CURRENT MUSIC:
Harry Gregson-Williams - "Shagohod"
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Original Soundtrack
Bear McCreary - "Something Dark is Coming"
Battlestar Galactica: Season 2 Original Soundtrack
Hitoshi Sakimoto - "Ground Battleship Marmot"
Valkyria Chronicles Original Soundtrack
Yoko Shimomura - "To the Battlefield"
Radiant Historia Original Soundtrack
Timothy Michael Wynn - "The European Storm"
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Original Soundtrack
You might have noticed that there's no descriptive anecdote for the music today. If the last sentence pointed it out to you, then you clearly need to be more attentive to detail.
Anyway, there's a reason why all I did was just post links to those tracks on YouTube - all of that music matches the overall tone of today's entry.
Mind you, there's nothing bad going on with my life, nor am I feeling all emo-depressed or anything. (Had this been last year: it might've been a different story.) Rather, I'm getting this odd vibe that seems to be resonating throughout the whole of the western world (or rather, the parts of the western world that celebrate Christmas).
As it's December, more and more people are beginning to knock out their holiday shopping. People all over are slowly realizing that, counting today, there are only twenty-two days left until Christmas. To the massive amounts of people who buy presents for others, that means that they have twenty-one reasonable moments to get their shopping done that leads in to one last day of procrastination-slash-I-can't-find-it moment of shopping terror (a.k.a.: Christmas Eve). This draws people to drive out to whatever retailer deals out the items on their gift lists and shop.
Normally, this would be amazing for the economy and amazing for the retail workers who are in need of hours, but as of right now, it's been anything but. Fellow retail workers (and by that I mean those who work(ed) the front lines during the holiday seasons - not those rear-echelon pantywaists up in corporate who drone on about unreasonable and totally-untrue crap) know how stressful and chaotic the stores can be, and this holiday season is no exception. Guests ransack the store in search for that one special item that'll make little Timmy (or whatever their current gift target is) happy. They take their normally-calm dispositions, amalgamize them with Bruce Banner's rage and three pounds of delusional fantasies and twisted logic (yes, brains weigh about that much), and turn into the most depraved people I've met since I ran into a bunch of first-graders who were apparently reading and reenacting Lord of the Flies. (Fortunately, they didn't have any pig heads, and their Simon and Piggy were still alive... apparently.)
However, from what I observed it seems that most retailers out here are reporting things that have made this particular holiday season differ from the others. Namely, the fact that we're not making money despite heavy traffic in all fronts. Now, I know the economy is complete trash and that we're supposedly still in a recession, but come on, people - does that mean you can still act like complete and utter morons in a store that's doing the best it can to stay stocked with sanity? Does that mean you can treat us worse than rocks, frak with our psyches, frak with the merchandise, and leave without observing one facet of kindness and propriety?
No, it doesn't - and yet you bastards do us retail workers in anyway. The hell is wrong with all of you?
*deep breath*
Okay, I needed to vent about a few things, and I think I got those things covered. I got to yell at the mindless idiots out there who do nothing but terrorize the front lines of retail. I got to forewarn my retail brothers and sisters about how stupid people are and how crappily we're all doing (in case they didn't already know). I even got to use appropriate music - after all, something dark is coming in case it already hasn't landed yet.
So until the 'morrow, everyone. I'll catch y'all then. *prepares for another battle at work*
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