Everyone I Ever Was and Everyone I Ever Will Be

Woke up this morning to hear the cats tearing around the room, but did not wake up fast enough to prevent one of them from racing across the couch-- and across my head in the process. Yay for a scratched face. Note to self: do not sleep on couch.

Got to work, wasn't feeling great, and my coworker was feeling even worse. This, of course, meant that it was time for a huge rush. Full of mostly good customers, thank heavens. But there were some notable exceptions:

Customer: *stares at her bag, then rolls her eyes* "You didn't put these in a box?"
Me: "Actually, I used my incredible psychic powers to realize you wanted three donuts in a box, but chose to ignore that."

Customer: "Blah blah . . . damned liberals . . . hate our country . . . no respect for good hard-working folk . . ."
Me: *throws coffeepot at customer's head, but it bounces off because his skull is just that thick*

Okay, so in reality I waited until the lines were gone and then picked up the paper to distract myself from their existence.

Which worked, because the FYI section had a little article about a new movie coming out, "Bobby", about the Robert Kennedy assassination. I'd vaguely heard about that one and already wanted to see it anyway, but they had a picture of some of the cast and there was Christian Slater. Immediate big happy grin from me.

Coworker: "Umm . . . Stephanie?"
Me: "Yeah?"
Coworker: "What's up? You're smiling."
Me: "I work customer service. I'm supposed to smile."
Coworker: "That is not a customer-smile. You're thinking about something evil, aren't you?"

Ohhh, was I ever, but not in the way she meant. ;-)

I was happy the rest of the day at work, though, seeing as I was thinking back on assorted good fandom memories.

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To sum up, I am now in complete Fluffy Nostalgia Zoning mode and I want to hear your fandom stories. Actor/actress, movie, play-- whatever, talk to me.

I know I mentioned that I'd write about Alone in the Dark as soon as we got back from the theater, but by the time we did it was late.

So, only slightly belated...

((and those of you who haven't seen it yet can read this safely; no major spoilers. Just goofiness))

First off, let's deal with the other reviews.

1) It wasn't nearly as bad as a lot of the critics are saying. But then, I'm used to thinking that about many movies I'm fond of. lol
2) Tara Reid wasn't abysmal in it. Did she deserve to win an Oscar? No, but there's only so much to be done with standard action-movie dialogue. She wouldn't have been my first choice, really (I would've been. Heh), but she was okay.

Overall, if it wasn't for a certain member of the cast, I probably wouldn't have seen it in the theater. And if my brain and my hormones could've actually had a conversation while watching this movie, this is what it would've been like....

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