December 21, 2004
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I don’t know what to do tonight. I’m so bored. I gave my bow to Cameron the other day so he could take it to Tanaka for a rehair, so I can’t practice tonight. There’s not much point in hacking on any software that I actually want to hack on since my new job sort of restricts me from hacking on it. Carolyn is in New York still. Cameron is over at Hyejin’s watching My Fair Lady, and I just have no interest in that.
I’m sitting here listening to a CD of Tatjana Masurenko, playing Brahms E-flat major sonata and Enesco Concertpiece. She is such a great violist. It’s too bad that she is virtually unknown in this country.
I’ve been waiting for like a month to get my copy of Maya 6. I ordered it from JourneyEd over a month ago, and I’ve been hounding them about it almost as long. Every time I called (except last time), they just blew me off and gave me some bullshit reason for why I haven’t gotten the software yet. The last guy I talked to was very helpful, and he actually seemed shocked at how long it had taken. The thing is, JourneyEd doesn’t ship Maya directly. They take the order, then they call Alias and tell them to ship it. Every other person I talked to sort of hid behind that, and they were all telling me that there was nothing they could do. The previous person said this was very typical of Alias. But when I asked this guy the same question he said it is not at all typical of Alias.. he said that stuff usually ships within a couple days. So while overall the service at JourneyEd was absolutely terrible (until the last guy), it’s hard to recommend against shopping there since it’s so damned cheap. I bought Maya 6 Unlimited for like $400, rather than $7000. That’s a significant enough discount to make it still worth dealing with terrible service.
December 18, 2004
General
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Cameron and I decided to go to Blimpie last Saturday for dinner. There’s a Blimpie over close to his house near Hopkins campus, so I decided to walk from the monument to there. It’s about a 2 mile walk, but I was cool with that. The store closed at 9pm, so we arrived by 8pm. My mobile phone said 7:58p, actually. Anyway, the store was closed when we got there; most of the lights were out, the door was locked, and the girl inside was packing up all the stuff behind the counter.
Almost as soon as we get there, the girl starts yelling at us. “I’m closed!!” We look at the posted hours.. it says closing time is 9pm. I look at my telephone’s clock, and it says 7:58pm. The girl sees our hesitation, or at least notices the fact that we don’t immediately leave, and keeps yelling at us that she’s closed. We try pointing out that closing time is posted at 9pm, and she starts getting pissed!! She’s yelling like, “If the lights are out and the door is locked, then that means I AM CLOSED!!” So then we’re trying to ask if the hours have changed, or if this is just something on this day.. but she keeps yelling that she is CLOSED. So I ask something like, “If you’re not going by the posted hours today and you won’t tell us whether this is normal, how do we know when to show up in the future?” Then she gets freaking crazy mad and yells that if we don’t leave right now she’s calling security on us! I was so pissed. So yeah, we left and told her we’d never come back.
I went onto Blimpie’s website and reported the store, but I don’t know if it will do any good. I didn’t find this particular store in the little “store finder” feature. But if you’re in Baltimore near Hopkins, then avoid the Blimpie at Hopkins Square if this evil chick is working behind the counter. I suspect anyone who has so little concern for their job as to scream at and threaten customers is also not likely to do other aspects of their job well. Who knows what she might be baking into the bread.
