Where have I been (Best Buy)

Sorry for the long no posting period. It's summer so here's what's been up followed by a tyrade about Best Buy.

1) Graduated
2) Mission trip
3) Yard work
4) Moved some stuff out
5) Sister graduated
6) Moved more stuff
7) Went to NC
8. Finished moving
9) Worked and moved computers
10) Got a job and have been working

Best Buy Rant
How's that for some alliteration.

Anyway, so to make a long story short my mom is getting a new cellphone. Because my sister and I are getting sprint phones through my dad, she is going to get sprint as well. So when I was looking through the paper today I saw an add on a pretty decent sprint phone for with rebates that ends up being free. So we drive 30 mins to Best Buy in Douglasville so she can mess with it to see if she likes it. Before we got there I warned her how the cell phone sales people at Best Buy are. They get right up on top of you and won't leave you alone, even if you say I'm just looking in a forceful tone. Today was no different, the guy stood there right on top of us even as I tried to screen him out by standing with my back towards him and slowly walking backwards to get him to move away.

Since I'm the type of person that researches anything and everything before I buy or even go look at it (the wonders of the internet) I hate to be bothered by pesky sales people. Basically I left my mom, who does like pesky sales people, to her own devices and let her mess with the phones. Well she decided she wanted the phone so we told the guy that we wanted it and were going to activate it at online ourselves due to better plans online. He says no that's not possible and I say oh yeah it is. The sales paper says activation is not required. He says we don't sell phones without activation and I said the paper says you do. So he gets the paper and who is right? You guessed it, ME. So he talks to some guy that says there has to be a credit check which is rediculous since we are just buying phone. Whoever heard of junk like that? So after another 10 mins of hounding and my mom talking on the phone to some sprint people, the guy says we have to go to the spring store on Cobb Pkwy. You know what I thought? Bump that. So I was about to walk and then we decided to talk to the guy some more. After more hassle he finally talked to the manager and got approval to sell us the phone.

Moral of the story.
1) Know your stuff before you go to Best Buy
2) Supposedly Best Buy does not work off commissions but it sure seems like the phone folks do. They even have work sheets to fill in that describe the sales pitch, our's said something like Shoulder to Shoulder Sales Pitch. If I wanted somebody to be all up on my shoulders I'd have gone to a massuse.
3) Have some on run a diversion if you look at phones at Best Buy, get the sales person distracted so you can look at phones unbothered.
4) Best Buy is the best place to buy cds.

The end,
Brian

Comments:

Jaclyn ( (IP: 64.12.97.11)
you cheat...your journal entry is almost the exact same thing that is on the community center. That shouldn't be aloud. I need a more diverse website from you
2003/06/13 @ 07:43:36

Relevant Song

Why Georgia - John Mayer

I am driving up 85 in the
kind of morning that lasts all afternoon
I’m just stuck inside the gloom

4 more exits to my apartment but
I am tempted to keep the car in drive
and leave it all behind

cause I wander sometimes
about the outcome
Of a still verdictless life
am I living it right
am I living it right
am I living it right
why, why Georgia, why

rent a room and I fill the spaces with
wood and places to make it feel like home
but all I feel’s alone

it might be a quarter life crisis
or just the stirring in my soul
either way

I wonder sometimes
about the outcome
of a still verdictless life
am I living it right
am I living it right
am I living it right
why, why Georgia, why

so what so I’ve got a smile on
It’s hiding the quiet superstitions in my head

don’t believe me
don’t you dare believe me
when I say I’ve got it down

everybody is just a stranger
but that’s the danger in going my own way
I guess it’s a price I have to pay
still everything happens for a reason
is no reason not to ask yourself if you are
living it right

are you living it right
are you living it right
why, why Georgia, why

And....I'm done!

