Well, I haven't updated in a while... I've been busy.

I am working at Captain D's, and let me tell you, it's quite hellish.

I've got lots of back stories to tell, but let me just describe tonight.  You know, when you have to work 4 until close, you TRY to get things done ahead of time.  So, this fat (well, that's a given, they all are) black (well, another given, this is Petersbrg) bitch (another given) and her fat black bitchy daughter come in, and they cause me all kinds of trouble with their substitutions and bullshit like that, and then gripe about the price, as with any usual customer.

So after they finish gorging themselves with the greasy crap, they pop the lazy, undeserving (but *coughcoughblackcough*) ho working the dining room a measly $2 tip (which they aren't supposed to do) on their filthy table.  Now, the ho is off blabbing on her cell phone, and I don't have all the time in the world away from my register, so I simply MUST wipe and sweep this filthy table because I don't want to do 16 of them at the same time at the end of the night.  So, I take the $2 off the table, and, with it still in my hands, I walk over and just as I am about to interrupt the ho's precious phone conversation, this fat bitch runs back in the store and screams at me about stealing her scuzzy, dirty, wrinkled money.

Riiiiight.

So I tell her to fuck off (well, as much as I could without setting her off to the point she'd tell somebody else) and I go wipe off that table and about two others that were still sitting there DIRTY (that probably had tips on them also at one point).

No "gee thanks, didn't want any customers just walking by and grabbing the money as they so often do" or "oh, my, you ARE right, I shouldn't have been a dumbass and left my tip on the TABLE where anybody could have got it, I should have given it to the dumb bitch directly".

I should explain that I *NEVER* work the fucking dining room, though that's exactly what I was hired to do (I don't know why, I hate people, especially the ignorant masses that populate this area).  I have to sit there and use that stupid cash register which was made, at the latest, in the early 90s, and take orders from complete idiots who can't decide and bitch and moan and whatever else you can imagine.  All this while the rest of the store falls apart around me, and I'm stuck cleaning it all up when the store closes at 10 or 11 (depends on the day).

So last saturday, the planets were aligned JUST SO, and I had "D-Room" written next to my name on the slavery log.

Black people claim white people are racist all the time, but... gee, they don't give other black people any grief... they tip black people, but never white people... hmm...

There weren't enough nice old white ladies, so I didn't get many tips, even though I did 5000x more than the other bitches, as usual.

Oh, and did I mention they get paid almost a dollar more than I do?

I'm ever-tempted by new stores popping up, like the EB Games, but I have to remind myself that they are (in the case of EB) even skuzzier than Capt. D's, or that they are probably just hiring seasonal help they plan to give the heave-ho come January.

I'm not sure this really gets read anymore, since everybody seems to have ran to Nutang (I always like to pronounce that like "nut-ahng"... like "nutting".. lol... anyway)

I ordered me some burfday presents.  First, I used a nice lil' $15 coupon EA sent me to order "The Sims: Makin' Magic" which is supposed to be the, what?  7th "last expansion pack"?

I headed awn ovuh' to Play Asia and purchased Final Fantasy X International with my $5 coupon.  They didn't have Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission for preorder... I don't think they do pre-orders, but in any case, I saved some cash for when that comes around.

I'm not sure what else to get yet, I managed to grab about $140 from cards this year; add that to whatever my paychecks were, it's not bad.  Plus I have a $150 rebate that I have to send in pretty soon, lest it expire...

YES!  I finally got the "Mascot" dressphere in Final Fantasy X-2.  That means I now have a complete set of the dresses... just not mastered.

I spent like an hour today beating Anra Manyu.  Bleah, finally, I got that done, I had to actually restart the game from Story Level 3 and replay it to get "Episode Complete" in all locations (missed reuniting Dona and Barthello the first time... ick).  So, finally, after much work, I have the Mascot.

I still have plenty of sidequests and crap like that to do, though.  I hope you can transfer the dresses using "New Game+" to the International version and have them in English... because some of them are really terribly difficult to get.

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Well, as far as the hurricane goes... it knocked power out for a day... then we got it back... and it disappeared again... and came back.

Other than that, it trapped us here.  As you may or may not know, we are surrounded by very thick woods, with the only way out being the driveway... and the woods pretty much fell over... all over the driveway.

The morons at Captain D's don't seem to understand there is NO WAY OUT other than walking.  They keep insisting I'm trying to just get out of going to work.  PLEASE.

Anyway, enough of that.  Some relatives from New York came down to help cut us out... tomorrow we should be done, and I can go to work.  Working 4-close.  Damn.

::plays with the Mascot sphere some more::

I skipped English class today... I didn't do the "I'll-never-assign-you-creative-writing" creative writing assignment.  I hate making up stories and that kind of bullshit.  I especially am not going to share them with a bunch of strangers in some class I've been in for like, a week.

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After sitting in the parking lot and finishing up some homework... I came home and worked on Final Fantasy X-2.

So far, I have mastered...

Yuna: none

Rikku: White Mage

Paine: Black Mage, White Mage

The rest of their AP is kind of... spread out all over.  But, I am trying to get Yuna to master White Mage and Lady Luck, Paine to master Samurai, and Rikku to master Dark Knight... Yuna and Paine are fairly close to mastering WM and Samurai.

Some of the dresses are tough to master, because they are just so utterly useless.  For example, utahime (Songstress).  She can't attack, and each dance or song takes forever, so, getting AP based on each move you make, it's slow learning things.  There is a Result Plate... err... Garment Grid... that lets them attack, though, but their attack power is so low when they whack the enemy with the microphone, it goes *clink* and does about 70 damage (at level 45).  Bleeeah.

Well, it's still fun to learn the new abilities and try them out.  It'll be a loooong time before I get "Mascot", though.  That one requires all Active Links in Story Level 5 to be completed... that's a whooooole lotta tedious sidequesting.  Some of the bosses for those Active Links have recommended levels in the 70s, and as I mentioned, I'm only at Level 45.

Lady Luck's EXP x2 ability isn't helping much, either.

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I guess I'll go to bed now... gotta get up early and see what grade I got on that horrible Art History test.  *sigh*

By the way, anybody from Branch's Art History class remember the "Venus of Willendorf"?  Heh heh... that was on the test.  I'll never forget the "Venus of Willendorf".  Gross.

Of course, it also had the standard crap like "the rape of so-and-so" and "the agony of whatsherface".

I got to Story Level 5 in X-2 today.  I missed about 1% of the story, though.  Oh well, I can just try again with New Game+.

Of course, no sooner had I got to Story Level 5, then Square announced Final Fantasy X-2 INTERNATIONAL VERSION.

My first reaction was "fucking hell..."

But then, I realized, it is supposed to have English text and voices, just like FFX International, and I realized I could just skip the US version altogether and get X-2 International + Last Mission, which has all the neat extras, like the new Psychic dress and the Last Mission game, plus the English voices and text.  At least, I hope it does.

Then, I was like "huzzah!".  But a conditional "huzzah!", that condition being that... they include English text, at least.  I don't see why not, like I said, because X did.

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I'll write about work later... it really pissed me off, but I'm too tired to talk about it.