Obey Zolac!

Wow, so it's been a busy few days. Time for one of Angela's Super Mega Posts!

( Look under cut for four days of downtown adventures, corn, larping, and two rock concerts in a row. :D )

...Soooo, yeah. I'm still kind of recovering from all that. I'm trying to take advantage of my time of joblessness and get shit done. ...So far I've been moderately successful. But omg I've been getting so much sleep. T_T It's truly wonderful, let me tell you.

Friday I took a couple of buses over to Lauren's house. I had a long conversation with a very nice, cute, and slightly ADD guy named Doug... we talked about Stephen King, books, movies, college, where we've lived, and what we want to do with our lives. Lauren picked me up from the Park and Ride and we ate tacos in her kitchen while her parents chilled in the family room, drinking wine and listening to Metric's "Live It Out" on high volume. We spent some quality time working on Aphelion before Lauren took me home, having to go to bed earlyish so she could go trapping for her kestrel. My friend Becca texted me to announce joyously that she had proposed to her girlfriend, and she had said yes, which was wondrous news. It's a good thing me and Dar were there to help her pick out the ring; obviously it was a winner. :DD

Saturday I slept in real late, then spent some time writing. Around midday Dar and I went to the community center and *GASP!* worked out at the gym. We did 20 mins on the ellipticals, did a sampling of most of the weight equipment, and finished up with a short jog on the treadmills- my first workout in a gym EVER in my life. Which is even stranger than it sounds, as I've been a regular athlete since I was five. I guess I've always been a bit disdainful of gyms, preferring to get my workout doing sports, preferably outside. But it was hella fun. And we've bought a 20-visit pass, so we'll be going regular, hopefully. Afterwards we loosened up doing a few laps in the pool. I climbed the rope again (which is a lot harder after a hard workout, ohmigod), we went down the waterslide, and then finally boiled our muscles in the hot tub as a preventative measure. I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow anyway.

Feeling sufficiently like we'd been pummeled by meat tenderizers and injected with happy drugs, we went to pick up Lauren, whose kestrel-catching venture was a bust, alas. Next week, perhaps- fingers crossed! We showered and ate salmon-salad sandwiches and bean salad, and Lauren and I marathoned the very first episodes of Doctor Who (OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH BECCA). We also watched a few episodes of Snuff Box, which is FUCKING BIZARRE and also amazing and awesome.

Today is also the birthday of Jesse Hajicek, one of my favorite writers. As a gift to him I have written a few shorts and drabbles about Star and Zander, the main characters of his fabulous webcomic, Metanoia (for non-Riversiders, you may remember Star from my pr0n earlier this month). Remember those drabbles I asked for, for my Sekrit Projekt? Yeah, this is them. I only had time and inspiration for four, oh well. If you're interested, here they are (cross-posted to riverside_hq), and thank you so much for the prompts!

( Drabbles for Jesse )

So last Friday Dar, Becca, Ducky, and Jarvis came to pick me up. We stopped off briefly at Burgerville- that place is made of AWESOME by the way- and the other girls ate a quick dinner. I got a lemonade and a salad for later; I was still digesting the massive amount of food from the Epiq BBQ/Call Center Potluck, and allowing my the content of my veins to return to being blood instead of rootbeer. ...Francis brought a keg of rootbeer to the potluck. A KEG. And two gallons of ice cream. I love that man. And also rootbeer floats. I had two of them. ...And then a third cup of just rootbeer. :DD

So anyway after they ate their foods we piled into Jarvis and took off into the wild blue yonder (I-5 South). There was much awesome music and gossiping and Metanoia fiction read-alouds and plotting and giggling and watching of sunsets and spazz-flailing about the gorgeous scenery and trying to identify mountains in the dark and receiving bacon at the rest stop bathrooms. ...It was kind of an interesting experience beginning the drive in daylight and driving ALL NIGHT and reaching our destination in daylight again. Dar drove the whole way like a crazy madman, very very very highly caffeinated. We met some interesting people gas stations, like the farmboys in their barn-turned-Shell who offered free hot drinks with a purchase of gas (code for "free drinks for cute girls"), and the dude in Tiny Nowhereville California at 2 (or was it 4?) in the morning and his adorable friendly dog Malachi (LOL!)

