July 24 - August 17, 1998
July 24 - August 17, 1998
July 24, 1998
i am slowing going insane. isn't it lovely? for the past few days,
they've set me behind the reception desk...to die, etc. and i'll
be here on monday and tuesday. wonderful!
highlights? i guess i would have to say this texan who called on...
oh geez, i forget..but he called. very drool-worthy southern accent,
we all know how jeanny loves accents. he was very nice..nicest of all
the calls i've handled, people! called me 'sweetheart' and 'darling.'
*droooool & swooooon* and also today was pay day. i totally
forgot! and the check was larger, thank GOD. weeeeeeeeeeee.
mom and i had an incident at the beginning of the week, and i haven't
recovered from it. we're all weird around each other now. it's
interesting....uh, yah.
anyhoo, about going insane. i'm talking to myself in my lil'
receptionist cubby. talking to yourself is okay, of course..usually it's
done inside your head, but i've found that i talk aloud.
nice. so i spend my days talking to myself and rolling around in
my cubby. you know, they have those hard mats on the floor so that
your chair can roll all smooth? *LOL*
verk's not all that bad. i've used some pretty nifty office equipment/
supplies. *hehe* there's an awesome label maker here. today i used
their automatic 2-hole punch and the 'play' feature on the typewriter
for "look-no-hands" keying. the handy-dandy 'transfer' button is my
fave. and i've become quite a copy machine snob. i only use the
konika one on the first floor, the canon on the second. *LOL* :-D
das it.
Top Accents
- English (!!!!): It'll always be my favo[u]rite!
- Australian (!!!): A damn close second.
- Irish (!!): My opinion on Irish accents has only been based on one
call, which I took for Michelle. *eg* He was difficult to understand,
but since then I have heard better Irish accents. :-D
- Southern (!): From my experience this week. *hehehe*
July 26, 1998: feeling bad and goo
my weekend was okay. i ended up just falling asleep after verk and then
watching TGIF, which i haven't done in forever. on saturday i didn't
leave the house until 9pm. which is fine with me because my friends
and i are night owls, i guess you can call us that. we start the night
late and usually stay out pretty late too. but it was soooo hot.
geeeeezus.
i went over to annie's, as per. and whoa, i hardly know anything that's
going on because i just verk, go home and sleep. her parents have
been gone since wednesday and i find out today! *LOL* and later that
night i find out that danny's been verking at dominos now for several
weeks! geeeeez, do i not even know my friends anymore? anyhoo, so we
wait for everyone to come by. nick throws a fit and leaves...haw. no
one runs after him. :-P
overall, the night was nice. very laid-back, due to the lack of nick.
*LOL* we baked cooky-s and cooked food. it was goo. it was nice
because we had the whole house and *chuckles* felt pretty grown-up.
as if! *LOL* :-P
as for sunday, i just laid around. i was doing okay when...(warning:
this is kinda/pretty gross)..when i got the worst nose bleed of my
life. *shudders* definitely not something you want happening especially
in this kind of weather. ewwww nastay. then i fell asleep and woke up.
Grrrrrr that i missed the beginning of the simpsons; i don't think
i've seen this one before. *wah*
annie had said she would call me when she came back from her brother's
tonight, but she never did. interesting. she said she'd call me last
thursday too, but she didn't. now, gee, i wonder why i don't know
what's going on. *snorks* well, whatever...it's freakin' hot here,
i'm worried about having another "incident" at verk (see above), i
know i can't sleep in this heat (i'd kill for 60-degree weather)...
my connection sucked tonight too...and i'm just totally pissed off.
good nite!
