2 posts tagged “bitching”

IT IS SO DAMN HOT.  I mean, I got home from work about 45 minutes ago (9:30 pm), and it was 80 degrees according to the car's rearview mirror.  JEEEEZ.  Hey, I know it's hotter in a lot of other places (hello, I'm going to one of them next month) but that's why people live here, because we can't handle real weather!  I was sitting in Lafayette Park this afternoon before work, and even in the shade of a huge tree, on grass, the heat was just killer.  When the wind blew it felt like a furnace.  Of course there were the usual maniacs lying out in the sun practically naked, as is the usual San Francisco reaction to a sunny day.  But even they couldn't lie out for more than half an hour before bursting into flame.  Too bad I have a full day scheduled tomorrow, otherwise I might head down to the beach and throw myself into the freezing water.  Mmmm...

...because I will be working at the book store 5 days this week.  The families I work for are both out of town (Hawaii and England, respectively) so I foolishly volunteered to take on "some" extra hours at the store.  "Some" apparently translated to my manager as roughly 25 extra hours.  I'm not upset about it, really, since I can definitely use the money.  But still, ugh, the thought of being a full time retail worker again, even if only for one week, is not too appealing.  And it doesn't help that we recently got a new GM who loves nothing more than cracking the whip on upselling.  I'm sorry, but I just refuse to try to pressure people into buying more stuff than they want!  Hopefully I'll be able to stay under the radar this week and then go quietly back to my 15 hours a week. 
Enough about work though, let's hear a couple of songs I've been enjoying lately:

I'm pretty crazy about those Black Kids.  Still pissed that I missed them at Mezzanine, especially when I found out that one of my coworkers was there.  Apparently the show was crazy packed (the headliner was Simian Mobile Disco).  Maybe they'll come back around again after their full length comes out...  Anyway, this song was stuck in my head all day today, and actually I don't know if I would have made it through the entire day without this song to pep me up.  Not that I got peppy at any point, of course.

Okay, as far as Islands' "Arm's Way", I admit that I only downloaded this album because of the crazy weird album art.  I mean, WTF.  Really.  Anyway, I missed Islands' first album, so I had no idea what to expect.  So I was very pleasantly surprised.  It's a little weird, but not even a tenth of how weird I expected it to be based on that cover!