Can you believe I seriously just spent 6 hours straight on one stupid economics assignment? (ok not 6 hours straight, I did go pick up a pizza then came back, but still!)how in the world can you make a freaking children's book about an entrepreneur? Any way... On the serious side, I think my dad is honestly on the edge of losing it. Time is finally coming to and end and the wait is almost over for finding out whether or not he has a job still. After working for the pipeline industry for about 28 years now, the man has nothing to show for it. Enron screwed him and now AEP is. (I'm sure I'd be going nuts too.) but instead of just getting a job with some of the contractors that he works with, he's thinking about getting out of the pipeline business for good. And becoming what you ask?... A cook! uh yeah... Not too sure how to take that. The first time he told me it was in one of his little drunken rambles, and I figured he'd wake up the next day and not even know he said it, but no... Not the case. He's wanting to go back to school and become an actual chef. I mean I'm happy for him in a sense, but in a selfish way, was it not him that said he couldn't help me out with school, and that all my dreams were crap? I don't know, I just don't really understand that man. I mean I love him and everything, I just don't get him. Out of nowhere, he's become a dad again. After 12 years? Just a few months ago the plan was for him to up and leave us and retire in the woods somewhere by himself. I don't know how to really respond. He comes in my room to tell me bye and that he loves me. I mean yeah, that's sweet and everything, just something I cant get use to for some reason. I guess I've spent the last 10 years of my life getting use to not having it, and now that I do, its not natural. Make sense? And how is my mom responding to all this? She's going nuts as well. I mean I love her to death, but its as though she's always in her own little world. I come to her for advice, or cause I just need to break down, and it is either turned around to where she is breaking down to me and I'm doing the mom supporting, I get the whole "well if you weren't so irresponsible none of this would ever happen to you. See what happens when you don't listen to god" or even better, I beg for advice and I get just one line: "you just need to pray about it" OMG!!! I mean yeah, prayer is good, but did God not also give us each other for support? *sigh* I don't know, I just want out for a while.
any way... NEW HATE LIST!
Hate list #2: Box Office:
1. When people stand there dumbfounded for about 15 minutes (no exaggeration either)
2. When parents once again, make their kids tell you what they want (picture this: a family with about six 4 year olds telling me one by one what they want)
3. Having someone ask for six gift cards, paying with credit, and they swiper doesn't work on the computer
4. Having the computer freeze up on you after every transaction
5. Having the ac put on high, freezing to death, then someone turning the heater on until its about 90, then turning the ac back on full blast to continue the cycle again
6. Having to explain that the Giftix is not real to very violent customers
7. Having someone pay $30 with nothing but those stupid gold dollars
8. Having people walk head first into the glass then get mad cause they made a fool of themselves
9. jr. high kids....must I say more?
10. People that threaten to take their business to AMC *shrugs* who cares?
11. People that insist on getting a refund because they "didn't like the movie" after sitting though the whole thing... Its called read reviews
12. Having little kids yell into the speaker next to you not knowing that, its the only one that works and that its turned up all the way... Yeah, not fun
13. Having managers that make it obvious that you are making them go out of their way to let you in a box... I wont say too many names, but you can guess
14. Having nothing to do for almost 4 hours straight... At least in concession you can clean or count something.

ok, I'm done for now... Sorry. Sad thing is , that was a much longer hate list and the first one... But most of these are more tolerable than writing out receipts, getting butter on you, or doing gameroom refunds ;)