And we all work vaguely different shifts (I chose 8:30 to 4:30) so it's hard to notice if a person even should be there.

That's the way it is here--people have shifts ranging from 7-3 to 11-7, even though everyone is technically on "the day shift."

I would like to work for Kathy or megan's co. please.

I just got a call from my boss, we had a 5 pm conf. call to go over a big meeting we have tomorrow. The call now was to ask if I had the prep stuff for a meeting I thought was cancelled on account of our big meeting. Nope, not cancelled and everyone in my dept. has left for the day, so I get to fake a report, sometime after mac goes to bed.

I love it that there's essentially a second brain down there.

Except it's often the brain in charge. I saw a PBS special that said that some researchers are beginning to think that bypass surgery works not because it makes the stomach smaller, but because it cuts some of the nerves in your gut so that they stop sending, "OMG I'm starving" messagess.

I would like to work for Kathy or megan's co. please.

The big downfall here is the pay, which is really average, and bonuses are just about nonexistent (I've been here 15 years this November, and have received a grand total of about $300 in bonuses in that time).

Timelies all!

Got my book order from the mystery bookstore. When I placed the order I was told that one of the books comes out 8/28 and they would send me the rest. When I opened the box I discovered they had sent me an Advanced reading Copy of the book that comes out next week,along with the rest of my order. Also a note saying that if I wanted a hardback copy of the book, let them know. Odd...

Plus I'll probably run into our most obnoxious operations manager who will probably say "leaving early again? Man I wish I was in sales"

Oh, god, I hate those people. I used to work with a bunch of people who came in no earlier than 10, and who would often make a crack when I was leaving at 6.

Casper just said, "Oh! Fiddlesticks. I have to go to the bathroom."

I am totally going to make a point of saying "fiddlesticks" tomorrow. I have a feeling just that will make my day brighter.

pizza has been ordered and I think I am ordering some chinese too, just so I have it for later this week.

whimper

This is where I need to remind myself that my current department is so much saner than the old one. And that the sanity includes things like being able to take off early to go to an afternoon baseball game next week without using leave. The last place had a time clock everyone had to punch, including professional staff.

But I am so sick and tired of trying to unravel bureaucratic snafus not of my own making, using incomplete information given to me by people who suck at administrivia. I'm feeling so in over my head here, like everyone is going to see I'm a fraud, but it's not like I can run away. So I'm fantasizing about hitherto-unknown rich uncles leaving me their fortunes, or else some editor at Tor or Del Rey having a psychic vision of how I have 85 pages written on what's going to be the most brilliant alternate history series EVER, so they're going to give me a four-book contract NOW.

Or, you know, Calgon, take me away.

msbelle, sorry about the crappy day. I would like to declare this sucky day over for everyone.

thanks for the kind thoughts, people.

music is on and mac is playing alone, so all is not bad.