I think Blanche duBois said it best: "I want to be left alone - please!" You cannot improve upon perfection ( Read more... )

I got two e-mails from the CRA last week reminding me that I have two essays due tomorrow. Yeah...guess what's not happening. Stupid competencies. When I call it High School Fantasy Camp, I wasn't kidding. This really feels like one of those last-day-of-school assignments ( Read more... )

I can't wait until it's all over.

Soon, soon...

Denial started...quite some time ago, so subtly that I didn't even notice myself, at first. Was anything wrong? No, nothing. I've always only chewed on the left side ( Read more... )

My QA guy is waaaaay nicer to me than anyone ever ought to be. He offered, totally unprompted, to read and offer feedback on any writing on which I wanted an outside opinion. No one ever wants to read hack shit like that. Blew me away. (I doubt I'm going to let him, though.) Um, sends awesomely funny and intelligent e-mails, and tipped me off ( Read more... )

Dude, I fricking love my QA person. I successfully ignored him for my first week and a half on the floor, but the way things work now that I'm actually, uh, working, I have to e-mail him every time I want to complete a file, which can be up to eight times a day depending on whether he's returned any to me for corrections. I realized yesterday ( Read more... )

Yesterday, my Ops Clerk (who's queerer than a three-dollar bill, but I mean that in the nicest way) warned the guy beside me to "watch out, she's a top".  Nice, Dave.  Couldn't just call me a slut like everyone else ( Read more... )

Turns out, my work area is not quite the boys' club I'd imagined. However, it's a healthy mix, and most of the women are either middle-aged or pear-shaped. Not that I'm any screaming hell, mind you (damn the allure of Booster Juice!), but I'm still fairly confident I can wear purple without drawing eggplant comparisons. Also, one little habit I ( Read more... )

I think I may have this year's Script Frenzy idea.  Maybe.  I could change my mind by June 1, but right now, I think I can run with it.  Haha.  I'll keep everyone updated.

I met an employee from the government
Who said: It seems our system does not work.
Our '06 updates are not heaven-sent;
Our people do nothing but sit and shirk.
On new trainees our ( Read more... )

Since there were rumours of the '06 system not yet working properly, I went to work yesterday eagerly anticipating a day of reading my online manual, setting up my outgoing phone message, and generally taking it easy.  I was not anticipating being roped into a morning of training for a "special project", and an afternoon (which is turning into a ( Read more... )