The Ways of Third Shift

That seems to be all I've been doing lately is work...

Work and sitting at home for the three days they gave me off... but it's not as useful as it once could have been , those three days, because the world is unkind to the third shift world. It really is like it's own separate world with it's own set of rules and schedules to follow and some things are really easy to adapt to when you live near the city like I do. For instance around here I CAN go shopping at 3 am... as long as whatever I need to get can come from a Walmart because it seems to be the only store open at that time. Fast food is easier to find, but I try not to do that...

Now a days I'm more content with a sandwich on tortilla bread with lattice and tomato... but that's off topic...

 Also if I plan on going to see my family in the next state over I have to plan for the next two days, like where am I going to crash at 2pm so I can keep up my schedule? And if I don't want to do that, how am I going to keep myself awake in order to drive home? And IF I do that, how am I going to be able to get myself back on track for work the next night? It's more complicated than I would like it to be and gets more complicated when my boyfriend comes with me. Then we must worry about TWO schedules being messed up... gahhh...

Sometimes I think I should just go back to day shift, take the two dollar pay cut, and do whatever they need me to do... though they would probobly make me a cashier again and I REALLY REALLY don't want to do that. Being on third shift has lowered my tolerance for stupid people (if I ever had any tolerance to begin with) and has completely crippled my ability to hide my distaste for the general public... probobly due to the fact that I now can say whatever I want to who ever I want and they do the same thing. It's a level of honesty that you can't get any other time of day in any other job.

I started writing about it too... or rather the people I work with. They are a riot though I find it hard to explain to people WHY they are funny. I guess it's because most of the stuff I find funny about them is on a  "You had to be there" basis...

That's not a bad title for it... hmmm...

Pretty soon my life should get more interesting and I hope to write more often. I've been in a writing mood lately and I'm half way done with my Iris/Alexis novel that I have had scratching at the inside of my head since high school. I have also started looking at my notes from my long going Valamere project that I have started and finished and stopped and continued too many times to count... but I have an idea and I think this time I've got it... And when I do start it I am going to stick with my original plan of basing most of my characters off of people I know... or knew when I started Valamere, but with a whole new plot.

Very excited for whats to come!
Not so much about going back to work tomorrow....

Higher State of mind

I don't understand how people can be so stupid.

I know that as an aspiring psychologist I should have the same amount of respect for people as I do everyone else, but I can't I just can't. I have tried, but every time I think , "OK, people aren't THAT bad" someone comes out with a forehead slapping, mouth dropping, drooling out of the side of your mouth response. Like the woman who asked me at work today- "are you open?" my reply: "...yeeeessss..."

We were standing at the front door. INSIDE the store...

Then there was the woman who wanted an additional $100 off a tv that was being sold for half its original price because it had been a floor model so there was no box, no remote, and no way of getting a service plan. I said "no ma'am because they are already marked down because of the condition you would be buying it in." 
Her reply: "but there's no box or remote." 
"Right, that's why it's marked down."
"but there's no remote, I should get another hundred dollars off."

Honey, if you have a $100 remote at home- feel free to hook it up to this tv.

Why do people have to be so argumentative about stupid stuff? Sometimes I think I should just walk around with a stack of papers that say "her's your sign" and just pass them out instead of face palming myself because of stupidity. It would save me a lot of aggravation. Not to mention a permanent red print on my forehead. 

Maybe we should stop worrying about global warming and start pointing our efforts to trying to cure stupid...

maybe that will be my goal as a psychologist.

So I thought : "hey Jen, how come you don't write in a journal anymore?"
And I answered "Because I'm always on the computer or on my phone."

Ta-da! Answer to my lack of writing issues. Not that this is a diary and not that anyone is going to read this but if I feel I need to say something someone may one day decide to say YES! I want to read some random person's thoughts! I might as well write it down.

Not that I am anywhere near interesting.
I don't hold a candle to Plato or Socrates...

What would life be like if they had blogging? What if they could use Facebook or twitter? Hmmm.... now there's a thought.

But in any case here's the start to a lot of poetry, random thoughts, nonsense and craziness that no one will ever read. But I do like questions, silly comments and inquires so maybe I will get them and answer them on here. I have been poking around an idea in my head... something about starting a "Dear Abby" kind of online thing. Practice for my almost B.A. in Psychology. Might as well start thinking about actually using what I know.

Maybe.

What do you think online universe?