Boardwalk Arcade

So I've been training at my new job for the past two days??? It honestly seems like it might be... pretty easy, although we'll see what I'm saying next week, when I'm cut loose on my own in a giant empty office building with three mechanics and a porter all the way down the street from the main dealership. Updates to come, I suppose?????

Saw a couple of movies. 28 Years Later was fantastic, Jurassic World Rebirth was not. F1 tomorrow night, mostly for my brother's sake, since there was a free screening of some random native romcom that my mom really wanted to go to, too.

Things are going to be pretty erratic for me until at LEAST next month, when I can (hopefully!) settle into my new position and start rearranging my entire life piece by piece, because seriously, everything has been arranged around the seven-on, seven-off for like five years now, and this is a really abrupt change!!

Haven't watched the entire show yet (or the Death Pain Invitacional, for that matter), but I did manage to squeeze in Tomohiro Ishii vs. Drilla Moloney, so I can breathe easy on that front. Whatever else may be happening in my life, at least I've got my #1 wrestling crush in the G1 to look forward to (and of course All Out, but seeing as how that's all the way on the other side of summer, I don't want it to get here too quickly).

( Album #487/1001: The Associates - Sulk )

June Movie Count: 12 (Jurassic World Rebirth, 28 Years Later, 28 Weeks Later, 28 Days Later, Materialists, Cinemania, Ballerina, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Will-o'-the-Wisp, The Life of Chuck, Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

Not enough by any stretch, but I got other shit going on now I guess.

Somehow had a randomly eventful day before 10am??? Woke up bright and early after about four hours of sleep to head back into the Ticketmaster mines and snag good tickets for the London Dynamite, which went very smoothly. Then while I was debating going back to bed, I got a text from one of my managers asking if I could pop into work for a talk?? Which is obviously terrifying, but I figured if they were going to fire me, they probably would have done it on Tuesday, so I was probably okay.

So... I have a job offer! It's 8-5, Monday to Friday, which would kill the whole affair in its tracks if not for the fact that the pay is... a significant upgrade from the peanuts I've been making for ages now, to the tune of over 15k a year. The job sounds like a really good fit for me, which is why my manager thought of me first when he heard the position was opening up, and like... the money alone means I at least have to give it a shot, right??? It's been long enough since I've tried working regular hours, maybe I could pull it off this time???? I don't know. I just don't know! I'm all stressed out, but... not necessarily in a bad way? I told them I'd have an answer for them by tomorrow (the woman doing the job now is leaving next Friday, and I would have to train, so there's not a ton of wiggle room there), so I'll talk to my mom when she gets home and just order a burrito while I mainline lucha libre until then, I guess!!! Ha ha what the fuck!

26. What Would Your Personal Mascot Be?

Some kind of tiger that is also a burrito, and who is the cultural ambassador to some random Japanese prefecture.

Slept a LOT after an early crash, which feels like a bit of a waste on the last day of the work week, but sure, I'll take it. Plenty of energy to power through this mountain of scanning, I guess.

Bruise on my thigh after a dog jumped at me on the way home last night. I wasn't even mad about it, because even in the moment, it was clearly a very friendly jump, but he was a very large dog and I keep poking it.

24. Can Creativity Be Scheduled?

No, but I do think it shows up way more often than people think it does, so if you just make the time for it on the regular, odds are pretty good. Not that I do that sort of thing anymore!

Poke poke poke. Everything is bad and the customers are difficult. Three hours until the managers are outta here, then just three more until I get to follow suit! FOR A WEEK.

Thank god it's Sunday, because I got NO sleep last night. Replenished my popcorn reserves, though, and Materialists was pretty good, so hopefully the night out will be enough to carry my spirits through the rest of the week on buttery wings.

Thinking about the scrapped Amblimation CATS movie in the wake of 117 pages of character sketches from it surfacing online. We could have had it all.

AEW's been on a kick of throwing amazing old pay-per-view matches up on YouTube for everybody to see of late, so if you've got an hour to kill and want to watch two very formative bouts for me personally, might I recommend Kenny Omega & Hangman Page vs. The Young Bucks from Revolution 2020, which cemented my obsession with the Elite and their ridiculously dramatic bullshit which I could scream about for days, and Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay from Forbidden Door 2023, the single best match that I've gotten to see in person so far and possibly ever. They're good graps!

22. What Life Lessons Has Adversity Taught You?

That it sucks the big one (adversity or life??).

June Movie Count: 8 (Materialists, Cinemania, Ballerina, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Will-o'-the-Wisp, The Life of Chuck, Tetsuo: The Iron Man)