Hey,

After a long day of graduating I'm finally home to relax. Here's a brief synopsis of the day's events.
1) 5:33 Woke up
2) 7:30ish got to campus
3) 7:45-9 stood around in a queue (I could be ISyE) with my fellow soon-to-be PubP graduates
4) 9 something processed into a packed out colessium through the secret tunnels. I'm serious about the packed outness...that place was full.
5) Stood some more as the procession continued, and continued, and continued. Hit some balloons around.
6) Graduation stuff and speakers. I was looking forward to hearing from Elizabeth Dole but her political speech, typical of such speakers, wasn't really up my alley, nor was up in most of the Ivan Allen student's allies. Much grumbling was heard as she talked about the war and the U.S. responsibility to the be in charge of the world (my interpretation).
7)Got my "memento suitable for framing" (an alright picture of Tech tower with a Thoureau quote)
8. Sat there for a long time
9) Graduation ended and must frustration ensued as there were a lot of people and I couldn't get hooked up with the family for probably 45 mins due to plans that didn't work out.
10) Ate dinner at Houston's on Northside, really good place. Ate a GT cake mom got for me.
11) 5:20 finally back home.

Needless to say it's been a long and eventful day. I liked being able to sit with my PubPeeps during graduation. One interesting observation that I had as well as all of the non-engineers was the overwhelming loserness we sortof felt when the College of Engineering students stood up (an entire half of the stadium floor and hearing the ensuing crowd roar was intimidating. Of course this is an engineering school and that should be expected but it was disheartening. However, I'm extremely glad I went to Tech even though I'm not an engineer.

Until I get bored, later.

This is it!

It's about that time...time to graduate! If use a lot of exclamation point please forgive me. After 4 years of papers, bad grades, and good grades it's all about to be over. Opening new doors and closing others (but there's still windows to look through). Finished my thesis and 3 finals, wee haw!!! Now time go to here Elizabeth Dole speak, hopefully it will be interesting. Next time you hear from me I'll be a Georgia Institute of Technology Alumnus!

So Fresh and So Clean Clean

With less than 4 days until graduation I thought I'd post some pics from freshman year.






Comments:

Ben ( / ) (IP: 66.245.140.77)
I think I would have killed myself in that loft, just personally.
2003/05/02 @ 05:25:36

2 more days

Yes you read that right, only 2 more class days. What does 2 days of class mean? Let's see...4 classes (normally 5 but one is cancelled) and 5.5 hours of class time. Though that may sound great, and no doubt that it is, I still do have to finish my thesis and actually write my environmental policy paper that's due at 3 on Thursday. You know it's bad when you actually want to work on a thesis instead of a 12 page policy paper. At this juncture I don't think I have enough to write about wetland mitigation banking but I guess what I have will have to suffice at least for now.

On other fronts there have been a bunch of last time at Tech things this week such as my last Hot
Topics Bible study, last pizza night tonight, last Monday, last Tuesday, and on and on. I wish I would have actually done some work earlier in the semester so that it wasn't all piled up now but oh well enough whining. I think I'll be fine about not having Tech classes and some other things but it'll be the small things that I'll miss like the quirks of the student population, the whistle, the NAPC Christmas symphony concert, and the city. I'll definitely miss all of my friends but thanks to the wonders of the internet we'll be able to keep up with each other.

Emily finally made her decision about school and will be going to Wellesley. I'm proud that she is going off to be independent; I think she'll love it.

Ok enough procrastination, time get cracking on the wetlands paper.

I'm going to Carolina in my mind

After a long hiatus I have returned out of trying to find something to do instead of writing my thesis. Well as you can tell from this post's title, I'm going to UNC for grad school. It took me awhile to finally make the decision but I think it's going to be a good change. The monetary offer was a little better than Tech's as well. I'm not too keen on being around the same folks all the time for the next 2 years, especially since most are closer to 30 than I am to 20, but it will work out (hopefully).

On other fronts, I am lacking motivation which is a very bad thing when one is trying to graduate. My school work to do list consists of the following:

Thesis

Thesis presentation

Environmental Policy Paper about wetland mitigation banking

Legal Aspects of Business quiz

3 finals including one at 8 am on Friday of finals week

GRADUATION!!!