I wish my job was to play poker all day

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Well, let's start off with my new job. I am working at the UCSD Bookstore, in the Textbooks section. My first day of work was Wednesday. It was only an orientation/training day, so I was only there from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. We spent the first hour and a half walking around the store, following my supervisor around while she explained to us everything we needed to know. I got really, really sleepy during this, and I had to suppress many a yawn. It got so bad that my ears started plugging up, like what happens when you drive up a mountain and your ears need to be popped, except that I couldn't make it go away this time. She finally finished giving us the tour, and sent us up to the administration to fill out the necessary paperwork. That took about half an hour because they had to explain to us every single sheet that we were signing. After that, we came back down and the lead student showed us how the computers worked. There was only half an hour left when she finished, so we were allowed to take our 15 minute break and then just shelved a few books and were allowed to leave. All in all, it wasn't a bad three hours, especially since I got paid for doing nothing.

One thing that might be bad however, is that four or five of the students that have been there for a long time are leaving in the next week or so. My supervisor seems to always emphasize the fact that they're leaving and we're here to replace them, but it doesn't seem like she expects as much out of us. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. My supervisor is a really nice person, but she seems to be very attached to the old students, so much so that it might take some time for her to trust us to do anything. Oh well.

I worked again on Thursday from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. I mostly just shelved books for the whole time, which is fine with me. I don't mind shelving books, and I'm insane so I like seeing the books all nice and lined up. Tiffany came to see me at around 4:00 pm, so I took my break then. After that though, there was nothing left to do because all the books that could be shelved had been shelved. So, I basically just sat around for 30 minutes, every once in awhile getting up and walking around. I got so bored that I went through half the store straightening out the textbooks. It wasn't much to do because there aren't many people that come in the late afternoon during the summer to buy textbooks, so not much could be messed up. Oh well, again I got paid for doing pretty much nothing. Good stuff.

Last night, I played poker with Arden, Jon, and two of his friends. We played No Limit Texas Hold-em tournament style, with an $8 buy in. First place would get $20, second $12, and third $8. Everyone started with $15 in "chips" (actually coins), and we would play until the last man was standing. It started out okay for me. I quickly built a decent chip lead, and soon Zack (sp?) lost, followed by Arden. Going into the top three I think I was down in chips, but it was still fairly even. By now, it was pretty late, and I was really sleepy, so I just went All-in on a pretty bad hand (J-7 I think). Jon called, and I ended up winning. This gave me a pretty big chip advantage, and Jon soon was eliminated. Again, I was down in chips going into the final matchup, but I won a few hands and soon had probably a two to one chip lead. Now I actually wanted to win, because $20 is quite a bit more than $12. Dan, the last guy that was left, went All-in before the flop, and I had an A-Q offsuit, so I called. He had a pair of 4's. This hand was pretty much a coin flip, though he had a small advantage. He ended up winning it with a set of 4's. That wasn't so bad because I was still left with a decent chip stack, and I felt it was right to call him with A-Q. The next hand however, would be my downfall. I had a K-6, and he had Q-4, both offsuit. I had a pair of 6's after the Turn, and he wasn't betting, so I raised a decent amount. He counter-raised me All-in, and I didn't think he could beat me, so I called. He ended up being on an inside straight and a flush draw. So the only cards that could beat me were a Q, any 5, or any diamond. Since four diamonds were already out, that left him with 15 cards that could save him. Since there were only 44 cards left in the deck, that only left him with a 34% chance to win. But, with my luck, what happens to come out but a 5, giving him the straight and the win. It wouldn't have been so bad if not for how he reacted to winning. When the 5 came out, everyone expressed their joy/sadness with their respective "ooh"'s and "ahh"'s, but the first words to come out of Dan's mouth were, "Huh? How did I win?" Now, I hadn't mentioned this before, but Dan is not very experience at poker, and he even needed a cheat sheet for the hand orders. So honestly, I think the real question of the night was, "Huh? How did I lose?"

Randomness: I had gone to Student Business services a couple weeks ago to request my refund because I dropped a Summer Session two class. They put in the request and told me that it would be processed the next day, and that I would get the check in a couple weeks. Well, now it's a couple weeks later and I still haven't received my check, and I kind of need it for rent, so I go back to SBS, and asked them how my refund was coming along. Guess what they told me? They put in the request and told me that it would be processed the next day, and that I would get the check in a couple weeks. Deja-vu anyone?