July 27, 1998: Wannabe
i suppose i've seen ferris bueller's day off too many times because
today i feigned sickness to skip out on verk. well, it wasn't done
out of pure laziness. i hardly slept last night due to the heat, i
slept about an hour, two at most. euh. no way could i do eight hours
of verk off one hour's sleep! so i blamed my sickness on the medication
my parents put me on...hoping they'd feel all bad about it. but did
they? not even, they were practically pushing me to verk until it was
8am. haw. tis twue, though..and i was concerned about yesterday's
incident happening at verk, too.
but i'm home now..and i was able to get a few more hours of sleep because
the morning was slightly cooler. but now it's hot again. i'd be on
my lunch hour if i was verking. tee heee heeee. parents said that i
should call in and see if i could do half a day or something. as if.
i'm taking my full day off to do nothing! i have to wait for my dad to
come home and 'check up' on me before i can go anywhere. my friends
want to go swimming. *gak* i'm feeling like mexican food for lunch.
Yay!
i'm in better spirits, eh?
hmmmm...well, mebbe, almost. lately i've just felt totally spent.
it's like i've given everything that i possibly can but people keep
wanting more! (ie: my parents and peeps at verk) all i want...all
i want is to be left alone. can i have that? nope! i just want
to take hiatus on this jobby-job, hiatus from the parentals, and just
take time to myself. is that so much to ask? if i keep going on
like this, i'll totally be fried when i go back to school! geeeeezus.
July 29, 1998: that's it
that's it. i've figured it out. they want me to waste away
behind the reception desk because that's where i'll be until tuesday.
and I'll have that damned "express" to do again next week. bah.
*roar* they want me to be so bored that i'm tempted to go
online again. they want me to dread waking up in the morning
to go to work. they want me to....
well, today i came in at noon, which is fine and dandy with me. and i
spent the day on the phone and checking work email and even
venturing onto the work
homepage
to email peeps about its whereabouts.
oh, and i've been meaning to add a new section to this page:
Memorable Calls. dealing with peeps on the phone for 8 hours
a day, you run into a call that just leaves a lasting impression.
*chuckles and smirks*
anyways, i spent the day down there and tomorrow i'm coming in at 10am
and verking at "rail" until noon, after which i go back to
reception. grrrrrr! oh well. i got cool mail last night from
michelle. *LOL* she transposed two numbers of my address, so my
neighbor had it. and i don't socialize with my neighbors so i bet they
were racking their brains as to who this was! *hehe* but inside i
found my lobster beanie, "Pinchers." we share the same birthday
you know. weeeeeee. and also i got a can of Scottish Devil Meat,
our lil' joke. *LOL* i'm gonna have to send her some Botan Rice
Candy! getting mail is coo.
Memorable Calls
- The Washington State Lotto Guy: He called some time during my
first week at the reception desk. He informed me I did not win
the jackpot and I told him to @#$@ himself and hung up. *LOL* Naw,
I wouldn't do that. But he was really friendly and nice and I was more
then glad to transfer this call.
- The Texan: He called last week and he had a swoon-worthy accent
and called me "darling" and "sweetheart," but with his Texas drawl it
sounded like, "Daaaahhrrrrrrlin'" and "sweethearrrrrrt."
*hehe* Ooh
la la! I had to look-see where Whidbey Island was because he was doing
there for a family reunion. And I was wooed enough by his voice that
I didn't mind opening the dreaded interstate map to look for an island
whose location I wasn't sure about.
- The Yelling Guy: He called me yesterday. Well, he called me
throughout the day, actually. He wanted the printing service we have
in the building and I sent him there. He called later, I
pick up and all I hear is yelling! So I politely wait for him to stop
yelling to say, "Department of Transportation...." At which
point, he began to apologize profusely. I kinda chuckled at him and
said it was okay and asked where he wanted to go. *chuckles*
- The Mean Guy: Now, usually my callers aren't all nice like the
Lotto Guy and they don't sweet talk me like the Texan, but they're not
as mean and rude as this guy. So he calls
and asks for a number, simple enough. I find the number and give it to
him. It's a number outside the building, I shouldn't transfer calls
that are outside the building said the "real" reception lady. Okay.
He wanted to be transferred and I told him I could not do that. And he
said that someone from outside my building transferred him inside, so
then I surely can transfer him back out. And so we're arguing about
this and I'm not gonna back down because I just hate this guy. So fine.
