Day 79 - Super Mario Week

Okay, so I've fallen off the wagon for a bit. Haven't updated this blog for a while. Can't believe it's being 26 days (almost a full month!) since Week of Hell. I'll get to it really quickly, because it's 11:38 at night on New Year's Eve and I've got to go to work at 8:30 tomorrow.

Main points:

- Six weeks, or three paychecks, to go after this week (!!!)
- I'm going to call the Christmas and New Year's pay period "Super Mario Week", because the holiday pay rate is insane. The holiday pay rate works about 2.25x pay per hour for the two holidays in this period (Boxing Day and New Year's Day). The reason I call it "Super Mario week" is because of the boosted of speed in money I'm getting is like getting a Star Power Up in Mario Games, and also because I've been playing a good amount of Super Mario Galaxy 2 lately.
- The three managers (Boss, Troll, Hobgoblin) are getting more and more aggressive towards me. Boss being bitchy and irritable; Troll is a hypocritical fat round asshole; Hobgoblin styles herself as a "sarcastic cool girl". Don't get me wrong, I like the sarcastic cool girl archetype, they're personally very easy to get along with for me, but the problem is that instead of cool, she's just bitchy and retarded. Can I manage to last 3 more paychecks???
- Language learning... I think I made a lot of progress on German this month. I am getting lazier these days tho; not doing what I'm suppose to do. Thinking of enrolling into a German language school in Germany when I'm there.

While 6 weeks to go is a pretty long period of time, I think there are two ways of "organizing" how I perceive it, so that it goes by faster. One: pretend that there's still a long way to go, so I don't think about it so much, focus on other things I need to do (like language learning and most importantly getting into University or college applications). The intent is that the time passes by "before I knew what hit me".

The second way is to divide the 3 paychecks into three smaller time periods. The first paycheck will be thought of as "the paycheck before the pen-ultimate paycheck," the second will be "the penultimate paycheck." The last will be "the last paycheck." I only really need to work until I get my "penultimate paycheck" before I say "I quit" and start my two week notice period. This is an interesting way of organizing how time is perceived, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate, because 6 weeks is STILL long, fully 35% of the entire Survivor experience. If I think like that, this might drag out longer than I expect, and I really don't want to think that I worked more than I need to.

Survivor Minimum Wage is on it's last legs. Literally only $1500 separates me from both the grand prize and the gratification of never having to work at a minimum wage job (hopefully) again. I am actually finding it a little bit surreal, because I have never attempted anything like this before, ever.

Well, gotta catch some Zs. Tomorrow is a Super Mario Day, which means instead of making $50 for five hours of work, I make $125 instead.