Monday Blues

In the most excellent news, I have turned in my major project for my GIS class - I just have to do one more project and then I'm done with that class for the semester.  Huzzah!  AND there's no more lab so I don't have to get up at 6 am on Mondays anymore.  Triple huzzah!!!

It was still a hard day though.  It was gloriously stormy and windy (but didn't rain on me) which was gorgeous, and makes me want to write fiction almost incurably.  I was so tired when I got back after lab I conked out for an hour, but then I settled down to working at my nonprofit job for a few hours before going to my retail job for the closing shift.

I'm rather grievously upset about something that happened today at work.  Ten minutes before I got to go on break a woman asked me to help her find a shirt for her birthday party in some South American country farm soon.  So I helped her until 5 minutes into my break when a coworker came by and I handed the lady off to her so I could get off my poor sore feet for a few minutes.  (My nice new Crocs were making life much easier, but I do have plantar fasciitis and some rather nasty blisters which are seriously painful.)  I take my 15 minute break and then go back on the floor...lady dismissed my coworker but asks for my help again, so I spend the next 45 minutes going through damn near every pair of pants in the store, and all the bright shirts with three-quarter sleeves that I can find, before she disappears into the dressing room.  She spent at least a quarter of an hour in there and my bladder was bursting so I ran to the bathroom.  I came back and saw her walking away in the direction of the bathroom, figured she'd be back...ten minutes later I go into the dressing rooms and all the stuff is left in the dressing room she was using.  I hung it all up on the return bar, and started putting back the stuff she hadn't asked my opinion on but left the two pieces she had been really interested in there.  Store closing rolls around...lady has just vanished.

Now, I know you're thinking, "Well it's your JOB to help people pick clothes."  But...I spent over an hour of my night trying to help this lady and she didn't even accord me the courtesy of saying, "I'm not going to buy tonight," or even clean up the dressing room!!  I'm not a bloody serf!!!  I'm not a robot!!!  I'm a HUMAN BEING WITH A SOUL AND EVERYTHING!!! 

Blah.

But I did over 7 hours of work today plus class.  That's something towards the bills - you won't BELIEVE how high my electricity is this month considering I haven't used my AC at all.  I'm very and extremely cross about it.  May unplug my wax burner.  I'm kind of over it since it seems to evaporate so slowly I never get to put new wax chunks in and the nice smells do not get to happen.

I'm tired now.  Going to try to write for the last half-hour before bed.  If only I could publish a book and earn some money!!