"I don't come from a broken home! My parents weren't divorced. My mother died," I shouted, genuinely insulted. "So much for confidentiality. I can't believe she told your mom that. I should sue her."

I was trying to play it cool. For the past year, I'd known that I was from an unstable home, but I desperately didn't want Xavier to know it. He was the one person on earth who didn't know about all that stuff.

"I told them how nice your dad is," Xavier insisted. "They were considering changing my school until the principal phoned and said you'd run away."

"I'm living with my uncle," I lied. "He's a salesman. I'm going back to school soon. It's perfectly legitimate."

That was a stupid thing to say. Only lowlifes claimed things were legitimate, classy, or exclusive.

--Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

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     "Coach Graham use to ride me hard. I remember one practice in particular. "You're doing it all wrong, Pausch. Go back! Do it again!" I tried to do what he wanted. It wasn't enough. "You owe me, Pausch! You're doing push-ups after practice."
     When I was finally dismissed, one of the assistant coaches came over to reassure me. "Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said.
     I could barely muster "Yeah."
         "That's a good thing," the assistant told me. "When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you."
     That lesson has stuck with with me my whole life. When you see yourself doing something badly an nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better."

So tomorrow's my third training day at Chapters... CHAP-EEE-TORRRS. We are there for 7 hours this time instead of 4 or 5. UGH! Too many hourrrrrs! Oh well, it's money I guess. And there's Starbucks.

Last day we covered health and safety. *SNORE* We are starting on the floor tomorrow and talking to customers. (I don't really like people, but whatever lol.) We get our snazzy swanky super-cool Chapters vests too, which will cover the $80 worth of new shirts I bought for work. Pointless. But anyway, I just hope I am not DYING of boredom! I think I'm going to see a movie tomorrow after work though, so at least I have something to look forward to.

*points to icon* ...the obsession continues...

*boop*

Tags: chapters, work
Feeling: sore

Carving Pumpkins Martha Stewart style.
And be sure to WATCH THE VIDEO! It will be worth it I promise.

 

Feeling: creative

My best friend recently got the Pokemon Limited edition DS for his birthday. As such, he had no use for his older one, and gave it to me. Yay! Now my only problem is what to play on it. This is where you come in.

I love RPGs, Survival Horror, Puzzels, and Action. No sports games here, please, and nothing with a bad or little story line. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

At: Home
Feeling: happy
Listening To: Nothing

 I've begun taking Japanese in college. I want to learn the language fluently, so I'm looking for a lot of extra things to help me (I'm looking into the Rosetta Stone series). Amazon.com shows 'My Japanese Coach' for pre-order. It sounds like a really good buy. Does anyone have any of the My Coaches? Are they any good? Are they helpful?

My Japanese Coach Product Info

Feeling: curious

Everything under a cut since it's spoilery and I don't wanna spoil anyone who doesn't wanna be spoiled.

Hey... I was wondering if anybody would be willing to make me an Anya wallpaper for my computer desktop. I'd really appreciate it!