I tell him, "Okay, I gave you the number in case this transfer doesn't
go through...Please hold." I did half the transfer procedure and hung
up his dumb@$$. Geezus, in the time he was arguing with me, he could
have just dialing the damned number himself!
- The Yelling Guy, II: This call was memorable because of me. *LOL*
Before Yelling Guy called again (for the second day in a row) I tried
to call Allan to ask him what his address was so that I could send him
a state highway map. But he wasn't home, so I hung up and immediately
after, the phone rang. And this person knew my name! So I got
confusled and said, "Allan?!" in case he had caller ID and called me
back, you see. It was Yelling Guy! *LOL@me* He goes, "What?" I
began to laugh and told him I'd transfer him to printing services.
Something to amuse yourself with:
Does Bill Gates have a problem we don't know about?
1. Open a new document in Word
2. Type "Unable to follow directions" (without the quotes)
3. Highlight the entire sentence you just typed
4. Click Tools; Language; Thesaurus (or hit shift-F7 to open the
thesaurus)
August 1, 1998
sorry i've not updated, with my tempermental connection it kept dying
on me. but tonight it's behaving so i decided to also make an update
for this weekend, even though it's not over yet. *LOL*
i am guaranteed to be at the reception desk 8-5pm until next tuesday,
but by then i'm sure they're gonna say that i'll be there for the
rest of the week. haw. oh well, i'm gonna try to not complain about
it because i'm gonna commit mail fraud. *LMAO@me* does anyone want
a washington state highway map? gimme your address and i'll have one
sent to you, postage paid by the state! *LOL!!!*
well....on friday i wanted to lay down and go to bed, but as soon as i
was situated, annie called and i was out the door. i met her at
howard's cleaners, her place of verk. we ran a few errands, and i spent
a lot of money buying stuffs. and then i decided to come home early,
it was 9 or something. betty was sure lucky that i did come home early
cuz 10 minutes after i got in, mike dropped her off. and our dad
decided to lock the front screen door, you have to unlock it from the
inside. imagine, what if i wasn't home? *LOL* what would she have
done?
i was online at the time, but she wanted to make some phone calls so i
left. while i was away, i made a melon bowl. *LOL!* i've
never made one before! i scooped out many many melon balls and then
carved the watermelon shell-thingie with little triangles. it was
neat-o. i gave it to laela the next day.
saturday night wasn't much, i went over to annie's and watched her clean
and then i went home. (i'm finishing this update on sunday) and so
now it's sunday and i'm gonna just lay around until it's time for sleep
and then..*gak*..verk. i'll be here for a while..cuz i decided to transfer
an mp3 to ellen. *chuckles* oh weel. ;-D
August 3, 1998
okay.....my death certificate has been signed, notorized, and sealed.
i will be at the reception desk . WONDerful.
i guess i shouldn't complain cuz i know my hours now and i'll have
verk straight until i go bawk to school...but still.
i am an idiot!! i was typing up some 400-odd cards when i realized
at the end, that i made a typo! so i have to go through all dem cards
again to fix it. *yargh*
this is gonna be a short update cuz i have my whole bloody summer
planned out already by being at the reception desk. and i'm slightly
miffed about that. and my freaking mom keeps coming in during my
chat time to harass me about sleeping, etc.....geeeeeeez, go away!!
let me tell you one thing...the role playing freaks in the zoc at
chatalyst are just way too damned territorial. last night one got up
in my face about zoc being a "role playing" room. and i mocked him
until he said we were welcome there..but way before then, i was talking
about going to the clam room cuz it was a smaller setting. and well,
tonight we're in there, and guess who comes in...the same guy from last
night who was insistant about zoc being just a "role playing" room.
whatever, you freak. and let me just say that this isn't directed
at the other role playing people out in net-world..just the stupid ones
from chatalyst..haw..
good nite..*Hugs*...
