Today I found a site called the Australian Missing Persons Register, which offers information about missing people from all over Australia. The person who runs it does so voluntarily and without profit, and I was glad to see that the site had so much information on it.

The reason I found AMPR? I was looking to see if an 18 year old girl had been reported missing in the last week. Tony had organised a trial day with a girl last Wednesday, and she never showed up. Her mother called, and she hadn’t seen her either.

The scary part is, she went down to the beach on a date with a new guy the night before, and then just disappeared. I was worried, even though I’ve never met her, so I looked up missing people in Australia. She hasn’t been reported.

I sincerely hope that she has been found safe and well.

I saw Knocked Up last night, and I have to say, “You let me down, oh supposedly great movie.” It really wasn’t that funny. The plot was predictable, the characters themselves weren’t anything special, and it featured way too many instances of ‘fuck’.

I was really disappointed, because I LOVE both lead actors, and I though I would love the movie. You know who my favourite character ended up being in the end? Debbie’s husband, because he was the most interesting of the lot.

Can I just say again that I’m really disappointed? Because I am. A lot. Frustrated, too. It seems I haven’t seen a good movie in ages. Actually, it’s rather odd, but the last good movie I saw was Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey. I enjoyed that immensely.

I still love Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen, though. I’m loyal like that. *struts*

You know, there is a lot to be said for being on top of things. This fortnight, I am completely on track, as far as finances go. This is a really good thing; I have been able to buy some things for myself that I wouldn’t normally spend money on. Like bags, for example. Only hypothetically of course. Everyone knows I don’t really like bags that much. *cough*

I’m currently suffering from what feels like a head cold, but I’m almost certain it’s from having the air conditioner on. Gentil can’t handle the heat very well, so he has it on as often as possible. I haven’t found the heat to be unbearable yet, and usually I’m shivering in the cold. It doesn’t help that my desk is right in front of the air conditioner, I suppose.

Gentil got new glasses today:

They’re sexy, although at first I was all, “What have you done?” I like them now.

I discovered the other day that you can upload a calendar and notes (in text format) to your iPod. I did not know this, but I can assure you I will be making use of these new features. I will probaby use the iPod calendar mainly for birthdays and such, because I don’t like writing them into my planner for some odd reason.

You know, reading over this post, I sound so.. dull. Just really dull. I blame the exhaustion; hopefully I’ll regain some of my character over the next week. No work for about four days, yay! This weekend we may be going to Anthony and Nicole’s for drinks and pizza. I wonder if Nicole is pregnant..

So, I haven’t been blogging much lately. In fact, I haven’t been doing much of anything lately. Unless you count three jobs as something. Which I do, kind of. In a ‘Oh, you’re such a whiner’ kind of way. So I won’t post about them, as anything I post will just be whiny crap.

I did go with Mum to a nail salon so she could get her nails done, and while we were there, decided to get mine done as well. I opted for a fairly short, basic French with gel over the top. I do have to be able to type with them, after all.

So um, yes. They’re very pretty. I did have a whole lot more to say, but I just looked at the time, and I have to be up early tomorrow.

Today I attended a training session held at the head office of the Shaver Shop. Since I needed to be up at 6am to be ready by 7.30am so I could get there on time, I naturally stayed up until 5am and then got an hour of sleep. I can only assume that my sleep deprivation was the reason I learned ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from the session.

Oh wait, that’s not entirely true. I did learn that the corporate figures apparently don’t care if a customer only wants to spend $150.00, they want us to promote the $510.00 shaver ANYWAY. Does that sound like a good strategy to you?

Let’s say there are 15 shavers in the rotary section, and the customer says they don’t want to spend over $200.00 on one, for whatever reason they may have. If I start at the very top, then I have to go through about six shavers before I reach their price range. If I tell them all about six different shavers, what do you think will happen? Information overload, of course.

