Manager: “So, Pike, you have some vacation time leftover and we want you to use it up before December 1. Christmas rush and all. So yeah, if you want some paid time off, November would be a good time to use it.”
Pike: “Paid time off eh? November eh? … so, anytime I want in November?”
Manager: “Yup!”
Pike: “So like, if I conveniently took November 13, 14, and 15 off, and got paid for those three days, that’d be cool?”
Manager: “Yep!”
/score
Still debating about attending the midnight release or not. I was thinking of wearing my pale yellow prom dress for this event. I don’t tend to be a “midnight release” sort of person because I’m a newb and midnight is right about the time I start losing all ability to function– I think Star Wars: Episode III was the last time I did a midnight release thing, and I went loopy. On top of that, pulling a BRK or Mania and holding some crazy event is pretty much out of the question cause I doubt any of ya cityfolk live within a hundred miles of Podunk Pikesville. Plus, I’m really not that interesting anyway. But, you never know. We do have Zephram Cochrane so we can always hold out for an alien landing, that’d spice things up.
I’m actually considering skipping out on my morning class in order to buy Wrath. Not play it, just buy it, because I have a burning desire for the CE.
The sad part is, I only have a gift card for Best Buy and no one there knows if they’re selling it! Augh! /stressed.
But with that paid vacation time, it’s like you’re getting paid to play WoW…which is pretty bitchin’.
@ Kailen: Best Buy should be selling it. My dad brought mine and his BC at Best Buy last year… on the release day, and he didn’t reserve it or anything. He went in at 3 pm and he lucked out that there were several unreserved copies left.
@ Pike: Lucky. My poor laptop is “outdated” according to Blizzard, and I’m a broke college student. But hey, there’s a bright lining: I’ll have the Isle of Quel’Whatever to all my own!
You’re gonna get paid to stay home & play LK? Wow, I admire your sneakiness. 😉
I ordered my CE online, & got overnight delivery, only bad part is it means I’ll have to wait for the next day to play (I think?). Unless they ship it the previous day & I’ll get it on the 13th.
Couple things there Pike……
1: I am jealous! I have to work that day!
2: You say you are not interesting but you seem to keep enough people coming back to read your posts that you have moved to a new site….oh and I am sure your BF would disagree.
3: And this is at everyone else….I WISH I was near enough to a store that would have a midnight release. I had to order my copy online and hope that they can get the release date shipping right….otherwise I have to wait….*sobbing in a corner*
Yep, I have the same situation here.
I’d do a SES Midnight Release party, but A) I don’t think anyone is in Dallas, and B) I don’t have the readership to make it worth even trying. 😛
I applaud your plottyness. 🙂 My hunter will have to wait until I get off work.
1: final university exam: 13/11/08
2: release date of WOTLK in New Zealand: 14/11/08
3: summer job: none so far
4: … (profit?)
the only problem is 5: probably won’t run on my computer.
I took off starting November 12th, 13th, and 15th.
@Watermist: Thanks for that info. I really do hope they have it, since I’m gonna be going over maybe 30 minutes after they open. (They open at ten, but I have a class that day which ends at ten thirty…Fortunately, it’s maybe 15 minutes from my campus.)