Lions, Otters, Beavers and Penguins, oh my!

I HATE classifying things... Putting things in little boxes and saying "Ok, you're in box A. So you can't be B, C or D." I can not tell you how much I hate it... (but I'll be darned if I don't try. ^.~)

We had a fireside tonight... A very good fireside... It was on relationships and the differences between guys and gals.

So she started talking about the qualities of girls. And she said the qualities of guys. If you're a girl, you multi-task, you talk a lot, you want to be saved by your prince, you don't want your problems fixed and you just want to rant, etc.
If you're a guy you want to be appreciated... That was it...

And if you're a girl you HAVE to have those qualities. And if you're a guy you HAVE to have that quality... You can't be a mix. Oh no!!! ...*grumble*...

Then the one that really got me was the animal test. She asked two questions and divided us up into four groups. Do you feel more comfortable in a group of close friends or just a group of people? Do you rely more on yourself to make a decision or do you ask people around you?

Now, first of all. That's a really black or white answer... I hate those. -_-; I can be any one of those four! It all depends on the situation...

Second. Ok... so am I to believe that everyone in the world is only one of four things?? Humans are so predictable and monotonous that they fit into only one of four categories??

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GR!!!
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Yeah... I was rather annoyed you might say. ^.^;

Heh, and then people after were all "Hey, what are you? I'm a Beaver!!!11" ... "That's nice. I'm a me."

I'm sure it's my stubborn streak talking. But I really hate putting things in boxes like that where it can only be in one box, and it can't possibly be anything else...

I'm all for order. I love order. If there's not order, I stress. But I hate it when things are classified like that. People are blobs. Multi-colored, wonderful, crazy, frustrating blobs. They are not circles, squares, otters or kumquats...

*breath*
^.^; Ok... me better...

(and not that I disagreed with everything... For example, I needed to rant, and not necessarily have the problem fixed (although if you have thoughts, comment away) I just way disagreed on that.)

P.S. This goes a lot with my tendency of hating to be forced into things... Even if I want to do something, but I feel I'm being forced, I will dig in my heels and stop. Tell me what you want, and show me how, then let me do it. Don't force me, it won't work.

Happy SAD chicken!

Well first of all... Happy Singles Awareness Day!

Second, I has a job again!!! w00t! ^.^ At chick-fil-a, it's a fast food place. I've never heard of them myself, but I saw the ad on facebook and applied. (see... My endless time on facebook has actually done me some good. ^.~)

And it's actually kinda a funny story.

Now, I've been bad... I didn't apply like I should... There was no plastering of the city with my resume... I rarely even left my house... I had no job, and I liked it... I would have times where I wanted to have something to do... but those feelings were quickly squashed.

So, I was on facebook (like I have been way too much lately... Yes, my name is Fei-chan, and I have a problem...) and I saw a little cow on the corner of my screen with a sign on it saying "Hey! We're hiring where you live!" "huh" thought I "a place that's actually hiring... That might be worth a look see."

So a few days later (have I mentioned how lazy I am??) I went over to the building. I looked around for someone to get an app from and noticed the hours on the door. M-Sa... blah, blah... Sunday closed...

O.O

Sunday CLOSED??? I MUST work here!! (My religion is important to me, and I resist working on Sundays)

So I got an app and was scheduled for an interview. (they did that with everyone, so nothing special there) So I show up, all dressed up with a notebook in hand. Don't I look spiffy.
It was a group interview. I'm not too good with group interviews 'cause I don't tend to push myself, I'll let others talk and just kinda sit there agreeing... But I was hopeful, and they weren't open Sundays. (my mantra...)

So it started. Oh, and one other thing. I prepared some, but I had perfect answers for only two questions. Why do you want to work here (Sundays... Sundays... Sundays... Oh, and you look like you have quality food.) and something else that escapes me...

Well guess what two questions he asked? ^.^ So I got to shine. And apparently really charmed that guy. 'Cause I got the call for the second interview before I was even home yet.

So second interview rolls around... ... ... I'd prepared for a total of about 35 minutes... Bad Fei-chan... I didn't do nearly as well... I didn't do anything wrong, but I didn't do anything really right either... So I figured I was out. 'Cause they had a lot of people applying...

Well, couple hours later my phone rings and I pounce. Hey guess what? I got the third interview! (total of three in all) ... Only this one is with the owner. O.o; No pressure...

So this time I prepared!! Oh, I had a week to prepare for the second, only a day for the third... Oh, and did I mention I had a dentist appointment earlier that day?? ^.^; With fillings?? Yeah... But I prepared!

I was still kinda numb and slightly slurry when I showed up... And nervous... 'Cause this one was for all the marbles and maybe even some of the buttons as well...

So I got there, actually a little early, and sat in my car and stressed some more. Got in, waited a bit, and was walked over to the owner... Big, bad scary owner...

It was the guy who interviewed me the first time. ^.^ *phew* "Well... I have the job ^.^" I thought. I'd always had a good feeling about this job, but that pretty much fixed it in my head.
Heh, he asked me if I had any questions, and then pretty much just asked if I wanted to join. DOI!... "Yes please" ^.^

So, I has job!! ^.^

Happy Darwin day!

