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work was pretty good. was on roulette relief for the first half of my shift…it was annoying tho because we were doing 40/20s…40 min on a game 20 min off…instead of 60/20s…so it makes the night go by slow cuz you’re always on break. i swear i was on break for over half my shift, cuz once they started closing the roulette tables, we were on 20/20s….annoying as hell. then i got put on some blackjack tables, to close them, then on blackjack relief for the last hour. actually stayed the full 8 hours, got out at 6am, cuz roger one of the blackjack teachers was happy to see me (since he works grave shift) and wanted to keep me lol.

i wanted to get shit done with the move today but 1. its raining and 2. got up at 3 since i didnt get to bed til 7am. ug. gotta get shit done tomorrow. it’s not supposed to rain, so definitely enlisting jenn and jeff to move the big furniture pieces.

i am so tired. ug. gotta start throwing shit in boxes.

*is not on an ebay kick to buy vintage buffalo postcards…did not bid on an old postcard of the terminal, or an old postcard of melody fair*

we didn’t get the apartment.  back to square one now. gonna have to look around for more for rent signs, maybe go back to the place that had been our first choice and look at it again, since we did get accepted by them.

i watched 3 movies last night and 1 the night before. maybe watch should be in quotes. they were on as background noise. hedwig saturday night, then fight club, dirty dancing, and wayne’s world last night. why? i dunno cuz i’m just gonna end up watching them again when fishy is here lol. but once again, how can anybody NOT like dirty dancing?!?!?!

gotta get ready to run around niagara falls getting my new badge and stuff.

 

well…some of you might have noticed the site disappeared for a period of time today. exceeded bandwidth limit. actually… ty exceeded bandwidth limit . the mp3s he had up temporarily ended up using 7gigs of my transfer, when a normal month i use just over 1 gig hahah. so he ever so nicely paid to have the site turned back on for the rest of the month.

went to work to do the whole uniform exchange/badge exchange/employee quarterly meeting thing. it went semi smoothly. the meeting was cool. the president went over how we got to where we are, how we’re doing, where we’re going. and let me just say where we are going is hella impressive. they need to put the little video that they showed us online, on the site, cuz yeah. i bet the general public would like to see where they are going. esp the people who doubt the sucess of the project. next phase is demolishing the bus station and restaurant next door to the casino – plowing it flat for a parking lot. then in august, they start building a parking ramp, and employee cafeteria in that space. once the ramp is finished they can start the Spa Hotel directly behind the casino (where parking is now – hense the need for the ramp to be finished first). it’s going to add so many square feet of gaming space, bunch of hotel rooms, a spa (hense spa hotel), blahblahblah. then next step after that, is 2 year project to build the 2nd hotel. “y” shaped like alot of the vegas hotels. again, adds a bunch more gaming space, and family entertainment center. after that is the 4000 seat arena thing, and finally the conference hotel with conference rooms, convention center, etc. they had this nice rad rotating view of the site, and each part of the project, and night time view. it’s really really impressive. the entire area between rainbow blvd and niagara street is going to be the complex. when you exit the robert moses you’ll run right into the casino. all the ghetto housing on rainbow blvd will be razed…the only thing that they aren’t tearing down is the church nextdoor hehe. but yeah…wow. it’s a 5 year project, can’t wait to see how it turns out. *excited*  *dork*

and maybe i’m just being naive, since this is my first real job, in a real company, that treats their employees well…but i love working for them. they treat us really good, and seem to really care about us. they’re expanding our benefits program, there’s a picnic in june over 2 days so everyone can attend at some point, they’re putting in an employee store in the parking lot building, and a friggen dry cleaners for us…and it’s exciting to have been there from the beginning, and to see how this is all going to turn out.

there were 2 big winners over the weekend. some 80 year old man from rochester won 1.1 million on a wheel of fortune slot machine. and a couple from erie PA came to the falls to get married, went to the casino afterwards and won a car. nice wedding gift eh?

oh right, yeah, first day dealing is thursday. my normal days off are now moved to wed/thurs…won’t have to request off for dave gahan in toronto. will have to request off for ozzfest. no problem.

