2007 April 26 | So Very Dark

GOOD morning, everyone!

Sorry…that was a little chipper for me…

But

I’m at work on TIME! WOOT! This may or may not have something to do with the fact that my internet was out this morning so I wasn’t able to get sucked into random flash videos or the Blog of a Carrot.

Damnit. I hate it when it turns out that things that one would think would, for example, make me late…actually are.

God DAMN IT people keep interrupting me!

ANYWAY….

Wow. Yesterday was an interesting day of ups and downs.

Um…got to work (late) and started in on my towering pile of invoices, etc., when Helen comes up to me and gives me a huge sample shipping project.

*Now here’s the thing — I still have to do my office work, and all said and done, but now I also ship out samples and testers (my predecessor’s only job). So, by the time I finish entering invoices and answering emails and everyone goes and runs errands and comes back and so on, I am rarely able to get to the warehouse before 2:00 or so. Now, I have day-to-day tester requests and returns coming in every day. THEN, like EVERY day, Helen will come to my desk and drop some HUGE project on me, like a shipment of 2 of everything in our product line or something that has to go out to someone that day. And finding everything and getting it packed takes a while, and by the time I’m done, it’s usually time to go–maybe I have time for one or two sample requests or whatever, but since I got 5 that morning, that doesn’t make that big of a dent. And my pile keeps growing.*

ANYway–Helen comes up to me with her ‘it’s not like you have anything better to do than be my butt-monkey’ attitude and gives me this project: One of each of everything we make to be shipped out to 28 different people. So, a full set of our product line x 28. BIG project. Trust me.

Annoying.

Oh yeah. And like, the first 5 HAD to go out that afternoon.

So, I’m glowering and entering invoices, and I hear Helen say to Christina, ‘you know you’re going to lunch with us today, right?’…well, lunch time draws closer and Helen, Linda and Christina start figuring out where they want to go, and Jason and Chuck were apparently part of the party as well…so part of me was thinking, ‘sweet–office to my self!’ but another part, predictably, thought it was a little rude that the whole group of them decided to go have a lunch party and a) didn’t bother to invite me and b) were loudly discussing their plans right in front of me. Then, to my surprise, Linda yells over to me, ‘Rachel–you about ready to go?’…my intelligent response to that was, ‘huh?’

Turns out that yesterday was “Administrative Professionals” Day, so Chuck and Jason were taking us girls out to lunch. We went to Sam’s For Play and it took FOREVER for our food to arrive (another high point) and I had a delicious turkey breast sandwich with clam chowder.

Lunch was an hour and a half long. (3x the usual length).

….of course, since no one was in the office when we got back at 1:30, there were a butt-load of phone messages (my responsibility) and by the time I had answered and dealt with them all, and was headed for the warehouse, it was about 2:15. Joy.

On the good side — I still have my warehouse-ready music and some of the Brandenburg Concerto and the Organ Concerto (that one that is always playing in vampire movies) was just the thing to calm irritated nerves and I was able to figure out a good workable system for getting everything into the box that I needed to, packed snuggly and neatly, for the most part.

Then Helen decided to come ‘help’ joy.

I was able to dissuade her.

THEN (this is exciting) Jason came up to me and let me know that considering the amount of time I am required to be in the warehouse, I’m not covered by the liability insurance (since I’m technically an office person) so that one of the warehouse guys is probably going to be in charge of sample shipping from now on. SWEET. It’s not that I mind the job–what I mind is trying to do that while juggling doing all my office work and writing really long and rambling blogs that are not in my job description.

Other than that, laid chilly at home, went to coffee with Adam, worked on a project or two — that’s the other kind of crazy thing in my life right now — I’m about to leave and I have, somehow, ended up volunteering myself for like, 3 big art projects– I promised Linda that I would draw another picture for Kelly (her daughter) before I leave (that one’s almost done), I suggested that my contribution to my English class project would be a series of comparative illustrations between Patricia Highsmith and her Character Tom Ripley, AND I am supposed to be working on the first two ‘Game Bois’ strips.

This happened ’cause I was excited by opportunities to draw pretty pictures, but I think I have taken a lot on, considering everything else I have going on:

Work, hanging with K, girl’s night, city trip, essay, moving plans, selling car, my mom’s crazy, blah blah blah…..

Yeah.

ANYway…Kristin’s coming over tonight and I think we are going to watch Bridget Jones #2 (I still haven’t seen it) as it arrived in NetFlix yesterday along with Ice Princess and The Adventures of Baron Munchousen. YAY!