2004-05-08 - 10:15 p.m.

Aaaand my hours got cut again. So I took the store's Plan B seriously this time and spoke to Mr. Dick, the head manager; he very nicely told me he wasn't sure about the schedule for the sackers, but I could speak to Jeff Lereaux, the head cashier on Monday and find out more about it. Whew! At least I have a contingency plan in place now. Just have to see if it can be executed... I don't mind sacking at all, really; I've done it before, when I was working in the other store. In some ways it's a little more exciting than working in the bakery... you get to see what everyone is buying, so you learn a lot about them: do they have a baby? Kids? Pets? What kind of pets? Is someone on a diet? (Or should be on a diet?) I think I remember reading somewhere about a college class in Urban Anthropology, which helped train college students to be archaeologists by having them comb through bags of trash and write up a profile on what this family might be like, based on their trash.

Maybe it's a little too exciting at times: I'm thinking of when I was sacking groceries for these three rather wierd Italian guys wearing Armani suits the way most people in the store wear jeans and tee shirts... and who kept giving me the eye (so I gave them back my well-known impersonation of an iceberg!), and kept chatting up the stodgy Italian cashier I was working with... After they were gone, she looked at me and said, in a dead serious voice, "I know what you're thinking: 'She's got connections with the Mafia'." I was watching my back for a week after that!

Finished up writing a fanfiction based on the "A.I." RPG: kind of the back story on this French dictator/regent who's one of my characters in an AU campaign and his affair with a young lady film student... who has no idea just who she's fallen in love with at the Cannes Film Festival, 2155. I finally came up with a title for it: "A Cannes Festival Virgin". The idea literally jumped out at me when I was looking at Howstuffworks.com's page on the Cannes Festival and I spotted a hotlink entitled "A Cannes Festival Virgin's Guide". Very fitting title if you asked me! Don't know if I'll type up/post this fic anywhere... I'm still thinking about it...

Oh yeah, and I think I was talking earlier about signing up to help beta-test the software for the new "Matrix" Online RPG. I won't be doing that since my computer doesn't quite meet the minimum system requirements. OUCH! Oh well... I'll survive!

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