It's Halloween and I'm staying up late for once

[ziasudra]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Posting at 2 in the morning. No, I'm definitely not opening tomorrow, and the night creature that I am by nature, my bedtime instantly reverted back to late night/early morning hours *g*

I'm very glad I have tomorrow off from Starbucks. As much as I love working there, I realized I've been working eight days straight -- more than two weeks straight if you count my hectic two-day trip to Chicago last weekend as an extension of the no-rest period -- and toward the end of all the craziness, I was definitely starting to lose it.

I almost never felt annoyed at customers. But yesterday (Sunday) I was literally praying that the line would stop extending out the door, which never materialized :\ On weekends there are a lot more tourists and people who have time to dwindle about. Call me weird, but I actually like weekday morning customers who are in as much of a rush to get their drinks as I am to take their orders and get them what they want. Indecisive customers + overworked ziasudra = bad combination.

Then today (Monday) I'm just generally frazzled once the morning rush hit: running out of change (and taking forever to unwrap rolled coins), giving people the wrong change because I apparently forgot how to do basic arithmatic, forgetting to get people their coffees and pastries before sending them off to the sides to fetch their bar drinks... I lose at work today -_-;;

But enough navel-gazing. Here's what's happening around the world, because I haven't posted links in a while:
♦ LA Times: In mirror test, elephants show sense of self

♦ CNET: Seagate bakes security into hard-disk drive -- Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology on Monday provided more details on encryption technology designed to make life tougher for computer thieves. Good news to me.

♦ A follow-up to one of my previous post on the Brazilian election, from BBC: Brazil re-elects President Lula

♦ AP via Yahoo: Japanese champ eats 97 burgers in 8 min. I am... speechless.