Achoo!

This really really made me laugh today!



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Currently in my head.

I'm not quiet sure what's going on in my head to be honest, It's 1:43am and I can't sleep. I don't even know what I'm going to write, I just had the urge to write I guess. Write something, write anything. Write what's in my head. Mostly I've been thinking about change. It happens all the time, every day, big or small. For good or for bad, or for no reason at all. The biggest cause of change is time.

I guess what I'm trying to talk about is how time can change your friends, the people you care about most at one point in your life, then in another not care about at all. Being a mear 18 months out from high school, you would expect the people your spent every day with for 6 years to still be your friends, well at least some of them. The people you were the best of friends with, you no longer talk to. How does this happen? Is it time, or do we let it happen? A combination of both.

It's not only friendships that involve me, I have seen girls who were the best of friends 2 years ago and now, it's like they never knew each other. Funny how that happens. It is the ones you keep through this time that will always be there in the end.

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Green P's

First of July, VicRoads has decided to change all its P plate rules, for existing P platers we have to change our beautiful red P plates, to green ones! For those who will be acquiring their P plates after today, you will have red P plates and the biggest change I think is that you can only carry one passenger between the ages of 16-21, that sucks! (For you guys!)

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On Repeat!

Flavour of the day, I haven't been able to get this song off repeat all day!

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Funny.

I'm sure you've all seen this, but I thought it was hilarious. Myspace had it up as a featured video for a lil!

THE BPA 'TOE JAM' FEAT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL


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Strength.

You are amazing.

You are probably one of the strongest willed people I have ever met, you are incredible. The strength you have within you to be able to deal with what you are dealing with is just... amazing, I am speechless. Your absolute ability to handle and cope with things is just incredicle, something I do not know if I could ever do. The way you keep yourself so composed. I feel terrible for questioning my life, my happiness when other people it have it worse than I do.

I believe that you have made the right decision. You are not running away, you are doing what it best for you. You can't make a life here, not with her. You need to start putting yourself first, and I believe that you have done that when you thought this through. This is the best for you.

Away from it all, away from her.

You are so strong.

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When is it ok?

When is it ok to lie to someone? Not a massive life changing lie, but perhaps just a little white lie?
Is it ok if will spare someone's feelings? Save either you or them from embarrassment? Or keeps you out of trouble? I think, a little itty bity white lie couldn't hurt, or could it. If the lie is to spare either mine or a friend's feelings, that's ok, right?

What exactly is a lie? A lie is 'a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.' [www.dictionary.com] You see, the little white lie I told today was a false statement but I wouldn't consider it deliberately intend to deceive... It's more complicated than that.

As human beings our natural instinct is to save ourselves, first, is it not? If one was to be confronted with a question we do not want to hear, either for the reaction of the questioner or to save your own embarrassment, is it not just easier to tell a lie? It wouldn't even be considered a lie, more like... The twisted truth, diverting the answer or simply the alternative truth. At times the questioner is faced to decipher our answer. Are we telling the truth? Are we telling it in code? Are we simply saying no instead of yes?

That's left for you to decide.

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It just doesn't work.

We've all heard of relationships that don't work, but what about friendships that just don't work? How is it that two people 'can't' be friends? Firstly what is friendship... Go into google and type in 'Friendship' and you get around about 98 million pages. Good ol' wikipedia defines friendship

Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more humans.

Of course there are certain people who just do not get along and therefore obviously will never form a 'friendship', but what happens when do people generally like each other but cannot make a friendship 'work'? How is it that some friendships require more 'work' than others? I don't believe that a different circle of friends, different schools, distance are factors. Then what is it? I think the biggest factor I belive is TIME. Do we not all wish that we had enough time for each other? How I wish I had the time to be around the people I love and care about more often.

I made friends with a certain somebody at a stage of my life where I was so open and willing to make new friends, experience new things [I still am in this stage btw!] It was a whirl-friend friendship for lack of a better expression, and they were someone I trusted 100%. We continued to be friends as our life paths crossed and met on a regular basis. After our paths stopped meeting we had only met once since then, until this day. Things were good and we always spoke and talked about catching up. But none of it really happened, and yup you guessed it, we drifted. At a point some harsh things were said and it was pretty much over. Just a few days ago an extremely unexpected D&M occured and some peace was settled.

From the conversation I quote:
'We understand each other. I guess some friendships need more work than we have time for'.

Can you be 'dumped' from a friendship?



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Not my fault your son in shit.

This is kind of a continuation of yesterday's 'Time' blog. But it's just going to be a quick example of what I was saying yesterday about when students bring in school work and the parents get angry because we can't do it straight away. I was busy doing something today and this guy and his dad came up and I told them I was doing a job so to walk around the store for like 10 minutes then get back to me. So they came back and they wanted some photocopying done. I would have done it straight away if they were all neat and could be done by pressing a button, and if they were nice about it!

Here's the thing, NOTE TO CUSTOMERS: Do not think being mean will get you anywhere, we'll just treat you the same if not worse! Anyway... I told them I would do it in like 30mins because I was doing a few other jobs that were due tonight aswell, and the guy's like 'Oh but I need it it's schoolwork'. I'm like 'Well you can use the self serve machines'. Apparently they 'didn't have cash' and they only had credit [umm as if you can't fish like $8 out in cash!] Blah blah anyway the dad's like 'Can I speak to the manager', which I didn't care about because the manager that was working always sticks up for me. Anyway my manager wasn't trained in the department so I had to kinda tell him how to do it, we took for ages [on purpose] and added a few extra labour costs. This is because you are in idiot. And your son is an idiot thinking he can come in and get things done in the spot the night before it's due, your son is a dumbass.

