Lucky Jesse!
My boss is gone. My boss' boss is gone. There are only 7 people here (that I know of) out of an office of about 35. Unfortunately, my job is answering the phones so it's not like I can slink out early LIKE EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO WORKS HERE DOES.
Goddammit.
I need to get into another department or another job.
Good vibes to them's what needs 'em. I hope I get over my balkiness because as long as I'm here, I ought to use the slow time to get to projects I never have time to do. Like cleaning my desk and making proposals.
I just asked the VP in charge if we were working a full day and she admitted that she did not know what protocol is. I told her it was to let us out ASAP. we'll see.
Nutmeat. I believe I'm going to appropriate that as an insult. "No, no! The other drawer, you nutmeat!" "What a nutmeat." "Suck my nutmeat." "Back off or I will kick you in the nutmeat!"
**LOVE.** I feel the need to use "nutmeat" as an insult, as well. Maybe we can start a trend.
ION, this cold -- aka The Cold I Got For Christmas Because Santa Is A Right Bastard -- can just leave any time now. I feel like ass.
I've done some kind of online dating/personal ad/whatever thing every few years. The first couple of dates SUCK, but then they're fine.
Ugh. I'll be over in the corner, hyperventilating. Why couldn't I have just met some nice boy in college and been done with it??
But in other news, I now have a major craving for crystallized ginger. Fortunately, that one is easily fulfilled!
I'm one of 5 people in the office--possibly in the whole building. And that includes the former head honcho who is officially in retirement and just came by to finish cleaning out his office. Still, my office chair's comfy, and if I'm here that means I'm not at the mechanic's waiting for them to find further problems with my car. (Yesterday's problems were resolved for 3 hours of my life and $220. Coulda been worse.)
From back in the quirkyalone discussion: I got a 109. They really do need something beyond 2 years since the last date. And what's this going to a bar to meet people thing? Am I the only one who usually goes into a bar to drink?
Casper: "I'm not silly - I'm a manager."
Now we just need the companion piece, "how to tell people how to order wine without looking like an asshole."
How To Order Wine Without Looking Like An Asshole
13. Sending the wine back – If the wine’s bad send it back! It’s no skin off our nose. Usually we get a credit from the distributor. In most cases, however, people refuse a perfectly good bottle of wine just because they don’t like it. Whose problem is that? Mine? I don’t think so.
I have more arguments about this one. I agree with the waiter -- if you just don't like how it tastes, you don't get to send it back. Sorry, but you made a bad choice. If I tried to return a bottle of wine to my local wine store because I didn't like how it tasted, I'd get laughed out of the store.
Many people don't agree with me, however. They think that "wine which doesn't taste the way I want it to" always = "bad wine" and is therefore okay to send back. I try to never go out to dinner with these people.
From back in the quirkyalone discussion: I got a 109.
I got a 119, which I think might be the highest anyone here has reported, other than ita, who also got a 119. Color me totally unsurprised at my score.
