Devious Plans Unite!

As I sit here, basking in the glory of having all the research done for my project, I am content. Even though the entire project is not finished, just having the mass majority of it complete makes me happy. "Happy" being pronounced like the old man at the beginning of the movie, "Monty Python's Quest of the Holy Grail". "I'm not dead yet, I am feeling happppeee". Just like that. That's how happy I am. It turned out to be a much longer, drawn out experience than I had first thought. I thought, oh yeah, I can finish it in the first week of my spring break. Remember that? So innocent, so naive I was. As I got into the first subject I thought, ok, that one only took me a long time because I didn't know what I was doing. HA! Yeah right. That was the same as every other subject I looked up. It was an average of an hour and a half of research per subject. There were 15! You do the math because quite frankly my brain is fried. Now it's just a matter of putting the information into a colorful presentation. I have, what I think, are some really fun ideas on how to put all this information together. It's going to take a while but I think the end product will be worth it.

Enough about that all time consuming project. Let's talk about something else shall we?! Let's talk about grumpy customers. Oh yes, don't you love them? I have to admit, I don't really care for them that much. However, B loves to hear about them. As soon I have my first conversation with him the first thing he asks me, "Did you have any grumpies today?" He gets a thrill out of hearing about them and laughing and saying what he would do if he were me. Just the other day I had a man come through my till who was quite upset that we have our debit machine's tied down. "I don't have it that way in my shop!" He yelled, "The information isn't kept in that thing anyways, it's kept in the actual register!" My response was, "Well sir, it's this store's way of insuring your information is kept private and not pirated." "That's Bull****". "Well, that's the way it is." I had already checked out of serving this man because he comes in quite often and each time is with the same pleasant attitude as this encounter. Once he left the lady that had been standing behind him was shocked and asked me why he was so rude. I just told her, it's his deal and I'm not going to carry his issues with me, besides he's always like that. She just shook her head. Yesterday I had the same type of encounter, but with a lady this time. Her response to the debit machine being tied down, "Now you're going to interfere with me keeping my pin number private, what next?" My response to her, "Yeah, shame on us for trying to keep your information from being stolen." Where do these people come from? Do they really think that I sit up late at night coming up with ideas on how to get them today?

Michelle's thoughts at 3 in the morning, "I could tie all the debit machines down to the counter, so when people go to pick them up it doesn't move...mwahahahaha....genious I tell you!!! They will all fall into my plan!" Really?! Is this what people are thinking? I'm a cashier. I don't care enough to plan devious plots. But I wonder what I can do next to get them....any ideas?

Rainbows!

Spring break. Two magical words. Words I have grown to love in the last 72 hours. At the beginning of this semester I really had no ambition and was lacking the motivation to dive into my studies. I went through a really dark time. My self-esteem was at a all-time low. And I had multiple issues surrounding my already sad existence. However, in the last few weeks things have turned around. I realized that with life's obstacles with homework and studying added to it I was overwhelmed. I had a test at the beginning of each class with assignments added to each course. I had to take a step back and realize that the assignments weren't due until after spring break but the exams came before. So I prioritized and decided I would study for them and not even worry about the assignments until spring break began. My exams are done. I am officially on spring break. I have a plan to conquer and destroy my assignments. I will attempt to complete two sections of my 12 section project each night. Therefore ideally my research will be done in 6 days. Then will be the put the project together part. That part I'm excited about because I get to be created. I will attempt to display pictures of the finished product on here when it's all done so you, my critics, can give me some valuable feedback that I may or may not listen to. Depends on what kind of mood I'm in once I've finished it :)

I was thinking about going away for spring break, but seriously who am I kidding? I don't have the ability to get away right now. Even if I did, I don't think I would with my practicum coming up in 2 weeks. I'm nervous and so excited about it. I got placed at the school five houses away from my house. How perfect is that? Talk about an answer to prayer! No gas bill! Woo hoo!!! No worrying about where to park and I can volunteer with the walking school bus! I'm very excited. I want to be a sponge when I enter into that school and soak up any helpful tips and strategies they are willing to share with me.

Well, I hope I have found you in good tidings. 2009 is starting to look up once again! Until next time. Michelle.