I'm comfortable with being an Elitist

I had a very strange weekend. Nothing annoyed me even the slightest. I do have a reason for my good mood, as on Friday I learned that I was selected as a finalist for a contest that I am very excited about. But I won't go into details until that's all done. I'm just happy that, win or not, I was still selected as one of the few good enough to be considered. Being elite is awesome.

And I find that being in such good spirits makes me want to write in my blog. But about what? People don't want to read about happiness, right? It's so mundane and subjective. But you know what? Screw you. I'm happy and you're just going to have to deal with it.

So Friday was fantastic news for me day. And then the Mets won. With Davis and Takahashi being impressive.

On Saturday I made scrumptious delights. It was fun, but a little stressful. I tried out a new recipe for the first time. I made Butterfinger styled cupcakes. They were chocolate with peanut butter frosting and peanut brittle sprinkled on top. Normally I have no problem trying a recipe for the first time, but I fear baking and the horrible ways in which everything can go wrong if I make one simple little mistake. Luckily for me I rarely make mistakes and the cupcakes turned out fantastic!

And then the Mets won. And finally reached .500

I went to the Daffodil Festival on Sunday. It was awesome. It was ever so slightly raining, which meant there were practically no people around. There were still some, but it was way less heinous than previous years. Especially since it was a little chilly too. Nothing is more gross than going to a packed festival in sweltering heat and being surrounded by gross people eating unappealing food with children running around with sno-cone coloring stained to their faces. No thanks. Rainy and chilly and sparse is the way to go. It was quite enjoyable. And I got a really pretty necklace and matching earrings for a grand total of $9.

And then the Mets won again. And are now over .500 and tied for 2nd. My love for the day's rain must have helped since they won due to a rain-shortened game.

Sometimes life can be good. As long as no one annoying and terrible is trying to engage you in conversation.

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Group Training Is So Very Very Fun

Everyone has done some sort of training for a job, right? Well, hopefully. I just got home from a 6ish hour long training for a call center. I won't say which call-center, and I won't give out details about training because I don't want to get in trouble, but I don't see any problem with telling you about the people there.

It was a fairly large training group, probably close to 30 people. And of course with a group that large there is a good chance that at least 5 people will be obnoxious. First, there was the repulsive large ass-crack of a lady sitting in front of me. Throughout the 6 hours it somehow got larger and larger and more disgusting. Now, I don't make a habit of looking at large ass-cracks, however it was one of those things that once you notice you cant go back and make yourself un-notice it. You know, like people with horrible face moles or people who muffin-top.

That wasn't even that bad. Behind me I had the loud-breathing, gum-popping, hard-candy clacking, constantly shifting kind of guy. Those are all actions that I highly despise. And to make matters worse, the fact that he was sitting behind me made it so that I couldn't even glare at the back of his head, or shift obviously away from him while making a disgusted face. You know, because passive-aggressive is how I roll. The best I could do was completely turn around while he asked an irrelevant question and stare unblinking at him with a creepy smile. I'm classy like that.

And that guy brings me to the questions. Oh the questions. The stupid, pointless, waste of time questions. Here was how half the time went: "What if a customer wants (insert something that can't even happen) to put on a (insert item that doesn't exist) and there isn't a store that can do that?" The answer is obvious to me: "Tell them we can't do that." And on and on and on these questions went. I could tell even the trainer was getting annoyed. This was just the intro training, can't they save the detailed and pointless questions for training with the actual programs?

It always baffles me just how very unprofessional people are. And by "baffles me" what I really mean is "annoys the crap out of me." There were people texting in their pocketbooks, as if that isn't obvious. It's bad enough when high school kids do it, but employees? Really? You're going to do that during training and then ask them to repeat something because you were too busy texting to listen? Also, remember this is a call-center, what about the people with the "I gotta ax yous a question." How did they get this job? It's a call-center! All you have to be able to do is speak clearly and coherently! I just don't get it.

Well, overall I am excited for this job. It will be nice to have steady, easy work for a few weeks. Now that group training is done I'm hoping everything will be less annoying. Oh, I know I'll have many customers to deal with, but I expect them to not know what's going on. After all, they wouldn't be calling me if they knew how to fix their own problems, so I'll let them be confused at me for a few minutes. It's all good.

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A first post had to happen at some point

A lot of things in the world annoy me. Greatly, intensely, severely annoy me. Children, cliches, pickled food, loud chewing, open-mouth breathers, stupid people, small talk, politicians, overly happy people, overly depressed people, bugs, and soggy bread are just a few of those things. Also, I am frequently bored. Why am I telling you all this information about myself? 1) Because I'm interesting, 2) to clarify the purpose of this blog, and 3) to have a first post. So here is my first post. I find it to be sufficient for starting this blogging adventure. It will be fun and entertaining, I promise. If you disagree then you can go away, seeing as how you probably don't matter to me anyway.

But seriously though, what's with the people who walk around with their mouths wide open for no reason? Open-mouth breathing is only acceptable if you are sick or don't have a complete jaw. Close your mouths people, you look like idiots. There will be more on this topic at a later date.

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