In late June, the awesome woman I took this job to work with left the company under her own power. In the org chart shakeout, I asked not to be assigned to a person we will henceforth refer to as Panera Dude, for his location during the call where they told me I would be his minion ( Read more... )

Not paying out of pocket first makes all the difference in me feeling like a real business traveler ( Read more... )

Working late tonight, partially because I have a lot to do and partially because I have been dragging my feet on things while jobstuff is making me crazy (more on that privately, but suffice it to say I live in interesting times ( Read more... )

I worked yesterday, mostly mucking out my inboxes. But today i am back at work. So far, I have moved my computer to my new cube, mucked out my inboxes, and tried to figure out some less awkward way to deal with the phone. If we had IT, they would just change this phone to my extension. No IT for me. On the bright side, udon for me ( Read more... )

In the course of one conversation last night, I went from writing a worship order, to D/s themes in hymns, to animated penguin hatesex, to the Mommy Wars. Because that's how I roll ( Read more... )

In which an article that might have been useful is hijacked by a metaphor, then coshed on the head and rolled out to bleed by the side of the road.

Email: An open door to sophisticated security threatsThere are no action items. No links, really. It's an 'opinion' piece, so I guess I may be expecting too much, but...arg ( Read more... )

That's not exactly true, but it feels like it today. I uploaded 3 documents twice (don't even ask), and fixed and produced another document, and that's considering that my time at work is 4.5 hours today. On the bright side, I anticipated this, and the documents were almost entirely ready to go. I feel very good about that ( Read more... )

I was most vilely unwell for part of it. We will pass over that ( Read more... )

On the one hand, yay, earning a paycheck!

On the other hand, it is THWARTFUL.
( whining )

Can't lj, brains eaten by work ( Read more... )