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Random Babbles
2006-04-04 - 1:28 p.m.

I need to go to the drug store today and buy Claratin. Sorry for the shopping list, but I find when I write stuff like that in here I�m far more likely to remember. My allergies are going icky again and I need to start dealing with them before I end up in Asthma land as I have in the past.

I had the worst nightmare last night. I�m not going to bore y�all with the details, but it was one of those that feel so real you aren�t sure it�s over after you wake up. I had to get out of bed and watch TV for a while with the lights on before I could go back in my room and try to sleep again. Eeek, it was spooky.

I�m trying to get everything wrapped up today so I can leave town guilt free this weekend. I�m doing all right, but I hit a bit of an energy wall a few minutes ago and I�m trying to build my steam back up. It�s almost lunchtime, so I think that�s part of it; I need a bit more fuel to continue. I have an hour to go, but I figure I can back away a little bit for that one hour and write this and collect my thoughts back together.

I also need to get my desk cleaned up before I leave. There is seriously no concept of �personal workspace� around here, so if I am away from my desk for any length of time I�ll come back and find that everything has been moved or rifled through. Giggles is the worst offender. In fact, he�s pretty much the only real offender. I know I�m going to come back to work next Wednesday and there will be at least two coke bottles and other assorted detritus on my desk. The worst is, things will be rifled through and moved around and so you figure, �Well, someone needed something quickly while I was gone.� No, no one needed anything; they just used your desk and everything in it for however long they wanted to. It is so strange. I don�t mind if someone needs to look up an order and my computer is the closest, or what have you normal-office-sharing-fishcakes, but Giggles seems to think it really is appropriate for him to commandeer anyone�s desk at any time for any reason. When you protest he says, �Well the computers belong to the company, not to individuals so I can use any of them whenever.� He just doesn�t understand why it is invasive or rude to just start using another person�s space, that it has nothing to do with the computer. I have worked at many, many offices in my life and this type of thing was never ok. I�ve even worked in places where three or four people shared a desk and if you were not on duty you asked the person who was if it was ok before you started going through the drawers. It�s just basic etiquette. It�s starting to get really bad for Minion 2.0. He�ll be in the middle of putting an order together for a customer and Giggles will tell him he has to move to another computer while he�s in the middle of the phone call with the customer. It is really getting inappropriate, especially since we have several empty workstations in other parts of the building. I feel like I have to talk about this to the managers, but I�m afraid nothing will come of it except a really snotty attitude from Giggles.

I don�t want to complain about work today, though. I get to take a mini break this weekend and I don�t want to go into it negative. Yay! I�m hoping to get to see the twins while I�m down there, but they have a wedding, so it may or may not come to be. We shall see. Wedding defiantly trumps lunch at wherever, but we�re gonna try. I few can�t work it out I may spend an afternoon doing totally touristy things or something. Shopping on Melrose, etc. Or maybe I�ll just go see a movie at the Arclight or shopping at the Grove or something fun and stupid like that. I still need to add more movies to the list� OK, I will stop obsessing now.

As always, it feels like I have so much going on and yet nothing to talk about. Why is that?

Oooh, ooh, I know: This is a really cool site. It is a feed that shows you the last 40 images loaded into Livejournal. It is potentially very NSFW, obviously, but I�ve been playing around with it for over a week and only once was there an image that made me say, �Whoa! Ok, closing the window now!� Now watch, I�m telling you it�s ok and now you�ll open it at work and you�ll get a full page of transgender porn or something. For the most part, though, people are pretty mundane. I have learned a few things from this, though. 1. People are very vain and love taking pictures of themselves and their kids. 2. They also have a major fascination with photographing their pets. 3. There are some truly fucked up Russians out there. 4. Goth kids can be so cute when they�re trying to be morbid. Overall, though, it is a fun little bit of innocent voyeurism. It�s also how I found the Star Trek test.

Anyway, time to get back to it and get things in line.

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