i think they gave me wrong size shirts again. the vests fit cuz they sewed them for me. they actually sorta too tight cuz i gained 5 lbs last week…but they’ll be ok. but the shirts, since they lost my uniform order form, have the short sleeve problem again. they gave me size 8s again when i think we had decided on the form to go with 10s…i’m gonna go back on wed when we’re in the falls and see. and it seems like i’ll be able to wear my own black pants with it, cuz the vest is longer yay.

went to look for more apartments. got a few more numbers from the same area, only got through to 1 which has to call me back to set up a viewing appt. tried to call our former 1st choice, but there was no answer. going to try again later, to see if they still have apts available – since they did accept us first time around. but we’ll see. and then it’s back to ikea. tyler would be so ashamed. i want to go back to ikea like, right this minute LOL. *ashamed of myself*

 

oh oh oh ooh oh oh oh guess who’s coming to the casino!! gabe kaplin…better known as Mr. Kotter 🙂 the “oh oh ohs” should have given it away haha.

everyone wants a piece of me. still don’t know what game i’m learning, cuz tonight, robert was saying i’m doing craps. and someone else told me i’m signed up for craps. while i’ll do whatever game, i got pretty sold on the idea of learning blackjack and roulette. i tried to find mr crush when i got out to ask him what was going on, but he had already left. so i guess we’ll see in…10 hours haha.

work was painfully boring all night. talked to tony for like a half hour cuz his table was dead. we’re gonna go gamble after class tomorrow, cuz he’s got 3 hours to kill before going in for his real shift. i see this becoming and unhealthy pattern lol.

i think i’m in the middle of another panic attack. that, or i’m about to drop dead from SARS…or i’m going through withdrawl. pick one. my chest has hurt so bad all night. maybe it’s a pinched nerve in my back, cuz when put my head down, it like pulls on my chest and hurts super bad…ug. all i know is that i’m in pain. i took my temperature just now, it’s 95.4…shouldn’t i be dead with a temp that low?!? lol i’m a mess. i really hope i sleep tonight, cuz i’m so tired, and gotta get up early to go to the post office before class. ug and now i need money if i’m gonna go gamble.

holy shit my computer is so loud. dad replaced the power supply today because that’s what he thought was squealing so bad. well that’s not it. it’s the cpu fan that’s squealing. but the new power supply fan is way louder than my old one. i’m making him put the old one back in. i can’t deal with this noise.

 

i am SO tired.

so here’s the deal. finally. i’m learning roulette (robert wasn’t too happy with that haha). i’m getting private after hours blackjack lessons from…mr crush. who is just so hot, i might add. tony is probably gonna be teaching me after hours too. roulette class is going to be 4 weeks instead of 6. there was a bit of an issue when people realized i wasn’t already a dealer. they kinda freaked and were like, you can’t be doing this, it was for in house people. so the teacher went to speak to the head of the school about it, and she came over and was like blahblahblah you really want to learn this game? i was like yeah, i was under the impression from robert and mr crush that it didn’t matter that i wasn’t already a dealer – i could do craps or roulette without having dealing experience. so they were like whatever. i have to get pulled aside at times to be taught basic procedure or something, which mr crush will just end up teaching me along with blackjack. whatever. i’ll be fine. apparently they don’t know about the blackjack thing. that was mr crush’s idea i guess.

so class went good for the first day. there was no difference between me being a non dealer and the others. jesus, i know more than half of them, just from watching the game for the past 3 months. my hands are filthy, and brush burned lol. i’m going to have to start painting my nails every day to hide the dirt underneath them between breaks. looking forward to it.

after class, went to casino niagara with tony for a while. mom gave me 30$ cnd to gamble with, and i put in 29$ cnd of my own…left with 110$. we only played for about a half hour, 40 minutes. i think tony left with 225. we got muffins at the cafe before walking back to our casino. it was a good time. he’s thanking me for the after hours lessons, because it’ll keep him from going to canada every day between class and work. haha.

i am exhausted. i could go to bed right now, except i need to learn my multiplication tables for 17 lol.

and today’s pearl of wisdom: whoever said you can’t taste the difference between real sugar and nutrasweet is full of shit.