jeanny
PS: Thanx,
Patrick for the roses!! :-D
August 6, 1998: Sign says, "Doors Closed, Use Other Doors ----->"
if such a sign reads like that, then why do people still go through
these 'closed' doors? granted, they're still fully operational, but if
you go through them, you'd end up walking through the construction site
like this overzealous man, whom i gave directions on how to get to the
capitol. usually when people walk through these closed doors, they see
their bad and walk on the right side of the fence. but this guy, he
just walked through the 'closed' doors and walked right smack into the
construction site. i was sitting there laffin and debating on whether
or not i should run out there and yank him outta there. i'm guessing
he did make it cuz he didn't back-track, in which case i would have
seen him. *LOL*
know what more? i'm sick of seeing people *pull* the doors instead of
*pushing* them. *smirks*
been having fun times at the reception desk. it's not all that awful.
just really boring at times. it helped to be shipped to several other
departments before settling here cuz when i see them, i can say hi and
talk to them for a while...even though i forgot who they are exactly.
*LOL*
August 9, 1998
Howdeeeeeee, people. Sorry I haven't updated, it's just that my
connection has been precious all week! And I finally got in
today (Sunday) for an update I completed last week! Egad!
Not much to report here. I'm gearing towards getting a full paycheck
this pay period because I've been putting in 8-hour days lately. And
I'm tired!! But other than that, I guess verk is going goo. I space
out a lot and now I have my OWN temp! She comes in when I leave for
lunch, though I'd rather just work through lunch and go home at 4pm.
*shrugs* Been getting some bitchy calls though. There was a big ol'
accident on the highway so people were calling in wanting info, but
they wanted to know things that *I* obviously couldn't tell 'em cuz
I'm sitting in a freakin' building!! *RAR*!
As for the fam. They're okay. I don't think I've gotten *yelled* at
recently, not counting last night when my mom came in to tell me to
go to bed cuz I was still up, online. *snorks* What's the difference
between being out late and staying up online late? *shrugs*
"The eensy weensy spider came up the water spout.....Down came the
rain and washed the spider out......" Oh my God.....that was huge
spider!! I'm laying on the couch watching the TV and I see this
"thing" moving. It's *big*...I almost thought it was a wee mouse! *L*
But we no have meesies here! So I turned and saw...the biggest, most
freaky, nastay, scary...spider I have ever seen indoors!! It scurried
to the end of the rug and stopped. So then I got up and *ran* to get
something. I grabbed a clear plastic cup. *LMAO* And I used it to
cover up the gruesome thing. *ug* I was afraid it was gonna jump out
at me! *cries*
I slowly crept up to eet, and lowered the cup on it. It's *beeg*!
I'd say like 3-inches in diameter..*whimpers* Then I got a
heavy book and put it on top of that...and then I got a post-it sticky
and wrote: Big, Big, *Big*, *BIG* spider!!!!! And I left it for my
parents to find in the morning. *ROTFLMAO* If only they didn't go
sleepy!! That was just a nasty experience, people.
Going to look for an apartment today, finally. I hope to come bawk
with a place. I'm seriously stressing over this! I should have dormed
it for another quarter...arrrrrrgh. And then, geeeeez, there goes
my weekend! I didn't do anything yesterday cuz..well, I dunno....just
nothing happened. My friends got all weird on the phone, so I don't
think I would have liked to hang out with them while they were in that
funk.
I guess that's eet. I downloaded a weird Mp3. That Rammstein "Du Hast"
song..how strange is that!? It's weeeeeeird! And also I awoke this
morning to my Tamagotchi *dying*...I haven't been taking care of eet.
D'awwwwww. *hehe* Goo nite!
August 14, 1998
Okay, here I am. I've been gone all week from updating, I've lost my
interest in it I guess...and I'm frustrated at my connection, but
these things you all already know, so I won't talk about them further.
