It's like the breath before a dive, it's like the truth after a lie...

People.

Work was different yesterday. We have a new superviser in Merch, my department, and she's wanting to make all kinds of crazy changes to get us back to the standard operating procedures. Our last sup, Shawn, had different ideas...he was more concerned with silly things like efficiency, and getting work done.

But that's not what Best Buy is about...

Anyways, she's been making lots of changes, including the fact that we now go to chalk talks. This may sound like an exciting discussion about blackboards and the utensils we use to write upon them, but it is actually a meeting where we stand in a circle and get "pumped"...as it were. As this is generally a time to chat about numbers and sales and drives, Merch and Inventory are generally free to exclude themselves.

But no more.

Today our whole crew went, dropping what we were doing in the middle of the doing of it, and we talked chalk. Actually, it was really fun at first. We played a game! Everyone was divided into two teams and then one of the store's sups would say a movie quote and somone from each team would take off running for the movie department and try to bring back the movie that had just been quoted.

At first, I didn't participate, but then when everyone realized I can run at speeds rivaling an ostrich at full canter, I was put to prodigious use racing past everyone and grabbing the proper DVD. This wound up being the best part of the meeting. I got my team two of our three points. We still lost, but I got to feel heroic for pulling our team from behind to tie the game until the last point...

AND I gave BLOOD yesterday! That was fun...

I like giving blood...lots of nice warm fuzzy feelings abound...

I don't see why people get so worked up about needles and the like. It hardly even hurts. I just watched the needle go in and went "woohoo" under my breath just as it hit my skin.

I say this because I happened to go at the same time as a girl who sits at my table in Bio, and she nearly had a breakdown over it all. She jerked when the nurse was prepping her and had to have her arm sterilized twice, and the nurse wound up calling over her supervisor because she thought the poor girl was going to need restrained...

I and her friend kept telling her there was nothing to worry about, but nobody ever listens when you say that. In the end she was brave and went through with it, though, which is good...

The whole process feels a little odd. Your arm starts to go numb after a minute or two but you have to squeeze a little squishy heart thingie to keep your blood flowing. When I was all done was the worst, because the nurse was working on this other woman, and couldn't get to me for awhile, so it was like, "Um, excuse me, I'm bleeding into a tube here. Could we make that stop now?" It's not a bad deal, juice and trail mix for a pint of blood, I just didn't really want to lose more than a pint...

AND I get to look like a veteran of battle with my orange bandage. I wore it until a few hours ago today...even through a shower, because I didn't feel like taking it off...

The nurse told me it would get me sympathy and attention from girls, but I got none. Probably because I tell people I just watch the needle go in and laugh.

Yeah, so that was yesterday. Woot.

PSA: Give blood! If you can and aren't scared of needles or anything...

In other news, I'll have some fiction up soon. Sorry for all the delays...the first bit of Cain is finished, and my teacher really liked it, so I'll post it tomorrow, and then soon after I'll post Downfall, a bit of flash fiction continuing the story of a character I wrote about in an older story called Rainfall. There are actually going to be four stories about the assassin...Rainfall, Snowfall, Windfall and Downfall, buuut you won't need to read them in order or anything...

AND maybe I'll post some of the fairy tale stuff I've been working on...in addition to a few stories based on existing fairy tales, I'm kinda writing a new one, but more on that later.

I'll also return to blogging out of my devotions. I'm still writing, it's just been going into my journal instead of here...I also have to lead BOTH bible studies next week because Dave has gone off the deep end slacking wise. Or he's really busy with school. So...there should be no more of these pointless blogs...or else they'll be fewer and further between...

And I need a new job.

Best Buy has cut my hours down to almost nothing...and almost nothing is not a whole lot.

Later, emus, cousins to the wise and noble llama.