Mortal Friends On Sale Already!...and other thoughts on quitting my part time bookstore position

I didn't realize this was on sale already! I read an Advance Reader Copy way back in February. I was in Barnes and Noble and picked it up. Now that I've quit the bookstore I won't know about things like that anymore. Or get advanced reader copies.

The last perk I got was this:



A handy little book to have around, more detailed than the Zagat restaurant guide. Even so, I can't imagine not using the internet in conjunction with the guide. If I'm going to put so much thought into find a place to eat that I'm looking through a book, I'm also going to double check with Google.

Frak it Friday: La Roux's Armour Love (my new fave song!)

Seriously listening to this over and over again. And also have the day off, so this may or may not be it for the day!

[Note: changed the outline of the blog because, ugh, posting pictures and videos is my life, and the old outline was too small. No big deal.]

Temping is apparently kinda like casual sex

...or at least that's how you should approach it.

[Via my new favorite website, The Frisky]

SNL Skit: Annuale

Every time I see those Seasonale ads in the women's magazines, I cringe a little. Four times a year? Really?

(Its also nice to see Tina Fey!)

Working retail will ruin you

I've quit my retail job and once more, I am left hoping that I have left that world for good. Because retail ruins you.

The company treats you like shit. They pay you very little and are paranoid that you're either committing time clock fraud, stealing merchandise, or stealing cash from the register.

If you are sick, you might as well come into work because you will get written up if no one covers your shift. Tough luck, its only excused if you have a doctors note. And the corporation doesn't insure you.

They will hear how many hours you want to work and over/under schedule you by at least ten.

My desk job encourages those who are sick to stay home. No one freaks out if you aren't working every second or go to the bathroom. And its nice. I could get used to it.

Happy Gay Pride!

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Surviving the Digital TV Transfer

I think most of us made it through the transfer. I mean, it is kind of a mind fuck: the idea that more than a million people who have televisions plus antennas may have been left without a service that they had the day before? A service that warned them of service weather and emergency situations, as well as provided (usually sub par) entertainment?

But congratulations, America. Most of us made it. It's only the technophobes that got left out of the loop. And who cares about them, anyway?