thebeesknees

so, i quit my job! whoo-hoo! i was working at nordstron for their half-yearly sale and working 10 hours shifts mind you, which was o.k. because i was i was dreaming of overtime and the pretty decent $10.85/hour i was going to get. so i get my paycheck and for two weeks, i get a measly $420 (oh, the irony...), only 1 hour of which is overtime... 1 fucking hour! it seems as if the new policy of re-hire starting at $9/hour instead of their previous pay, in addition to fucking you sideways on OT, was never mentioned to me... the policy is fine, i just would have said "no, thank you" to begin with... seeing as how this was all the time i had until i moved to madison, wi, i think my time is worth more than that in terms of spending it with friends and family and the bf. needless to say, i put in my two weeks right then... i may sound whiny, but i swear the shit they put you through and the cost of living in sf is just not worth it and when it came down to coming in for my last day, which was the first day of pride, i just called in and said i'm not coming in... some retail experiences are better than others, but in general they suck.

other than that, life has been relatively good. i say relatively because my long time bf (5+ years) and i are going to be "separated" *cough-breakup-cough* when i go to madison. this situation in and of itself woulf not be so bad were it not for the fact that this changes almost nothing in terms of how much we see each other and spend time together. i told him that i can't stand being in the same city as him and being so far away (enter sappy Jewel hit here) and knowing that it will probably never be the same (for a long time at least) as it is now...basically he has another girlfriend called his job and although i love him because he's self-determined, i hate being dicked around and playing second best to his work schedule... it makes me also so like a dick because i don't want to make plans with anyone else if there's an off-chance i can spend it with him... i swear the only time we are spending together is the week in Hawaii that he booked relucantly 6 months ago. again, thinking of his work schedule first... the kicker is that i still have to plan activites and how we'll spend our time together because he claims he doesn't have time to "look anything up"... how sad is when you have to plan your own birthday evening with the one you love? is it bad to say with confidence that he'll miss me when i'm gone and no matter what happens i know i'll be fine and in a much better situation?

despite all this (which isn't even much), i am looking forward to spending my first b-day in the city... yay, 23! we are taking advantage of millenium's sexy dinner special... everytime near the full moon, they have a special where you can eat a fab veggie meal and it comes with massage oil and a room at the hotel. i'm looking forward to it... any suggestions on after dinner drinks downtown? it's not usually my hood...