( Cut for my usual incessant rambling. )

...I'm really tired now. I'mma watch some Teen Titans (research! :D) while I brush my hair, and then pass the hell out.

To all my American friends... Happy Independence Day! Whoo fireworks and barbecues and three-day weekend, whoo!

To all my friends from other countries... Happy Amurrican Supremacy Day, ya damned foreigners!! ...Yeah, see this is why we don't have any allies anymore. ...Oh no wait. That would be George W. Bush.

Oh btw, has everyone heard that Sarah Palin announced she's quitting being Alaska's governor? Wtf? You guys should listen to her speech, it is SO WEIRD. ...That woman scares me.

...James wants me all to tell you she says HIIIIIIIIIIIIII~! :D :D

So on Friday I get called in to this meeting, and they tell me and a few other people that because we are just so freaking awesome on the phones, they're bumping us up to Multi-Case on Monday. See, before I was doing multi-case; now I'm doing Multi-Case. Before, I had several cases, and they would add more to my queue every few days, maxing out at a little more than 15 by last Friday. Now I could get a call on any case, theoretically... that's like, 125+... without training. This upgrade in responsibility, unfortunately, does not come with an upgrade in pay. Ah, the life of a temp. Le sigh. They try to sucker us into this by inflating our egos. Among other things, Vince told us we are "the elite." ...IT TOTALLY WORKS. I can't help it that the fact that I'm apparently hella freaking good at my job, and at every job I've ever had (people keep using words like "responsible", "intelligent", and "best"), makes me extremely pleased with myself. ...And anyway, as Vince also pointed out, and as I'd figured out earlier, we've got better job security, and even possible futures working for the company (oh joy). So I left work on Friday feeling pretty smug.

...FYI, being Multi-Case SUCKS. The call comes in, and I'm like *FLAIL* WBRGKZLMNAOACKLGHZ *FLAIL*WHERE'S THE GREETING SCRIPT?! And if I don't fail completely and miss the call, chances are I've never even heard of the case before, so when the caller asks me questions I'm like "A-durrrrrr, wha?" because they know more about the case than I do, and I can only scan the FAQs so quickly, and the caller usually picks up on my hesitation and the fact that I SOUND LIKE A MORON and get argumentative. On top of this bullshit call volume has been high, the calls I've been getting have been REALLY HARD and involve a lot of running around and fetching supervisors and doing callbacks, and I got called in today by the Adecco reps to discuss my apparent recent rash of tardiness (which, as I explained to them, was do to my computer breaking, and also my bus breaking). So, this week has been pretty stressful.

I had an awesome weekend backpacking along the PCT south of Mt. Hood with Richard, near Frog Lake and Little Crater Lake. The weather was off-and-on sprinkling but otherwise decent, and the trail didn't involve stunning vistas, but the trees were pretty. Our campsite was a really nice one under the trees next to a lake, and there were ducks and geeses and things, and a chorus of frogs at night. We did 9ish or 10ish miles each day, and I managed to survive without destroying my legs and feet too terribly badly, or getting too sunburned, or getting too many mosquito bites. :DD

This weekend I'm driving out to the Coast to hang with Lauren, like we'd planned to do earlier in the month, only this time with less fail. Also, Dar's gone home to Hawaii and James is opting to enjoy some alone time, so I'm going by myself. So it'll be just me and Lauren, yay! We make a good Adventure Duo (specifically, Chip and Dale, Rescue Rangers, btw... she's Chip, I'm Dale), I think, because we have damn near identical interests, and neither of us have phobias. ...No offense, phobics. This means that if there are bugs and spiders and starfish and caves, we will fucking revel in them. Revel, I say. >:D ...This is not to imply I do not enjoy Adventuring with Dar and James as well. Because, you know, I do. But. Still. Sometimes it's just nice to be like... SUPER ROOMMATE TWIN POWERS... ACTIVATE!! ...If ya know what I mean. ^_^

Finally, all you people waiting on my beta services, ARGH SORRY ARGH, I just have not had the time or energy for anything involving thinking this week. ;_; I am excited about your stories, and I will get to them, promise!