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Friday, October 17, 2003 Today I am feeling: groovy 
Books I am reading: The Shock of the New Robert Hughes Human Variation Stephen Molnar Who is Black? F. James Davis Literature of the Western World Brian Wilkie/James Hurt A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf Games I am playing: Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings [online RPG] I crossed picket lines today to buy something at the local Albertsons. Or should I say, I walked by 2 slow-moving people holding picket signs. One of 'em tried to give me a flyer, but being the smarty-pants that I am, I already know everything, so I declined. I went to the store for 2 reasons: One, as a matter of principle and Two cuz I refuse to shop at my regular store cuz it's overrun with wimpy-wimps who are scared to cross picket lines, so the parking lot is too full and I'd have to wait in LINE at the checkout. Grrrr ... they're a union store, anyway, so shopping there would just stuff the strike fund anyway. So, I went to the strike store, or more correctly, a store that had "locked out" the union workers (yay for them!) Plus, as an added bonus, it was in the same strip mall as the Subway sandwich place where I bought lunch, and as a double-bonus, they had some great bargain sales. For some amusement, I've been reading a message board of bickering between strikers and the people who oppose them. Who's the whiniest? YOU decide! I do have to say though, that I got GREAT customer service at the store from the scabs or non-union or whatever they were people: They thanked me for coming in, they were smiling, helpful and could actually do the job! Wow! Amazing! Hehe. Erm ... yeah. Like scanning stuff is hard, hell even I can do it so I know it's not hard (yes, sad but true, I have actually worked as a checkout clerk ... but NOT a union one.) The thing that amuses me most though, is that by rejecting the offer, union employees have pretty much guaranteed that they will either lose their jobs or that the next offer will be something like lower pay, no benefits and no pension. The days of employer provided perks have ended, it's the 21st century now, a global economy, and we have to compete against not only Wal*Mart but China and Mexico! I have no problem with picketers standing up for what they believe, but dudes, take off the blinders and let the light of reason shine in. Oh, and quit sitting around munching chips in the parking lot, you're supposed to KEEP MOVING! Hehee.
[ 3:11:00 PM ]
Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Today I am feeling: antoinetty 
Books I am reading: The Shock of the New Robert Hughes Human Variation Stephen Molnar Who is Black? F. James Davis Literature of the Western World Brian Wilkie/James Hurt Games I am playing: Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings [online RPG] I had a crappy day today, mostly because I decided to be nice to people, but yannow, people are assholes. I had to go buy gas, and there was a line, so I'm sitting there waiting for the person in front of me to finish with the pump, and as she's leaving, some old couple in a U-Haul, is motioning to me like they needed to get by, so I think, ok I can pull forward a bit to let 'em by, so I do, and they STEAL MY PUMP! Damn them! So, I go try to go over to the pump they were by and some asshole zooms in and steals that one too. Grrr ... so, I just leave the gas station cuz I'm kinda in a hurry to get to school for some stupid lecture thingie. So, I go out to school, and drive around and around trying to find a parking place, and I finally give up and decide to leave, and as I'm driving out, I stop to let a pedestrian cross the street and the guy behind me gets pissed cuz I had the GALL to stop for a pedestrian (it IS the law in California to stop for 'em) and he zooms around me and almost runs the poor girl over. Asshole. Then, I go toward home and I'm thinking I should stop and get some lettuce at the grocery store, but oh wait, there's a strike going on at my usual store, so I decide to be nice and go to another store that the strikers say we should all shop at, so I go over there, and the damn parking lot is completely full (and this is a store that used to have maybe 3 customers max in it at a time.) So, I decide to go to McDonald's instead (they have salads there yannow!) and some old homeless-looking man is outside begging for money, so I decide to be nice (which is rare, usually I just ignore them, but I was on a mission to be nice and actually have someone be nice back) so he asks me if I can spare some change, and I say no, but I'll buy him a burger if he wants one, and he says yes ok. Shock. Huh. Usually they decline so I figure they're just drunks, but ok, I offered, so I go inside and buy him a $1 burger and a $1 bottle of water (yeah, I'm cheap) and give it to him, and he thanks me, then he follows me out to my car and keeps