Prolix Ad Nauseam

So... cool stuff at work today!

FIRST, during lunch break, I went to the Japanese place near the Bi-Lo where I work, and there was this little kid that kept shouting stuff in Japanese, and it made me wonder "I wonder (see?) if I could say anything to him that he would understand?" At first, I was just trying to think of words, but then I was playing out these little conversations in Japanese, and it surprised me how much I could remember after 4 years of never having anything to do with the language (or else I just have myself convinced that I know what I'm doing). It made me want to try to learn it again; it really is an awesome language, all weabooness aside.
SECONDLY. We got new atm/credit card readers, and they changed the cashier keyboard so that ATM and credit are the same button, instead of two different ones (before, we always had to ask "credit or debit?", then push the appropriate button; if we hit the wrong one, it would crash and they'd have to slide their card again, usually accusing of double-charging them in the process). The new button is where the old "atm/debit" button was, and the "credit" button is unused. I also found out that if you pull on the button caps, they pop off, and the label is just printed on a piece of paper slid under.
>:3
On one register, I tore a piece of register paper into a rectangle, wrote an infinity sign on it, and slid it under there. Best part is that when you push it, the screen pops up "Entry Error: Press Clear" XD Much love for infinity and all its nonnumberlessness. On the reigster I was on tonight, I changed it to "Entry Error", and found another unused button which is now "Self Destruct". I was going to make another one for the other cashier I was working with tonight, but I couldn't think of anything cool for her (other than "Release Attack Ferrets", but it was too long to fit :( (I've been on a big ferret-kick lately... dunno why )), so hers is still blank.
THIRD... LY. I stayed until 1 am (supposedly, we have a bunch of customers who come in right after 12, so I couldn't just sneak out early... of course, there weren't that many tonight). 1 other cashier was there, and we both... cashiered? yeah. Anyway, she had a customer come through her line who wanted a carton of cigarettes, but unfortunately, all our cartons are kept behind the customer service desk which had been locked and alarm-set-ed a little while before. It bothered me that I could see the ones she was after, but I couldn't reach them. Stupid desk.
HOWEVER, I'm not the kind of person to let something like too-far-away-ness get in my way :D So I took an order-divider-stick-thing (about an 18-inch plastic bar) and a "paid" sticker, rolled up the sticker, stuck it to the bar, stuck the bar onto the cigarette carton, pulled it out enough so that it would balance on the edge of the carton below it, turned the stick around to the unstickered side, popped the bottom carton back a little so the the one on top would slide out, balanced the carton on the bar, and pulled it out safely. I think the other cashier and customer were amazed at my awesomeness. Of course, I don't blame them :3 Later, I found out that the alarm isn't on the doors, but the floor, and that if anything were to fall on the floor (like the carton), it would have gone off. Mission impossible, indeed <_<
AFTER THATLY. I got a coupon for a free 1.5-liter bottle of Lipton raspberry white tea, which is really good. Er... not awesome on my part, really, but it still made me feel good. Unfortunately, it was a manufacturer's coupon, so I still had to pay the 5 cents sales tax, but I only had 3 cents on me D: (dinner cost $6.97, and I conveniently brought $7.00). The cashier was like "It's okay, I have an extra penny here :D " plus I guess they won't miss a penny... OR WILL THEY?!?!? She probably owes me at least a penny since I gave her gum and entertainment :P My sister gave me a quarter as we were leaving, and I took that back to make up for it. I have no idea where the extra 21 cents went, but hopefully it's healthy and happy.
LASTISHLY.  When I got home, I didn't start playing WoW like I normally would, but I started DRAWING. YES. I don't like drawing because I feel like everything I make sucks (which it pretty much does :/ ), but I'm trying to think of it as leveling my drawing skill, so eventually I'll be better and will do it more (or so the theory goes). But yeah. No WoW => no spacing out completely => me remembering all this junk => me having something to look back on whenever I feel unawesome.

OH YEAH!

(I don't think it counts as copypasta if you wrote the original)

I'm on it as of today. YAY DRUGS! The therapist says I have bad social anxiety, and should take prozac + therapy >_< In a way, I'm glad, since it means I might finally get over the urge to kill people for doing stupid stuff like... talking... but at the same time, I don't want to be the guy going to therapy to solve his own problems :/ ka-bleh.

Downloading stepmania songs is making me run out of disk space. Also switching focus from the text field here as anything finishes, which is bothering me... except that it's done now so no worries :)

I'm really tired.

