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So last week was busy busy busy--Cori stayed w/ me for the week and we had a lot of fun---it was good to spend time with her---I miss my special lunchbox. She made me two mixed cd's that are awesome too! So yeah, lotsa shopping, I had my hair colored--it's waaaaaay too dark, I kinda hate it, but I'll go back in 4 wks and get highlights put in and make it lighter. What else did we do? Saw Life Aquatic with Steve Zizou--very good, hilarious, in fact. And Thursday night we cooked dinner at Matt's and played video games all night. And I got a carpet burn on my elbow :( Hehehe.
Friday night was Sonya's New Year's Eve party--that was chill. I drank way too much though. I was pissed cause the young'un didn't show--but sorta got over it real quick, oh well. It was good to see everyone-Binx, Kathleen, Clay, Josh etc. Even Matty put in an apperance, albeit brief. So yeah, I drank too much, and passed out on Sonya's bed. All I remember was talking to these guys who work with Binx about that ho-bag Jane Bell and how much they hate her, and then somehow I put on pajamas, walked outside said "I'm goin' to bed Josh" and then I crashed on Sonya's bed in my hoodie with my hand around one of the dogs--cause they had climbed in bed with me and my cell in the other hand. And at some point, someone crawled into bed w/ me, I thought it was Sonya, but when I woke up at 7 with a huge hangover, I saw that it was Cori and Sonya was on the floor. So yeah, I got up cos I had to go be at work by 9, and Sonya wakes up and she was like "Josh is asleep on the sofa" which was funny. Right, so I took a shower, said bye, got to work early, Lynn was 10 min late, and I started throwing up like every 15 minutes...and I mean, throwing up so hard that it came out my nose. I didn't know how I was gonna make it through the day, cos I was beat up. Lynn was really nice to me, anyone else and I prolly woulda been in trouble.
So I'm sitting on my lunch, trying to suck down some juice, and Lee was in there, talking to me, and I heard this weird noise--like a pop! and then hissing and then Marilyn buzzed the mgr's office, I ran to get it, and she hung up, and that noise continued--so I say to Lee "what the hell IS that?" and I went to open the door, and when I do, I hear Marilyn over the intercom saying "LYNN LOOK AT THE CEILING!" and I see smoke billowing out of it over the cooking side, the sprinklers are going, and people are freakin' out. Mass chaos. So I turned around, yelled at Lee to grab my cell phone, and I started herding people out the emergency exit--cos the escalators were sorta getting some splashback from the sprinklers--then Lynn starts paging me overhead to clear the 2nd floor, check the bathrooms, do this do that--I mean, technically I was 2nd in command, so I cleared everyone out--they were like "go thru the emergency exit? but the alarm will sound?" DUH YOU MORONS, It's a fucking fire, you want it to do that, that's the purpose. And then the other people were like "But I want to pay for my books!" well, tough titty. So we cleared everyone out, I yelled at Greg to grab a DAS and do roll call outside with all the employees while Lynn was on the phone w/ the fire dept, and she and I had to be the last out of the store. I'm like "we gotta hurry cos the chandelier is filling up and we're gonna have an electrical fire." So we grabbed our stuff, and she was like go thru the front door, I'll take the back door, which meant I had to wade through the water--ok which was not quite ankle deep, but the sprinklers were still going--I finally get out of the store, and idiot customers are trying to get in, Sally and I are like "WE'RE FUCKING CLOSED". UGHHH. So the fire dept gets there, they shut off the sprinklers, and the nightmare began. Let me tell you that I sobered up LIKE THAT once I saw that smoke. All the employees were laughing cos I was sooooo hungover, I mean, my head was low, and man, once that emergency happened, the adrenaline kicked in whooooo. They were like "damn, you were barking orders at us, no joke!" I was proud of myself for taking charge--Sonya was like "that's the stage manager in you" So yeah, the fire dept just thought the sprinkler burst, like malfunctioned, but I saw smoke, like a LOT of it, so maybe it did and it hit the wiring, I dunno. So while Lynn was on the phone with the Minnix, I called Scott and Jon and Matt--I'm like "Matt, uh we sorta had maybe a fire and um your dept is underwater." He's like "shut up" "No matt, i'm not kidding" "HAHAHAHAHA" so yeah, we had to try to salvage what we could, but Matt estimates that 90% of his stock is gone, plus it took out the power aisle, mythology/essays and regional and clearance and calendars. It sucked. We had to basically squee-gee the floor to get the water out--it was nasty. The ink from the books ran, there were some books that were blank cos all the words were gone. It looked like a giant squid exploded. I told the Minnix that we had our own Tsunami and he laughed. So all afternoon Saturday and into the evening we cleaned the store up, the carpet was nasssssty, i mean, it's basically a large sponge, and the water had spread into even the back of the cafe up toward business/games/gift. I left on toward 6 to go to the movies w/ Travis, and when we walked to our cars, they were still working. Matty called me around 12 and said that we were gonna open on Sunday as usual. Yesterday sucked--the store was damp and we had like 20 fans going, the carpet was still nasty and mushy, and the cleaning service came back when we closed to do an overnight w/ Dana and Lynn. I was off today, so we'll see what it looks like tomorrow. All the books are in the break room, molding and rotting and stinking. It's such a waste. The best part was when one Clay Aiken book was sorta floating in the water, and the giant endcap stack was sorta perilously close, I wanted to "accidently" push them in. Oh no what a tragedy ALLLLL the clay books were damaged. damn. Lee tried to pick up the one in the water, and I'm like "NOOOO don't touch it! It's ART now!
So another interesting thing---when I got to work yesterday, I hear this voice go "hey girl" and I turn around and it's Jackson...he came to get his job back--cos he started his new job earlier that day, and the bitch manager basically was yanking his chain and as he's filling out his W-2 forms, she's like "you're not worth my time" so he walked out and came back to get his job at B&N, so Dana hired him back on the spot. I don't know how I feel about that--esp since he started telling me about how he was so sorry he punked out on me again, we'll you're off the list Jackson. I gave you two chances and you blew them both. That's it. Later in the day, he started talking to me and somehow he started telling me about being hospitalized in a mental institution when he was in high school, basically he's bipolar and he was on meds and they made him violent. whoa. and how he doesn't remember a lot of stuff he did and so i said that i sympathized cos i loss time in college while dating that abusive prick and he's like "girl, i can't believe that, i know how to treat a woman" blah. whatever. so i told matt about it, that i had this crush on hold on, let me get the phrasing right, a "19 year old drug dealing psychotic" and Matt goes "and you still do, don't you" and i couldn't respond and he's like "yup, that silence confirms it" NOOOO. I don't. I think he's interesting, but sheesh, too much drama for ckt. enough is enough. ;)
so today i chilled at home, cos i needed the rest. it's been a crazy holiday season, and what an odd way to start off the new year.
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