Barker’s Barkings.

Current mood: Contemplative.

Oh boy. I haven’t written in a while, that means I’ve got to do an update.

Where do I start? How about what happened this Saturday.

You might guess it was a Transpo Crazy™ occurance. If you guessed that, you were completely and entirely correct. Good for you.

People on the bus, as I’ve stated before are frigging insane. Saturday night I had some guy continously try to talk to me even though I was actively trying to talk to the bus driver about her five kids and their PS2. She said that her kids don’t use the PS2 anymore and I was explaining how if she brought it into EB/Gamestop, she could get a bit of cash for it.

The Transpo Crazy™ on Saturday kind of looked and sounded like Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt only he was extremely annoying. ( I don’t think Jack Nicholson could ever be annoying. )

He kept asking, rather, yelling at the top of his lungs if I was part of “Transpo Security” because my “pants with leggings that go all the way down to” my “ancels”. Yes, yelling, at the top of his lungs, so that even the dead, outside of the bus, could hear him. He also inquired, as he yelled if I was part of the “Penn High School queer squad.” I wasn’t aware that Penn High School had a “queer squad”, but hey, in the almost seven years I’ve not been there, who knows what squads have formed.

The bus driver thought he was jealous of me because I was talking to her… who knows..

The good thing about this story though, is that unlike most Transpo Crazies™, he eventually shut up.

As for other news, I’m working with my new managers now, Greg is awesome, Jeremy seems a bit laid back and anal retentive, but he’s a great assistant manager. I can’t say much about Emily, our new keyholder, because I barely know her, but I can honestly say that I feel like I’m lesser of a person when I’m around her, I don’t know why but she just puts off this “I’m better than you, and I know it” vibe, that quite frankly scares the ever living hell out of me.

Other than that, you may of noticed tonights (today’s?) emotion is something I’ve never used before.. contemplative.

The reason for this is, I’m trying to contimplate about what makes a person, whom I haven’t heard from in eight months, decide to call me, out of the blue.

I just heard from Sarra (someone whom I used to be extremely fond of), whos now pregnant with someones child. The guy doesn’t seem to care about her as much as he used to, and the reason she contacted me was because a: she missed my voice, and b: because she knew that if she started talking to me again the guy would be pissed off beyond all comprehension.

Now, a little background: Sarra and I’ve always had this electric current-like connection. I can make her laugh with the best of my worst jokes, and no matter what I do, I’ve been able to make her happy, despite all of the things that make her unhappy. She vanished out of the blue one day because she was moving, and she got a new boyfriend (much to my dismay, for as I said, I was extremely fond of her), they’ve been together this eight months, and as I said, she’s with his child. He apparently doesn’t care about her as much as he used to, and now, she needs someone to talk to.

I told her, rather, promised her, that no matter come hell or high water, I’d be there for her as a friend, or as something more than a friend. I keep my promises to those whom are close to me. I always have. Tonight she acted upon that, and called me.

We talked for like two to three hours, and then her boyfriend, or should I say ex, called her for a ride home (they’re officially seperated as far as ‘dating’ goes), and she had to hang up with me, but before she did, she said she’d call me back. Because I’ve got a slight migraine headache, I told her I’d find a way how to drown it ( ie: I’m going to take a nice hot bath in hoepes it’ll release the tension thats causing the pain ).. along with taking two Excedrin. Those two things (coupled with her voice), will probably do wonders for the headache. Hopefully it’ll dissipate like fog when the sun comes out.

We’ll see where the fog goes, and most of all, where this new found rekindled friendship goes…

I’m hoping it will last this time. I’ve missed talking to her, and look forward to talking to her more..

Have a good day/night, whenever you read this, and enjoy the Daylight Saving Time!

-A.

Current mood: Indescribable.

Two days ago I pre-ordered my Nintendo Wii (I was fourth in the line for it.. (I put down $100) I got there at 9:10 AM becuse Kurt took me, as a return I bought Kurt lunch at Chipotle), and James asked me to put down 50$ for his, I did, but after thinking about it for about an hour, I decided to cancel it.

Of course James was quite upset, but the way I looked at it was this: Last time I lent money to someone I thought was a friend I never saw him again. I admit that I know James’ number, and I sort of know where he lives, but the fact I wasn’t going to see him again after yesterdays nine and a half hour shift, for six months, I came to the quick realization that I may never see the fifty dollars again.

However, about yesterday, James basically ditched me last night, leaving me to find a ride home with a security guard. As for why it was because he got so upset about my not putting money down on the Wii for him. I can’t report it because he doesn’t have an obligation to take me home. I however, have an inkling that the only reason he didn’t take me home was because “my loyalties lie else where,” (as he kept saying) and when I was calling around to Joe, Allie, and other various friends, he and his friend who owns plate talk were smirking and I could over hear him saying a few things about me.

I frankly don’t care. I had a rather nice talk on the way home. It was also quite nice not to listen to the same rap music over and over again, for a change of pace.

As for good news, as you can see, we’ve got a new feature up on the Blog, which might get more use than the webcam did. I’m going to go as far as saying the webcam was a failed experiment on my part.

Oh well.

The reason why I added the calendar was because I’ve had lots of requests for my work schedule from people I know personally.

The easiest way I know about going to do this is to use a new function Google Calendar is using, which allows you to put a calendar on pretty much any website. Here’s how it works. I head to my Google Calendar, which you can sign up for here, and fill in the day and times of which I’ll be at work, then the calendar keeps track of those, but will also output the information on the calendar over to the left, therefore making it possible just for me to update one page, instead of updating the sidebar every week.

To check my hours on a desired day, all you have to do is click the time I start work on the desired day, and it’ll pop up a new window with my schedule for the whole day.

It’s quite spiffy. It should also come in handy (at least, moreso than the webcam did!).

As for what else is new, I created a new character in WoW after quickly coming to the realization that Dwarf Rogues racial attributes are close to horrible for end game purposes. I’m now a Human Rogue, on the same server (Lightning Hoof) under my usual screenname, Xehirut. I’m quite happy with the character because he gets a damage boost with swords (which I use), and a Detect Hidden racial as well. It’s quite awesome.

Other than that, not much is going on.

-A.