2008 Story Set
| Date: February 19, 2008 First - I left the G5 snatching my email --- so I can't see replies while at work - have to wait. Second - I came in and it is RAINING even before I leave the house (of course it is - I had the dog groomed) so the freeway is a bloody MESS (reminding me I need to go get new REVOS!!!!). (Those are all-terrain tires for the uninitiated.) Third - I have voice mail that I cannot hear no matter how high the volume (tried 6 times) ----- and then I see the emails behind it. They think I am ill ----- They waited for me ----- My class----in ISREAL! OH LORD! Well- I FREAKED OUT Had I forgotten??? After running around feeling horrified and my blood pressure on the roof turns out I am teaching the 27th - a week from this Wednesday (which is tomorrow - so a week from tomorrow). Sorted! With apologies on every side. But not until I was a MESS!!! THEN --- I have a meeting - OK - meeting - and another one coming - OK - meetings. and PT later today (one of the 4-6 sessions they sent me to - the leg is fine - it's my back!) OK a third meeting - typing inbetween. My hip is better - even with the yard work - that's a plus. OK ----- OK Deep breathe! I need more coffee - decaf!!!! (No way I can drink actual coffee - not and keep my blood pressure down to normal levels!) Well - they moved a lot of people into the building where I work and shut down one of the two upstairs coffee rooms (I am on the second floor) and I NEVER (hardly ever) go in to find DECAF in the pot - I am always making it (BIG POT). (It's the missing part of my job description - woman makes coffee; reports printers that are faulty if she can't fix them, loads paper in printer after finding it, unjams printer or copier, gives directions to conference rooms to the lost, reports security breaches (tailgating by building inspectors), etc. - you know - All those little tasks the male engineers suck at.) I had made some decaf just this morning (after the hysteria) --- We have rude people who take the last - or leave enough for a 1/2 cup (trying to be sneaky) and don't make new (These are usually MEN as any admin or secretary or office manager can tell you. Oh hell, as any working woman can tell you!) I went to make a SECOND pot (it is noon - I want coffee with my Medifast bar) and we are out of water - because the tank isn't big enough for all the demands of double the load and then some all these people put on it. We have a lot of Indians - and they drink tea or water - and the supply just isn't there (filtered water). This means the coffee pot machine blinks rapidily (I shut it off) and the custom coffee machine displays OUT OF SERVICE and eventually the filtered water will be dry. No one will be happy! LOVELY! Not only the rudesbees not making coffee - but now we have no water (usually we have been making it to 3PM before running dry --- this is NOON!) I have to hike across the street for decaf (corporate headquarters - you had better believe THEY will have coffee.) You know what? I will! Slowly stroll ------. Corporate building has a cafeteria and free Starbuck's coffee (regular, flavored and Decaf) - all - day - long. [Of course, up the block is a full service Starbuck's. And down the block and around the corner there is one. And-----] |
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