007 - License To Drive

When I was younger I told myself I was never going to get a driver's license; and/or I was never going to buy a vehicle until I could get either a Formula One racing car or a tank. I suppose now I'll just have to settle for being in the 99.9th percentile of such madness, as (with a little help/pressure from the gf) I'm now the proud (I suppose) holder of a learner's license.

It was easy to get too. I completed the test in less time than it took to queue up for it! And I only got one question wrong - lets just say if I'm drving you somewhere and we're heading into the sun, you'd better remind me to slow down and pull over until the sun is no longer in our eyes. Or something. It was a silly question.

So if nothing else, this means I'll be able to become a member of any future video stores/libraries without drama. That, and I can finally retire my 18+ card - though it is without a doubt the card I've managed not to lose the longest! I must've lost about ten EFTPOS cards since 1999, yet ye olde 18+ has always been there. It doesn't even expire till 2010, though I already bear only a vague resemblance to the skinny, stubbly teen in the picture (which I took myself in a sticker booth, in the K Mart plaza).

Only a couple of months, if that, before I start my course. It can't come too soon, I'm hating my job even more than ever at the moment. The hypocrisy is getting pretty silly. After a lecture from our team manager about the importance of customer service (and how it is on an equal footing with sales), he unveiled the targets for the next quarter - call quality and service are no longer measured, and the importance of sales has increased from 50% of our targets to 70%. And if you tried calling us today and were on hold for a long, long time, that'd be 'cause at a point where we already had 33 calls waiting to be answered, the entire staff on this floor were pulled off the phones to award someone a prize for getting second place in sales for the past few weeks. Priorities, huh.

Okay, it's actually the next day now, the last Friday before Annual Gift Day. It's going to be perhaps the least exciting Annual Gift Day ever, as I've already got the presents from Tariqa (early presents both of them - new shoes and driver's license) and my mum and sister ($50 of Warewhare vouchers)... though Tariqa has picked up an extra present for me, which I've guessed are socks. A traditional present, she said... I have to make sure wherever we go over the Annual Gift Day and Month Counting Reset day breaks that there's TV though, as TV2 is replaying Lost season two, late at night. I missed Lost the first time it played, in civilian hours, so am catching up... tiredly.

WEEKLY TOP FIVE!!!

1. The Decemberists - Picaresque
2. The Beatles - Love
3. My Morning Jacket - Z
4. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
5. Grandaddy - The Fambly Cat

You know you're working in a call centre when you go to bowl a bouncy stress ball to someone across the room from you, and they whip out a hidden cricket bat. Dang Indians and their natural cricket abilities. And there's always one guy who tends to exaggerate the truth a little, though I'm sure that's common to every workplace, not just call centres.

Last week our particular guy told me when he was last in the US, he saw a one TERABYTE iPod. And he just told me now that George Lucas is remaking Star Wars 4-6, with a new cast.

WTF?!