ug so things are maybe possibly sorta worked out. i talked to robert whose pit i was in tonight, because he’s the one who’s going to be calling tomorrow. i told him what happened at HR and all the bullshit i’ve been getting, and he said that he’ll most likely call tomorrow, but even if he doesn’t to show up on monday. there is some concern as to if the HR lady actually put me on the list or not, because i didn’t see her write my name on the list…she just typed stuff in the comp and said she put me on the list. but robert knows what the deal is, and so things are pretty much settled i think/hope. haha knowing robert he won’t call on purpose to freak me out. i’ll have to yell at him tomorrow if he doesn’t call. i still don’t know what game i’ll be learning though..since the HR lady didn’t actually ask me any questions…and robert just kept saying “you’re gonna deal craps right?”…i answer everyone the same way: i’ll learn whatever whoever wants me to learn, and i got the “Becareful what you say” response again, from someone else this time. haha.

so this “crush” i have (it’s not on robert) is so wack…it’s like i’m turning into carolyn…(ex)boyfriend in africa, crush on a 35 year old divorcee hahah. at least my crush isn’t hairy 🙂 hehe sorry.

so besides all this crap i think i’m getting sick. just when i was thinking how i got through the winter without getting really sick, i only got nate’s mild cold that he had before he left, i think i’m getting sick. last week my throat was all weird, but that went away. then yesterday my glands behind my ears were so swollen it hurt to chew. that went away today, but i got a headache so i took my drugs, then took more drugs, and still had the headache, but felt tired and drugged up lol. then i was freezing more than i normally freeze at work. so blah. i hope i don’t get sick. i hope i don’t have the killer new disease, because knowing me, i’d get it. there are always tons of asians at work, and who knows if they’re from around here, or just flew in from hong kong or something.

and oh yeah. i checked ticketmaster from work for ozzfest…can’t do the korn presale cuz i don’t have a password. but they had prices finally…gonna go for 300 “level” seats for 65$…that works.

 

soooooo HR said they’d call between 1 and 3 today…robert said he was going in at 1 to start calling. figuring i was at the bottom of the list i thought they’d call at 3….they called at 11. i was sleeping. i called back, the lady isn’t there. LOL god this is a comedy of errors. since i didn’t have time at work to blog about what really happened at HR, you won’t understand, but i’m surprised the lady called me instead of robert…

sold 55$ of stuff today…the money should start coming in soon. and i totally just forgot what else i was gonna say. oh yeah, i might have a web design job to do…i had gotten an email about it in that default icenine box, so i replied but possibly not to the right email address (comedy of errors again)…haha

i so don’t want to get up to buy these ozzfest tix tomorrow. i wish we could just get the damn presale password, but the korn.com board lips are sealed. fuckers. fishy suggested trying “kabbage” and i did, but it wasn’t the right password…aww…hehe

 

dealer school 1:30 – 5:30 starting monday… now was that so hard that she couldn’t just tell me that yesterday? still don’t know what game though…

 

gah gah gaaaahhhhhhhh a perfect circle is playing a handful of lollapalooza dates on the west coast gaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!! damn west coast!!!!!! you know what that means right??? neeeeewww material!!!!! new hope for good music for me to buy….new hope for maybe more dates out here some where. all my bands are gonna tour at the same time. it’s gonna be hella killer on my bank account hahah.

i was sexually harassed at work…well…i guess it’s only harassment if you care, and i don’t lol. i was talking to my supervisor jenn in one of the pits about us going to dealer school. the pit boss came over and joined us, and somehow conversation turned to which pit clerk is actually worth anything, and do their job right. he made some comment that i don’t work, so jenn said that i do a good job with everything. so pit boss made some comment i didn’t hear about me, and jenn’s face was like “i can’t believe you just said that”. so i was like WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?! he’s like nothing, i didn’t say anything. then he was like “get my mind out of the gutter”…lol.

so word on the street is dealer school is starting in 2 weeks. the other class just graduated. i have to talk to some day person today to find out for sure. b-c told me on the bus about different games and how easy/hard they are to learn etc. then i found out that pit clerks who become dealers are more likely to get promoted because we already know the computers and how to do ratings. so that as soon as i can, learn another game – assuming i only learn black jack this time. b-c said again he’d take me out and teach me pai gow.

i’ve decided i sleep too much. i get home at the same time as i would have been getting up when i was an opener at mcds. which made me remember that when i was opening i’d only get 4 hours of sleep a night. sometimes less if i had gone out. but i’m just always tired. i had to force myself out of bed a half hour ago, or i would have stayed there all day. blah i’m so tired.

