Current mood:	calm
Current music:	"Hands Held High" - Linkin Park

A Needed General Update
I started working my new job at GameStop last week. First day was on Thursday, 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM, with Peter and Mark. It was rather boring. Since Jesse wasn't there I wasn't really able to learn how to work the register. Instead I re-alphabetized the entire store (man, it needed it) and made sure all the games were in the right places. Not hard at all, but it was hard on my knee when I had to kneel down to switch some of the games. After I was done, I just sort of stayed near Mark and Peter and watched them. I talked to a few people and Peter told me how to look games up on the computer. It seems really weird to me that the entire system is based off a scanner and the F keys on the keyboard. Not touchscreen or anything like that. So I survived my first day and I was even invited to go see a movie with the GameStop Crew (I'm calling them that now) on Friday. I then worked Saturday, a little longer, 4:45 PM to 9:30 PM. The mall closes at 9, but I had to stay with Jesse afterwards and take the trash out and vacuum. Jesse also showed me how to work the register right away, so while I was working I made a few sales. The hard part at first is remembering to always ask for reserves and subscriptions. I forgot twice, but Jesse wasn't that mad. He just wanted to make sure I knew what was important. Once I get the speech down right as I'm checking them out it'll be fine I think.

Shifting from work, I went to 28 Weeks Later with Peter and the rest of the people who work at GameStop. The movie itself was wonderful. It might not have been as great as the first, but I loved it. The people infected with the virus could still run, the virus itself spread quickly, military was involved yet failed, and they had main characters who died. I'm just that type of "zombie" guy. Though during the entire movie there was a bunch of dumb kids who kept running up and down the isle. And I mean entire movie. They would walk down, run up, run down, walk up, stop, go back down...damn. It was very annoying and took a little away from the atmosphere (especially when two of the girls screamed during a scene where they just showed a woman getting up from bed). Ugh. I just wanted to trip them and shout, "THAT'S WHAT YOU DESERVE. I PAID 8 BUCKS TO SEE THIS MOVIE AND I DON'T WANT TO WATCH YOU RUN AROUND." My apologies for the caps. It won't happen again.

Let's talk about school before it's done. I haven't been getting homework of any kind for a week now. It's really strange, even scary. I have to do quite a few final projects for some of my classes. Chair and sculpture in Ceramics, finish my model house in Architecture II, and entire house project in Interior Design. I'll probably be hard at work with these till my finals. That's really all I've been doing. Statistics is basically done and Graphic Design seems like just busy work.

While I'm writing, this new Linkin Park CD isn't too bad. I didn't really think I'd end up buying it, but hey, I realized I probably shouldn't miss it. After all, my first CD was Hybrid Theory and my first concert was a Linkin Park one. Favorite songs off it at the moment are "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day", and "Valentine's Day". But as I write this, I feel I can't leave out the ones that include Mike Shinoda's rapping. "Bleed It Out" and "Hands Held High" are pretty powerful. Overall, it just feels softer and more connected as a whole CD. Although it might not be their best CD out of the now three main ones, it's definitely not their worst.