morning!

((She says at 7:40pm))

I was supposed to turn off Asks on Christmas, but I got a couple the other day that I really like, so I guess I’ll leave Asks on until closer to New Year’s Eve? Going to answer them in a bit, but no promises on how coherent they’ll be ((ya’ll that’ve been here long enough know how much I like to answer Asks after a significant amount of vodka eyyy))

Anyway I was thinking of making a mini “mandatory” Monday check-in, esp with the new year coming up and me trying to actually schedule all my new studies and a new project ((I’m going to learn latin & programming in C next year!)), but it’s v boring if I just talk to myself on here. So on Mondays I think you guys should stop by and tell me what’s up with you! Anonymous or not, either one, something that happened to you or a random thought process or a thing you’re hoping to accomplish in the upcoming week! Just a moment where we can pause and collect our thoughts and connect. Whether it’s a “There was a time that” or “This week I’m going to do A B C” or “Today sucks, I don’t want to go to work”, anything goes. Let’s just talk, yeah?

Is that silly? IDK. I just want to get to know you all a little better. And I miss replies. Tumblr feels a bit like a vacuum at times.

I’ll start!

Today I dropped my phone for apparently the last time, because now it looks like this:

The first ten minutes after I dropped it the screen wouldn’t turn on at all, but the notification light would blink. Then it finally powered up to what you see above. ((THE DARK SIDE CONQUERS ALL SETBACKS??)) So this is kind of entertaining, but kind of frustrating, and I’m hoping I can actually wake up on time tomorrow at 4am for work. ((I usually use the alarm on my phone))

Also I called out a customer today over the new Star Wars movie – he came in wearing a Star Wars hoodie, so I asked him what he thought of TFA, and he said “It was great!” I was like “Yeah, I’ve seen it three times!” and he proceeded to inform me that it is available online so I can just watch it at home. I looked at him point blank and said “That def sounds illegal”. He tried to justify it by pointing out that it was on an Italian site, and I said “Yep, still sounds illegal”. My mgr was just looking at me in a CUSTOMER SERVICE CUSTOMER FIRST kind of way, but I was too outraged to listen.

Since I came back to the US I’ve worked customer service & retail jobs, which means I account for every fun thing I do in terms of how many hours it’ll take to afford – e.g. “I want to see this movie, but it’s $10 a ticket, and I make Q an hour, so it’ll take L hours to afford, which takes away from bills X Y Z, is it worth it”. Me choosing to see The Force Awakens three times means that it is worth my investment and worth me cutting edges everywhere I can, because TFA deserves the money, because I want to reward the “corporate risk” they took by not casting a scruffy white male lead.

((every time I saw the movie, Rey meant a little more to me, it was fucking painful by the third time through. when she showed up for the first time that third time I was like MY PRECIOUS BABY IS HERE AT LAST YOU GO YOU BADASS WOMAN))

I want Force Awakens to continue breaking every ticket record ever, and so I contribute to its success in whatever meager way I can. So to hear this guy tell me he was going to watch it illegally was like —– IDK, I just wanted to fight him. Especially when he kept pressing the matter like “I’ll write the site down for you, it’s okay, I can tell you what it is”

I’ve gone severely off-topic, as usual.

Your turn! Talk to me D: ((someone anyone))

((Also please let me know public/private if I’m supposed to post things for everyone to add to the conversation, otherwise I’ll just answer them privately))