i need to TYPE IN the damn number, not swipe it or anything. so we'll see wtf happens. he told me to try using it just through ATM since it'd be more secure but...wtf-ever.

such a waste of good money earned from a horrible 17hr shift, followed by 6 continuous days of work. maybe i'll hit the ATM and see if i can just pull everything the fuck out. -_-

here, gtonizuka, me amazon wishlist, ds style.



i guess to be specific, the ones i crave the most would be Touch Detective, Contact, Trauma Center, Castlevania or Elite Beat Agents, but i'd be happy with any of them. :3

actually, what i really crave is Hotel Dusk but it ain't out yet. ;_;

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oh, and blackberry74 and/or ayacchi, if by some miracle i actually have a day off to go to Dickens Fair, i'd love to dress up but as muimi07 called it, i'd of course love to go drag a la Tipping the Velvet but even tho TtV is Victorian, i dunno if it'd still be 'in character' enough for Dickens. iirc, TtV takes place during the 1890s so it'd be late Victorian and Dickens is more 70s and before, no? :x

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watched the first half of Evening With Kevin Smith 2, which was filmed in Canda (eh). fairly lol so far but not nearly as much as the first one. second disk was filmed in London so we'll see how that turns out.

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Dear WaMu,

CLEAR MY FUCKING CHECK PLZ. I deposited the fucker on friday waaaaaaay before closing time so my monies should be good now, yes? I'd like to spend more of my very hard earned money from Black Friday hell, if you don't mind.

Stabbida'ing You Muchly,
Me

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Dear Construction For Hwy 101,

Y'know, it'd be handy dandy if you'd actually put up signs or some big flashy lights of sorts a couple of blocks BEFORE the exit I want to take to get home so that I know the fucking ramp is closed. I don't even know WHY it was closed considering you weren't doing SHIT on it. I only saw you doing crap on exits a few miles down so...yeah...wtf?

Wanting to Shove a Caution Cone Where The Sun Don't Shine,
Me

well, after an 18-1/2hr shift, i actually don't hurt as bad as i thought i was going to. oh, i still hurt PLENTY, i'm just not on the verge of tears or anything. n.n;

ugh...good lord, y'know, like every other asian, i love sales. they are wonderful things and you can score really awesome stuff for low prices at times. but SERIOUSLY. waking up at 3AM to line up in the FREEZING COLD (yes, there was ICE ON MY WINDOWS. i know California's are somewhat wussies when it comes to cold but ice on my windows has to count for SOMETHING.) to buy things that are limited to only 1 per customer is just...beyond my comprehension. the line went from the front door, out to the street and around the building to the back parking lot. i was just...BEFUDDLED at the sheer showmanship of CONSUMERISM.

anyways, long story short as possible, the first 3 or so hours went by REALLY FAST. i had the soundtrack for The Endless Summer II playing on the compy speakers and it was on the countryish sounding song used when the boys were trying to ride ostriches in Africa. THE MUSIC WAS PERFECT. my GAWD, the FEEDING FRENZY. apparently, a small brawl of some sort occured in the game section but damn if i couldn't hear it over the commotion in my own aisle as flurries of people asked me where so-and-so mp3 players were, are these the speakers on sale, where's the SD card that comes in a bundle with this PDA, WHAR R UR IPODS?! :D?! etc. etc. after about 6:45, things slowed dramatically in comparison as most people were done and were now standing in the line that curved all throughout the store. there were small rushes here and there and i did my best to keep the sale items in stock. think i did a decent job of it save for those first couple of hours.

i actually had two 1/2hrs breaks on the clock then a 2hr break off. each break was SO VERY SAVORED, and i was able to nap a bit after getting something to eat during my 2hr, though i was still very sleep deprived. i think i got maybe 4hrs of sleep total last night, give or take. the catered food was bleh. donuts, milk/oj/coffee for the 'breakfast' break and sammich fixin's for the lunch one. i kinda would've rather brought my own LO's from mom's Thanksgiving dinrar or gotten a sandwich at the cafe but eh...guess i can't bitch too much about free food.

( speaking of bitching, rant about a coworker ahead... )

bleh, overall though, the day went pretty well. it's kind of a good thing i'm at the PA store rather than the SV one because i'm sure that one is fucking HELL to work on Black Friday. i'm sure they get a LOT more customers than we do. and the customers were really polite for the most part. if anything, there some language/heavy accent barriers but that was about it. a lot of it was me just directing people to where stuff was so...all good. OMG NEXT PAYCHECK WILL BE SO MUCH LUFF~ <3

ugh...now to sleep. the supervisor tonight said that the people that stayed behind later could come in an hour later since we stayed til 1. i think i'mma take him up on that offer. z_z

i'm really, really, REALLY getting fucking tired of people 'trying to be nice' and avoiding conflict by just ignoring the issue while i'm trying the best i can to make things work, then at the last minute, people pull out. FOR FUCK'S SAKE, JUST SAY IT. i might get pissed, depressed, start crying or a million other things but i've gotten to a point where i'd just like it right between the goddamn eyes.

IF YOU THINK WHAT I'M DOING IS A BAD IDEA, SAY IT.

IF YOU THINK IT'S NOT THE RIGHT TIME FOR ME TO CONSIDER GETTING SOMETHING, SAY IT.

IF YOU THINK YOU'VE HAD A CHANGE OF HEART/MIND, FUCKING SAY IT.

just so goddamn frustrated with EVERYTHING right now. god, if i could just stop giving a shit...