No, you cannot have my time

So yesterday it was slow as hell, once again, at the mall. Slow enough that I watched episodes 28-33 of Soul Eater and was hardly ever interrupted by people. The holiday season is totally over, so no one is buying stuff anymore really. Now's the time to go back to work and school, and as such the foot traffic is down to a crawl. The food court hardly even fills up at lunch anymore. So yes, it's really slow.

I guess some lady went bitching to poor Susan (mall manager) though because we sell "indecent" (she means the playboy type) calendars, and kids can see them, blah blah blah. Susan was telling me about this, and she took a look just to see what that woman was upset about, and she told me that it's not like you could see anything, and that it wasn't anything illegal. She wanted a number to Borders that she could give the lady, but sadly I only had ones for Kiosk Support. So Susan said she was going to look up one online that would take the lady AGES to get through to someone that mattered with. x3 Sometimes, I really love Susan.

I also had several rude people come over with food in hand, eating and talking, and demanding to know calendar prices and asking which ones were cheapest and stuff. And it was like... gross. I'm happy to help, but please don't come over and talk with your mouth full and chew in my ear for a calendar. I'm sure such an important purchase (and neither even bought a calendar wtf?) can wait until after your lunch, thanks.

My sensei and friend, Steve, stopped by two days ago to bother me. That was pretty cool. He has a job with Success Magazine now, and he's going to see if he can't help me get a photography position there. That would ROCK. In the mean time, I'm going to check out Borders Cafe, and other places.

I didn't go to work today though, because I wasn't going to do the two-hour drive from hell through bad weather again for a company that's laying me off at the end of the month. So Huma had to take my shift, and I'll be in tomorrow when we're supposed to shut down.

Now, I say supposed to because Mark called yesterday wanting to know if we could stay open until Sunday, the 13th. Which we can't, because we're down to three of us (myself, Huma, and Andrew; Heidi has wedding stuff to take care of now), there isn't enough traffic to warrant it, and if we do this it's going to make for a nasty schedule and unnecessary stress for Alix. Because this is what her schedule would look like:
Close CP Kiosk on the 13th
Close Wilton Kiosk on the 14th
Close the store between the 24th and 31st.

This only sounds easy, because you can't see the work. And the big issue with the CP kiosk is that if the LDT machine doesn't work for this once, we have to type the SKU numbers in by hand for every single calendar left over before we send it to Crossgates. And that will take FOR-EV-ER. And then to close two kiosks in such a short time? Nothnx. So I told her that I figured we should just do as we please and ask Susan if we can't leave the empty kiosk. Because they also still don't have an exact date for us anyways. Friggin stupid for sure. :P

And besides, Alix already told me she needs my help up in Wilton with how crazy things are getting there as well. So. :\

*sigh* Oh well. I'm not going to worry about it. I had enough panic attacks all through yesterday, don't feel like repeating them tonight.