Late shift number one

02:56 / 11.07.07

You work in the coffee industry?

02:57 / 11.07.07

And WHOA! STOP THE CAR! I am NOBODY'S PET!

grrr.

02:59 / 11.07.07

Yes, I do work in the coffee industry. Going on about six or so years now. Love it. Love it madly. And want to kill every now and again.

I'm sorry--whose pet are you not supposed to be?

03:02 / 11.07.07

Everybody. I am not supposed to be everybody or anybody's pet. Although for a while I think I may have been somebody's pokemon. That was weird. But the round ball was supprisingly comfortable and roomy.

03:20 / 11.07.07

And you got to say awesome things in a shrill childlike voice. That couldn't have been all bad.

03:26 / 11.07.07

Except you'd only be able to say your own name, over and over and over again, wailing your life away because THERE WAS NO NUANCE!

03:26 / 11.07.07

Well the only thing I could say was my name. There are times when I would have liked to have said other things. Things like "pokeball has no airholes..cant breath..help."

03:27 / 11.07.07

With Nuance, ofcourse.

Hi Papers!

03:32 / 11.07.07

Hi. Is hot. Very hot.

I was offered a job today! A permanent half-time position at one of the other library branches, one that I like better than the one I'm currently working at. I'll be starting in a few weeks. There are slightly more hours involved, less politics, a good staff. I'm excited.

03:34 / 11.07.07

Congratz.

03:38 / 11.07.07

Now, Papers, how hot is hot? Because I think Georgia's got that beat.

How am I still awake?

03:42 / 11.07.07

It's not the heat, its the hummidity. (at least thats the case here)

03:43 / 11.07.07

Yeah, the humidity's pretty bad tonight.

I get a new position in time to hear that we'll be having a strike vote shortly. LOVELY.

03:50 / 11.07.07

Maybe you got the new position just in time to get a raise?

03:51 / 11.07.07

Hopefully. The bargaining really isn't going well.

03:51 / 11.07.07

Here in Georgia, it's nearly one in the ayem and the humidity slaps you in the face like an uncomfortable damp cloth.

This is why I hide inside with air-condition and cats.

03:56 / 11.07.07

UGH.

Ah, air conditioning. A fanciful conception, surely.

03:56 / 11.07.07

Im picturing Kali actually hiding, perhaps behind a large comfy chair, with one arm around the airconditioner and the other holding a bunch of cats.

04:00 / 11.07.07

She screws her face up at the thought of heat and grabs hold of her multitude of cats more tightly. Arrrr!

04:07 / 11.07.07

IZ U WATCHIN MI?

04:11 / 11.07.07

Crap! She's on to us. Retreat retreat!

04:17 / 11.07.07

Heh heh.

Still up for a bit. Knowing it's past one in the ayem and now re-reading old blog entries for some sort of bizarre mental masturbation.

04:19 / 11.07.07

Anybody up? Long, stressful, absurd day, but pretty decent night so far, probably because I stayed barricaded indoors.

04:20 / 11.07.07

I knew we shouldn't have given her those night vision goggles.

I'm excited, because tomorrow is comics day and I've decided I'm going to get myself some actual manga for once. Just to see if it's any good. & dinner party in the evening.

04:20 / 11.07.07

(Of course, if I ever figured out the Barba-timecode, I wouldn't post 'Anybody up?' so quick after someone, presumably 'up' posted.)

04:21 / 11.07.07

What manga are you after? Or are you just, dipping in at random?

04:30 / 11.07.07

Yotsuba that Y&B is on about sounds fun. I was going to go with that. Heard a couple good things about it.

04:32 / 11.07.07

Aside from my own anime preferences, I realise I have nothing to offer to this line of convo.

Please. Carry on. I may learn.

04:36 / 11.07.07

I've been branching out to North American fauxnga like KING CITY (which is so ****ing awesome!) and Becky Cloonan's EAST COAST RISING, but I've never really bothered with actual genuine Japanese stuff. I'm concerned that the right-to-left, back-to-front reading will turn me into a delirious monster, but that might be a small price to pay for a wider reading pool.

04:38 / 11.07.07

Relevent Thread, Kali.

04:41 / 11.07.07

I tried manga. I dont like it. I think its the saucer eyes and mouths the shape of large beans. I find myself constantly picturing what an actual person would look like. I find it disturbing. So I tried manga and now I dont touch the stuff.

04:44 / 11.07.07

That's probably a good one.

I'm currently rereading Love Song, which is a collection of four short pieces from Keiko Nishi that stuck out like a sore thumb when it first came out in english, but now just kinda blends in. Gorgeous stuff, though, and manages to be perpetually heartbreaking and optimistic. Just realized, most of the manga I currently read is scanlation stuff, with the buying of the proper editions probably a while off, so any recommendations would be digital.

04:45 / 11.07.07

Is it bad that I only like some certain anime? Cause if it's not, I'm sure I could find some food to make feel loved.

04:48 / 11.07.07

Well before this lateshift hits the dreaded page 9, I think Im going to call it a night and go to bed.

Gnight all. 'sbeen fun.