Anyway, the Customer Center on a Friday evening is quite a scene: Trucks milling about everywhere, people yelling to get packages out, people zooming around retrieving packages for customers, all as part of a mad dash to get ahead of Santa's December 24th deadline (presents have to get to homes before Santa arrives!). And this was 6:30PM on Friday night; it doesn't matter what day of the week it is, the only number that matters is the number of days before Christmas. A dodgeball friend just posted a very haggard, tired-looking selfie today on Facebook celebrating finally being done with deliveries.....there must be a tremendous pressure to get everything in on time, which perhaps explains why MJ's iPhone delivery didn't find its way into our apartment building: we have a security-activated front door that requires a code, so the UPS deliveryperson likely gave up trying (3 attempts!) in favor of going somewhere else to make other deliveries, hence my need to wait in line at the customer center to retrieve said package with iPhone in it. Once I handed the (surprisingly friendly, given the circumstances) worker, she went to "the back" to retrieve the package, which when I peered in through the door wasn't a "warehouse" at all, it was an open-air area with hundreds of shelves lined with thousands of packages, like one of those photos of Amazon warehouses that you see where droids are picking up packages that people had ordered. After what seemed to be about 10 minutes, she finally emerged with my package in hand; I could only imagine she went through mazes full of shelves, sifting through layers and layers of manila folders and brown boxes to find my needle in the haystack. Hope they get some rest in the holiday season (unlike MJ, who is working both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! Some professions just are different than others- some "office workers" I know will take the day off if their internet connection is slow, such an inconvenience!)
Plenty of entertainment options out there over the holidays since the streaming networks seem to know people are all at home without work and school obligations (and college students especially have plenty of time to binge watch shows) so there's plenty of content that dropped this past week, including "Alice in Borderland 2," a Japanese show that is based on a manga that spoofs Lewis Carroll's (aka Charles Dodgson) work "Alice in Wonderland. There is one "team game" in the show players have to play that plays very similarly to Mafia, the parlor game I've played many times with friends/strangers/ at parties. In fact, I believe Mafia is one of the best "icebreaking/fun activities" that one can play with any group larger than 5 or 6, and the more the merrier. Basic premise is that everyone is trying to work together, except there is one/multiple "mafia members" who are killing off other team members and working for themselves, but no one knows who that mafia members is (in the series that person is the Jack of Hearts, and the game takes place inside a prison, enhancing the criminal element of it). MJ hates Mafia the game; I kinda love it and have secretly yearned to play it with any group I hung out with since college, when I first stumbled into a game of it with people on my residential hall floor. There's also now an online version of it called "Among Us" that has done well, unsurprisingly to me because there's a pretty large demand of it and longevity in the concept: everyone kind of wants to be a detective and figure out who's the suspect, but for the more psychopath-inclined like me, we even more so want to be the mafia member who's lying to everyone despite fitting into the group.
On that happy note, Merry Christmas, HO HO HO!
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