Entries tagged with me: job glee

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[ficathon] Battlestar Galactica Frakkin' Ficlet Battle

marenfic is hosting the Battlestar Galactica Frakkin' Ficlet Battle over in her journal. As I received my season two point five DVDs yesterday, I plan to watch them (at some point...I don't know when) and participate in this challenge. Yes, I know I swore I wouldn't write BSG fic, but the girl slash! Starbuck! Starbuck having the girl slash! The president! Older Adama! Cylons!

Okay, obviously I have been sucked deep into another fandom.

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Tornado warning. Tornadoes touching down. Equinox. Mom's birthday. Working all weekend (main job today 8-5, CogCon 5-11, main job 8-12 tomorrow, CogCon 12-11, CogCon 8-6 on Sunday). Want to watch my new DVDs. (BSG and Supernatural!)

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work and motorcycle

I am currently at work with the right leg of my cargo trousers rolled up above the knee so the aloe vera on my burn can dry for a bit. If any customer comes in, I will subtly reach beneath the desk and lower it, but right now, I am The Classiest Woman In The Office*, baby.

Only an hour and twenty minutes left to go and I am exhausted. I spent most of the day getting rid of giant pieces of glass which have been in my way for far too long. Seriously, some of this stuff has been here since 2000. 2000. Now it is gone, and I got to break glass (one of my favorite things in the world, even if some of the tempered pieces cut my forehead and forearms) while having a good real world workout. So after work, instead of going to the gym, I'm taking the long way home and really giving the motorcycle** a workout. I love it still.

* Shut up with your logic about how I am the only woman here.

** Yeah, I only managed to stay off of it for one day. As long as I'm careful, the back of my calf doesn't touch anything too hot and my trousers don't rub against the burn.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Oingo Boingo - Mary

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random television night thoughts

Oh, look, it is Wednesday, television night one, and I finally have the opportunity to read my flist and post. Good times.

Kickboxing did not kick my ass last night, even though I feared it would be worse than ever because I missed last week. There weren't many people in class, so we each had our own bag, and I got a lot of work in. Apparently I continue to have perfect form on my back kicks (HOW? I HAVE NO BALANCE) and I was given good advice on how to improve my jabs and my side kicks. I wish kickboxing was more than once a week.

So it's admin appreciation day (or week or something). They bought me lunch (shrimp and ribs, yummy), and gave me flowers, chocolate, and a giftcard to the local gourmet store, which is wonderful and dangerous all at once. The chocolate I have has Van Gogh engraved on it, as well as pieces in the form of an artist's pallete. Beautiful chocolate, and delicious. (Also, the latter have caramel inside, and chocolate and caramel together is my weakness. Yummy.)

Though there is no way I'll be doing this job for the rest of my life (really, it's mostly because I can't live here for the rest of my life), there are times when I love my job. Being ass deep in scheduling and estimates and disasters to solve is even better than the flowers and chocolates and gift cards. I knew this, but I learn it again all the time these days: I thrive on chaos and problems and fast-paced work. I miss having deadlines and three jobs and full time school. I think I need to look for a second job just so I have something else to do, and so my free time will be more structred (and I'll have less of it).

I love Bones so much. Tonight's show in particular is making me happy, and making me absolutely adore the character of Angela. This has been building for awhile, too, just like my love for the show, but she is amazing and makes me happy. I can't wait to own this show on DVD. It, Supernatural, season two of Lost, and Battlestar Galactica, along with the seasons of Angel I'm missing (everything except one and four), plus Roseanne, more Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, That 70s Show--I have a lot of tv on dvd to purchase. It's a good thing one of my sister's gets a discount on such things.

I didn't know Bones was based on a real person/novels about and/or by said person--okay, obviously I still don't know much about that part, but I'm intrigued. I want the books.

Oh, man, tonight is Lost's clip show summary thing, isn't it? Boring. I am going to go shower instead. Evenings just aren't long enough (despite what I said earlier about working better when I have less free time). I need to head to bed within the next hour or so, because I want to try to get to the gym in the morning. If I don't, it won't be the end of the world, I'll go after work, because I've been taking more time anyway. However, I would like to do some laps (I was going to go today, but I was too tired), and open swim is only in the mornings, I think. I might go in the morning and after work, because even if I swim, I want to do upper body work tomorrow with the free weights. Good grief, what have I become? Working out twice in one day? Even just thinking about it? Plus hours at a time instead of forty-five minutes? This new me is strange. Of course, I'm not certain where my swimsuit is currently located, I haven't used it since the Florida holiday, and I packed it away after.

