Jenmar - Really hot Freddy Krueger.

I was JUST SICK. I'm not supposed to be sick again!

This is supposed to work like a chain letter, pass this cold/fly/plague upon everything to X people and you will be cured.

I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO RECATCH THE SICKNESS FROM ONE OF THE PEOPLE I PASSED IT TO. DO NOT FUCKING WANT.

God, now I'm gonna have to check how many occurances I have so I know if I can even AFFORD to be sick any time soon.

Also, WTF moodtheme? How is this anything like any kind of sick?

House alarm went off at 0600 this morning.

I have been up since then.

FOUR hours of sleep.

Also, I am bleeding. Which, in hindsight, explains why it took so code the NL last night (my back hurt SO BAD, I could not sit or lay down or anything).

I'm gonna try to read myself back to sleep and then write later.

I was working on ONE call from 0900-1153 today. THREE HOURS ON ONE CALL.

I can't say why exactly it took that long, because that would fall under privacy and security things, but it was NOT the customer's fault; we were having an issue trying to figure out how to classify the account and I had to basically call everyone who worked for my company.

ALSO. I am in Arizona, we don't have daylight savings here. Because of this I don't have a great grasp of timezones.

No lie, I once got laughed at by friends because I couldn't figure out how many hours apart LA and New York were in August. Seriously, it just did not even occur to me that they were always three hours apart no matter what. Especially because here, what month it is makes all the difference. Right now I'm two hours behind the East Coast, but two months ago I was three hours behind it.

At 0830 today I called one of our stores in Tennesee. For some reason I could not get directly to the store, just kept getting tossed back to our main corporate number. I asked Awesome!Boss what to do and he told me to call our help desk and see if they knew a different number to call to bypass the official IVR (the IVR is the thing that asks you to press 1 for X, 2 for Y and 3 for Z) and get directly into the store.

The lady who picks up at help desks proceeds to tell me that it is not past 0900 in Tennesee yet, and that's why I can't call—because the store is closed.

I mentioned how I'm bad with daylight savings? Well, there are some things I know, and I know that if it's 0830 here it is later in Tennesee. So I argue with the lady for TEN MINUTES about whether it is past 0900 in Tennesee before she PUTS ME ON HOLD TO GOOGLE IT.

I immediately turn to Awesome!Boss and explain that the woman I'm speaking with is trying to convince me that Tennesee and Arizona are in the same timezone. At which point he CRACKS UP.

FIVE MINUTES LATER she comes back and tells me she's sorry, she was mistaken, it DOES look like it's past 0900 in Tennesee. She then proceeds to call the store on her cell phone instead of place me on hold and using her speedbar like is policy, and has the NERVE to act like I'm stupid because she could get right into the store by pressing the number that for every store outside of Tennesee will just transfer the call right back into us.

This story is actually from the hour-long call I had from 0800-0900.

I am SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK. I slept barely at all for some reason, because my body hates me.

ALSO, I'M A FUCKING LOSER WHO FORGOT TO TAKE HER SICKPEOPLE PILLS TODAY, AND THUS FEEL LIKE SHIT.

Also, my company is having a MASSIVE sale Friday-Monday so today we're getting NON-STOP CALLS about people asking about the sale or trying to get their credit checked (which, without selling them is called pre-qualifying and can get us fired and is illegal in certain circumstances, too).

ALSO, WHO THE FUCK CALLS A CELL PHONE COMPANY TO START A PLAN IF THEY DON'T HAVE AN ID? COMMON FUCKING SENSE PEOPLE, WE DON'T TRUST YOU WHEN YOU SAY THIS IS YOUR NAME, WE NEED PROOF, DAMMIT. STOP ACTING LIKE I JUST STABBED YOU BY ASKING FOR YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER.

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAATH.

AND it's LUNCH and my lock still isn't gone.

UGH. THIS REALLY MAKES DOING ANYTHING HARD. MY PHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE IS IN THERE YOU GUYS. HURRY THE FUCK UP.

So we are PCI compliant at work. That means we can't have pens, papers, or cell phones on the floor, so we all have lockers.

Well, the locks they give us are combination ones and I'm bad at numbers, so after having my third one cut off (the first two because I couldn't remember the combination and the third one because they didn't seem to realize the locker was already assigned to the team it was supposed to belong to—mine) I started to buy my own locks with keys.

Well, I left my keys at home twice and had to get my lock cut off to get into it and then this most recent third time I decided I would leave the spare key on my boss's desk so if I left my keys at home again I wouldn't have to have it cut off.

So today I forgot to bring my keys to work.

And, of course, yesterday is the first day in the year I've been here that my boss has decided to clean out his desk. Meaning, of course, that he accidentally tossed my key because he probably forgot what it was.

So now I'm waiting on the maintenance guy to come cut my lock off again and then I've gonna have to spend another three bucks that I just do not have getting another lock for it.

FAIL.

Anyone know what the comm is for the LA CreationCon? I really, really want to go to at least one big con like that and LA is closest to me, so I'm aiming for that one. My big hope is, like, to find someone who bought a gold pass and won't be able to go because, really, if I'm going to be using up the only free money I have for a year on something I want the WORKS.

Also, I feel okay thinking about this because right now my idea of splurging is possibly replacing my two-year-old glasses since I'm having issues seeing out of them again.

I mean, really, I don't really do things for me right now except that I spend fifty bucks to get my hair dyed every two or three months and once a year I go to wincon. So if I want to try to spend a ridiculous amount of money to go somewhere and listen to people from TV talk in person and get pictures with them I should be able to.

...Okay, so looking at that maybe I am still trying to justify thinking about it a tiny bit.

I'm kinda worried though because, like, LA is my highly preferred option because it's $140 to fly there and back versus $340 for NJ and $560 for Vancouver. Also, next year Chicago will be the week after WinCon, so that will never happen, because I would either need to fly to and from twice in two weeks or find a way to get ten days off work and still keep my job, which just would not happen.

AUGH, HMOG. I didn't realize I was this Dean in my head. What the fuck ever, ignore everything but the very top part of this post.

So, I totally managed to fail mini_nanowrimo in three days because I feel asleep before reporting on the third.

Also, the chick who I am training in side-by-sides is the most condescending, uptight bitch I have met in I don't even know how long. She called someone slutty for only knowing someone for a few months before getting engaged, and bitched at me because I was helping her.

Oh, man, do I have a rant about this chick saved up for when I get home.

Also, my paycheck got screwed up last Friday and they tried to send all but $100 of it to an account that no longer exists (my fault, I changed the accounts online with our DD service but knew we were having net issues and didn't double check to make sure it took).

So now they have my check ready for me, but it's forty-five minutes away from where I work and needs to be picked up withing a half an hour of me getting off of work or they will mail it to me and it "may get there by Saturday, or it may not."

Because of this I am HUNGRY and want to EAT LUNCH and can't, because I have less than a dollar to my name right now. Well, not true. I have $1.60 on my debit card.

I have another half an hour left on lunch, no one is Tweeting, no one is updating their LJs, and I can't even nap because there's already someone on the couch in here.

TODAY IS GOING TOO SLOW.

42 J

WTFF, dude?

P.S. Anyone want to buy a couple of never-worn 44H bras? I bought them and then had surgery before I ever got to wear them.