saying "How can I thank you?" and I'm thinking, "How about you STFU and go away?", but I just say "Just say thank you, that'll be enough", but then he keeps bugging me and following me (and trying to get behind me, but I'm not THAT stupid.) Then some old dude comes outta McD's and tells him to leave me alone and he did long enough for me to get in my car but then he comes up to it and I just call him an asshole through my window and leave, I was tempted to run him over, but I don't have time to deal with the messiness of that right now. <evil grin> Anyway, the moral of my story is don't be nice to people cuz they'll screw you over. I think I'll just go back to being my usual mean nasty self and ignore as many people as I can. Or maybe I'll go harass some picketers at the grocery store. In other news, in my typography class our current assignment is to pick a word and make the word look like what it means by manipulating text. One of the words I picked was guillotine because, well, I'm twisted and it was in the dictionary. Plus, it's supposed to be an "action" word and I thought, gee what's more fun and exciting action than a beheading machine? Yeah, ok, I know what you're thinking. But get over it. Anyway, while doing my idea brainstorming I was searching the 'net to find pix of guillotines so I could get an idea of how to make text into a guillotine (not an easy task, I might add.) So, I figured, I'm pretty caught up with homework so I shall make a new smiley, since it's been quite awhile since the last new one ... so, there ya go, a smiley who's out of his head! And it kinda goes with my mood of being quite pissed off at people today, so ... off with their heads!
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Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
Monday, October 13, 2003 Today I am feeling: amused 
Books I am reading: The Shock of the New Robert Hughes Human Variation Stephen Molnar Who is Black? F. James Davis Literature of the Western World Brian Wilkie/James Hurt Games I am playing: Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings [online RPG] I went shopping today, or should I say I went on a futile scavenger hunt. I need to buy a blank Halloween mask for my art class, and I went to five different stores, and found nothing. Grrr ... my only other option is to go way downtown to the shop the teacher told us about, and with my luck they'll be out of them. Anyway, while I was driving all over town trying to find what I needed, I realized that there are a lot of grocery stores. How did I notice this? Because there is a strike going on and picketers were everywhere! I was tempted more than once to stop, cross non-chalantly in front of the picketers, go inside the store, buy ice cold drinks to quench their thirst on this warm sunny day, take them outside and taunt the picketers with them ... "So, tell me, how badly do you REALLY want this soda? I bought it inside the store you're picketing! <beam>" then if they took it I could call 'em a hypocrite loser who should look for a real job. Yeah, I hate unions, especially unions for people who would be working minimum wage jobs were it not for the greed of the few who "fight" for their privilege. I don't understand why someone who only works part-time in a grocery store thinks they deserve full medical benefits for free, in addition to wages that are double what non-union people get. Now, I have no problem with people getting "fair" wages but upwards of $14/hour for a grocery checkout clerk (starting pay) is just stupid. I mean, people at McDonald's work harder than that and they get $6.75/hour and no benefits for part-timers. Maybe McD's should go union! That'd cure the obesity problem in the USA. In other news, I was listening to the radio and they were talking about clones and bots and stuff, and a thought occurred to me: Would God love me if I was a clone? If not, then I guess clones would be lucky cuz the Christians would leave them alone! Also kinda makes ya wonder, if people create clones and don't "love" them, then why would God love his creations? We might just be clones to him, after all, we are "made in his image", right? <evil grin> Of course, I don't buy the whole God thing anyway, but if I was God, I wouldn't give a flying fu ... erm ... pig about those silly whiny annoying humans, but it might amuse me in a twisted kinda way to see them fight over who's right and who's wrong about me. In cat news, I went to McDonald's today and got a veggie burger meal with fries, and while I was away from the table, my cat filched a french fry from the box, took a bite, and promptly dropped it on the floor and went and ate some cat food. Mayhaps kitty knows best. Hehe. Tomorrow for lunch I shall have "Nature's Best" dry cat food for lunch!
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Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
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