The work stuff: Well, mid-week Marleen remembered that she assigned me
to a job making a powerpoint presentation for some man. She keeps
saying she doesn't know what powerpoint is. *smirks* How can you not
know what it is! Geeeeez! So I told her it was basically a slide
show program and she was impressed by that. I just hope I can find
the place next week. My temp for the veek that I will be gone fer came
downstairs and I spent a GOO while training her. I trained her like
I wish I was. *haw*
I spent like 15 minutes training her and she just stayed with me so
fine, I let her handle the phones and stuff and watched her. Man, she
is SLOW. But hey, she just learned all this stuff and I was watching.
But she is slow. Period. With computers! She's still used to writing
down messages when you can just email them to people. Ah, technology!
*LOL* And she's a slow typist and doesn't even seem like she's
familiar with computers at all! *tears out hair* Who the devil hires
these freaks?!
But today was a good day. And!!! Last week I emailed this man about
a URL being incorrect, he came in yesterday to thank ME, but I had
already left for the day. *d'awww* But I did some serious GOO!
And Bill actually sounded sad that I was gonna be gone a week cuz I do
such good work. *L* He even asked if I could work on that presentation
here instead of where they're sending me. *more laffs* And
then he asked me my opinion on the girl who's taking my place. I was
nice and just said that she was slow, but she was still new. *chuckles*
He said the job could wait until I came back cuz he trusts me. *ha ha*
I think that's good enough for verk.
As for the other things: I found an apartment!!!! Allan, me,
Annie, and Kate went up to Seattle yesterday cuz I took half the day
off. We were gonna get this one..but it was far and expensive. We
looked around and found a GOO one!! We "thought" about it for like
ten minutes and then went back. *L* It's ours!! Granted..it's a
year lease..and we move in September 3, when I'm gonna verk until
the way end of summer. But oh well!
*LOL* Some people came up just as we were leaving and we heard the
manager say that he JUST rented it out! Ha! Should have seen their
faces! We're lucky we got this place. It's so close to campus, it's
cheap..and if we didn't take it, someone else would have.! *whew*
My parents were less-than-happy. They like the apartment, they just
don't like me living with Allan. He's a BOY. That's no reason though!
*argh* My mom started to cry and my dad began his lecture. RAR!
He's a boy. That's no reason! If they didn't trust him, okay fine.
If I didn't trust him, definitely no way. But geeeeez. This is Allan.
We might as well be living together cuz he stayed over a lot during
first quarter. Practically dormed with Michelle and me! *haw*
So Thursday evening was no fun for Jeanny.
I guess that's all for an update. As the hours go by I get less pissy
cuz of all the junky going on and stuff.....bye.
August 16, 1998: I am Cider Mai. goo goo goo joob
howdee, i decided to see if i can sneak in another update before the
week's end because apparently, Jenn informed me that i hadn't
updated. very obvious....mmmm? :-P my connection is behaving!
*knock knock*
my night out involved going out wif mah friends *duh* and we went to
Ye Ole Spaghetti Factory. Nelson, Jenn & Ben...and I we got there
first..and set up reservations and the guy there was adamant
that our other half (Annie, Allan, Kate, and Scott) had to be here
cuz they don't seat "incomplete parties." *haw* Whatever. annie
and all them came right after we set reservations. the eighth person
didn't come....this freaky gangster guy.
eating was fine, as if it's not. *L* the food was too rich though.
we then went to the jazz club and felt all cultured or whatever.
*chuckles* i was drinking hot cider, so then Jenn decided to
call me "Cider Mai." OOOOOOkay. nelson's friend came over and we kinda
talked. i got antsy so kate and i walked around. we were joking
when we brought up bowling and so then nelson's friend, pat, took us
to come bowling place and it was booooooooooring.
i think the lameness of that bowling area killed the night cuz we were
all home by midnight. and i couldn't watch saturday night live cuz it
was the best of belushi and i just can't really watch old snl.
*shrugs* i don't think anything else is gonna happen today. there's
an engagement party for my parents' friends' daughter, who is my sis'
age....