 

i’m having a david bowie-a-thon.

i’m getting the crappiest download rates on this bowie nin concert…

there exists a bootleg of the bowie toronto area 2 show…ebay, 20$. need mp3s of it. so not paying 20$.

*fin*

hah i forgot to mention this earlier. my new internet friend used this..um…analogy?…”best thing since pretty hate machine” rofl. i got a big kick out of that.

working monday (my 6th day in a row) so i could get friday off. party at rit yay. i get to see friends!!!!!!! what a concept. geneseo peeps should be attending too, so i get to kill 2 birds with one stone. if anyone asks, my friend’s sister died and i have to go to a funeral in rochester.

met with my manager last night. took longer to walk down to her office than it did to meet with her. basically told me what i already know, that i’m on the list for dealer school, i can’t go now cuz the class is at night, but they’ll contact me when they start the day class. they look at attendance, which i have perfect attendance, and she knows i’d do great blahblahblah. still no word on WHEN the class is tho. i was hoping the meeting would be to give me the paperwork necessary to switch depts and go to class etc. she said it might not be til april, but i’ve been hearing beginning of march…so who knows. sooner the better.

yay. i was coming back from break early last night and ended up running into emily and fred. i hadn’t seen them in forever, so i talked to them for 5 min and had to go back to work. it was cool tho. then tonight leah and bill are supposed to be in, and leah vowed to look around until they find me haha. hopefully they don’t come look for me right at 8 cuz turns out i have to have a meeting with my manager (who doesn’t know who i am). it’s PROBABLY about dealer school cuz 2 others have been asked to go to her office and they were both on the dealer list too. at least i’m hoping that’s what it’s about, but since i haven’t done anything wrong, i can’t figure out what else it would be. i heard school is starting in the next week or 2 so it would make sense.

ended up spending my break with this dealer kid who i refer to as “carolyn’s male twin”…like, if carolyn was a boy, i think that’s what she’d look like. and i don’t know why i think this, since this kid is at least part asian. he has to be one of the most outgoing friendliest people i’ve ever met. so i was talking to him, then this other dealer lady came and sat down and totally took over the conversation so…didn’t get to finish the conversation we were having. but that’s ok. OH and then there’s the floor sup who gets disappointed that i don’t sit with him on break…apparently he refers to me as his stalker now…cuz what? i was in the same pit as him twice, and we happen to be sent on break at the same time a few times…i don’t even know his name! my sups husband tried to fake throw me off the balcony last night, and this other guy was there and was like “leave sara alone she’s my stalker” i was like ?!?!?! oooook.

things i want:
-velvet smoking jacket/blazer
-black with red pinstripe pants
-long red jacket that was in a picture on ebay but not for sale so i asked the person if they’ll sell it to me hah
-tickets to ozzfest if the line up actually what it has been rumored to be…and for ozzfest to play around here, that’d help

k need to go have some cake for breakfast, so bye.

craziness at the casino tonight. but i can’t talk about it. ug. i hate this confidentiality thing. it seems so unimportant in this “career” but whatever.

i DID find out that everything has changed regarding dealer school. the guy i talked to last week saw me today and said i could go to the school now. but…i work nights, school is at nights, so i can’t. i have to wait for a day class to start, and he said it should be soon. i don’t know what game the class is for, and i don’t know how long it goes, but i should be becoming a dealer in the next few months. happy about that. since there were rumblings of a supervisor position opening up, i thought maybe i wouldn’t transfer. but i asked one of my sups what they would do, and about pay and stuff, and i’m going for the dealer instead. my sups only make 100 more than i do right now, and dealers are bringing home more than that cuz of tips…then in the summer, they’re gonna be making tons more. so yeah. dealer.

i guess there was an after hours thing on thurs night, cuz yesterday some floor sups kept asking me why i wasn’t there. i was like um well if u noticed i wasn’t there, and wished i was there, maybe you should INVITE me next time lol. the one said it was this other persons job to do the inviting, and another said that he didn’t go either, but just wanted to know if i went…ok. haha. i can’t just show up, u have to be invited to these things, since it’s illegal hahaha.

