Friday, June 24, 2005
Rockford: Actual temp-94, heat index-95
Dubuque: Actual temp-95, heat index-100
Nashville: Actual temp-93, heat index-94
WOW. That's all I have to say. WOW.
I saw Batman Begins last night. In my opinion, it was a great movie. Beyond great. It was tremendous. I loved it. That is how Hollywood should be done.
And I finished "Pierced by a Sword" tonight. Now that was a great book. I think everyone should read it, since it was so thought-provoking, gripping, and life-changing. Really truly, I learned so much about the world, others, myself and the Catholic Church on the whole from this book. It was one of the best books I've read in some time. And it really has to be, at somewhere around 500 pages!
And on a random tangent, do I have the word "Idiot" stamped on my forehead? My boss even made a good-natured joke about it today after I told her about this customer I was helping (don't worry, my boss wasn't offensive...she's on my side!). So this woman came in a few weeks ago asking for a book that the priest at her parish had sent her over to buy. So I was like "What is the title?" and she's like "It's the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults book that Father uses. He's bought it here before" and I'm like "Ok, do you know which book? There are a few different books. Is it the actual book of the Rites?" And she looks at me and says, "It's the RITE of Christian Initiation of Adults book. You know, RCIA. Do you know what that is?" And I very nicely said "Yes. However, there is not just one book for RCIA. Do you know the title?" And she's like "No. But Father buys it here." So as the blood vessel in my forehead starts pulsing I'm like "Let me go get a catalog and we can see if we can find it"...so, after searching, we find the book...but we are currently out of stock at my store. So I tell her we can order it, and she gets all huffy about that, because FATHER sent her and clearly, FATHER knows our entire inventory. Argh. Anyway, I take the order, she leaves, and that's that. Today she comes to pick up the book, and I go to find it on the hold shelf for her. But it's not there. Oh no, that would be easy. So I find her order card and fined the exact title and pull it from the shelf. Easy enough, right? Well, I bring it to her and ask kindly, "Is this the book?" and she says "Yes" in this very short, mean tone. So then I ring it up, she pays for the book, and I smile at her, look her straight in the eyes and say very nicely (with all the civility I can muster) "Have a nice weekend"...and then she...ARGH...she looks at me and says with an even more not-nice tone "bye". I just looked at her like "What did I do to you?!". So then after she leaves I look at my co-worker and I say "Ok, that woman hates me." and she says "Yeah, she seemed kind of ornery." and after I started explaining to her why the woman hates me, she says "You know, while you were gone getting her book I asked her if she had been helped and she said 'Well, I think I'm being helped...". WHAT?! I was gone for like, 2 minutes MAX. Overall moral of this story: If you work for the Church in any way, shape, or form...please make smiling habitual and be nice to the girl at the bookstore who is doing her best to deal with your pissiness. Thanks.
And then at the same time, I am reorganizing the pastoral shelf when this lady just randomly starts asking me questions from across the store. So I walk (briskly) over to her, and she says, whilst pointing to a silver cross on the wall "Do you have this in wood?" and I say to her "No, sorry, everything we have is out". After a 10 second pause she says "How about gold?" I reciprocate with a 10 second pause (for a different reason altogether) and say, "Umm...no". She seems confused, and follows up with "It sure would be nice in bronze..." At this point, I turned and walked away. What a clown.
And this was all within the first two hours of work. And this happens every day. What the heck. It was a crazy day, though.
So I'm off to bed.
Keith Urban is in town tomorrow night. I can't decide if I'll go or not. No tengo amigos en Rockford. :(
Paz y verdad.
I heart people who smile.
Dubuque: Actual temp-95, heat index-100
Nashville: Actual temp-93, heat index-94
WOW. That's all I have to say. WOW.
I saw Batman Begins last night. In my opinion, it was a great movie. Beyond great. It was tremendous. I loved it. That is how Hollywood should be done.
And I finished "Pierced by a Sword" tonight. Now that was a great book. I think everyone should read it, since it was so thought-provoking, gripping, and life-changing. Really truly, I learned so much about the world, others, myself and the Catholic Church on the whole from this book. It was one of the best books I've read in some time. And it really has to be, at somewhere around 500 pages!
And on a random tangent, do I have the word "Idiot" stamped on my forehead? My boss even made a good-natured joke about it today after I told her about this customer I was helping (don't worry, my boss wasn't offensive...she's on my side!). So this woman came in a few weeks ago asking for a book that the priest at her parish had sent her over to buy. So I was like "What is the title?" and she's like "It's the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults book that Father uses. He's bought it here before" and I'm like "Ok, do you know which book? There are a few different books. Is it the actual book of the Rites?" And she looks at me and says, "It's the RITE of Christian Initiation of Adults book. You know, RCIA. Do you know what that is?" And I very nicely said "Yes. However, there is not just one book for RCIA. Do you know the title?" And she's like "No. But Father buys it here." So as the blood vessel in my forehead starts pulsing I'm like "Let me go get a catalog and we can see if we can find it"...so, after searching, we find the book...but we are currently out of stock at my store. So I tell her we can order it, and she gets all huffy about that, because FATHER sent her and clearly, FATHER knows our entire inventory. Argh. Anyway, I take the order, she leaves, and that's that. Today she comes to pick up the book, and I go to find it on the hold shelf for her. But it's not there. Oh no, that would be easy. So I find her order card and fined the exact title and pull it from the shelf. Easy enough, right? Well, I bring it to her and ask kindly, "Is this the book?" and she says "Yes" in this very short, mean tone. So then I ring it up, she pays for the book, and I smile at her, look her straight in the eyes and say very nicely (with all the civility I can muster) "Have a nice weekend"...and then she...ARGH...she looks at me and says with an even more not-nice tone "bye". I just looked at her like "What did I do to you?!". So then after she leaves I look at my co-worker and I say "Ok, that woman hates me." and she says "Yeah, she seemed kind of ornery." and after I started explaining to her why the woman hates me, she says "You know, while you were gone getting her book I asked her if she had been helped and she said 'Well, I think I'm being helped...". WHAT?! I was gone for like, 2 minutes MAX. Overall moral of this story: If you work for the Church in any way, shape, or form...please make smiling habitual and be nice to the girl at the bookstore who is doing her best to deal with your pissiness. Thanks.
And then at the same time, I am reorganizing the pastoral shelf when this lady just randomly starts asking me questions from across the store. So I walk (briskly) over to her, and she says, whilst pointing to a silver cross on the wall "Do you have this in wood?" and I say to her "No, sorry, everything we have is out". After a 10 second pause she says "How about gold?" I reciprocate with a 10 second pause (for a different reason altogether) and say, "Umm...no". She seems confused, and follows up with "It sure would be nice in bronze..." At this point, I turned and walked away. What a clown.
And this was all within the first two hours of work. And this happens every day. What the heck. It was a crazy day, though.
So I'm off to bed.
Keith Urban is in town tomorrow night. I can't decide if I'll go or not. No tengo amigos en Rockford. :(
Paz y verdad.
I heart people who smile.
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Hey Buddy! I'm in Dubuque right now! :) Yay! And yeah... it's been freaken hot lately, to say the least. I saw Batman Begins last week too!! I thought it was awesome, one of the best movies I've seen lately.
And about that lady: what a punk. That's all I have to say. You should've kicked her or slapped some sense in to her or something. Sounds like she could use some.
I hope work went better today!
Peace out.
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And about that lady: what a punk. That's all I have to say. You should've kicked her or slapped some sense in to her or something. Sounds like she could use some.
I hope work went better today!
Peace out.
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