Ridiculous!
People bought the most ridiculous amount of stuff at work today-- we're talking 70, 80, even 100+ dollars worth! Over the past few years I've worked the day of the the day before every major holiday, and today was ten times busier than I've ever seen before.
I'm really surprised by how seriously some people take Valentine's Day. One of my coworkers was going off about how she was going to be SO upset if her boyfriend didn't get her anything. This is nevermind the fact that he had already brought her out to dinner this week and *was* planning on getting some kind of fancy dessert for their get-together tonight. Mind you, this girl's kinda out there anyway, but I heard the same "my wife/girlfriend would kill me if I forgot to give her a card/some chocolate/something today!" from plenty of guys. Reason #19795 why I don't normally like other members of my gender. Get over it!
As far as I'm concerned, it's just another day and I'm not just saying that cuz I'm single. If you really love and care about someone, you shouldn't wait for a fricken corporate driven holiday to show that. Oh, but don't get me started-- this was a super-popular conversation at work today, so I've been through it a billion times! lol.
I worked from 8-4, and it went by really quickly. The first few hours I got to do stuff away from the register, but from 12 til the end I was trapped at the front because it was so busy that we had three registers going pretty much the whole time.
I was gonna go do research right afterwards, but I was so tired I decided to come back to the apartment instead. I did, I ate, I layed around for a little while. I headed to URI eventually, but didn't end up at the microfilm reader. See, I'm thinking that if I really am going to turn my research into articles or something eventually, it would make sense if I finished them in chronological order. I did take some notes on stuff after Lincoln's death, but I stopped and jumped to 1901 shortly after. Beginning to take notes on 1865 again isn't the problem-- what bothers me is that I don't know a whole lot about the whole kidnapping/assassination plot, or even much about JW Booth. Sooooo, I've decided I should learn about it so I have something to ground my own research in, and I started looking for some books tonight. The URI library has a shelf of books on the Lincoln assassination (as opposed to a whole freaking section on the JFK assassinaton!), including some which I've seen referenced in other books, so I'll have to look into those. There must be a way to check out books from the library even though I'm not a student anymore, I'll just have to ask someone about it when I go tomorrow or Thursday.
Retail slave by day, historian by night. Love it, hehe.
I'm really surprised by how seriously some people take Valentine's Day. One of my coworkers was going off about how she was going to be SO upset if her boyfriend didn't get her anything. This is nevermind the fact that he had already brought her out to dinner this week and *was* planning on getting some kind of fancy dessert for their get-together tonight. Mind you, this girl's kinda out there anyway, but I heard the same "my wife/girlfriend would kill me if I forgot to give her a card/some chocolate/something today!" from plenty of guys. Reason #19795 why I don't normally like other members of my gender. Get over it!
As far as I'm concerned, it's just another day and I'm not just saying that cuz I'm single. If you really love and care about someone, you shouldn't wait for a fricken corporate driven holiday to show that. Oh, but don't get me started-- this was a super-popular conversation at work today, so I've been through it a billion times! lol.
I worked from 8-4, and it went by really quickly. The first few hours I got to do stuff away from the register, but from 12 til the end I was trapped at the front because it was so busy that we had three registers going pretty much the whole time.
I was gonna go do research right afterwards, but I was so tired I decided to come back to the apartment instead. I did, I ate, I layed around for a little while. I headed to URI eventually, but didn't end up at the microfilm reader. See, I'm thinking that if I really am going to turn my research into articles or something eventually, it would make sense if I finished them in chronological order. I did take some notes on stuff after Lincoln's death, but I stopped and jumped to 1901 shortly after. Beginning to take notes on 1865 again isn't the problem-- what bothers me is that I don't know a whole lot about the whole kidnapping/assassination plot, or even much about JW Booth. Sooooo, I've decided I should learn about it so I have something to ground my own research in, and I started looking for some books tonight. The URI library has a shelf of books on the Lincoln assassination (as opposed to a whole freaking section on the JFK assassinaton!), including some which I've seen referenced in other books, so I'll have to look into those. There must be a way to check out books from the library even though I'm not a student anymore, I'll just have to ask someone about it when I go tomorrow or Thursday.
Retail slave by day, historian by night. Love it, hehe.
posted by Erica at 9:23 PM
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