So, as you may or may not know, I got a job at Hastings a few weeks ago. This is my first Real Job (until now I've made my living babysitting and having a couple of student worker jobs on campus) and I'm absolutely loving it! The people I work with are fantastic and the customers are (for the most part) enjoyable and I'm in heaven surrounded my so many books and movies and CDs. I thought I'd post with some of the things that have made me absolutely fall in love with my job.
1) Some lady came in and did a HUGE EPIC buy-back (Hastings buys and sells used books/movies/music for those of you who aren't lucky enough to have one in your life.) One of the books she was selling to us was
Watchmen, which I've been wanting to read (haven't seen the movie), but it's not at our libraries and it costs $20 and I'm not spending that much on something I've never read. Anywho, it was all processed and ready to be sold when I got off, and the used price was $9.99 so I decided to grab it. My discount made it $7.50. BAM.
2) A couple came through my register buying ALL 9 SEASONS of
The X-Files. Not gonna lie, I almost died from joy overload right there.
3) My
Peter Pan movie collection in now complete! All that was missing was
Finding Neverland, and I found a cheap, used copy of that. I have a mad obsession with
Peter Pan for anyone who doesn't know. I own a cheap paperback of the book that I actually read, a gorgeous 100th anniversary edition that I don't allow myself to actually touch, the Disney movie, the new version with Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook (my mom calls this version "Peter Pan for Grown-ups"), the
1960 NBC Televsion Broadcast of the broadway musical with Mary Martin as Peter Pan,
Hook, and now
Finding Neverland.
4) After I had clocked out one night and was roaming around the store without my Hastings gear, some elderly lady ran up to me and said, "Quick! Ms. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy! What's the name of that movie?" and I said, "Pride and Prejudice?" and she punched her fist in the air and yelled, "YES! I KNEW YOU WOULD KNOW!" and then ran off.
Apparently there are people I can't see who follow me around with signs saying 'THIS GIRL LOVES JANE AUSTEN' or something. :D :D :D
5) In addiction to how epic my job already is, one night my friends Brittany, Christine, Lauren, and I were all working at the same time. It was EPICER THAN EPIC.
6) I haven't posted here about
my tattoo yet, but I'll go ahead and share this story. A girl I was checking noticed it and asked if it was from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." When I said that it was indeed, she replied, "So, since you obviously have good taste, can I complain to you about
Twilight?" And thus we had a whole discussion about why
Twilight is the worst thing to happen to literature.
My job is the best. You should all be jealous. :D