Tonight I feel so strange. I'm kinda tired but really it's 7:59 and I know I won't sleep for hours. Today was my first full day at work. I didn't actually do anything because the place is not open yet, although a few people thought it was and came in and my boss let them use the computers since they are already online. I am going to be working in an internet cafe by the way and while I thought I would be stuck behind a desk just taking money and helping people occasionally I was severely mistaken. It is also a computer repairs place and most of the people they hired are people who are into computers but still need some training. Now I don't know much about fixing hardware, my brother and father take care of that, so it is a bit daunting that I am faced with a situation where I will be expected to perform in a field I am not familiar with. However they hired me with the intention of training me to be a technician so I don't think I will be expected to do much on my own at first and it is a little exciting that I will be learning something new. Learning something new also comes with the fear that I will not do well in it, and adding to any normal anxiety about such a situation is the fact that I am not good at stuff like that and I already had to deal with one monumental failure for this year.

The place itself is really nice, it has up to date equipment and nice furniture etc. The guys that I've met so far seem really nice although not really my type of people. Like this guy who is really ghetto (and proud of it) he's really great to get along with but I'm sure we won't really have anything to talk about and thankfully he's one of those people who can carry on a conversation with very little input from me, which I like due to my lack of conversational skills. Then there's my 'boss'. Both of the owners are young guys (30's) and I think old friends. One is my father's cousin (thank god for nepotism) and has another job so he hasn't been (won't be) around. Again the other guy is a nice guy but not the kind of person I'm used to. He's very laid back, today and yesterday I and the other guys were better dressed than he was, which is really cool because I didn't bring any 'work clothes'. I was really sick of sitting there and doing nothing yesterday so I offered to install msn and yahoo messenger on the computers and he said not to install yahoo but to do msn (I really need my yahoo if I'm going to be online). So I started to download it on the computers and then thought why should I do that when the pc's are networked and there must be a simpler way to do it so I went back to find out if it would be better to do it that way instead, I can't tell you what was said because I didn't understand a thing he said but the gist was to stop downloading them so I did. Then I left for class. Today was much of the same thing just sitting there doing nothing, well I was online but I felt like I should be working. Eventually I remembered that I registered my father's cafe on an internet listing so I went in search of some listings so I could prepare to ask if he wanted me to submit to some of them. I found a few and realised that they listed websites for the cafes so I immediately thought that I would go ask if there was one yet and offer to make one and then submit it to the listings, which I did. I asked if there was one and he said no so I asked if he had someone to do it because if not I could start working on one he said he didn't have anyone doing it but he could do it himself he just doesn't have the time blah blah.... You don't have a website, you want one, you don't have the time to do it yourself, (because) you're trying to open in 3 days, a staff member (who has been on his ass all day doing nothing) offers to do it...where is the problem. So 4:00 rolls around and I still have not been productive and the other guy who was doing the same thing as me decided to ask if he could leave and he left so I went down and asked him if there's anything that he wanted me to do - no - like install stuff, when do you plan to start installing stuff? - Like what? - Like word etc. - we're buying those so we won't be installing just yet - so what about stuff like yahoo or icq - people don't really use those, mostly msn so I'm not putting them on (I'm going - oh no!! I want yahoo!!) And that was pretty much it except it sounded much more fumbled. So I said if there's nothing to do then I can go and he said yeah so I left.
during the day I also got the idea to have them make out little questionnaires, like the ones they give at my school, so people can say how they feel about the service and the facilities. I think I will try to draft one tonight with the hope of pitching it to him tomorrow, if I get up the nerve then at least he won't be able to say I didn't try.

this has turned out to be a very long entry.

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