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• James
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• Winter 2001
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• Neon Genesis Evangelion, .hack//SIGN, Naruto, Bleach, Beck, Peacemaker Kurogane, Ranma 1/2 (the guilty pleasure)
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• Visit the myO friends I've missed thus far; complete a cosplay from 300
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• Can recognise most quotes from almost any movie/show on first listen; Can recite the entire 12 days of Christmas by memory
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
A buncha funny stories . . .
Sunday night, stayed up way too late reading all about how Rosie O'Donnell doesn't know how to keep her mouth shut. It's amusing, in a slightly sad kind of way. Any other night this would've been fine for me, except . . .
Monday morning, I had to get out of the house before 8am so I could go to the passport office for my brother (who'd be in school). So giddy from lack of sleep and with a iPod charged for 15 minutes (d'oh), I was off.
A bit of explanation . . . those of you not in Canada or the US, our border has recently gotten locked down a whole lot this year. Before it was okay to cross if you had a birth certificate, citizenship card or something to go across the border. Now, it HAS to be passport. Thus, right now, there's a whole lotta people getting passports. Lines are long . . . . .
And then I saw the passport line that started outside the building's door. And then I saw the line go around the corner. And then I saw the line snaking around the little courtyard area. Damnit.
Oh yeah, it was raining, too. So I listened to iPod for about an hour, feeling cold, switching umbrella-hands now and then so I could pocket the other hand fairly . . . then iPod died at about the 1 hour mark. Luckily the 1 hour mark is also about the same time that you start randomly chatting with people around you. You all talk about how it's cold, how the line sucks, and basically anything else that'll be funny. You do this for the next hour, learning about how the one woman's toes are gonna be really cold in bed that night and her husband'll have to put up with that and her cold butt . . . baha. Someone came with free coffee randomly, though, so that was cool.
Into the building, more lines, less rain. One hour later, they give me my ticket to wait in the "sitting down" room queue. I started "Memoirs of a Geisha" there . . . quite enjoying it, and am looking forward to reading more of it now that the ochibi-chan has sanctioned my reading in that one little room where I do all my reading (I was hesitant to since it's not my book, you see).
So yeah, brother owes me BIG time . . . ESPECIALLY since I paid for it with my Chinese New Year lucky money! I mean, paying for a passport with lucky money? Almost as bad as paying for GAS with lucky money!
Four hours altogether, that whole passport ordeal. I was lucky it wasn't any longer, though, 'cause I had to go to work right afterwards. So yeah, very light snack-lunch, hauled ass, got to work . . . and this is where funny story number two comes up . . .
The Richmond Superstore is on a big main street in Richmond; intersecting that road is a smaller street that goes directly to Superstore. This smaller street has 2 lanes: one that goes straight and right, and one that goes only left. Well, as I drove to work there was a car from the left lane driving straight, next to me . . . someone not paying attention to the rules . . .
Yeah, it was a driving school car. Furthermore, it was a car with only one occupant; it was the instructor! Hah, shows what it means to be a Richmond driver . . . . .
Next funny story is after I swiped in to start my shift. I was in the office when a manager paged, "Code 77 to the ramp, code 77 to the ramp..." You see, "Code 77" basically means, "I need back-up, there's a shoplifter or something." Immediately, all the supervisors light up and get into ass-kick mode . . . I followed even though I'm not supposed to (it was just too funny).
Guys got away, but not with much if anything at all . . . they dropped two toothbrushes, a chocolate bar, a small bottle of milk, and a TAG body spray. Oh, the milk and the TAG were in the guy's jacket . . . and yeah, he dropped the jacket when the security guy grabbed it. Other guy lost a shoe.
So think about the logistics: two toothbrushes, a chocolate bar, a milk and a body spray for a JACKET and a shoe? These are not smart people . . . and don't forget, it's raining outside . . .
I didn't learn about this until later, but apparently about 5 minutes later a couple girls came to the host and told him that "their friends lost a jacket and a shoe here, and that they wanted to get them back."
Wow . . . . . stupidity everywhere . . . . . host calls out security guy. Security guy tells girls that their friends were caught shoplifting - girls are shocked, fake or not. Security guy tells girls that if guys want their jacket and shoe back, they can talk to him.
Girls leave. We hear no more of this incident anymore. We instead laugh.
"Heroes" was badass tonight, too.
So Monday got better after all.
Yesterday I did squat all. That was nice.
"300" coming out on Friday! And yes, that is the movie about the Battle of Thermopylae. I'm excited - I've even cracked out my Herodotus to read about it (Classical Studies = win). Good times . . .
That'll be all for now, I think. Later!
{{{(>.<)}}} (o.o) \(^o^)/
(Get it? It's Hiro! Haha . . . from his "blog" on the NBC site)
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