What now?

My first class (electronics @ 8:00) was cancelled, so I got to sleep in. Unfortunately, I slept through my second class (9-10), and woke up around 11:20, realizing that I had a test in math, which started at 11:15

o__o;;

I flew out and got to class at about 11:40, right at the halfway point (class normally runs 11:15 - 12:05) x__x I didn't do very well on the first test, so I made sure to study for this one beforehand (I planned to eat breakfast and study in the hour or so before class, but... I was sleeping :D I had a dream that I had caught a raccoon; it was soft and didn't give me rabies. yay) Oh, but I did study last night, which was good. Turns out the practice exam he put online was pretty much identical to the actual test :)
When there were 5 minutes left for the test, he walked over to me and asked if I wanted some more time.
me: "Oh... yes XP I mean I've still got... uh... *flips through test seeing that it's all done except for the last half of one problem* oh... nah, I think I'll be okay" :)
him: "Ah... okay... quick" o_O
me: "er... yeah."
I got it done in time, which was... yeah. Don't know how that happened really, but I'm glad it did :D now I won't have to worry [as much] about failing. Woot.

IN OTHER NEWS. Spring break starts now. Except not really since I'm still stuck here and not at home, but I don't have class until next Monday, so I'm happy. Unfortunately, I've been sucked back into the trap of HL2 mod coding, so I expect to lose a bunch of hours on a project that'll never fully materialize. Bah.

DDR again tonight maybe. I hope so.

So last night, I nailed the most almost perfect left foot back hook kick (reverse roundhouse) I've ever done, and I was so proud of myself until I realized that I couldn't straighten out my leg without this sharp pain behind my knee x__x I tried kicking a few more times, and each time it looked decent, but my leg kept hurting worse and worse (I think part of it may have been the fact that once I got my leg fully extended, it would pull back really fast from the pain reflex, but that's what you're supposed to do for that kick, anyway. Nifty!). I couldn't kick with the other leg, either, since I'd have to straighten the left one to stand on (I could've tried to impress everyone else by doing only jumping kicks from that point on, but I might've killed myself... and that wouldn't be impressive). On the bright side, I know that I can do a nice hook kick, so I won't have to worry about not knowing what to do from now on... maybe.
Hurt my right big toe, too, roundhouse kicking someone to the face (or chest gear, I forget which).

I realized today at lunch that I haven't been working on my grades nearly as hard as I need to. I kinda hurt; my heart sank a little, which made less room in my stomach for delicious cookies. Of the 5 classes I have, I'm only doing well in one of them. One's okay/salvageable, one will be okay if I study for the next test & exam, one I need to read through all of the class notes to understand better what's going on, and the last... I'm not even sure what that one's about. It involves calculus, I think. And using Jacobians for coordinate transforms, which makes me bubbly and happy since my name is Jacob. I didn't even know that's what they were called until we went over it in a different class. I had always just learned to put rho before the differentials when integrating in cylindrical coordinates, but when we learned what a Jacobian was, how it was evaluated, and how it was used, it all clicked. Hopefully that'll help me to catch up. I feel ashamed to call myself a "calculus guy" without knowing stuff like this. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
It's not too late in the semester, though. I'm glad I had this realization now and not the week before exams. That would suck.

Holy geez, this track's still got 15 minutes to go x__x Yay for continuous dj mixes.

(cross posted from deviantart TEE HEE)
So today was the first time I had black coffee since Christmas break, and apparently my tolerance for caffeine has gone down since then. I was fine through electronics class, a little jittery, but then in my next class, I got a really bad headache (typical), some muscle in the back of my head started having spasms (odd), and my tongue went numb (weird). Lasted for half an hour or so. I probably would have enjoyed it some if I didn't have to pay attention and take notes in class. Still kinda jittery... YAY!
It's hard to type, so I'm keeping this short. Bye.

So after being here for, what... a day? I've decided that this place isn't all that bad. No e-whore site ads, anyway. Maybe that'll come later?
For the time being, I'm going to try to get this page more home-y like. Not homie, y'herrd?
And fox mood icons yiff yay.

[edit] CSS done. Not sure I like the transparent table backgrounds, though. They looked cooler in my head, but it's pretty dark in there.

Some girl said I couldn't find her Livejournal, but I did. I had to make this account in order to do so. That's why I'm here.