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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2025-08-01 09:20 am
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[503] what is this that stands before me?

It's Friday, gonna try to get an update in for a change, since there ARE updates to be had!

Was just starting to get settled into my new position and new office, really making it my own for the longterm, and now it's all getting taken away from me, womp womp. Well, not the position, but the office; they're kicking us out of this big, beautifully empty building and moving me and my techs over to the main dealership. Disappointed!!! I'll still have my own office, but it will be much smaller, and with no beautiful windows to the outside, and in the noisy middle of the service department, with people all over the place, ugh. But at least the job shouldn't change much; it's my techs that I feel for, getting cut down to one hoist apiece off in the far corner of the main shop? I genuinely don't know how they expect us to get work done! They're constantly bouncing between two to eight vehicles in various states of repairs and approvals and parts availability, they won't be able to make any money if half their day is going to be spent parking and bringing vehicles in and out! If nothing else, the sales department is suddenly going to find their sold 'priority' units a lot less... prioritized than they are now. I don't know, doesn't seem sustainable to me! Could be really bad! But we'll see, I guess!

I'm gonna steal so many fuckin' office supplies when I'm back over there. At least it's a long weekend. THREE WHOLE DAYS OFF, WOWWWWWW.

Also got my first proper salaried cheque, and while it was not as comically oversized as my first one (since that had my training week on it as well), it was still about a 50% increase from what I was routinely making before, which is frankly insane. Time to pay off some friggin' debt!! After my All Outstravaganza next month, anyway.

Skipping ahead a few albums in my 1001, because I'm lagging way behind anyway, and, well:

Album #503/1001: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath )
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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2025-07-24 11:30 am

re: Real long lines

Woo! After a long yesterday wherein I was basically ghosted by the sales department and could get nothing done, I'm back down to work inbox zero and my techs are busy on sold units, so I can focus on the years of silly training videos I have to go through now that I'm technically a service advisor.

I'll also probably read a bit, too, because c'mon. If they didn't want someone for this position who was on their phone constantly, they would NOT have hired me in the first place, because after all this time, they know exactly who I am.

When I bought all that MUBI bullshit the other day, I was not expecting yesterday to be the day I got the book I preordered from them almost three months ago! Really luxuriating in the pretentious bullshit right now, I am! It's a genuinely beautiful object and came in a comically huge box and I'm looking forward to digging into it.

Contemplating a Mystery Wrestling Patreon subscription just so that I can rewatch all of their shows ahead of attending one, since they are only sporadically available on the high seas. Maybe if I can find a way to download them myself?

2. What Would You Be Willing to Wait in a Really Long Line For?

the duty of all Real Americans
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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2025-07-22 02:45 pm

re: Terrible pursuits

Spending money to feel more in control of my life, woo!* Jumped on the latest 'two free months of MUBI' offer and then decided to really indulge my pretentious cinephile bullshit by subbing to their semi-annual Notebook magazine, and then also bought a few old issues from the TIFF store so they wouldn't be lonely, and then grabbed the novelization of MaXXXine and a film journal just to hit the free shipping threshold and... poor decisions were made, I admit, but I don't really regret them so SHRUG.

Also got my ticket to Mystery Wrestling 18 for the day after All Out and a couple of Stratford shows for the day before, so all I need to do is book some plane tickets and my September trip will be all squared away with two months to spare! HYPE HYPE HYPPPPPPPPE

Hmm. It's only Tuesday. That's unfortunate.

1. What Do You Gain From Pursuing Something You Do Really, Really Badly?

If you enjoy doing it regardless, then fun and enjoyment. If you don't... character, I guess? Ew, gross, no, just stop doing it in that case.

*the real solution is just to clean my room, I know, I KNOW