if anyone asks this is educational

Woo! After a long yesterday wherein I was basically ghosted by the sales department and could get nothing done, I'm back down to work inbox zero and my techs are busy on sold units, so I can focus on the years of silly training videos I have to go through now that I'm technically a service advisor.

I'll also probably read a bit, too, because c'mon. If they didn't want someone for this position who was on their phone constantly, they would NOT have hired me in the first place, because after all this time, they know exactly who I am.

When I bought all that MUBI bullshit the other day, I was not expecting yesterday to be the day I got the book I preordered from them almost three months ago! Really luxuriating in the pretentious bullshit right now, I am! It's a genuinely beautiful object and came in a comically huge box and I'm looking forward to digging into it.

Contemplating a Mystery Wrestling Patreon subscription just so that I can rewatch all of their shows ahead of attending one, since they are only sporadically available on the high seas. Maybe if I can find a way to download them myself?

2. What Would You Be Willing to Wait in a Really Long Line For?

the duty of all Real Americans

It's Friday! Five-day work weeks still feel inordinately brief to me, but I'll be back before I know it because weekends are NOTHING. Sales is bombarding us with sold units that are somehow ALL to take priority, and 50% of my techs are gone until Wednesday (he's proposing to his girlfriend, aww). At least soon it won't be my problem for 48 hours!

Eddington tomorrow, then my mom and brother ditch town for a day so she can go get a mammogram because that's yet another thing she somehow can't have done within 400km of here.

I need to book my plane tickets for September, and make sure my time off request is amended as it's no longer for a Wednesday-Tuesday stretch. Mystery Wrestling tickets for the day after All Out go on sale Monday, so maybe I'll do it all while I'm back at work then.

Back to my highest weight ever and feeling bad! I went off my intermittent fasting kick when all this random upheaval started, so I guess it's time to get back on that, since it's the only thing I've ever found that works for me. Starting... tomorrow.

31. How Much Do You Know About History?

I'd say about 8.

Still busy with work, but slowly carving back my sense of self. There was a barbecue over at sales today! Hot dogs make all the annoying emails go down easier.

Saw Together on Monday and our theatre is getting Eddington this weekend (I wasn't sure if we would), so I'm set on the culture front until Fantastic Four (also still riding high from Superman and The Godfather, it's been a good cinemonth!). Still thinking obsessively about various parts of All In Texas (currently: the camera waiting by the heel entrance for Hangman only to have to rapidly pan over when he finally comes out of the good boy hole instead).

Have juuuuust enough free time between work orders to do some windows shopping. I missed the PPV merch sale, so I really shouldn't buy more wrestling t-shirts, particularly one I already own a version of, but A) I can actually wear them at work now!, B) SNAKESKIN PRINT. I've also got a very expensive trench coat open in another tab that I will probably not pull the trigger on, but hnnnng look at all those pockets. I got my first cheque of being salaried the other night, and I'm guessing it was just way higher than usual with my training week on there, too, because it was fully more than twice what I would have made in my old position and I think it's going to my head a little bit. Gotta wait until the end of the month to know how much more I'll actually have to play with on the regular.

Just a couple more hours until I can go home, make noodles, and watch this video of all the best entrances from Y'all In! Ecstasy of Gold almost made me cry when they played it at the pops orchestra concert my mom and I went to a few months back, so this is long-term storytelling, here.

Also, the Internet Archive uploaded a whole bunch of old Canadian fanzines, which rules a whole lot, actually.

29. Should People Give Money to Panhandlers?

Sure, if they want to.