let vengeance howl; the pirate so decides

This entry is sort of a continuation of my piratey entry from yesterday, but first I guess I should talk about other things so you guys don't think that PotC is the only thing I think about, even though it is. :D

So yesterday I had my first training shift at my new movie theatre job. It wasn't terribly exciting but I enjoyed it for what it was, and I'm actually really glad to begin with these two classroom training shifts. For the first while we read from the employee manuals (and made nametags and ate candy), and then we went on a tour which I thought was paced just right. :) Much better than my toy store tour, haha; that one consisted of quickly walking a loop through the store while the girl who was training me called out things like, "That's baby. That's girls'. That's outdoors." It was not detailed enough to be helpful. :/ (I feel bad writing things like this because the_wykydtron is continuing to work there ... but I think she's man enough to take it, right?) This tour was more detailed and more exciting! XD We went to the break room (where, wonder of wonders, the furniture is not falling apart!), the office, the ROOM OF CANDY haha awesome, the projection rooms (you climb up the stairs to one and then to get to the other you have to walk through this little level that's high above the lobby - I never even knew this existed but it was really cool!!) where I got to watch a bit of soundless Shrek the Third, and then for no apparent reason we went up onto the roof, hahaha. My brother and his girlfriend were very jealous when I told them this because in their years of working at the theatre, they've apparently never been on the roof. XD Pwned!!

The schedule is posted on a bulletin board in the break room; it's a bunch of standard pieces of paper tacked together in columns. In the quick glance I had at it, I could tell there were quite a lot of names, but you guys know I am not so good with the mathematics, so today I asked my brother how many people work at the theatre and he said from sixty to eighty. HOLY MAN!!! That's a lot of people! At my fast food job we usually had eight employees; at the toy store it's more than that but still less than sixty! I can't even believe this! haha. One day I shall have to count the number of people on the schedule, just to verify. Oh man, I hope this doesn't mean I'm constantly working with strangers. It probably won't, but still, my goodness. ^^;

And another thing about the training is that I'm pretty sure I was the oldest one there. :X Everyone else being trained seemed to be in high school, and there were two of them who gave off the impression that this was their first job. I'm sure they're both very nice people, but their lack of any sort of professionalism bothered me a lot more than I would have expected it to. One girl kept boasting about the number of employees she's already friends with (I think that's the only reason she wants this job), and then she answered her cell phone while the trainer was talking. !!! Another girl said absolutely nothing until the idea of free movies was brought up. Then she was burying the trainer in questions about how we can get free movies and how many we can get and when we can get them and how many friends we can bring and if this is all applicable to such-and-such a movie and OH MAN. At least pretend you're here for more than the free movies! Geeze! :P

In other news, my latest J-pop order came today, a very speedy delivery from Amazon.co.jp. :D Duo U&U, W's first album, was one of my purchases, and I felt kind of bad ordering it now that W is dead. ^^; But it was totally worth it. This album is a cover of older J-pop songs and it totally exceeded my expectations. :) I've only listened to it once so far, so the songs are all kind of blended together in my head, but still, I really liked them. XD I also got GAM's first album, Amai Yuuwaku, which I sort of skipped through. It seems rather better than Sexy 8 Beat, MoMusu's 2007 album, though. And yay for "LU LU LU." XD I also got a concert DVD, Hello! Pro Party Goto Maki Captain Kouen. I've read a bunch of forum posts saying that one should download this concert instead of buying it, but what I've watched of it so far looked pretty good to me. And this concert's performance of "Daite yo! Please Go On" is one of my favourite H!P performances ever, so even if the rest of it is terrible I still won't mind too much. ;)

The only non-H!P item in this order is one that everyone is going to make fun of me for. XD The Japanese DVD of the first PotC movie, woohoo!! XD I've only watched a wee little bit of the film in Japanese dub; I shall have to be patient and not watch any more until athena_crikey can watch it with me. I expect to understand an unusual amount simply because I have seen the movie in English way too many times. XD

And that's about all I wanted to say about that stuff, so now I guess we can move onto the goods ... XD

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And I guess that's all for now, because I have to get up early tomorrow to work my last shift at the toy store. :) I just now changed the ticker on my LJ profile from a PotC3 countdown to a OotP countdown ... Makes me sad! :( I mean, I am looking forward to July's Harry Potter goodness, but not with half as much excitement as I was looking forward to PotC3. :/ Sigh.