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does this make you happy?
2003-08-06
right, the clever ones among you might think i am adding this to cover the previous entry but no no no, my furry little friends. i was planning to update anyway.
the heat is driving me insane and up the wall (if it wasn't too hot for such a big effort). i haven't slept properly for two nights which was the reason (or part of the reason but i'll get to the other bit later) why i didn't go to work today. the moskitoes think i make a nice midnight meal. my laptop went OFF today because it was so hot. my cat just stops in his track and refuses to move any further every few minutes which means you can't walk around in the darkness because he could by lying anywhere. and i'm sweating like a pig. i slept (or rather stayed in bed) til 12pm today, went to the toilet and by the time i had pulled my pants back up i was soaked in sweat. this can't be good for my sanity.
talking about sanity...work is insane. so i spent yesterday at the reception and i still don't know how i managed to survive the eight hours. now, people might think a reception is busy. and it is, indeed. but this meant everyone else was busy and i was sitting around trying to look decorative. no one had time to explain anything to me. they just threw in some more or less explaining sentences about programs or organisations every once in a while but since that was usually completely disconnected to anything i or they had been doing or talking about previously, i can't say i really understood much. so the bit of 'work' i was given to do was limited to rather brainless tasks like putting the keys back on their hooks. and another 'task' was to answer calls which was less than decent because i was only told what to say when i pick up the receiver but nothing about what i should write down and what information i had to ask for. so, of course, i asked for standard things like name, number of rooms they wanted to book, arrival date, etc. how should i know that it makes a difference whether it's business travel or not? or what do i know that the number of the course is needed if they're also taking part in one while they're staying? no one told me about that, yet it was, of course, my fault.
but at least i managed to finish another homework assignment to be sent off today. and i got two new CDs i had ordered. serafin and something i don't want to specify now. *sheepish smile* there's still no sign of the AFI albums i ordered, though. i mean it's been almost FIVE WEEKS, dammit! *pouts*
well, i'll go lie in bed without being able to sleep now. and then i'll probably think again and thinking is bad for my health and sanity...
the only one that more or less saved me was the lovely mr g who took me to do the mail stuff with him. that wasn't all that cool, though, because there is a room for the mail that has arrived, one for the mail that needs to be sent out and most of the tools are in mr g's office. so you spend about 20 minutes just running around the building because the rooms are all in different departments. ok, i need about an hour since i have a hard time finding things back and all.
placebo - evalia