Oh frabjous day!
Sep. 9th, 2003 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverwhereI have a job!!!
Finally, after four long months of tedious searching and humilating rejections, someone has noticed how desirable I am and hired me at last! HUZZAH!
Yes, I am exceedingly happy. Even if it is only a minimum wage job in a video shop. But at least I get three free rentals a week, and an actual paycheck. For now, that's good enough for me. *grins*
In other news, I went to the corporate goth-punk shops HotTopic and Torrid and found some really fun things, like a shirt with the 'I have fought my way here to the Castle beyond the Goblin City...' poem from Labyrinth on it, some birthday goodies for various friends, and a Care Bears air freshener for my car. And I even found an adorable Bright Heart Raccoon plushie for my dashboard, which made me exceedingly happy. I was never really a big Care Bears fan, but I love the Care Bear Cousins, especially that clever, purple, 'walking encyclopaedia' Bright Heart Raccoon. He was just like me! As a raccoon of course.
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ashfae -- when Kamala and I were little we used to play Care Bears, and I was always Bright Heart, and she was Swift Heart Rabbit. We'd dance around singing the 'Forest of Feelings' song and pretend to save the day. Cute, neh? ;-)
I know I want to go back to England for a visit before the year ends, but I don't know when to go -- Neil Gaiman is doing another reading/Q&A at Foyles in November, but Billy Boyd's and Ian McKellen's plays aren't opening until December. Plus it would be easier, I suppose, to visit people around the Christmas holidays, but it would also be more expensive to travel then too. Arrrghh. I really must decide soon, before the prices rise to high. But it's so difficult! I suppose it really doesn't matter, as long as I just go. And go I shall! Oh yes, it shall be done. :)
Finally, after four long months of tedious searching and humilating rejections, someone has noticed how desirable I am and hired me at last! HUZZAH!
Yes, I am exceedingly happy. Even if it is only a minimum wage job in a video shop. But at least I get three free rentals a week, and an actual paycheck. For now, that's good enough for me. *grins*
In other news, I went to the corporate goth-punk shops HotTopic and Torrid and found some really fun things, like a shirt with the 'I have fought my way here to the Castle beyond the Goblin City...' poem from Labyrinth on it, some birthday goodies for various friends, and a Care Bears air freshener for my car. And I even found an adorable Bright Heart Raccoon plushie for my dashboard, which made me exceedingly happy. I was never really a big Care Bears fan, but I love the Care Bear Cousins, especially that clever, purple, 'walking encyclopaedia' Bright Heart Raccoon. He was just like me! As a raccoon of course.
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ashfae -- when Kamala and I were little we used to play Care Bears, and I was always Bright Heart, and she was Swift Heart Rabbit. We'd dance around singing the 'Forest of Feelings' song and pretend to save the day. Cute, neh? ;-)I know I want to go back to England for a visit before the year ends, but I don't know when to go -- Neil Gaiman is doing another reading/Q&A at Foyles in November, but Billy Boyd's and Ian McKellen's plays aren't opening until December. Plus it would be easier, I suppose, to visit people around the Christmas holidays, but it would also be more expensive to travel then too. Arrrghh. I really must decide soon, before the prices rise to high. But it's so difficult! I suppose it really doesn't matter, as long as I just go. And go I shall! Oh yes, it shall be done. :)
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Date: 2003-09-09 04:59 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2003-09-09 05:00 pm (UTC)And now I want a Labyrinth t-shirt.
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Date: 2003-09-10 05:50 pm (UTC)I would dearly love to come, but I just don't know how I could do it. I miss Neil so much! I was standing right next to him for four days and never got to say hello, and who knows when I'll see him again! Oh, the agony. Whinge. *laughs*
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Date: 2003-09-09 05:15 pm (UTC)*does happy dance for Nevvie*
Three free rentals a week can't be all bad... Anyhow! The Labyrinth shirt sounds ultra-cool--I think I need to pop in to Hot Topic sometime. I haven't set foot in one in years, so I didn't know about all the nifty Geek Ware I've been missing.
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Date: 2003-09-09 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-10 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-10 05:52 pm (UTC)*chuckles*
Well, let's hope I have the willpower to leave once in a while. So I can actually go to work and keep getting the rentals. ;-)
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Date: 2003-09-10 05:40 pm (UTC)Hee!
That's where I work. Go me!
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Date: 2003-09-10 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-10 06:03 pm (UTC)YAY!
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Date: 2003-09-09 05:25 pm (UTC)*prods* E-mail me your address. Need it to send you birthday pressie. :D
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Date: 2003-09-09 06:04 pm (UTC)You deserve it.