anyway…

 

so my mom knows more about what’s going on with nate than i do. apparently mrs royal told her all kinds of stuff which she didn’t think neccessary to tell me. like that he’s living with a family with 8 kids before he get’s his assignment, and that the food isn’t as bad as he was expecting it to be. good to know. thanks for telling me. now i’m just in this pissed off stage. i’m really tired of all this. it was fine not getting anything from him until i found out that everyone else is…i guess i’m the special one who gets to never hear from him. whatever. fuck it.

i got a letter from him today.

 

i had to do some website pruning. i’m out of host space. so sites had to go byebye. my orgy photo capture site is now gone, freed up 10mb of space LOL. adrienne’s store site is gone. i asked the people i host to see if there are things they can get rid of. hoping to move the fab four site to woopop.com. just waiting for eric to get back to me on that one. already told my dad months ago to stop uploading pictures to his directory. his directory, and of course, delirious, are my main space hogs. but it’s MY site, so i can use all the space *I* pay for lol.

so now the question is, why did i need more space. because of this: paydirt.

a boy from cheektowaga IMed me today because he found my pictures of Buffalo Central Terminal. it inspired me to finally ask my dad where his pictures of the terminal might be. so we dug through shit in his basement room, found all kinds of his old photos, and 2 books of negatives. of course, all but 2 of the terminal pics were never printed, so my project is now to scan the negatives. but besides that, i scanned a bunch of other pictures my dad took in the 70s to add to my photography site. which is why i needed the space.

so…take a tour of photos my father took and his terminal pics. he also had made prints from old glass plate negatives he bought, which you can look at here. i gotta work on scanning the negatives – which is going to be a challenge because they are on weird sized film. i gotta create a mask thing to fake out the scanner…yay a project.

i’m pretty positive i had a heart attack last night. i left work 2 hours early because it was so bad. i was going to drive myself to the ER on the way home but I decided to just go home and sleep. took 2 asprin and went to bed and it went away. then came back twice this morning, was going to take myself to ER again but i didn’t. now i’m up and it hasn’t come back yet, so we’ll see. it was bad. around 11:30 i went upstairs at work to get a drink and i was talking to nakita. i realized it sorta hurt to breathe, i thought it was all the smoke in the casino (although i was near a non smoking table so it wasn’t that bad yesterday). went back downstairs, maybe an hour later i realized it hurt all the time, not just when i inhaled. sharp pains near the middle of my chest, but on my right lung. during my 2nd break around 1 one of my sups came upstairs and asked what was wrong and i said my chest hurt so she took my pulse and stuff. it was my normal 90bpm. later she came by my pit and asked if i felt better and i felt continuously worse. so i said i wanted to go home and she got me out when people came in at 2. she wanted me to go to ER too. i was going to have the paramedics at work take a quick look at me but i couldn’t find any. ug.

then this morning, because my mom is the nicest person on the planet, it kept coming back. my mom decided she just HAD to hang a painting up at 6:45 am…what the hell makes someone hang a painting at 7am? i think something is seriously wrong with her because she is the least considerate person i’ve ever met. i don’t think they knew i came home early, so if i had gotten home at my normal time i would have been sleeping for 2 hours before she started hammering on the walls. what the fuck is so goddamn important about a picture that it has to be hung up at 7am? she had all fucking night last night to do it, and all fucking day today. THEN 10 am more banging. so i got out of bed went down stairs and was like WHY DO YOU HAVE TO DO THAT! she’s like oh, I forgot. I said, why do you have to do that when you were already pounding at quarter to 7. she’s like i wasn’t. i’m like yeah you were, hanging a painting or something, you KNOW i work nights. and what was her response? oh, yeah i was hanging a painting. get a normal job. people are supposed to be awake during the day and sleep at night. wait until summer when the windows are open. FUCK OFF. she’s such a bitch. she wonders why I don’t like her. every now and then she tries to lay some guilt trip on me “i don’t know why you don’t like me…” blah blah blah. BECAUSE YOU’RE A BITCH. she’ll be sorry when my heart explodes.

going to see the dr tomorrow at 11:30.

