spoiled chinese girl

…until the next Harry Potter book. I spent probably a good hour at least sitting outside in the bright sun roasting my skin and furiously finishing the 6th Harry Potter book. Now expecting another two year wait before the final book is out. My theory is that Potter will die, thus ensuring that there are no additional sequals for the series, because it was promised there would only be 7 books, one for each year at Hogwarts. I got a funny looking tan/burn from sitting outside because I guess my arm was in a self-imposed shadow and there’s a very straight line that seperates the burnt from the non-burnt skin.

NAUCC is pretty fun. I’ve not registered at all so I’ve saved myself a bunch of money. Me and Phil are staying with our friend Stephanie which is kickass cuz it saved us a bunch of money. I watched flaming puck hockey which was great, and during the day watched various races, mostly the skills races, like wheel-walking, and one-foot mostly. I missed the BC wheel race and the relays as wel as the ultimate wheel.

And I was able to see Dan Heaton again who previewed Defect, will hopefully get to watch another viewing of it tomorrow night. Talked to him a bit too about a Strap-On Tools song being in a bonus features track of the DVD which would be kickass. Gave him my copy of No Stone Unrocked as well as my “Illegal Downloads” burned CD of the band, plus two stickers so he can rip off the songs tonight & give a better listen. It’d be great for the band and for me, because I’m at least working for my “unicycling corporate sponsership” I rule.

I’m wired and tired all at the same time. I forget where I read this, but I feel like I should fall asleep on a racing horse.

I thought going for a short unicycle ride would calm me down and make me tired. I figured riding two or three blocks there and back would do it. I ended up on Wooster(sp?) street. And found a vending machine and thought “Sweet! I can get a bottle of water” Only I left all my change in the car, and it wouldn’t take my $5. So I then started riding/pushing towards the Circle K, about 3 blocks away. Got my water, and rode/pushed back. I’m very out of it, can only ride like a block at most at a time.

In this time, I encountered:
1 – “Unicycling is (the) shit!” (I don’t know if I heard the word “the”)
1 – “You suck!”
4 to 5 – “Unicycle! WHOO!”
1 – Police SUV nearly run me over.

It was an interesting ride.

Me and Phil left his house in Toronto at aproximately 9pm and arrived in Bowling Green Ohio at just before 4am. Phil says I drive like an old chinese lady. I says he doesn’t drive. It was okay, there was no special rush to be in the state until morning anyways so why bother rushing?? He slept bits and pieces of the way from Toronto, I drove over the rumble strips on the sides of the road twice because I accidently drifted over, and I was paranoid about the crossing.

The crossing was super easy. I took off my hat (Phil’s hat actually, I was wearing it sideways like a dork and was told to not do that at the crossing so I just took it off) and turned the radio on mute for the whole time. Conversation as follows:

Patrol guy: Can I have your citizenships?
Me: We’re canadians.
Pg: Can I see your ID’s please?
Me: *hands them over*
Pg: Where are you headed?
Me: Bowling Green, Ohio.
Pg: What will you be doing there?
Me: There’s a unicycle convention.
Pg: A unicycle convention! How long is this going on for?
Me: It started last Tuesday, and will finish this Sunday.
Pg: That’s a lot of unicorns…unicycles. I said unicorns.
*everyone kinda laughs*
Pg: How long are you staying?
Me: We’ll be returning Monday.
Pg: So did you get your passport wet Mr. Barbosa?
Phil: Yes sir, I got thrown into a pool in Mexico a month ago.
Pg: Are you bringing any food into the country?
Me & Phil: No, just a few chocolate bars from duty free.
Pg: Any tobacco or alcohol?
Me: Nope.
Pg: Alright, here you go. Have a good time!

Kickass. Didn’t really get lost either. I only had to back up once on the freeway ramps (thankfully it was possible because there was a curb-type of raised thingie in the middle of them) and other than that just made it down here nice & smooth.

Oh, I’m a dork, in that I have my camera, my battaries, my spare battaries and the battary charger. I forgot my memory card, and my card reader (which are together, likely still plugged into my computer at home) So… I don’t have a camera. Whatever.

I went to bed I think at 4am. And it’s 7:12 and I’m up. This SUCKS.

In a lot of minutes from now (more than a few minutes but less than a few hours) I'll be heading out to Ohio for a unicycling convention. Because you don't need to be invited. Which isn't l33t, but neither am I.

the blame game. The fact that there is a direct corrolation between the more work they give me, and the more mistakes get made, is obvious in my mind that they’re giving me too much, too soon. How is it that when one girl goes on vacation, my workload increases by only a little. But when the other girl goes on vacation, suddenly I’m running the entire place? It’s not like their jobs are so vastly different either.

But with all this junk about checking and rechecking shit. The fact that it passed through 3 pairs of hands and still wasn’t caught means one thing, that no one really thinks. So don’t blame me for everything when you obviously noticed something and didn’t think of it either. I don’t mind taking fault for what’s my mistake, but when it’s not 100% my mistake, I refuse to take 100% of the blame.

Either way, it’s a learning curve that I’m bound to mess up on once in a while, it’s not like they haven’t been messing up either so I’m not that worried. I still got complimented on doing a good job by the boss who is naturally a very patronizing and condesending person apperently. Maybe his attitude will change, because unfortunately they’re learning I can’t be in 5 places at once.