I plan on telling him almost precisely that, ita. The thing is, he told me he lets people go early if there is nothing to do on a day.....but....I also know he got burned by the previous employee coming in late and leaving early. Still, if he wants me to stay there when I have no work to do since I do not know how to do anything yet, then he at least needs to get me keys.

I find the semantic difference between "I can't do that because..." and "You must do this so I can..." really annoying--if you don't have a reason to distrust the person who's saying why they can't, just parse the information. But handing people deliverables is sometimes just fucking faster.

45 more minutes to go. At least the people who bought co-worker birthday cake went for the good stuff. The bottom layer has been soaking in something not oversweet.

We had birthday cupcakes at our staff meeting this afternoon, made with champagne and they were good, not too sweet. I might have to look into that recipe.

One of the siblings with the same name is leaving next week! Am sad. Her brother likes working with her too--professionally can make her life miserable.

Which, explains stuff.

He sits over the wall from me (for now?) and one of the last times I bumped into his sister she told me I was his favourite conversationalist.

How embarrassing! I mean, for him. Me, I'm chuffed.

ita, partway down: a Prince Harry hand pic for provacatuese. [link]

I totally meant to leave work 30 minutes ago, but y'all got me trapped in the geo game, which is AWESOME. Although, is it cheating if I'm using google to help me with the clues?

[link]

Had a probie show up unannounced this morning (a DUI offender who needs probational community service). She had failed to call on the day her probationary office had told her to, had in fact not called at all. Showed up . . . in flip flops. Um, when you chose to do your hours at an arboretum, what kind of work did you think you'd be doing?

On one hand, I feel bad, because the whole world doesn't do my work and even give it a second thought, and the girl has no license and had to hoof it over here by train and bus and foot. On the other hand, you just took up an hour of my director's time that was not part of today's very busy schedule (and I'm very protective of my Friday time, so that we're not going over going into the weekend). At least her name isn't Skye this time.

And speaking of which, another woman has to do 180 hours (one hundred and eighty hours!!!) for a DUI. Sheeeiiit. If that's for a DUI, and my no insurance thing is worse in the eyes of the courts, my attorney better work miracles, because I cannot handle that with an over 40-hour work week. At least this woman is "in between jobs", so she can knock it out in just over a month (she'll practically be our full-time assistant, which I'm totally down with. Keep drinking and driving, people, we've got lots of work for you!!).

Our first probie we liked so much that we kept joking that we'd celebrate his completion of his hours with a few too many drinks and send him driving home (of course on the third strike it was jail time, so it was only ever a joke). And I adored my pot smoker, poor doobie. The shoplifter was a lazy little sh*t, though. No more of those little princesses, thank you.

(not at the post office, that s two different accomplishments)

I was actually thinking, "Why would you do that there?"

ita, partway down: a Prince Harry hand pic for provacatuese

He looks so much like both of his parents.

I think Harry looks a lot like Philip, too, which makes sense. Edit: You can totally see both of them going down through the generations [link]

It's amazing how much Charles looks like his mom! Harry's head is more square, less long than Philip's.

In the comments, someone points out how both William and Harry deal with constant photos with such aplomb, that it makes US celebs who do the whole bitchface thing seem sort of... immature?