December 12th, 2025: Another day of work. I woke up at 6:30am and bought more milk for breakfast. I had coffee with it and then I walked to the bus stop. I took the bus to work at 7:59am and got in a bit early, turns out 2 people got into work before me. I brewed the coffee for the office and clocked in. I checked my notices for the website for time card managiftent and it said my time request was denied by the Latinx lady. I was pissed off, I checked my email and saw there was a potluck from 12:00pm to 1:00pm that we had to RSVP for, I clicked the link and it said they couldn't take any more responses. I saw my email and it said the reason why my request was denied was due to me requesting the wrong type of holiday. I had this conversation with my mom about it from 8:30am to 9:57am:
>Bad news, my vacation request for December 22, 23, and 26 was denied so I’ll have to be in work those days.
<Bummer, they must need you. You can still come home the weekend of 19th.
>Ok I checked and she told me it’s because I didn’t request off December 24th and 25th properly.
<Don't you automatically get that time off?
<Can you explain that you are going home 1.5 hours away and it's a pain to go back and forth?
>I re-requested it off, she said she will approve it now.
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<Navigating HR policies is a pain. 
After some discussion with Seth M and the Latinx lady, I re-requested the time off and I got denied again, turns out this time she forgot to inform me that as a part time worker, I had to request 4 hours a day for each day I was off and make 2 separate requests for the week of December 21st to December 27th, one request for December 22nd, 23rd, and 26th as vacation, and 1 request for December 24th (Christmas eve) and December 25th, (Christmas day) as holiday. I also had to request December 31st and January 1st as holiday then request January 2nd and January 5th as vacation for SEEK. Seth M then told me he had 1 mission for me, to rewrite a .tsx file to have the information about the landlord pop up if they selected rent for a previous option. I kept getting errors because React wasn't installed on my computer, I worked on fixing that by trying to install React on my computer. It took quite a while to get that finished but whenever I'd try to run the command: "npm -v" or any other npm command, it said I didn't have permissions. I ran the command again as an reindeeristrator in the command terminal and it worked; however that wouldn't transfer over to working in VScode. Seth M had no idea why it didn't work there. I checked an email to see that the tracking thing failed because of a parsing to integer issue. I checked the spreadsheet and Mrauku put in for the inital number something along the lines of:
<I forgot to take a picture of the miles driven when I got into the car
And the ending one was also a long string of text. Joy and Portia came in a bit later than usual and I waved to them, they waved back.
At 11:54am, Keke said she had to leave for her final exam, I asked her what class and she said it was, it was theology, I asked her what kind of theology, it’s Catholic, I then asked her if she was Catholic and she told me her family is Lutheran. I asked her why couldn’t just go to the Lutheran college but she told me she just didn’t like it. At 11:58am, I saw Edgar walking towards the elevators with Seth M. He asked me if I was going to the potluck and I told him I wasn't because I didn't RSVP. He told me:
"Oh she accounted for everybody, you can go!"
I took the elevator down with him, Edgar, Staples, Shima C, and a few others and we got in. I sat at the same table as Seth M, Seth M's friend, the guy with 6 (soon to be 7) kids, and Lillehammer. The CEO gave a speech and we went in line to eat. I got some macaroni and cheese, fettuccine with shrimp and some shitoko in it, a frosted cookie that got frosting on the bottom because of how it was stacked in the jar, and a can of Coca-Cola to drink. I sat down first, a bit later, the CEO sat in Seth M's chair and he said hi to me. The others came and Seth M moved his seat. We didn’t talk much at first but I went to get a second round with the amazing cake. When I got back, Lillehammer’s friend from another company was at my spot. I moved and the conversation started between Lillehammer and the guy with 6 kids about house renovation. He said he did practically everything while Lillehammer left it. Lillehammer talked to me about going to the same college as me and then going elsewhere for grad school. Which prompted the CEO to start talking. The CEO told us the story of how he met his wife, it started off with him living on the 13th floor of the tower I lived in at the start of this diary listening to her jump rope on the 14th floor, he went up and introduced himself to her and later he asked her out for donuts for their first date. During it he pushed her into a snowbank as a joke and tried to help her up but she pulled him into the snowbank. He talked about having to go to college over the summer, where he was stuck in the tower I was in freshman year, which was known for being a party tower and he described it as smelling like beer. Which was not noticeable to me when I lived in there, either college students stopped partying as much or it's because of my bad sense of smell. Lillehammer talked about getting naughtylisted when she wasn’t there because an open beer bottle was near her when an RA came in and she was over 21. I eventually made my way back upstairs to my office branch and continued trying to work on the improved .tsx file. I put it into ChatGPT and it gave me something, but I still couldn't test it and see if it works or not. I continued on with my day until it was 3:45pm when I clocked out. I got to the bus stop and missed my bus all because the lights screwed me over. But I ran down the street to catch up with the bus and I it just so happened that I successfully got inside on time. The driver was pissed off at me. I got in the crowded bus and sat down until it was time to get off at my home stop. I got inside and I downloaded this recreation of Final Fantasy XI in RPG Maker called FF XI Bravier. I played that quite a bit and worked the rest of the time on my Greek Mythology debate paper on if one's family takes precedence over one's community, with Medea being pro-family and Hippolytus being pro-community, I pulled some quotations and then wrote the explanation for the position. I continued doing that until 6:30pm where I made an Australian grilled cheese sandwich and ate it. Most of the cheese had melted onto the plate in the microwave and the bread was this weird combination of wet and dry. I ate it and then continued gaming. I finally submitted the practice debate paper and I felt a sense of relief that another class is finally done, I won't be burdened by its pain anymore. I continued gaming when I found out that an archive of blog.soyjak.st was up and running thanks to Quote. I could finally access my old blogs all the way back to my start in March 8th, 2024. I instantly started archiving posts I could find. I then opened Disgrinch lair at 8:00pm to find this message from A10 he sent to me at 6:03pm:
<hey
<ifu think we are done, you can sumbit it
I tested the thing and submitted it a bit later. I sent him the screenshot and said it was finished. I took a shower and continued writing in my blog until it was time to post it. I had to wait a bit on posting it for it to be 2 posts because I would have to greatly expand the word count in a few days, enough to go over the 10,000 character limit. I finally fell asleep.
Song of the Day: White Christmas - Frank Sinatra (1944)
