small note to assure people that I survived visiting Paris for the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational.

full report to come, but for now;

- Paris is big
- Holy fuck Paris is expensive
- HOLY FUCK IS PARIS EXPENSIVE
- I mean like four quid for a can of coke expensive
- FOUR QUID
- French McDonald's has superior chicken nuggets
- BUT IT COSTS LIKE A MILLION POUNDS
- Every driver in Paris has a death wish. Jesus christ. BAD ROADS!

on the invitational;
- Diablo 3 can you believe it wow the shock in the room was like.. exactly 0
- HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE THERE?? 10,000? I DON'T EVEN KNOW
- Samwise is my fucking hero
- I managed to appear on the internet (4:51 - 5:42, I was with the guys talking about Lost Vikings 3)

overall I would say I had quite a good time

The Subway Situation© continues. At this point I'm owed (only) £250ish now, but all my payments have been very reluctant and cash-in-hand, which is actually illegal. Not a penny has gone into my bank account. Every payday, I have to go to the bank knowing full well that I won't have been paid, then spend a couple days pestering the boss to pay me. Fun.

Some good news though; my co-worker told me that he heard through the grapevine that a game shop is opening nearby soon, and on Saturday morning they're having a recruitment drive that they haven't advertised. Apparently it's a word of mouth thing, and they'll quiz whoever turns up to see if they're suitable for the job, then offer one there and then. Apparently. It's at 9 in the morning and I'll be working until 5am that morning, so.. blerh. I don't really want to go to an interview running on no sleep in case they think I'm a crack addict or something, but I'll have to. I guess it doesn't hurt to explain that I work nights currently.

A bunch of people my co-worker knew dropped into Subway tonight, and by god they were annoying. Ever met somebody that spouted every single 4chan meme they knew of, one after the other non-stop and thought they were fuckin' hilarious for it? Yeah, imagine 15 people like that together. Christ. They think they're so clever and funny. They were using these memes on me and I feigned ignorance because they were just getting on my tits with it. You can sing the whole 'Never gonna give you up' song? Awesome, grats. Now shut the fuck up and tell me what you want on your sandwich so I can escape upstairs to do some work that doesn't involve having to listen to you thinking you're a comedy genius.

THERE'S A TIME AND A PLACE FOR MEMES OK

biiitchybitchbitch

So now I've stopped stressing and whining like a baby so much about The Subway Situation©..

Change of plans! If I haven't been paid by Wednesday I'll be making a point of asking the manager for the number of head office, maybe frighten him into.. doing something. If nothing happens from there, I'll um.. I guess I'll have to take it to court. But getting in contact with head office really should be enough.

I don't need to stress about the money so much now because my family are giving me some loans for food and even for my trip. I feel really bad about having to rely on them yet again considering I'm 22 and got this job so I could stay in boro over the summer and be somewhat independent, but Subway have scuppered this and it's not really my fault. I tried, at least.

Enough time and energy has been spent worrying about this now, so it can take a back seat for a while.

In goooodddd neeeeewwwwwwsss, Kerry is having her first scan on Tuesday and I'll be getting a copy of the picture. :D
Marc made everybody swear to secrecy about the baby, which I haven't done at all because LOL I'M GONNA BE AN AUNTIE IT'S AWESOME, but after Tuesday we're allowed to tell the rest of the family. It's KILLING mum, she's dying to squee to everybody about it and soon she can.

Sigh.

Subway haven't paid me for six weeks. We're supposed to be paid every two. I'm owed about £550.

I've been asking the manager repeatedly for my wages, and he's told me that the owners of the store say the money will be in my bank by midnight, for several days in a row. Guess what, no money. I had to send a message to the manager pleading for some money, because I had nothing. Today he put £50 in the till for me, but I'm still owed £550.

I've been told that the owners aren't paying anybody until something about a missing cash drop has been resolved. Apparently somebody converted £200 of notes to change for the till, but forgot to do the paperwork involved so the owners think that the money has gone missing when it hasn't. So because they think somebody is stealing, they've halted all wages. Pretty sure that's not legal.

Sooo what I have to do now is send yet another message to the manager, asking him to forward it to the owners (who I can't contact directly) informing them that if I am not paid in full by this coming Wednesday, I will cease working at Subway immediately and will take the matter further. This means that on Wednesday, if I haven't been paid in full, I'll be getting in contact with head office and/or starting whatever procedures are necessary for small claims court.

This money is funding my trip to France this month as well as the food I will be eating until that event and during, so.. yeah, you can see how it's important I get it. I'm a student, I just can't afford to have a company dicking around with my wages for six weeks.

I'm kinda stressed.

