Have I mentioned how much I hate Winter lately? I really do. I was supposed to go somewhere yesterday but then there was this snow/ice storm so I couldn’t go. Now I have to either go tomorrow or wait until Saturday afternoon. Of course Saturday will be a madhouse with everyone doing their Christmas shopping.
I’m trying to do everything I can to make sure that this is my last Winter in the cold!
I thought I had all of my requirements done for school. But when the student records office looked over my account, they found out that I need an additional writing class. I wanted to drop the class I have and add a new one that means the requirement. However all of the night classes are closed. I wrote to a professor that is teaching one of the classes that fits in my schedule but she hasn’t written me back yet.
It would really suck if I had to wait until the summer to take my final class.
I was able to access the internet at work. There are a bunch of sites that I’m unable to get to like MySpace, FaceBook and Ebay. I was able to get regular sites including blogs. I came back to work today and everything is blocked. I can only get news sites now. I need something to read during lunch.
I wonder if it’s a corporate block or if someone is turning in sites individually?
This is annoying the hell out of me right now! The VMA’s are on MTV right now. Big Whoop cause I could care less. I hate the VMA’s. I think they’re the worse award show out there and I’ve never watched them.
I turn on VH1 at 9:55 thinking I could catch the last 5 minutes of whatever show was on. All I saw was a 5 minute long promo for the VMA’s telling me that they’re on right now with a pull-back teaser showing who was on stage. Annoying but I’d deal with it. Except it’s now 10:15 and IT’S STILL ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How long are they going to shill the damn awards?!?!?! If people want to watch they’ll watch. You shouldn’t cram it down peoples throats.
Whew, end of rant!!!!!!!!
I wasn’t able to check my email for 4 days on my other blog. I couldn’t believe that I had so many spam comments. The crazy part is that when I tried to delete them, it only deleted slightly over 300 comments. Then I had to do the process all over to get the other 200 and some odd comments deleted.
I can’t find my API key on that blog to block the spam out so I keep getting all of these stupid messages. It’s really annoying especially since they’re not real comments. Just silly spammers looking for a link-back.
Seriously. I’m thinking about dropping it because it’s a lot more work than I expected. I guess I was hoping that the teacher would cut us some slack because it’s a summer class. Well, no chance of that. She has us doing all the work that we would do during a regular semester.
We have 3 quizzes, a mid-term and a final. In addition to that, class participation is 15% of the final grade. So even if you ace all the tests, you can only get 85%. I don’t like that at all. I also have 3 books to read plus the text book and articles that she finds that she decides that she wants us to read.
Even if I had taken this class during a regular semester, I would consider dropping it.
Yesterday I wrote up this long post about my job. Somewhere between saving and publishing the post got lost. Now I don’t even remember what I wrote. I know I was ranting as usual about work and the people that I work with.
I think the thing that gets me the most is that the training is inadequate yet they expect you to be able to do your job. If the workleaders and supervisors spent less time online looking at term life insurance quotes and more time giving you updated work information, things would be a lot better.
Take my current situation for instance. I received work on 04/17. I don’t have one important paper that I need to complete the account. They sent it with the work so my workleader still has it. I emailed her and now I’m waiting for her to respond back with the paper. Until then the account just sits on my desk and the rep that submitted it is on my back. Why didn’t she give me the paper when she gave me the file?
Sheesh I’m venting again today.
I haven’t had a nightmare in a while until last night. Usually when I do have a nightmare, it’s just something hinky that happens in the dream. You know getting chased with a knife or hit by a car. Bad but not terrible if that makes sense.
Last night was totally different. I was actually terrified. I don’t want to go into what exactly the dream entailed but it was scary. I saw the persons face in vivid detail including facial expressions and their voice was crystal clear.
I woke up out of the dream at 4:45am and didn’t go back to sleep at all. For the first 1/2 hour after I woke up I was too afraid to try to go back to sleep. The rest of the night/morning I just laid there trying to sleep but it didn’t work.
Needless to say, I’m dead tired today. I’ve already had one Pepsi Max and I have another in the frig. I’ll need lots of caffeine today just to stay awake. It’s a good thing I’m not in school this semester because I definitely wouldn’t go to class tonight. Hopefully I’ll get a good nights sleep tonight.
I’ve never had a job where they wanted to read my email before. My workleader claims that it’s in case you get an important email, they can respond for you. I think it’s bull-crap. You have to copy your workleader and the manager on every email that you send. So they know what’s in your inbox.
They just want access to see what you’re doing and who you’re talking to. I’ve had other coworkers that have been pulled into the office for personal emails. I really don’t care if they read my email because I only talk to my coworkers anyway. It’s not like any of us are a futures broker or vice president and have confidential emails. We just talk about regular stuff like school, our jobs and make fun of each other.
Right now they’re mad because the link to my email is not working so they can’t read them right now. I hope they don’t get it fixed at all.
I think I used this exact same title for a blog post a few weeks ago. I keep saying it because it’s really bad in here. I have 6 accounts on my desk right now. You have to order this one particular form in order to process them. Until you get that form, you can only go so far on the account. I have 6 orders in right now. While I wait for them, I can’t do anything else.
One of my contacts has already told me that I won’t get 2 of the forms for another 2 weeks. That leaves 4 accounts that I’m waiting on that will hopefully come by tomorrow. Then I can re-start those accounts and hopefully finish them on the same day. Until then, I’m surfing the net. I’ve looked at make-up, men’s fashion, and shoes. I’ve also looked at classes for school and I’ve looked into opening a savings account.
I hope things pick up. I can’t stand being bored at work.
