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Effing Christ, my upstairs neighbors are being super loud lately. It's like they're playing catch with furniture or something. And missing. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. Every other minute. I don't even get it.

(of course it doesn't help that the walls are literally thin enough for me to hear one of them vomiting at the moment -- seriously)

ANYWAY, who's in the mood for some meme-osity? I won't be posting my Year in Review or 2011 Soundtrack until it's closer to the end of December, but bibliodragon recently shared a "first posts of the month" meme, and I thought that looked just random enough to be fun. ( Out of context subject headings ahoy )

Also, I got tagged by sonneta today for another meme:

The rules:
1. Each person must post 11 things about themselves in their journal.
2. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create 11 new questions for the people you tag to answer.
3. You have to choose 11 people to tag.
4. No tag backs.

( Here are the questions she gave me )

Moving on, I finally attended an ACA meeting again yesterday & even went to lunch with some of them after. I kinda wish I hadn't done the latter though, just because of the money involved + this one lady who kept saying things that bugged the CRAP out of me. Not ACA-related, but more so society-related (hence my subject heading today -- it's from Lewis Black's bit about hearing something so stupid & senseless that you get an aneurysm from it, because you just. can't. let it. go. "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college!" Haha). But it tainted the day regardless. Even so, there were a few thought-provoking things I got out of the meeting itself, so that's good. I've had a lot of conflicted feelings about the program & some of the regulars there in general circling my mind ever since though, and I'll probably just have to hash that out with my counselor. The "Thought Train" strikes again, oy.

On a way off-topic note, I read this week that Leverage ( cut to protect the spoiler-free )

Finally, I'm almost done with my show meme. Only one more entry to go after this. ( Gilmore Girls and My So-Called Life )

Today's icon is brought to you by today's weather here in the Pacific Northwest. Could someone please explain to Mother Nature that it's supposed to be fall now? Hence the 95 degree temperatures today were a bit over-kill? Like, WTF weather, way to be on crack. Don't you know crack is wack? Whitney Houston says so and everything.

I've had a few other WTF moments today too. The first was technically in the middle of the night, when I randomly found myself half-awake and swore I saw a spider hanging in front of my face. And I literally yelped, jumped out of my bed, turned on the light, and there was nothing there. And I was like. . ."okaaaaay then, ANYWAY." Rock on with the hallucinatory night terrors there, self!

My third and final WTF of the day came from the crazypants customer who called me literally two minutes before I was supposed go home, and then proceeded to yell at me at like 90 miles an hour for the next 30 minutes straight. It took all my powers not to be like "OKAY, I get it. The gist of this is that you're a shitstain on the seat of mankind, and you're here to ruin my day. That's great for you. Hope it works out. BUT I NEED TO GO CATCH MY BUS NOW. YOU CAN KINDLY KISS MY ASS AND CALL BACK TOMORROW. EXCEPT BY TOMORROW I MEAN NEVER, BECAUSE YOU SUCK."

Ahh, the joys of handling non-compliant accounts. Heh. What fun! Truthfully though, I will actually miss certain aspects of the role when the girl I'm filling in for comes back (she's been on an extended maternity leave). I liked having coworkers asking me questions, and coming to me for things, and I really enjoyed having more responsibility and freedom. I also did way, way better at it than I thought I would. I was worried I was too nice to do a job like this, but it turns out I've got the whole "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" thing down. Ha. So it's been a nice boost in confidence for me, professionally-speaking. At least when I go back to sales though I can start trying to get bigger bonuses again. Those are always nice. Sometimes the competitiveness of trying to meet certain sales goals can be stressful though, but it's not like dealing with the crazypants shenanigans of non-compliant customers isn't stressful either. Both roles have their pros & cons. Either way, it's cool I was chosen for it, because it's one more thing to put on my resume now, and one more thing to use in my favor toward hopefully gaining a permanent job there & moving up the ladder.

Moving on though, I had a couple quick tv-related things I wanted to talk about, re: The Emmys (which I watched on my DVR just last night because I'm super timely like that) & the most recent ep of Parks & Recreation. After all, I can't just be on here rambling about my real life all day, now can I? Not when there's ~important~ things to talk about such as television, right? Like, get your priorities straight, Rachael! Hee.

( Dear Emmys, don't think I didn't notice you using Bear McCreary's music during your Best Drama montage! )