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Date: 2003-09-09 06:39 pm (UTC)Congrats Nevvie!!!!
Yay!
Date: 2003-09-09 07:49 pm (UTC)Here is a hobbit "Happy Worker" hat. (It doubles as a Tori one, too. Thank Tamf of TEUNC fro inventing this pwactice.)
I suggest going at a time that covers as many fwends as possible. Barring taht, thry early December and catching both plays. (Ideally, these would coincide.) I hope you manage to visit Engerland - it sounds as if it would be vert good for you.
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Date: 2003-09-10 05:55 pm (UTC)I've been listening to Happy Workers on repeat for the past two days! You're psychic you are. *beams*
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Date: 2003-09-12 12:56 am (UTC)Grats again on the job, and let me be the first (or knot) to wish you a
Happy Birthday and Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
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Date: 2003-09-09 08:07 pm (UTC)I'm just about to enter the hunt for a job. *is scared*
Labyrinth was the first live action movie I obsessed over. The t-shirt sounds v. cool.
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Date: 2003-09-09 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-09 09:47 pm (UTC)*loves Hot Topic*
Yes you are very cute. Heh.
Whenever you go to England, let me know so we can meet up and I can join you in whatever kickass activity you decide to partake in--all of those sound utterly nifty.
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Date: 2003-09-10 05:49 pm (UTC)I don't own a video player, just dvd -- can't WAIT to see Storyteller! Oh, squee! :D
I thought you would be amused at Lil Nevvie and Lil Kamala stories. She'd be horrified if she knew I told you of course. *laughs*
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Date: 2003-09-10 07:28 pm (UTC)Hee, Lil Nevvie and Lil Kamala! I want more stories!
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Date: 2003-09-11 01:42 pm (UTC)Hmmmmmm...more stories. *ponders*
There used to be two enormous wooden fort-like things in our playground that we pretended to be a pirateship or in a castle or a space station (ack! Aliens!)...and we knew a boy named Alex Cherry who used to suck on shoestrings and eat his own hair. *laughs*
And I used to beat her at Hungry Hungry Hippos. *giggles*
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Date: 2003-09-09 11:33 pm (UTC)*way*big*hugs*
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Date: 2003-09-10 02:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-10 03:37 am (UTC)Congratulations!
And the visit to England... hm, I wonder what I have to say about that...
COME TO NEWBURY!!!!!
*hugggggggggggggggggggs*
Elly
ps Ack, what with all the packing Nick and I are doing your birthday present will be late. But there will be one, oh yes. :)
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Date: 2003-09-10 05:47 pm (UTC)*laughs*
Oh Ellydear, you KNOW I could never leave England without visiting you! *pouncesnugglesqueeze!*
And don't worry about the pressie -- I still have yours to send out after all! *giggles sheepishly*
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Date: 2003-09-10 07:35 am (UTC)I do hope to see you back here, hurrah, a visit!
*hugs Nevvie*
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Date: 2003-09-10 08:33 am (UTC)But YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY and hugs for getting a job
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Date: 2003-09-10 10:48 am (UTC)And go you for keeping trying when it seemed to be going nowhere.
Money is good...
Congrats !
Date: 2003-09-10 01:20 pm (UTC)I start to miss your cheerful posts... Hopefully, having a job and a source of income, you'll be posting more often :)
*hugs*
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Date: 2003-09-10 03:57 pm (UTC)God, I love Hot Topic and Torrid!! That Labyrinth (sp?) shirt sounds AMAZING!!! UGH! Why can't we have those shops in Canada? All I can do is hope for the best on Ebay.
*dances around with Nevvie* Get your ASS to England. BUT, if you plan to go in Feb, you might could be there when I'm there too......
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Date: 2003-09-10 05:43 pm (UTC)*LMAO*
I've been wondering when you were going to get an Evil Monkey icon. It's perfect!
I think I might have to on holiday at christmas AND feburary...*G*
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Date: 2003-09-10 06:24 pm (UTC)Yes, Feb sounds good *nods emphatically*
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Date: 2003-09-11 01:43 am (UTC)First step video clerk.. next THE WORLD!!!!
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Date: 2003-09-11 01:38 pm (UTC)Hee! Now I have the 'Worst Witch' theme music in my head. So cute. :)
It was a very good omen indeed that on my first day a Neil Gaiman fan came in wanting the Neverwhere dvd and I got to show off in front of my boss, talking to the guy for 15 minutes about all things Neil and being the best Customer Service Representative I could be. Whooot!
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Date: 2003-09-11 11:44 pm (UTC)I, in a weird moment, once had vast ambitions of being a video store clerk. Like, as a career. They still haven't quite left me.