 

so..besides dying last night…had a good night. cried in the car on the way to work, but that’s almost normal. i seem to think about nate every time i drive anywhere. and given my state yesterday, i actually cried this time. at work when i got there, there was this awful awful “Band” playing…band’s play all day long, til about 12 or 1 usually, longer on weekends…i don’t know if you could call this a band. it was more like glorified kareoke. a guy playing keyboard, another guy who sometimes played bass, and a girl with their recorded backing music. when i got there they were doing the Grease melody…they ended with “word up” and “hella good” by no doubt. it was possibly the worst thing i’ve ever heard/seen. i don’t know how they got hired, because they sucked so bad. and basically it was just their singing that they could suck at since the music was coming from a tin can. they were worse than the elvis they had performing last week. the elvis guy is super famous around here, but…haha it was so cheesy. of course, these sucky people are playing saturday night. WHY?!

had some funny conversations with my sups before i got sick. i keep coming up with reasons for them to promote me before mike. once some of the sups get fired/quit and they do promotions the new sups will get stuck with graveyard shift tho… ug. mike asked me out again. wants me to meet him at wild wings tonight when i get out of work. no. i can’t avoid the kid anymore either, cuz he just calls me in whatever pit i’m in. he almost quit last night, i wish he would so then i’d definitely get promoted first, and i wouldn’t have to think of reasons not to go out with him. he totally more and more reminds me of psycho. which of course is not good, and no way in hell would i ever go out with him.

angela from hard rock came in last night, which was nice. ive been dreaming about how i miss my hard rock friends. so talked to her, and stuff.

i hate being forced to update programs on my comp. the other day music match made me update to 7.7 (i think) and then proceeded to not work anymore. uninstalled, dled the whole program again from them, still didn’t work. now real player made me update to some real one jukebox thing, which is the most hideous thing i’ve ever seen. why do they have to make all these programs so hideous and hard to use? the point of windows when it was made was so that every program was the same and easy to use…now i can’t even find the X to close programs and shit. ug. hate it.

i think there were things i wanted to say but i can’t remember. i work 6-2 today. i get all screwed up when i have 6-2 because i had to sleep til 2 today to recover from going to bed at 5…but now when i get home at 2am today/tomorrow i won’t be tired yet. lol. oh well.

everyone at work is fascinated with how much money i make. 3 people have asked me this week. they’re all surprised at how much i don’t make LOL. i don’t know why, i don’t do anything, but they all assume i’d be making more. the first guy who asked me intimidates the hell out of me cuz he was snippy with me on opening day, so i got all flustered and didn’t think to ask how much he makes…but i asked the pit boss yesterday when he asked me. it was the guy who cured my headaches. i was like, i’m not supposed to tell what i make. he was like, come on, it’s me you’re talking to – as if we’re super good friends or something lol. but yeah. i now know how much the floor supervisors and pit bosses make…i just need to find out how much my supervisors make. the guy last night came from vegas, and was telling me how much people make out there. yeah, like 3 times what we make here. his brother is a shift manager at monte carlo and makes 150,000!!!!

work is so weird. i don’t know why…it’s like…some people are just really super friendly, and i’ll have to say like 1 word to them and then they say hi and make comments to me all the time. like security people…i’ll be sitting in the caff and one will walk by and say hi and use my name, or make some comment about how i look so tired blah blah blah. and it’s just strange. other people do it to. i know i’m wearing a giant nametag, but i wouldn’t think to do that to other people haha. and people complain to me all the time about everyone else. like how much the dealers were sucking that night, how the other floor supervisors don’t do as much work as whoever, how the waitresses in the buffet don’t even thank you when you bus their tables for them lol. i’m like GREAT what do you want ME to do about it?!?! i’m a lowly pit clerk who does not much of anything.

the new sum41 video that makes fun of “the” bands is highly amusing.

anyway.

 

whoever is using my address and sending me magazine subscriptions really needs to stop. first, this summer, it was financial times and the hollywood reporter (or something)…financial times finally said my free trial was up, and stopped sending them to me. i still get the hollywood one. and within the last week i now also get time, entertainment weekly, and outside magazine. STOP IT.