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So, okay, so today I worked in electronics, and at about 3:30 the specialist who was with me let me know that she had just put some Wiis on the floor. About five minutes later, I went on my break, took off my red shirt and put on my coat so that I wouldn't look like I worked there, and went back to electronics to buy one.

I think I may have gotten the first one. By about 5:00, they were gone.

I haven't played it yet, since I got home so late and was way too tired to do more than take it out of the box and look at it and anyway I do have roommates to consider, but. YAY.

I'm opening in Electronics tomorrow morning. Wiiiiiii!

THE TIMESTAMP SAYS IT'S STILL HALLOWEEN. I CAN STILL REFER TO OCTOBER 31st AS TODAY. RLY.

That being said...

You ever notice how holidays are great time capsules? It's kind of cool how much easier it is to remember ordinary things because of the day they happened.

Fifteen years ago today, it started blizzarding in the late morning in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, and didn't stop until it was time to go trick-or-treating. My four-year-old brother flushed the nose to my clown costume down the toilet, so all the pictures of me sitting in a snowdrift dressed as a clown show my nose painted yellow instead.

Ten years and one week ago today, our 11-year-old cat Earl died of complications from feline diabetes.

Nine years ago today, I went trick-or-treating for the last time with a big group of friends in Minneapolis. I don't remember what I was, though.

Four years ago today, I spent the evening in the library taking a calculus test. I could hear people outside having fun. It sucked.

One year ago today, I left Halloween dinner early with a huge headache and went home to lie down in the dark. Since I was the only one home all evening, the apartment stayed dark and that pretty much negated any chance of having to break out the bag of Snickers bars I'd bought in case of trick-or-treaters. I was forced--FORCED--to eat them all by myself. (Not all at once though.)

Tonight, I dressed as a Target team member and worked in Toys, which I thought wouldn't be so bad because, you know, I figured there wouldn't be as many kids coming in tonight. They'd be otherwise occupied, and all. But it sucked, and I spent pretty much all night covering for other people, and for God's sake what the hell was the girl in Electronics DOING that was keeping her on her breaks so long, and the whole evening I kept trying to get a chance to take a bathroom break because I'd just HAD to go to Caribou before work and try a Campfire Mocha (which is an excellent drink, by the way; I highly recommend it) but NOOOOO, so I was grumpy. It was kind of novel seeing every one of the team leads in one spot, though--they all came at closing time to set up all the Christmas stuff in Seasonal. So tomorrow it'll be all Christmasy-like and stuff.

ETA: According to the comm archive, yesterday and today have been the highest-traffic days in death_eyes's history. I wonder why that could be. Why can't two dozen people draw fanart for my birthday?