Okay, shower done, no swimming in the a.m. because I still have no idea where the suit is located, and I was able to do some editing on Book One, even though I didn't get as far as I wanted.

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me: job glee

random

This cranberry blood orange tea just isn't cutting it, caffeine-wise, today. I may have to switch to the diet Dr. Pepper, and I was going to say switch early, except I just realized it is almost noon, so that is not early at all, that is normal DDP time for me. What happened to this morning? It is a blur of tea, making fun of P., everyone abandoning me to go to various activities, way too many phone calls, random text messages to people because despite the rush I was bored, solving windshield disasters, and finally sitting down here again. I like my work computer.

Oh and I had a banana and a granola bar. Which were both tasty, but I am starting to get a little hungry. Which makes sense, again because it is almost noontime. Maybe I lost that hour or so while talking to S. about old Goldwings and how heavy they are and how much he loves his new bike. Talking to S. usually makes me happy. Except when customers think he is my son, because hello, only five years older than he is, and I am very young. Though now we laugh about it. Apparently she thought we were related because of the way we bicker and tease, but she did not think siblings, oh no, I became a parent. Weird.

Did I mention the fact everyone left me alone in the office? Well, not quite alone, the other S. is here, and I helped her find driving directions to a funeral. Random.

I am so tired. Kick boxing starts tonight, and I don't even know if there is still room in the class. I fail at signing up for things on time. Okay. Must go do something productive again. What was I in the middle of when I stopped for tea?

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writing and tape measure

Have you seen the Where the Bloody Hell Are You ad for Australia? It totally looks like an advertisement for an Australian horror story. I really want to write it, too.

(Oh, wait, been there, done that. There's a short story in the collection about an Australian monster. Fun.)

I've been at my current job way too long. One of my gifts this past winter holiday season was a measuring tape, because I complained that I didn't have one at work which was long enough to measure all the doors. (Yeah, okay, the one at the front counter is tiny.) Because I'm a bit slacker, I've only just now taken it out of the package and IT'S SELF LOCKING! SELF LOCKING!

It is also neon green and black. I love it so much.

Current Mood: frustrated

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time warps and idiots on cell phones

Time is moving in strange ways. For example, this morning I slept in until 7:05, and yet still had plenty of time to shower, get dressed, watch Scooby Doo (What's New, Scooby Doo to be exact [or mostly exact because I'm not entirely certain that's the name], pack up my lunch, open an Amazon package, squee over the contents, prep a Netflix dvd for return, let my car warm up, and leisurely drive to work, all in time to arrive here fifteen minutes early. Which means I did all that between 7:05 and 7:45. How? I have no idea.

Another example, that Amazon package? I ordered a bunch of books on Wednesday afternoon, about 4:30 or so. Last night a package was delivered around 7:15 p.m., with one of the books I ordered. Not just any book, mind you, but Ultimate X-Men volume 12 Hard Lessons. Woo. (And, um, what the hell? Both to the delivery speed and to the contents of the book, which I won't actually go into yet, but dude. What the hell?)

I also have The Left Hand of Darkness here to read, but I'm so tired I'm afraid I'll fall asleep if I actually sit still for more than five minutes. I've already been up and down four times writing this entry.

(I was just about to say I've been reading Cell, Stephen King's latest book, at the gym while I do a full hour of cardio on my days off from lifting, when this client walked in, cell phone plastered to his ear. I think that's one of the rudest things in the world, and normally I would--oh. my. god. He's talking to someone who is driving past outside, I assume trying to find him. This is so fucked up. I hate idiots on cell phones. They think they're so cool, so important everyone has to hear about their conversation, which in this case is about riding four-wheelers. Oh, yeah, you're so important and special. Really, sometimes I think cell phones turning people into zombies would be preferable, you know? I want to stab a pen into his ear. Mmmm, tempting.

Is Stephen King's book called Cell in England? Wouldn't it make more sense to call it Mobile?)

Current Mood: stuffed full of food

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will never eat again

Oh my lord.

Am going to burst. Hamburgers, spicy sausages (though I didn't have any), jalepeno poppers with cheddar and cream cheese (two separate types, not both in one), fries (with some specially unsalted for me), crisp dill pickles, bags of chips (again, I didn't have any), whole wheat buns, and cupcakes for dessert. (I've not had dessert, and I hope to hold out and not have dessert, but they are HALLOWEEN CUPCAKES! HOW CAN I RESIST?)

This? Is so the best job ever.

One more thing to add to the To Do fandom list:

+ give feedback to stories (in the 100 communities, people I've been reading on my own, fics people on my flist have posted--I owe so much feedback. So much.) and vids.