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05.16.06, 10:29 a.m. :: minor bitching after over a month of silence

look... i'm alive. life has been hectic, what else is new? the spring time rush at work has been ten times more crazy, since one of the other local garden centers in hockessin closed over the winter. this is not actually a good thing. this simply means that more stupid people who don't normally shop at our store have been shopping there and tearing the place apart. being the only one out there "fixing shelves" (such a misleading phrase... it's more like keeping the peace), i tend to go a little crazy.

my days have been full of 8 - 10 hour work days, sometimes longer, because we often don't get to leave work until 8:45pm now. this is just a spring thing, but still, that's later than the last three years have been.

but... i did get a nice little raise, so all the hard work and ass kissing has paid off. i suppose. i mean, money doesn't make me happy at all - it's a necessity so i'm glad to have the security, but it's still nothing i'm gonna throw a party over.

went to court the other day (expired tags, expired license). absolute bullshit really: $25 fine for each charge, and $100 in court fees. i couldn't have just gotten a ticket for that? yeah yeah i know that driving without a license is a moving violation and all that, but if you admit guilt (i.e. pay the fine) then you're given 6 months to behave and it goes off your record anyway. "off your record" being a loosely applied term, as nothing ever really goes off your record. so yeah... i'm just a little ticked off about that. i wouldn't have had a problem with simply paying a fine: in fact i was prepared to pay a lot more. what i wasn't prepared for was the absolutely paltry amount of money i had to drag myself off to the courthouse to pay. the judge didn't even check to see if i'd gotten my registration and license renewed.

waste of time.

and on top of that, needless psychological torture. not many people know this fact too well, because i can fake it pretty well if i have to these days, but i have some pretty severe social anxiety. granted, when the mood hits i can also be fairly in your face & bold, but not very often. i've only recently gotten over talking to waiters and waitresses, for example. "institutions" that i have no trust for (i.e. the dmv or the justice department) are another story altogether.

but that's another story. i've really got to get ready for work, as i need to go to the bank quite badly. it's been almost 2 months since i've gone to drop off any of my paychecks, so i have quite a hefty (four digit) sum sitting in my wallet that i figure is probably better off ... not there.

of course i'm not so sure how much i trust the bank with it either, but they haven't fucked things up too badly for me yet.

meh, stupid work. i had a day off yesterday (and it was fun) but it's never enough. sad.

here's hoping that peak oil comes to pass sooner rather than later so we can overthrow this oil based civilization and rewrite things our way.

be prepared for some major social conflict. (fuck)

erika

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a quick recap:
cryptic overview of life :: 10.31.06, 11:21 a.m.
say whaaaat? :: 09.03.06, 9:19 p.m.
how i spent my summer vacation: russians, pride, and floods :: 06.29.06, 4:30 p.m.
here i am... sort of :: 06.20.06, 1:48 a.m.
born again revolutionary :: 05.20.06, 9:37 p.m.

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