I just found out Feb 12th is Darwin's birthday! This'll be his 200th.

You know, that Darwin guy who talked about evolution and who spawned the Darwin awards when someone drowns in a thermous or something. ^.^

So happy Darwin day! http://www.darwinawards.com/

Eating a cockroach

...Ok... so I has a dilemma...
I think I mentioned in a previous post that I locked myself out of the house a while back... Well I got talking to the gal who lives there (I thought it would be appropriate... talk to the gal who's house I'm crashing at) and we got talking about books. Well her son is on a mission and loves this one series.

So while they're gathering dust, she figured I could borrow them and read them. Hey! Who am I to turn down a book? So I said yes. So she brought over a box full of books. O.o; About seven I think... I don't read fast at all, but there they were. The whole series!... minus the first one... So I looked for the first one at the library...

Long story short...er... A friend of mine had it, and I borrow it from her.

Well here's where the dilemma starts... I mentioned to another friend, Honor, that I was looking for this series. The series is by Terry Goodkind. Well apparently it's full of wonderful things like rape... ^.^; greaaaaat... But she thought that the first one was ok.

So, ok, I'll just borrow the first one and politely tell the gal who I borrowed the rest from that I don't want them. Cool, cool.

Well I get to the friend's house who I am borrowing the books from... We'll call her Fish. So I go over to Fish's house and borrow the first one. So I figure as long as I'm there I'll get her opinion on the series... Same... Only she remembers that there's stuff in the first book as well... ^.^;
More greatness...

So now I'm standing there... with this book that I now know I do not want to read... and Fish is saying "Oh, well just read what you want and when you get to where you can't take it anymore I'll tell you what happens to the characters. ^.^"

That's very sweet of her... I would love to know what happens to the characters... Did I actually want to read the book in the first place...

Now, you're probably asking yourself why I didn't just reject the book then, chuck it back at Fish and make up some excuse about leaving the oven on... Answer?... I am horribly indecisive... and if a decision is made for me, I'll most likely go along... I really didn't... don't want to hurt Fish's feelings... I did manage to mumble something about how I might not want to read it then, but then she said the thing about filling me in on how it ends. ^.^; So I felt stuck... *sigh*...
Darn my indecisive nature!! Darn it like a wool sock!

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And my mom made an interesting comment when I was talking to her about it, (I love my mom. I can talk to her about anything ^.^) and I think it goes for a lot of things.
She reminded me of that old story about the cockroach in the salad.... "Oh, just eat around it. It's ok." ... If it's in there... why do I want to chance it?? Is it worth it for this wonder salad to start munching on a cockroach leg??

I remember my drama teacher saying something like that when he was showing a movie... I told him I didn't want to watch it and he said "Oh, well just close your eyes when it gets to that point."

Um... So wait until the salad gets crunchy? Then stop eating?? ... -_-;

Also when people say "It's only..." whatever... I remember when I went to a friend's house for a birthday party and they were going to watch a movie. pg-13 I think... I don't make it a habit of watching them now and then I think I was about 9. Not 13 yet I know... "Oh, well it's only swearing."
...Only?? I'm sorry?... Oh well it's only a cockroach. It's ok, it's dead. It won't move, so you can eat around it. ^.^..............................

We have enough cockroaches in our lives without searching them out...

ARGH!!

I have spoken. :)

Coraline movie

Well, it was certainly creepier then the book. >.O

And there's an interesting distinction there; the movie was creepy, not scary. Don't know how it quite got into that middle ground, but it's rooted there very well. And MAN they did a good job on the "other-mother"... *shudder* I actually had a small nightmare from her. Nothing major, but enough to freak me out.
Lol and I liked Wybie. ^.^ He was cute. Wasn't in the book, but he was a good addition...

Oh, and beautifully rendered... O.o; Man... I can't believe all the work that must've gone into that... Wow... If you poke around the website you actually find out that the gloves that Coraline gets are hand-made... Yikes...

Anywho, without spoiling the movie, any more then the trailers do, it was good. Not spectacular, but good. And creepie... I didn't think it was that much as I was seeing it... but I'm having creepy flash-backs. ...

OH! And there was a trailer for 9. That looks really good. Can't wait 'till that one comes out...

Alcatraz...

Short, I didn't like it. There were parts I liked, some of the lines were down-right hilliarious, but as a whole I didn't like it. I wanted to, but didn't.

Long, the writing style and the... how do you explain it... At the beginning it was a whimsical book about evil librarians and a strangly important bag of sang. Ok, I can live with that. At the end it was a story about a boy with a strange talent finding himself and coming to terms with reality... I'm also ok with that... But the mix... and in the same book. >.< It wasn't quite one thing, and it wasn't quite the other.

I like to escape in my books, I've said that. I like to snuggle up comfortably and let them lull me into their world. In this book I felt like I was snuggling into a bed that was too small for me... I kept worrying about falling off. And if I did manage to keep my balance something in the story would drop out from under me and I was left struggling to maintain my balance on the reformed surface...

So yeah... wanted to... parts I liked... didn't...rutabaga...