Right about now, my eyes have decided that they are going to start closing by themselves. It feels as though my eyes are being rubbed really hard with salt. It only hurts to try and keep them open and it feels sooo good when I close them. Maybe it's a sign.. maybe. It could be many factors that my eyes are really hurting. Let me scroll through some of them: I've been awake for around 20 hours. I've had about 4 hours sleep in the past 24 hours. I've been at work for 10 hours. So really, I've been at work the half the time I've been awake. My first shift was an absolute bludge, other than the fact that I had to get up at about 4:30, it was still easy. I think, I spent about.. half an hour working in toys, just filling. Then I was dragged off over into sound and vision to help clean up the DVDs. That would be the best thing that would have happened. I was in charge of cleaning up all the cheap dvds that are on the racks just outside the area. So, I had to make sure that all dvds have their cover facing out, and make sure that they are all nice and pretty looking. Presentation. In between trying to do, I was called around the store more times than I think. I mean, crap, I'm trying to finish something that would take about half an hour (there were a lot of dvds there) and all the managers are doing are interrupting me. Oh well, I had fun doing what I was doing. It was better than doing what I would be doing 8 hours later.

I was really tired though, normally - well.. more like last week - I can handle the early starts without sleeping. Well fuck me freddy, I had half a sleep yesterday though. It wasn't really a sleep, it was more like cable dropped out in the middle of the movie and no one else was home. Ew. Despite my mind thinking other things, I was lying on the chair and all of a sudden I'm in the state where I'm asleep, but I'm still awake of my surroundings. This was at like 3, just before I was suppose to get up and get ready for work at 4. What the fuck boy, *slap*. I think I was like that because cable was out and I was really comfortable, and that it was fuckin' hot. Haha, I woke with a start when cable came back on. I was watching charles angels 2 (more like full throttle, am I right?) it was up reasonably loud. When it when out I hadn't bothered to turn it down, so it was just sitting there kind of loud. Of course I was sleeping until the bastard decided it wanted to return, right about the part when some kind of creepy door opens really squeakingly. It was like, EIIHHHHH-SCRAAPPPPPPPP-THUD. It was kind of funny, until I realised that I had fallen asleep for about 5 minutes. Where is my will power damnit.

It was a time of reminsicing today at work. Well, I think it was for me at least. Oh, before I reminisce. I found out what happened to the power at kmart on friday. Something had happened at power water (which is what I so cynically said to someone when it happened) which caused the blackouts to certain parts of darwin. It seems only kmart was "affected" by it, anyway. So the generators kicked in because there was no power. These generators, according to peter (the store manager) run for like 15-20 minutes, which they were doing as for a while all the lights were fine. This was all fine until the power came back, but it was only.. half there. I suppose they were underpowering the store, but the power was still there. Of course the generator was unable to distinguish between the amount of power being inputted, so it kicked in again. Again, according to peter, the store needs something like 400watts to run (which is.. fairly small.. I think, someone correct me on that) and the generator puts in that much power, and with power water underpowering the store, that equates to about 600watts of power (or peter said it was about 800watts). I think I missed out on a lot of things when that happened, either I was out the back, or I missed it completely, but according to people in apparel, the eas (security gates, for "secure" items) were sparking and stuff. So the store was about to explode if any more power was going to be put in there. I can only imagine it now, all the lights (which have only just been replaced mind you) exploding. ALL OF THEM. That's over.. a lot of lights for a big store, that's one giant explosion. WEEE!

So on with the reminsicing. Whatever happened on friday, but it must have blow up the computers in the photolab, there were a guy there standing there fixing them. At first, I just walked by not giving the guy a second thought, on the way back though, I noticed that he was from tech chips. Ironically, it was my old manager from tech chips (some more irony, his name is also jason..). Instantly I recognised him, and I wasn't going to stop and say hi. But I knew he recognised me because he gave me the "look". Not the gay look, but it was the "I know you from somewhere but I don't want to say hi incase I'm wrong". I wasn't about to say hi either, seeing as I was dismissed from tech chips nearly a year ago for no reason at all. He probably thought it was really funny, seeing as I've officially backpedalled in the retail business. Oh well, I'm making money for what I do and I'm not overally uncomfortable about it and those I work with.

I decided after my first shift that I was going to find out how to use internet banking with my account where all my money goes. I think I didn't have to do anything, other than state a questions, and confirm that I live where they say I live. Simple as that I suppose. So in about "3 working days", which means about a week, I should be able to use my money that I make at kmart, over the internet! Hooray! Well, right now as I turn around on my chair, I see my untidy bed and it looks really enticing. Amazingly, I'm not as tired as I was when I first started to write this, so I must have gotten used to the bright shining light I call my monitor. And oh, head over to Andrew's blog and see what kind of UAI he got for his work! Yay Andrew!