Can I go home now?

First call I got this morning was from the company owner's secretary saying he needs wireless internet access in the board room by Wednesday. We don't have wireless networking anywhere in the building and the internet access requires a firewall login and password. I spoke to my supervisor and he said we'll have to figure something out.

Then I got a call from someone at our Philly hospital trying to schedule non-Oncology patients who followed their doctor from a different local hospital and finding out she can't because they're not in the system. I spent 45 minutes on the phone calling person after person before I finally found out someone who could tell me the procedure for scheduling new non-Oncology patients. Argh.

I've had more stressful days, but it hasn't been a fun morning.

Well, some of the victims of the sneak'n peek warrants have been Arab-Americans, so you can imagine how sympathetic some police departments have been....

Just because you're already in the groove, Kalshane, want to call a collection agency for me and convince them that I don't actually owe Nextel $2800?

Just because you're already in the groove, Kalshane, want to call a collection agency for me and convince them that I don't actually owe Nextel $2800?

I think I'll pass, thanks. I have enough trouble convincing them that I'm not the person they're looking for and I have no clue where that person is when they call me looking for people who lived upstairs from me. I have no idea what's up with that apartment, but at least half the people who lived up there while I've been here seem to have collection agencies after them.

Though, ack. That doesn't sound fun at all.

I'LL DO IT!! I love making those calls.

OK, OK, I'll do it myself. Stupid identity stealers.

ALTHOUGH, a friend of mine told me last night that someone in Australia stole $3K OUT OF HER CHECKING ACCOUNT. See, to me that's way worse (even though she did get the money back quickly) -- someone stealing from companies pretending to be me sucks, but at least they aren't stealing my actual money.

Billytea has turned into kind of a swank dresser recently, hasn't he? And all those penguins he's been ordering...

I convinced myself that the Survivor promos had to be old footage, because could they really be that stupid to end on a cliffhanger and then reveal the winner? Maybe they could.

Definitely new footage.

OK, OK, I'll do it myself.

So you're saying you don't trust Aimée?

ALTHOUGH, a friend of mine told me last night that someone in Australia stole $3K OUT OF HER CHECKING ACCOUNT.

Wow. That sucks. Worst I've ever had to do was cancel a debit card over two charges that amounted to about $80.

>I feel like such an utter fucking alien in my own country

Nothing new here, have felt that way since November 04.

I've felt that way since George McGovern lost every state but DC and Mass back in November of 1972.

So you're saying you don't trust Aimée?

I cannot tell you how much I would love to leave this to Aimee! Somehow I don't think she can get all the notarized shit I need.