I've always liked Maleficent. She was always one of those villians that had that confidence that I like. Just like Sephiroth. Always confident. That's what I want to be: confident. Working for Symantec meant dealing with lots of upset customers who are unable or unwilling to control themselves and end up taking their frustrations out on me. Working for technical support means 99% of the people you get on the phone are calling because they have a problem and have tried fixing it to no avail. That doesn't make most people happy. When someone who was determined to get their problem fixed and determined to get it fixed with no money leaving their pocket got on the phone, it was my job to stand my ground. I had to do it. They paid me to do it. I'd lose my job if I didn't do it. With that in mind, I had to just swallow any timidness that I naturally had and just tell them that they have to pay or they won't get any service. Simple as that. I had to have confidence.

Since working there, I've noticed that it has helped me be more confident in things, and I like it. In some ways it's not so good, like when I argue with my parents about things. Standing up for myself to a certain point with them will only reward me without a place to live. It's helped me, but I have a long ways to go.

I filled in many of the applications that I gathered yesterday. It's a very dull process filling in the same information over and over. Oh, how I wish I could copy and paste it. Besides doing that and reading some more of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (quite a hilarious chapter today), I really haven't done anything today. Sure, the entry before this took a long time to do, and the private entry I spoke of was quite long, so that took up part of my day, but I'm really surprised at how fast the day went by when I did so little. I'd usually be bored out of my mind and the day would seem to crawl along as a result. I wonder what happened.

My dad and I had been planning on seeing a movie and decided that tonight was the night. I was to pick the movie out since my dad always says that he doesn't care. I've already seen "Van Helsing", "Troy", "Shrek 2", "Harry Potter", and "The Day After Tomorrow". From the other selections I remembered, I couldn't think of one I wanted to see. I didn't think my dad would really like "Van Helsing", since it's about vampires, he's seen "Troy", I know for a fact he wouldn't like "Harry Potter" since he sees it as promoting an evil thing, such as witchcraft, and he's already seen "The Day After Tomorrow", so I opted for "Shrek 2". I looked in the paper and saw that more movies had come out since I looked last. We ended up watching "The Chronicles of Riddick" and, surprisingly, he seemed to be the one to make the choice instead of asking me. I wanted to see that more than any of the others, anyway. It looked pretty good in the previews, but I really liked the movie. It reminded me of "The Matrix" and also of Wolverine. My dad didn't seem to like it much after seeing it, but I really liked it. I love Riddick's confidence. I loved how he seemed to let nothing bother him, even though you could tell it did. It was just great. There was also a preview for a really awesome-looking movie called "Hero". It's of the same style as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". I want to see that one when it comes out. The popcorn also tasted really good tonight, for some reason.