Oh thank heavens its Wednesday! Two days down, two to go – yahoo! Work is tedious this week, alternating between supercrazy and just mildly chaotic. Starting to feel the effects of our delightful economic state this week….they’re starting to cut production hours and our warehouse is packed to the rafters due to lack of buyers. Our market has pretty much tanked. Fall is normally kind of a crapshoot anyway – some years have been REEEAAALLY bad and we’ve only worked 3 or 4 days during the week or seriously reduced hours for a 5-day week, while other years have been good enough that we actually worked Saturdays. And frankly, this is probably the biggest reason I am going back to school…market instability is a bad thing for an hourly employee at any time, but especially heading into the holidays. That and the Brazilians are just driving me nuts with their micromanaging!!! Those people have some serious control issues.
I’ve been watching a new series on HBO this fall, called “True Blood”. Been waiting for them to come up with a good series since “Deadwood” and “Carnivale” wrapped up. This is not a very family-friendly show by any stretch of the imagination, but I’ve been liking the storyline lots. It’s a vampire show, set in modern time in a small Louisiana town. The main character is a mind-reading waitress named Sookie Stackhouse. The country is buzzing over “vampire rights” as they have apparently come out of the closet…or the coffin (ha ha). And as you can imagine, most folks aren’t real keen on the idea of vampires among us. Sookie becomes involved (mostly in a platonic way) with a vampire named Bill. The writers so far have done a good job of developing the characters; the story is full of twists and turns, ending each episode in a way that you have to watch the next one (which is kind of the point of a series, right?). Last episode we got to learn more about Bill and his life in Civil War-era Louisiana before he was “turned”. If you read Ann Rice’s vampire chronicles and enjoyed them, this may be a show for you. It airs on HBO on Sunday nights. Oddly enough I am reading the first book of the insanely popular “Twilight” series. Bit more tame than “True Blood” :0
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