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Time.

One of my pet peeves at work are customers who act like they don't have a clock? There are a few different instances that are time related. Firstly, people who come in at like 8:55pm [We close at 9pm weekdays] and want a job done, usually I just say that all the copy centre machines go off at 8:45pm. Or people that come in to the store and don't know what they're looking for and try to ask the sales assistants stupid dumb questions, like we are at 8:59pm!! Even worse when they pay for it in cash, do they not know we have to count the damn till! Honest to god, at what point do you say 'Hmm I'll go into a store at 8:55pm and just have a browse! even hate going into a store when it's 30 mins before closing time!

Secondly, customers who do not think you have any other customers in the world but them? Are you kidding me, piss off, I have a thousand other people to attend to, not just your dumb ass. Seriously for example when the customer is trying to explain a job to me and repeats themself over and over and over again, like no shit, I get it. Or when they take 20 minutes to choose what kind of paper they want to print on. Oh my favourite, when they come to the bench with like a handful of stuff then proceed to filter through it right there and then, would you now do that before you came!?

Thirdly, people who expect things to be done right here and now. We could be fully booked out, customers all lined up, jobs everywhere, paper flying and they expect there jobs to be done right there on the spot. It's fine if all I have to do it press and button, but if it's a more complicated job that takes a while to get through, It'll have to be picked up later. I once had this absolute bimbo want 4 books bound [thick books, maybe 250 pages each] on the spot. We were so flat out I would not have done one of those books on the spot. She was really annoyed as her boyfriend asked, 'Is there a way we can pay some sort of priority fee?', what a tool, this isn't the bloody passport service!

Lastly [for now, and quiet similar to the third point] VCE students and their parents. These have got to be my absoulte hated customers. They are so padantic and a royal pain in my ass. My favourite is when the student has a YEAR 12 FINAL EXAM the next day and decided to get their notes together on the Sunday afternoon and we're too busy to fit you in, you should see the tears. Ugh, and the dirty looks we get from the parents. How the hell is it my fault that your stupid child decided to get their exam notes ready 12 hours before the actual exam, they deserve it.




I hate customers.

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Will 'BIG BROTHER' just stop watching!

Will BIG BROTHER ever stop watching? More like, will we ever stop watching big brother!? Big Brother Australia is now in it's 8th season, are we not over it yet? Are you not over watching a bunch of people cause controversy and drive each other crazy? Are you not over meaningless ramblings over dinner, around the pool, in the sauna! Ugh, please. Turn on some real TV.

Recent headlines read 'BB launch ratings worst ever'. What does that translate to? Yes some people are finally getting over it.

Average national audience for Big Brother launches since 2001
2001 - 1.627 million
2002 - 2.046 million
2003 - 2.225 million
2004 - 1.725 million
2005 - 1.576 million
2006 - 1.8 million
2007 - 1.548 million
2008 - 1.511 million

I used to watch BB whenever I could, and watched it religiously. As the years went on, it was the same thing over and over again. I started watching it less and less and hey, I know somehow hate it. I hate it so much I won't even sit in the same room with the TV if it's on BB! Is Big Brother that suck for ratings that they had to put COREY DELANEY in the house!? Please, I would rather watch the blank screen that watch him. Please people, watch something real.

Also, I hate Corey: http://www.slapcorey.com/

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Nikon.

At the moment I am officially broke, in debt even. Why? Because I bought a new camera! I bought a proper one a digital SLR and he's beautiful! I haven't had a really good chance to play around with it properly just yet, but next week I will. [Going to my friend's farm!]

But for now, for my CAD/CAM class at TAFE we have to design a print for a t-shirt, I've only gotten upto prelimenary photos but this is by far my favourite. It's of my friend Jacqui!
I'll be sure to put up more photos as I take them!

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Smirk.

What makes your day? A certain event happening, bumping into that special somebody, hanging out with your friends? I think for most people it's a combination of the above.

Don't you just love it when a total stranger makes your day? Well I think that happened to me today. I should have named this blog, 'Today, the customer was right'.

He was just a customer getting some stuff printed off, and I was really busy when he first came in so I told him to come back in like an hour to pick his job up. When he came back asked if I was busy at the time and requested to get some other stuff printed. He was just such a cool guy. We were talking about school, careers and travel for about 30 minutes, I had totally lost track of time. Then when we went to pay for the prints, out flips the wallet, and the picture of the girl. Sigh.

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Job Hunting

Well... well... well...

I'm in a bit of a dilemma... I don't HATE [pretty close to] my current job.
Cons: I kind of almost hate my job.
Pros: Umm at times it can be extremely laid back, and I often am able to do homework on shift. Sometimes I think I just get paid for my presence.
I have been scrolling around on 'Seek' [Which is by FAR the best employment website out!]
I am now seriously considering applying for a new job... but I'm scared it's going to be worse than my current job. I just need a job that pays better with better work.
I'm on the hunt!


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I just...

I just quickly wanted to tell you about this absolutely gorgeous customer today. I swear she made my day. She was getting some images/photos printed off in A4 size and while I was printing them off she needed to get some other stuff from the store so she did.

When she came back I said to her 'Are you happy with these?' and showed them to her, and she started crying. The photographs were of her friend and his favourite place in Australia. The photos were only weeks ago and now he was in hospital dieing. My heart sank. When I repeated the story to another team member, I shed a tear.


I will put you in my prayers.

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