[mood]: gudder.  sort of like udder but with less curd.
[music]: random coffee shop tunes.
[msn]: Pirate-Slave

Thai wraps are delicious, and night shift is weird.  Bananas are the blasphemous sons and daughters of tree-headed kelpies.

Yeah that's right.  Chef Brian/happy noodle boy moment for you.  If you don't catch the reference... read more nerdy comics.  Back to my original subject:

Night shift is interesting.  Sleeping during the day is surprisingly easy, but...feels so damn inefficient.  Like, why am I sleeping now when I could be cleaning or buying groceries or editing or playing a game? 

The only time I've found it difficult so far was on Tue... Wednesday, I lie.  I woke up around 3pm to a giant SMUNCH noise outside my window (which I try to leave open so that my room is nicer, and then I try to drown out traffic with my high-powered fan, which ends up drying out my sinuses... it's awful, really), so I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.  Away to the window I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters and stared at the dash... yes, dash, of one of the vehicles that has been totally smash¨¨d on High Road right outside our house.  So then, of course, what followed, were:

Woopwoop!!  Weeeeeeeooooooooo!! Weeeeeeeoooooo!! 
of the cop cars, and then:

Weeooweeooweeooweeooweeooweeoo!!!! of the ambulance, and THEN:

HONK HONK!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WEEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WEEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! of the fire truck.  And then there were some other noises, most of vehicles that had to stop/wait along High Road, which suddenly became a single-lane traffic area, which is asstastic because it's such a busy road.  And then there were tow trucks and etc.  And eventually it all went away, but it was surprisingly slow, damn it!

And the accident was just retarded.  Here is a graphical representation of what I saw:

First some explication: Blue thing I'm pretty sure is a truck.  Reddy is a van.  The not sleeping house would be me.  This intersection in question is USUALLY blinky green for the east-west path, but if somebody coming from the north-south road is turning left, then it stops the east-west path.  The dots represend the fronts of the cars.  And the smashy bits represent the smashy bits.

So, I ask you this: how did this happen?  Reddy was turning RIGHT and apparently SUCKING at it, because bluey smashed him?  Or bluey freaking sucks at watching the road (this is the straightest part of High Road, so no WAY did he just turn a corner and ZOMG reddy!!).  I can't think of any other way this could have happened, unless they were going WAY faster than they were supposed to and actually spun way around.

I guess reddy could have been turning left, but that means bluey ran the light.  Still retarded.

Anyway.  Ridonkulous, I say.  And it disturbed my BEAUTY REST.  Grogtastic.

Otherwise, night shift is pretty cool.  It's pretty easy to stay up, and only yesterday did I actually find myself pretty tired.  So far it's been alright; there are some REALLY cranky old people working there at night (like... really cranky.  I won't get into it, but yikes!) and there are also some really cool people (the girl I worked with last night was telling me about a trip to Denmark that she took; was pretty cool).  And then there are people who just don't matter to me in the slightest.  I considered giving you some character profiles, just there, but the internet is pretty big... so I'll keep my opinions to myself.  Let's just say there's a girl who doesn't know who Bilbo Baggins is, and I had to explain my Pi Day shirt like 3.14^¦Ð times (you called it, Al).

Ummm oh!  There is, however, a cool Brit guy and a guy from Ghana that I feel really bad for - he is super interesting and really, really smart, but no one likes him (direct quote) - probably because they can't understand him!  It's awful!  He has a pretty thick accent but it's no where near impossible to understand, and most people at the store just totally ignore him because they can't understand him.  It's nuts.  Maybe I just have a thing for understanding accents... but... I dunno.  It's annoying!  Everyone understands the Brit!  Flah!!

Anyway, he's pretty cool, did some degree in physics at Virginia Tech (and now works at Walmart..?!) and seems to have led a pretty interesting life, even if no one else listens to him about it -_-''''

Ummm... otherwise there is a girl named Natalia who speaks French, though I haven't spoken to her much yet, and a guy named Dan (Brit is also named Dan, annoying) with bleach-blond hair and really, really dark eyes.  He is hilarious and always has something smarmy to say.

Mostly I have found my co-workers enjoyable.  There are some of them who are just totally ridiculous cranky... but that's probably because they are old lifers working at Walmart at NIGHT.

Speaking of lifers, EVERYONE there asks me, "So, what did you do before coming to Walmart?" like it's... the end of my life.  It's SO creepy and weird!

"Er... I'm... a student..?"  (and this is a summer job, coughcough).  Yesterday I was working in one department with a little old lady who is really cute because she tries SO hard, and she was all like, "Oh you should apply to this department because I'm leaving soon and they'll probably give you a raise because you'll be working by yourself, blah blah!"

...yeah, not sticking around, folks.  Haven't told anyone that yet, of course, but... Ho-lee.  What did I do before coming to Walmart?  Well, last year I was making double the wage I am now... and the year before that I was making 1.5 times the wage I am now... and the year before that I was making almost the same wage, but I was also in highschool... yeah...

Anyway.  Then I tell them I'm an Engineering student and most of them are like "oooh la-dee-da" except I get the feeling that most of them don't really know what an Engineer does... the girl I worked with last night actually asked, and she was really cool about it because she just... straight up asked and didn't just let the conversation die with "oh that's interesting" or "oh I bet that's hard" or "oh so lots of math..."

Yeah, "oh so lots of math..." has been the most popular so far.  I don't tell them much about "oh so lots of making up bullshit reports to suit the needs of your class that really have nothing to do with mathematics at all", but I'm pretty sure they're not interested at all.

Anyway, aside from the people at work, the job is actually pretty interesting.  Stocking is boring as SHIT, but store setup, which is actually what I was hired for, is cool.  I got to learn how they move those giant shelves at Walmart.  And no they do not tear tham all apart and move them piece by piece.  While they could, that would be extra LAME for those of us who actually have to move things.

...and I'm not going to tell you how!  Gwaha!

And, aside from the job and the people, during my "lunch" break (Erin insists it is supfast, because it is between supper and breakfast, at 3:oo am) I have been reading The Alchemist (yeah that should be underlined, not italicised, but this is not an important document, so fuck you) by Paulo Coelho (may have spelled that wrong; will check later).  So far it's awesome!  And there are a few people who I really want to read it... namely Erin and my momsy, because it's really... just good.  So far.  Not finished yet, of course, but... it's very inspirational, and extra nice to be reading at Walmart.  And I am learning things. :D

Further, here is a picture I took at Curt's pool.  And yes I built this.  Pool genome: discovered!

Mwaha!

Ummmm... otherwise I have been staying up VERY late today (it's 4:oo pm!) and editing, but now I am writing this instead... very poorly.  I should have apologised at the start.  I am at my 20-hour mark, and didn't get a load of sleep yesterday.  Anyway.

Thank-you very much for reading... I hope that picture I drew of the cars worked out; it's not showing up in my actual blog-writer thingy...

THAT IS ALL.

<3

/mads