So, at the start of the month I posted that I had a dream where I said something about being a moon person. I downloaded a dream guide book thing off of wowio on a whim and decided to see what it would say about the moon. It says a couple things. Firstly, it suggests that dreaming of the moon means that one is in touch with the hidden sides of ones self. It also says the moon can also represent one's mother (creepy in terms of my dream lollll). Verbatim: "In a man's dream when the moon appears, he either has to come to terms with his intuitive side or with his fear of women." I vaguely remember the room being an empty one, which the book says "something, such as a comfort or support, is lacking in our lives." It also says a room with one door represents the womb. If my mention that the rooms reminded me of Evangelion, that would mean there would be one large window that stretches an entire wall, which the book says suggests I have an extrovert view of myself and will tend to look at external circumstances.

Interesting stuff. Maybe tomorrow I'll try and find time to read more about it. Perhaps about whatever I dream tonight if I remember any of it...

Adion is currently listening to: In Flames - Vanishing Light [3:14]

We're getting walkie talkies at work! I'm so excited. I just like the idea mostly. Walkie talkies are awesome. It sucks for people on the floor, because they actually have to like, use the walkie talkies and run around the store to call boxes and help customers, and they get tracked as to how quick they respond etc. Whereas, on the front end where I am, we just get a walkie talkie to bitch to the lot guy to come :) Plus we have a private channel for just front end people, so that'll be cool. Easier than the phones, and hopefully we don't have to worry about people not picking up the phone, 'cause they're jerks and don't pick up the phone. I think I'm just excited to have my own walkie talkie at work. I just wish we had sweet headsets like at Borders. Props to Jordan who just got a job there. Gimmie a walkie talkie :(

I also just recently started playing Crysis, pretty amazing. Think I'll buy it if I don't get it for Christmas. That and a better computer... Running it at low specs right now. Still looks pretty good, just wish it could be better.

I've been downloading so much anime recently, and I haven't really even been interested in watching most of it. Odd, I think. I've got somewhere around 3 shows completly downloaded and I've only watched the few episodes of each :/ Eventually I'll get around to them I guess. I'm the farthest into Madlax of those three series. Reminds me of the drawing style of Noir, but a little better, since I think it's actually by the guys who did .hack//SIGN. Music is the same artist as .hack too.

Hmm. Woo! Walkie talkies! Might make working nine days in a row worth it. Day eight coming up...

Adion is currently listening to: Amon Tobin - Displaced [6:58]

Well. Gave my last speech for that class today. Hopefully I won't have to take any other classes that make me write speeches. Blergh. Did pretty well on it I think though, considering I basically did everything last minute. We'll see. I work best under pressure, I've always thought. I skipped my first class to make sure I had the speech done right too. Theoretically I can read and make up what I missed in class today. Theoretically.

Work called and asked if I could do a closing shift tonight. I begrudgingly agreed. Now I'm working 9 days in a row. Wish I had thought that out further. But the extra hours will be nice on my paycheck. Payday is Friday, yay. Wonder how much holiday pay I get for Thanksgiving?

I've been incredibly tired recently. Not sure whats up. Probably just me and my standard staying up too late+getting up too early=no time for sleep. Have I joked about going goth because I always have dark lines under my eyes on my blog yet? I guess so now. Hm. Going goth would take way too much effort.

Adion is currently listening to: silence

FINALLY a good ending to an anime. Great show, I can't say enough good things about it. Plot, character development, original style... Actors are good, they actually have feeling and they really sound like the character. The thing I want to point out to all those animation studios that don't read my blog: end your show when you know it's time to end it. Noein is 24 episodes, not 26. I'd like to believe it's because they actually planned out the story and realized 26 episodes would mean two episodes of filler somewhere along the way. In the end, making it shorter is a win for everyone. They don't have to spend as much time making two extra episodes, and I don't have to spend an extra hour watching filler. Everybody wins.

Go watch it. :)

Adion is currently listening to: the pillows - White Summer and Green Bicycle, Red Hair with Black Guitar [5:49]

I learned today that Mary actually really hates Allison and is just acting nice to be nice. Apparently Allison is all up in Mary's business and it annoys the hell out of her but she doesn't want to say anything or something. Beats me.

Also, the person that I mentioned last time as being way more available than me in about that promotion... I think may have gotten fired today. I also heard one of the guys in flooring was, which is really depressing because he was like, the only cool person back there. Sucks.

Adion is currently listening to: the pillows - Babylon Verses of Angel [3:25]

edit (11/16/07): Yeah they were both fired. Found out for sure last night. Still no word as to why, but I have suspicions.

The days have been passing faster than I would like, almost. I wake up, go to school, then usually come home for a quick meal before going off to work. When I finally get home again it's usually almost 11 and I don't have much time to do anything. I do a little homework sometimes and then play games until I get tired and go to sleep. The weird thing is how the day goes by so slowly while it's actually daytime, but when all of a sudden it's night time, I wonder where the day went.

I bought Guitar Hero 3 for my Wii. I'm pretty bad at it, but it's still fun. I've been playing Hellgate London on PC, which has been entertaining. Wish some quirks weren't there, and that the engine was a little better optimized but oh well. Fun either way, even if I have to drop the settings sometimes.

