Moesday, Wednesday, Frursday
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
The sun is in the Southern sky and Jupiter is aligned with Mars. And the result is an event so glorious and rare that it only happens once - maybe five times - a year. I speak, of course, of the Three Day Work Week.
Yes, the ever-elusive Three Day Work Week has arrived as a combination of national holiday and 9/80 off Friday, and I'm taking full advantage. The parents were in town for the past week, so I spent spent Monday biking aroudn the South Bay with them. And this Friday I'm planning to go sailing to either Catalina or the Channel Islands with Gilbert. Whah-thah!
The only thing about the Three Day work Week is that you spend the whole week wondering what day it is. Tuesday feels like Monday when you first start, but by the end you're thinking about how there are only two days left in the week. Thursday becomes the new Friday even though you swear it's only half-way over. And you spend all day Wednesday thinking it's three different days. It's a tough burden to suffer through, but I think I can manage.
Top it all off by rubbing it in the faces of your friends and you have a successful Three Day Work Week.
Labels: weekend, work
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A Case of the Mondays
Monday, June 18, 2007
We all use this phrase from time to time, usually in a joking manner to describe having to go back to work after an awesome weekend. But today it applied to my life in the truest of terms. I knew for sure when the IT guy killed my computer by trying to reinstall Adobe. How the eff do you kill a computer by reinstalling a program? I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the IT guy messing with Windows' registry. Even the stupidest Windows user knows not to touch the registry in Windows. And if you do, you effing back up the hard drive somewhere beforehand.
Add this on top of the fact that I had a hard time sleeping last night, I feel slightly sick after surfing in the pollution-infested waters of LA yesterday, and the fact that all my work must be done on a computer, and you have the reason why I went home at 2:30 this afternoon. I would have left sooner except that there was a meeting scheduled for 2:00, which was cancelled at 1:45. Awesome.
Count this as Exhibit XD for evidence for hating my job.
Labels: I'm surrounded by morons, work
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Man at Work
Friday, February 23, 2007
No, I'm not talking about the kick-ass guitarist that was a member of the '80s band "Men at Work" who now appears semi-regularly on Scrubs, although that guy is sweet. I'm talking about myself. I'm at work. And not doing much. The company decided to axe my team from the project on which we were working, which was two weeks later than they axed everyone else. Good times. So this week has been entirely devoted to finding a new project. Which means the majority of my days have been pretty boring. There has definitely been a lot of message board reading, blog reading, talking to insurance companies and US Customs about Rashanda, and studying for my CCNA.
I finally found my new position yesterday right before I left work, so I'm just waiting for all the bureaucratic red tape to get cut so I can move to my new office and begin immersing myself in documentation so I can contribute something in my last 3.5 months at this office. I'm still not sure where my last rotation will be, but I'm pulling for Redondo Beach or San Diego. It's not that I want to stay in California, per se, but rather that those locations are actually doing wireless communications work. Seeing as how I have yet to apply my studies from grad school to my job, I figure those would be spots to remedy that problem.
In other fun news, I'm headed to Purdue tomorrow! The company is sending me out there to recruit, so I'm making a long weekend out of it and getting some Ginger time in. Hopefully Rooster will call me back later today and tell me he's able to grab dinner in Indy Saturday night. Animal House Roommate Reunion!
Labels: Ginger, Rashanda, work
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