Well here it is, Black Friday already. While it may not technically be the biggest shopping day of the year, I’m sure it will still manage to move CompUSA down a few more circles of retail hell. I always swore to myself that I’d never work retail during the holiday season, and yet here I am. Granted, I never started swearing that until I started working retail, but I’d still really hoped that I’d get to miss out on this experience. I suppose it can’t be so bad. I mean, if nothing else I’ll get to listen to eight continuous hours of Christmas music today. So that’s… yeah… *sigh*.
Monthly Archive for November, 2002
Ok, I know things have been a little slow around here for a while. That’s due mostly to the fact that my life has been anything but slow for the past few weeks. In the past month, I’ve had about 8 job interviews, all through the OSU engineering career services. Thank goodness for them. I’ve still got nothing definite, but I did manage to get at least one second interview so far. It’s with the health care company Cerner, but the catch is, it’s in Kansas City. I fly out there in the beginning of December to see their campus and interview, so I won’t really know what I think about it until then. I’m a little worried that once I get out there, I’ll find out that the position wouldn’t even be available until next summer though. That’s already happened to me during several interviews. It seems a lot of companies interviewing through the career services center assume that everyone they interview is graduating the next spring. I can’t really wait that long. I need to get out of this CompUSA nonsense, right now.
Who needs sleep? Today we started carrying Bawl’s Guarana Soda at CompUSA. We got in 75 cases full of wakey-wakey. Naturally, I had to pick up a case for myself and I downed a bottle at work. Bad idea. It was certainly stimulating, but the downside was that all the caffiene energy made it seem like time was passing at a crawl. Nanoseconds dragged by as I stared at the clock on my register. Time never really flies at CompUSA though, so maybe I can’t blame the soda too much. The verdict: Perfect for staying up for GTA: Vice City, less so for passing time at someplace you’d rather not be. It doesn’t hurt that they managed to score the best product marketing tie-in of all time with the “Grab your Bawls and Run Like Hell” slogan.
So apparently, I’m considering switching coaxialflutter over to an all ticket stubs, all the time format. I’ve just gotten to go to a lot of great shows recently, that’s all. Like Sigur Rós! And Sigur Rós! Then, there’s Sigur Rós! I enjoyed the show, in case it wasn’t apparent. From what I heard tonight, I think I’ll really like some of the stuff on their new album as well. It was a nice surprise that I got to go, considering the show sold out within a day or so of tickets going on sale back in October. Fortunately, more tickets were released as the format of the show was changed to take advantage of the hugeness of the Mershon Auditorium on campus. It was still nearly packed, and I ended up being seated fairly high in the balcony but I was glad just to have gotten in at all.
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