KAA released what was left of Noein so I snatched that and watched a few. Good stuff. Need to get around to watching the rest. I finished watching Golden Boy. Weird show. Interesting though. The ending screams sequel but it seems old and there isn't one yet, so I guess not. Hmm. Jenny & I are watching Clannad together, now. Only I think 6 episodes released. For some reason though they're going through it again already with higher resolutions, but the same filesizes, so something has to give here. Not sure if they're compressing it differently so it's still roughly the same quality or anything. I haven't tried comparing a few scenes to see if the quality is noticable yet.

Thanksgiving is around the corner now. Kind of excited for it. Kind of nervous though, because I've got a speech to present the Monday after it. We'll see.

I've been seeing Mary more often at work recently. She and Allison seem to work together a lot, it's weird. I forgot how by the book she was, and now they have become almost best friends I think. She might be Allison's only friend at work. Hard to say. I remain indifferent towards most people, but I will say there are some rules that I don't agree with at work that she is pretty strict on enforcing.

I've been toying with the idea of applying out for other jobs for a while now. Not sure where to apply, or if I should. My one year review is apparently coming up on December 9th, which means a raise on the paycheck after that one. If it's not good I think I should get out. I already am positive that I'm actually making less than the lot guys, which is just sad IMO. I'm curious about something though, I overheard one of the managers say something to someone who works at a different THD that at this one, they typically do not give the next time based raise to the employee after they are promoted. So, if they promote me shortly before my review, they give me one raise instead of two. And then I'd get my next time based raise at the two year mark. I'm wondering if they're literally planning this out to save themselves the most money. Assholes. On the other hand, they might just not be interested in giving me the job in the first place. I do know that at least one other person applied for it, and she is way more available than I am and they haven't given it to her yet. Part of me thinks it's because they don't like her, but they might just not be interested in promoting anyone right now. I'll find out eventually, I guess.

Wow that was a long paragraph about work.

Hmmm. Guess I should have called it a night an hour ago, so I'll call it one now.

Adion is currently listening to: Dieselboy - Unknown (Kryptic Minds) [1:30]

Everywhere I turn I see ad's for Tabula Rasa. It's depressing to think that a little over 6 months ago I was ecstatic for any news relating to it at all, and I had been that way for a year before then at least. Now, it doesn't interest me.

After playing in the beta for about a month I realized it's not really more interesting than WoW ever was, and while some things about it are really unique, innovative, and cool, it would still not be worth paying monthly for it. A shame really.

I finished watching Death Note today. I was really excited for the ending when I got to episode 36, and that one ended great. Then 37 (the last episode, random number I know) started. It started in standard fashion of late, which is a 30 second or so recap of the last episode. And then it just went to hell. They ruined a perfectly good ending. Yet another thing to be dissappointed for. The first... 16 episodes of Death Note were great. Amazing, even. Then they had a huge plot twist, which seemed cool, only they fucked it up and made it stupid. Then they tried to fix it, which was cool, but it was too late then. Then they killed off the only chance they had for an interesting plot to finish on and dragged it out for another 13 episodes. Yet another example of how not to write your anime...

I'm moving into Clannad and Golden Boy now. Clannad is an interesting little romance story, Golden Boy is just weird. It... I don't know how to describe it. I guess it's a comedy, but it really just strikes me as a show that wants to be a porno but is holding back for some reason. I'm conflicted to watch it. We'll see, I suppose. I think it's an OVA, since episodes are around 28 minutes, which means no time for commercials, plus the outro is a solid two minutes or more. Maybe the next episode will be a little less ecchi, and a little more normal.

A couple days ago I brought up something to Jordan about something I had posted on my blog a long time ago, I forget what now. So he got excited trying to find it, and ended up just wanting to play games together like we used to. So I suggested playing Gunbound, and after a little bit of work we're back into it. It's nice playing a game we can both enjoy. And it's free. Not much has changed about it, except now you buy items for one of three different periods of time (week, month, limitless) and each costs drastically more than the last. Something that costs 12,000 for a week costs about 68,000 I think for limitless, meaning it takes a lot of saving to get gear. Still fun, though.

Work has been a little more interesting lately, I think mostly because for once I haven't had to close returns for an entire week. In fact, I haven't closed it at all this week, I think. I've also been doing other random things around the store which are a nice change of pace than cashiering. Hell, even pushing carts was refreshing. Payday is today. Not much longer and I can buy out the rest of my car from my dad...

The other day I was wondering how different life would be if I lived in Kanto. :P I was mostly wondering along the lines of Initial D, just because I think if given the chance I really could pick up rally driving. I don't know. Cars are interesting, I just don't know anything about them. I picture myself as a Takumi with no racing skills. Which I suppose really makes me not at all like Takumi. It'd be cool though.

I had a weird dream this morning where like, my dream self woke up and I remember saying, "oh no I'm a moon person" or something like that. What the hell does that even mean? I wish I remembered more than that. I think it was in the future, because the room I was in reminded me a little of how the room designs are in Evangelion. I'm crazy.

Adion is currently listening to: djpretzel - Chrono Trigger Revival Day Impoetus (OC ReMix) [3:32]