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Monday, Jun. 04, 2007 - 2:37 p.m.

My comments are finally working again, so if you left me one, you can now finally see what I left you back. (and I can see what you left)

I had a long talk with TB about how things are going, last night. I feel a little better, but I still have to figure out what action to take, which again, is hard to do when all your choices seem to suck. I took the bookstore job so I'd have time to get Pete's book done. Unfortunately, having done so, I have no money to get Pete's book done. It's more than a little frustrating.

The weekend was hell at work. Saturday, especially. I didn't get anything done that I was supposed to, because I spent the first half (literally) of my day subbing for other people while they went on break, and when I finally went to lunch myself and got back at 2, the department was trashed. An entire shelf full of picture books had been yanked onto the floor and then just sort of willy nilly stuffed back in, so I had to re-sort that and make it decent again, the entire kiddie table was stacked literally a foot high, half of it books from other departments and stuff I have to wonder what in fuck goes through your mind to leave on a table for little kids to see/read, and there were books and toys scattered across what seemed to be every single square inch of floor. The desk was already stacked 2-3 feet high from the stuff I'd picked up before I went to lunch, so it took another 2 hours just to get the place squared away again, and when I left, I went back to clock out and then came back to grab my stuff, and in the 3 minutes I was gone, someone had tossed books all over the floor again. And the thing that kills me is that they hadn't just knocked them off the shelf where they were, they had brought the damned things from all the way across the department, from the farthest corner away, and then just thrown them across the floor in one big bunch, from what I could tell. They just sort of fanned out from one central spot. This basically offends pretty much every sensibility I have. A, to treat books in that manner is unacceptable. B, to behave that way in a public place is unacceptable. C, to have that much disregard for your fellow human beings is unacceptable. D, to have that much disrespect for your fellow human beings is unacceptable. E, to willfully damage things that don't belong to you is unacceptable. F, to create a mess that huge - if it is indeed an accident - and to not even attempt to clean it up is unacceptable. And G, yes, people really do fucking suck. Because even if it was an accident, and your kid did it not knowing any better, all of the aforementioned suckages apply to YOU. I very definitely hate people.

And while we're on the subject, not that I advocate for such laws, but I begin to see why people with children want to make it against the law for an adult to enter a children's area without the accompaniment of children. My gut instinct at this point is to ban childless adults from the kid department, despite realizing how unfair that would be. There's only so many times you can deal with the bullshit adults leave for kids to find before you really want to start beating them about the head and shoulders until they leave. I find crap tucked in behind kid books that has no business being there and has obviously been put there for a 6-year-old to find when they pull out the next Clifford book. Those of you with small children might think it's safe to let them roam around the kids department unsupervised, but please take it from me, it really isn't all that safe. It's a bigger space than you think it is, with more places to hide your child from sight than you think exists, and it would be very easy for someone else to scoop your kid up and walk out with him/her. And as I mentioned, people put unsavory items on the shelves for your kid to find, so it would really be better if you were with the child to do some damage control if/when that happens. Most of the time, there's only one person assigned to work the kids department, and we can't be everywhere. We're overworked, frankly, and that means that while I'd actually love to be able to go through every shelf in the place and straighten and alphabetize and make sure no one has hidden a sex toy or a seriously pornagraphic image that skeezes ME as an adult out to a vile degree, I simply can not do it. I have other things to do that the company prioritizes above making sure things are in alphabetical order. Books get a cosmetic straightening at the end of every day or if they're super messed up during the day and I happen to see it. Otherwise, I am too busy picking up all the shit you left on the floor or the kiddie table and chairs and the wrappers your kid left a trail of as they tore through every cellophane-wrapped item within reach because you couldn't be bothered to supervise. I don't have time to make sure there's not a Penthouse centerfold tucked behind the Elmo picture books. That's YOUR job. As well, yesterday a little girl got hurt because she was trying to climb up a shelf while her parents were on the opposite side of the department, and she got about 2 feet up before falling back down and hitting her head on a hardwood bench. It caused quite a commotion, and her parents were pretty upset.

Michael Clarke Duncan came in one day this week to buy a book. (Did I tell you this already?) Just in case you're wondering, yes, he is actually that freaking huge in person. And his voice literally rumbles. It is deeper still than it sounds in the movies, where the sound editors must work some kind of mojo to make him sound "normal," because his voice has more in common with a lion roaring at night than it does mere human utterances. I swear, you just about feel it more than you hear it. And yes, he was nice. Polite, anyway. I didn't have a lot of interaction with him, but he was very polite.

Hopefully this entry will post. Diaryland has eaten 3 of my last 4 posts (counting this one as the 4th) in the last 2 days. I keep getting page-not-found errors. It's really more than a little irritating.

Also, if you use haloscan comments, could you please sound off and tell me how to put them in my code? Their instructions are more than a little confusing, and I'm really kinda tired of my Diaryland comments seeming to always be on the blink, these days.

I have started playing with BookCrossing and released 2 books into the wild, as it were. No one has picked them up, but I think that's because I released them too late in the day on a Saturday. :( I'll try more. Turns out the library has a shelf for that sort of thing, so I'll probably release a couple there, too. :) BookCrossing is a website that tracks specific books, much like Where's George and it's Canadian brother site, Where's Willy, track specific items of paper currency. I'm hoping more people who read are willing to participate than those who spend cash. Because it turns out people who get Where's George bills just don't seem to care about playing. I'm hoping readers are more curious. If you want to see what books I have available for giveaway, head over to my bookshelf and see what I've got that you might want to read. All I ask is that you participate in BookCrossing, and I'll send you the book you like. Though at the moment, it would be nice if you also sent me money for postage and packaging, since frankly, with the book job, I can't afford to pay for anything that isn't bills, gas, or food. :( Also, Reader, my copy of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation has been reserved for you, I believe. Or is it for you, That33Girlie? I can't remember which of you wanted it, but I think it was Reader.

I got nothin' else.

Peace out,
Katie

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