The customer will become confused, and they will leave. Then they will most likely go to K-mart and buy a shaver from there. K-mart won’t provide them with instructions on how to shave, or a protective spray for their blades. They won’t receive advice on the right shaver for them, and they will most likely end up unhappy with the product they bought. Also, they will probably tell people about the negative experience they had at the Shaver Shop.

I don’t care how the corporate knobs tell me to sell; I am going to sell the customer what the customer needs, even if that does mean only selling a $100.00 razor instead of a $510.00 razor. The other trainees were all for the ‘go for the best and most expensive always’ strategy, and I wonder how many of their customers will make use of the 60 day trial period because they weren’t given a product that actually suited them.

I enjoyed asking difficult questions and generally speaking up if I thought something was wrong today. The training I’ve received with the Shaver Shop has done wonders for my self-esteem, and I was even able to take part in the role-play sales without too much nervousness. In front of new people, even. Woo!

That is all. xox

Last night Gentil and I completed the Iron Mines of Moladune mission in the Shiverpeak Mountains. As a result, our armour has now been infused, and we have extra protection against the Mursaat. Considering that we were kicking their asses anyway, I’m not exactly sure what advantage that gives us, but hopefully it will become clear as we get further to the end of the game.

It is worth noting that so far, we have only successfully completed one mission (Ice Caves of Sorrow) with a group of players. All of the apparently ‘impossible to complete with Heroes’ missions in the Crystal Desert? Failed over and over with players; completed them with Heroes (or my Uncle and his Heroes). Granted, we have yet to complete the secondary goals for two of those missions, but we still completed them.

I am definitely not complaining about the fact that you can complete missions with Heroes; in fact, it is quite the opposite. I am complaining about the fact that it is near impossible to find a decent group of players. By decent, of course, I mean people who stick out the whole mission, can work as a team, and can speak a bit of English. As you can see, I’m not very picky when it comes to finding a decent group of players on Guild Wars.

There is a reason for this, and that reason? It is simple: with the exception of the people I know who play it, and myself, the people on Guild Wars are all blithering idiots. They can’t work as a team, they have no idea what ‘Aggro a small group first’ means, and if one of them should die? Heaven forbid! ‘It’s the monk’s fault.’ Then of course, the monk gets pissy and leaves, and they’re like, “We need a monk.” Well, duh! That’s why you try not to blame them for your own mistakes.

When we completed the Ice Caves of Sorrow, I was shocked out of my terrible, close-minded stereotyping though. For the group we picked up with then? They were wonderful. They worked as a team. They followed the leader. They called targets, and attacked targets of others. They didn’t get shitty at one another. There was a lot of,”Go team!” and “Great job, guys.” and in general, a great team atmosphere during the whole mission. My one regret? I didn’t add them to my friend list. Doh!

In other news, I signed the contract for my new job on Wednesday, and got paid for the first time today. Can I just say now, I LOVE my job. I love the people, and the atmosphere, and the customers and the whole environment. I get along so well with my co-workers, and everyone is so friendly, that it doesn’t even feel like a job much of the time. I love helping customers, and learning all about the products, and I love the fact that there is pretty much always something that can be done, or learnt.

In even more news, I received a letter from RMIT today. I’ve been waiting all week for it to arrive, and when I saw it I thought I was going to throw up. I actually had to sit down before opening it. When I skimmed the first paragraph and saw the ‘pleased to inform you’ I just about had a fit. I grabbed Gentil and hugged him, and laughed like a loon, haha! Then I called my family and told them the good news. So yes, I got into my writing course next year. Thank christ, because I really, really wanted to.

Ciao, everyone.

All that time I was offline, and I wrote EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. The day after I’m online, I stuff NaBloPoMo up! *tears hair out* I did so well, up until Saturday night, and you know why? It was the dreaded Guild Wars.

Anyway. I got the job at Northland, I entered a competition on SQ, and I scrapped my original NaNoWriMo idea and started a new one. And, that’s about everything.

My life is so awesome. Heh.