Sunday, August 6, 2006

It's a small world after all...
Heh, the otaku attraction for this week kinda threw me-- it's a video one of my friends was bugging me to watch a while back and I never got around to it. Woulda been funnier if he hadn't already told me all about it... Not as funny if you already know what the punch line is *shrug*

I've been up in Gatlinburg over the weekend, which was fun (sorta). We went to this place called Wonderworks. It's this big musuem that looks like it's entirely upside down. I'll post pics later if I can. There was all kinds of cool stuff in the place, but it was so crowded that you couldn't do much. They had software that showed what you'd look like in 20 years, what you'd look like if you were black or hispanic,etc., a flight simulator, giant bubble wands, illusions-- all kinds of fun stuff that you couldn't do because the people playing with it didn't understand the concept of taking turns -_-+

We went to Books-a-Million (yay!) and bought stuff. I bought a new manga,"Satisfaction Guaranteed" by Ryo Saenagi- manga-ka for "Sequence"- and I like it a lot so far. Pretty good for an impulse buy ^_^ I also got the second volume of Chibi Vampire, which was pretty well hilarious.

That was the highlights of the trips. Now, lowlights...

First, even before the trip, I agreed to take a shift at work for a manager whose aunt was sick. I hadn't realized what I was getting myself into. First, the 8 hour shift she wants me to take is until closing, which I don't know how to do. That being as it is, I'll probably slow us down so we don't get out for much later than we should. I also hadn't realized that my mom is working that day, which means I'll have to drive myself, by myself across town, which I have never done before. And the whopper that I didn't realize until Mindy called me was that they planned on me cashiering. If I had known any of that, I don't think I'd have picked up the phone at all.

Let me explain something real quick. I've had maybe two hours register training, tops, and I've had no training with anything beyond simple transactions- I can't do credit cards, credit card payments, returns, or anything else. I can barely remove security tags and clothes hangers, and they want me on a cash register for eight hours. The other thing that's got me worked up is that I'm terrified of being a cashier. I'm too slow and I don't know anything about it, plus if a customer gets mad at me (which is very likely to happen with as many mistakes as I'm likely to make), I promise you I'll break down in tears. Mindy, you can tell me that I should "learn-the-register-it's-good-for-you" if you want, but I really think you don't know how f|_|(king freaked I get over it. It's almost a phobia.

So after I got off the phone with Mindy, I had a meltdown and cried and have been worried sick ever since, which ruined my mood for pretty much the remainder of the trip.

We went to the China Bazaar this morning for weapons purposes. I wanted some throwing stars to hang from my ceiling or something, only to have my parents give me that look. They said, but those are sharp. I'm like, 'Yeah, it's okay, I don't plan on throwing them at myself.' I wasn't going to hang them at eye level or anything stupid, you know? Then I wanted a hari-kiri blade, which they frowned on, too, or a pretty ornamental dagger with a sheath, which they also didn't like. They trust me to pilot a two-ton can of steel at fifty miles per hour without killing myself or anyone else, but they don't trust me with a sharpened dagger or shuriken that I'd have for display purposes only. WTFsk?

Then this morning we tried clothes shopping, which always is so fun (*gags*). I can never find any pants that I like or that fit. Rissa was getting so frustrated she was nearly in tears, and dad and mom were getting frustrated over her not being able to pick anything out, so dad was fussing at her, which wasn't helping. I tried to tell him to leave her alone, that she was trying not to cry and that he wasn't helping, which just made him mad at me.

Overall, the trip coulda been worse-- but it coulda been a lot better.

Anyway, wish me luck with tomorrow. I'm going to go tear my hair out now. *collapses*


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