Rutabaga, Team Draco and Angelic Kittens

The codeword is rutabaga.

Today we were on gappy alert. This means we have a gapbuster (myster/secret shopper) coming in soon and we have to be extra smiley and pleasant and most importantly, fast. The only way you can tell if a gapbuster MIGHT have come is because they have to ask for a receipt. So, I came up with the codeword “rutabaga” to let Cory (my manager) know if someone had asked for a receipt.

Rutabaga is a reference to one of my all-time favourite shows, Charmed. In Season Three Piper and Leo are trying to get married without the Elders finding out so they replace the word wedding with “rutabaga” in case the Elders happen to be listening in. I thought this was quite awesome but my fellow crew thought I was a bit strange...

There was a Mother’s Day balloon on the ceiling of the Food Court today. Just saying.
So, I was serving a customer today, she looked to be late teens, early twenties and she caught me scowl at a person walking past wearing an ‘I Love Jacob’ shirt. She works at Supre (girls’ clothes store) and was telling me how mainstream and commercial Twilight is becoming. I told her how I loved Harry Potter and explained how the fandoms had been put against each other and basically, revealed my hatred for Twilight.

She completely agreed with me that there is no way J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer can be compared and that Twilight is just a love story whereas Harry Potter is more creative. She was about to leave when she said “Edward is hot though. Harry and Ron aren’t hot.” And I said “Draco. Team Draco!” And she replied “Oh yeah, he’s gorgeous!” She even high-fived me before she left. I think that was the most awesome conversation... ever.

I also started a conversation with “Are you the ‘Oh My God!’ girl?” I recognised a customer who’d been there a few weeks ago who’d looked directly at me and cried “Oh my god!” I’d been wondering what she’d been going on about so it was cool to clear that up that she thought of something and happened to be looking at me.

In between booking for John Green’s event (SQUEE) and trying to convince Cory to name his cat Fluffy (he’s going to name it Halo, but not after the video game like I assumed...) I laughed a whole heck of a lot. Some things at McDonalds that are completely random make me laugh so hard. I love it.

I was tired because I stayed up late listening to my iPod and got really over tired... again. But who cares? I’m always tired so it’s nothing new. When I was leaving the shopping centre today I saw a man standing on a carpet, facing the wall with his shoes off and praying. Each to their own...

I’m adding ‘Fiddy Cent Cone’ and ‘Frozen custard’ to the list of names for ice cream cones, which currently also includes: soft serve, soft scoop, ice cone, soft cone and biscuit sundae.

I’m reading a really boring pre-teen fiction book which I mistakenly picked up at the library and then it is So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld. I’m paying the library fines tomorrow so I can pick up The Host, My Sister’s Keeper and the first one in that Ink series. I have no idea if it’s Inkheart or Inkspell but it’s the one with the movie out at the moment.

Word to your bookshelf,

Kassi

Days I’ve Worked Full Time: 41
Books I’ve Read in 2009: 40
Days Till I Leave for Azkatraz: 64
Days Till I Meet John Green: 16

LOL Moment of the Day:

Me: Hey Brent, don’t you think Cory looks snazzy in his new shirt?
Brent: Yeah...
Me: You would totally go gay for Cory, aye?
Brent: What?