*I* wasn't invited to go with them because i'm the freak with the tongue
pierce and maybe i would let it slip that i'll be living with a boy next
year...i don't know. all i know is my mom casually mentioned taking
betty with her and didn't mention me. (which is a relief, betty doesn't
want to go either. *L*) my parents prolly want betty to find a
husband there. *ROTFLMAO* thank god i'm excluded in this one. but
still...they suck.
Good nite!
August 16, 1998: Continued.....
i'm a wicked child. *LOL* so today is amy's big engagement party,
the one i wasn't invited to. *LOL* i stayed up way too late this
morning waiting for a couple mp3's to finish downloading; i didn't
anticipate on waking up before 3pm. *LOL* (i'm so amused at all this.)
i awoke, to my mom and sister arguing in the bathroom, right next to
my room. i decided this opportunity was too good to miss, so i went
out there to be a part of the problem. *LOL!!*
apparently, my sister has really dry lips so she couldn't wear any
lipstick cuz it hurts. but our mom said she HAD to wear make-up to
this thing. wha eva. my sister doesn't wear make-up make-up..usually
a lipstick, but with her lips..she hasn't. anyhoo. mom was yelling,
dad was somewhere else in the house. and i decided to be a nuisance.
my sister wasn't even dressed yet and decided on a skirt/shirt combo.
too bad i had to iron her damn clothes. *chuckles* our mom said
that ironing would make her "too hot" and she didn't want to mess her
clothes up. oaky pine. so i ironed her damned clothes while mom
watched...and i started on her. asking her what the big deal was...
why did betty "have" to wear make up. i asked her why i wasn't invited;
amy's my friend too..sorta. *L* and she said i was "too young."
bullshit. and she also said that she "promised that betty would come."
okay, so don't promise that *I* would come too? *smirks* so then
i said that she didn't want me to go cuz i'm too young for a husband.
*ROTFL*
she maintained that betty HAD to wear at least lipstick...cuz she looked
ugly. so now she thinks betty
is ugly too? like me?! *smirks!* and she agreed. whatever, mom.
RAR. i continued to be difficult while finishing the ironing.
the 'happy' bunch went out to the van and i slammed the garage door.
i went back to bed and felt damn good about my part in the previous
minutes. *L* i finished my book, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
go read it! it's really weird. anyhoo, i wanted to go back to sleep
but by now i was wide awake, so i woke up when my dad's friend said he'd
be by in 'a little bit' to drop off a video. i waited for him for like
an HOUR, folks. so i gave up on him and went to take my shower, and
of course when i did, he came over. punk.
anyways, i just wanted to share the details of this morning. it was
Laugh Out Loud. *LOL*
August 17, 1998: FYI
two things:
1. all this veek they are sending me away somewhere. i went looking
for the place yesterday, but couldn't find it. hopefully i can find
it and i'll be there all veek.
2. my aunt and her husband are coming to stay here for a veek. i
don't even remember the last time i saw or talked to them..it's been
years. and
so i'm gonna be the 'good daughter' and cut myself off the net for
this one veek. cuz they'll be staying in my sister's room, and you
can still hear me keying even if i'm in the next room.
anyhoo.
at first i didn't think i'd cut myself off for a week, i thought i
would
just keep it at emails or something. but i think this week off will
be good because i don't think i can go on like i have been. i hardly
sleep, i hardly eat, and all i do is work and get yelled at. but
now that we have company over..my mom wouldn't want to make herself
look bad by yelling at me. *L* i still verk..d'oh! and sleeping
and eating can be fixed. :-)
and so, in this veek, i shall mi mi at a decent hour and i won't touch
the net. i've told a few that i'll be verking on emails and saving
them in wordpad and then send them when they're goo and ready...but
now i'm not even sure about that. few others have mah number, but
hey, it's just one veek. we shall survive.
speaking of survival...sleep is good. i'm going to sleep.
claireluv@hotmail.com
