Today's Mood: Angry
Today's Song/Music: "...To Die For" (the background music to the stampede scene from The Lion King)
Today's RGT: Does anyone know where to find origami paper? ^^;
Today's Quote: "Hiiiiii! ...um, who are you?"

Angry?
Gee, Ginny, whatever for?

BEH.

So I went to my scheduling manager to ask for Monday nights off, since I just don't have the free time to do much of anything anymore. Not only did the s.m. say it wouldn't happen, the s.m. also told me that I'm gaining another shift on Sats. I am sufficiently PO'ed.

I've got apartments to look for, a car that is in desperate need of dealership care, and friends and family that are getting mightily (and with damn good reason) sore about me not being around much anymore. I understand that I will be working eight hours a day, but do you know what? I basically work eight hours a day already, just split into two sections (one in the morning and one at night). I had told management that I would help out as long as I could, but they must have forgotten somewhere along the way the "as long as I could" part. I don't recall going up to the store and begging to be chained to it for the rest of my natural born life. I know we are short staffed, but to have half our stations missing every shift, plus a server having to play ToGo as well as server at the same time--this is bull. We have never been this short staffed before in all my time being at the store.

Naturally, there's been a shift in my attitude up at work as a result. Since I know that I won't be there past Sept., I'm not as worried about losing my job and being homeless. This doesn't mean that I'm lazy--I'm still as hard working as ever. But I don't play lapdog anymore; I've already proven myself to the company, so there's no need. Plus, there's a lot of stress among the overworked servers and half the newbies we've been getting seem to have a major snark problem (the other half gives me hope, though). PLUS plus, I'm getting major burnout, but the vacation I was supposed to have the first week of June was pushed back a month.

I'm pretty unhappy, to say the least.

Ah, yes,
The Lion King. The only movie I saw three times at the theater. The movie that first inspired me to be an animator (don't laugh, 'tis true). Came out roughly the same time as Jurassic Park.

The stampede scene was pretty powerful. The gorgeous animation. The music and the vocal choir working together. The surround sound nearly deafening me with the thunderous storm of wildebeast hooves pounding the canyon floor. One thing I will absolutely never forget is how, right after the last of the wildebeast have run off, my ears were still ringing and pulsing with the sound of the pounding hooves. It really made me felt like I was there in the canyon, having just evaded the stampede. Too awesome.

"Change may be inevitable, but it's not always bad."