*phone rings*

Me: Hello, Subway, Stephanie speaking?
Guy: What time do you close?
Me: Tonight? Quarter to three.
Guy: Do you have tuna?
Me: Normally we do, but I think we've run out tonight.. give me a sec and I'll check the fridge.

So I do, no tuna.

Me: Sorry, no tuna tonight.
Guy: What? None?
Me: No, sorry.
Guy: Do you have bacon?
Me: Yep, we have plenty of bacon.
Guy: Well that's fucking typical.
Me: I'm really sorry..
Guy: I'm going to come down there and cut your fucking face up.
Me: Wh.. wha?
Guy: I'm on my way.

And he hung up.

Spent the whole of the shift hovering by the panic button, brought the claw hammer down from upstairs and put it in easy reach, and eyed every male customer suspiciously. It was a weird, scary shift.

Microwaving your phone. Very tempting.

The only part of the Amiga game 'Heimdall' I ever thought was worth playing, now in Flash format.

It's funny because this mini-game was only there to help decide your stats, based on your score. But it's the best part imo.

DON'T HIT HER OMG

Bonus: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0HP4sDlzI0M

There's a bus driving up and down my road, blasting trance music, with a woman yelling into a megaphone and telling me to buy vodka. This occurs every two minutes or so. And has been for the past hour.

Thank god I'm going to work for the next four.

Patient insulted on answerphone

A hospital has apologised after staff inadvertently left an insulting message on a teenage patient's telephone.

The message said Sharon Roberts, 19, was a "smelly drunk with black teeth".

It was left by staff at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, who were reminding her about an appointment - but then carried on talking.

Miss Roberts, of Stockton, said she was disgusted. The hospital said that what had happened was unacceptable and an investigation was being carried out.

The message was from the Genito Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinic.

Apparently looking at medical notes, staff discussed her alcohol consumption, alleged to be 100 units a week, and chatted about her Iraqi Kurdish boyfriend.

One woman in the office said to another: "Oh yeah, but come on, who else is going to have her, bless her.

"She smells, she had black teeth. She's a typical either druggie or alkie because she's dead skinny."

'Right to dignity'

Miss Roberts said: "I was really disgusted when I heard it. I felt physically sick.

"They said I drink 100 units a week but that was a load of rubbish. I don't drink that much and I've never touched drugs in my life.

"I had anorexia when I was younger and that's why I'm so thin. I want compensation and I want them sacked." (yeah I bet you fuckin' do, dole-bitch)

South Tees Hospital NHS chief executive Simon Pleydell said: "We would like to apologise unreservedly to Miss Roberts for the distress this has caused.

"Everyone has a right to dignity, respect and confidentiality and what has happened is totally unacceptable.

"The trust has launched a major internal investigation and we will keep Miss Roberts informed of its progress."

Dinosaurs are awesome and fun right? Right. So play this game.

http://www.pixeljam.com/dinorun/

So I'm on dA, right, looking at some TT fanart that caught my eye and wasn't horrific, and it's a fancomic. I don't like fancomics or fanfics, but I really like the art so I follow the comic page by page. And then suddenly everybody is fat. And this is why dA is terrible.

http://seriojainc.deviantart.com/gallery/#Teen-Titans-Comic

going to exam had no sleep what

nolan bushnell

GTA IV multiplayer is awesome when your teammate doesn't fly the helicopter into REALLY BIG POLES

ohmygoddddddddddddddd

My brother's wife is pregnant! They're having a babyyyyyyy! He phoned me a few minutes ago to tell me, they went over to my parents' house to tell them and phoned me from there.. I could hear mum blubbing in the background, she's so happy about this AND SO AM I! I'm thriiiillled!

I don't think it has sunk in properly yet that my big brother is going to be a daddy and I'm going to be an aunt.. ommgggg I'm so happy, I've already had a good day and that just tops it off perfectly!

Kerry is apparently due on christmas day! DECEMBER BABIES!

I AM SO HAPPY AND EXCITED ABOUT THIS IT'S PRETTY UNREAL

What a fabulous time to discover a lovely feature in Photoshop that makes my stuff not only look BETTER, but is also easier to do. Icon not related to this.

TIME TO RECOLOUR SOME ICA WORK I GUESS

for my reference because I look at this more often than my actual diary;

24/4 11 - 3
25/4 ""
26/4 10- 3

--
(week in hand)
10/4 7.02
10/4 5.27 hrs
11/4 4.86 hrs
12/4 7.60 hrs

(find printouts)
17/4 7 hrs
18/4 3 hrs

£5.(52?) p/hr

HALLELUJAH, Royal Mail has decided they'd like to deliver my parcels once again. This is good. At one point they thought it wasn't worth the hassle of letting me know when I'd missed a delivery, so took my stuff back to the depot and then didn't bother to tell me it was there. Woo.