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my anger
it is still a bit chilly here in nyc. but i am not worried about this. my anger is so strong right now that it is keeping me warm.
you see, (another reason i should be a spy) i found out that certain programmers are ignoring the requests that chrissy and i are sending to help desk. since they do not see why we need certain reports they have taken it upon themselves to make the decision that we don't need the reports. they have also decided not to fix anything that is not working in the toolbox. thankfully, someone else decided at leats part of this was stupid and ran the reports we needed. but what is even more annoying is that this person who ran the reports is the boss of these programmers that decided we didn't need the reports in the first place.
it really amazes me that people are allowed to get away with this shit. if chrissy and i ever told someone we work with that we decided that someone didn't really need something we would never hear the end of it.
// posted by stacey on 8:57:00 AM // |
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Thursday, April 28, 2005
34th street
i hate this street like you wouldn't believe. i decided that today i would go to msg to pick up my liberty season tickets. one of the problems with this is that 34th street is always crowded and so is the bus. so i decided that the lesser of two evils would be to walk it.
did it. lots of people walking slow and stopping in the middle of the sidewalk. anger.
there was a weigh in for some boxing match at msg on saturday. unfortunately no fight broke out as one would expect at these things. bummer.
walked back to three park and police activity was under way outside the building. cool. not enough police activity to send us home. double bummer.
gotta go to a telecon at 3:00pm. triple bummer.
// posted by stacey on 2:37:00 PM // |
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catching up and stuff
work has been hectic to say the least. i am very tired of the fact that most of the people i come in contact with these days are lazy and refuse to their share. this ranges from the co-workers on 22 and the organizers who work on these dumb conferences. then on the rare occasion that i do have an organizer who is willing to do the work they can't. why you ask, because the stupid functionality in the website was changed without anyone consulting the people who work on it! argh!!!!!!!!!
cynthia has been out on vacation this week. chrissy and i have came to the conclusion that everyone needs a "cynthia" in their lives. it is amazing how much shit she buffers us from. for example, pvd has barely spoken a word to us in three months. on monday, cynthia's first day of vacation he's calling me asking me what to do about an organizer who has a problem. on tuesday he comes over and says, "cynthia asked me to make sure IT did some things for you but i can't remember what it was." chrissy and i then make him remember. then yesterday we have to help write a response to an email from mr. roboto, the evil IT director. its nice to be a director of an entire department and you can't even write your own fucking emails. pvd also laughs like a hyena (spelling), sissy, or girl. take your pick.
we also had a meeting with our managing director for an update on our continuity and change re-organization update. they are very good in the continuity bit, in other words they're still not telling us anything. change is another thing. all we know is that we are supposed to merging with a part of codes and standards but no one knows how this is supposed to be done. btw, the re-org is supposed to take effect on july 1. the only new thing we got was that the board is supposed to vote on the list of cuts and budget items on june 12 (my mothers birthday). so until then i guess we won't if we're gonna keep the continuity bit or adopt the change bit.
i need a coke.
// posted by stacey on 9:48:00 AM // |
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
favors
i'm tired of them! you have an organizer who is running into problems because he decided not to distribute his sessions as instructed. so you tell him that you'll do him a favor by re-assigning his abstracts to one topic. then he complains that the email that is sent to the authors of these moved abstracts is incorrect and that there is a problem with our system.
hey buddy, try following the rules first!
// posted by stacey on 10:05:00 AM // |
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Friday, April 22, 2005
work, work and more work
i don't have time to be pissed that all the shockwave games have been super scouted again because, as expected, the work is piling up. this not too long after rich made a comment to his boss that he can't understand why cbc says chrissy and i are always busy.
let's if i can give you a mini status report of my past two days.
thursday
1. toolbox tech support
2. updated fuel cell website
3. finished adding new graphics and text to congress website
4. began updating congress sessions on website (this started at 10:00 am and went on until 3:00 pm with a 20 minute break for lunch)
5. met with cbc to go over heat transfer and interpack websites
6. answered more toolbox email
friday
1. toolbox tech support
2. updated a page on all 05 & 06 conference sites (about 12 websites)
3. finished updating congress sessions (again started at 10:00 am and finished at 2:00 pm and a 20 minute lunch break))
4. began adding view final paper pages on heat transfer and interpack websites
5. uploaded pvp draft and final papers to site from home.
all week there were also odd interruptions of this non-stop work all at the hands of rich along with another oddity from him. the wierdest had to be when he showed up in technical publishing asking us what printer in the meetings department can print from the as-400. my answer was to go to the meetings department and ask. another rich oddity was giving mary a copy of the exhibitors prospectus for the fluids conference in houston. in the prospectus, he gets the name of the hotel wrong, mentions events and rooms that do not exist at this conference, and lets not forget the great views of san francisco from the restaurant at the top of the hotel. that must be some hotel in houston to be able to see san francisco from there. when mary asked him if he read it and he said he just used the prospectus from the heat transfer and interpack conference. mary told him that it was obvious. so now she has to re-write it.
i like him as a person, but working with him is tough and all i have to say is if he were as busy and we are he would never last.
// posted by stacey on 9:13:00 PM // |
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
lunch gone wrong
i was really excited about my lunch today. i had these great left-overs from last night -- shrimp with penne and asparagus. i have been looking forward to eating it all day.
finally 1:00pm rolls around and i go to take my lunch out and just when i was about to put it in the microwave i realize that it is my cat's purina diabetes management cat food.
argh!!!!!
at least i noticed before i cooked and ate it.
// posted by stacey on 1:04:00 PM // |
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
my hatred burns strong
my mother bought me this really cool blue and green ribbon thing to hang from market umbrella in the backyard. it matched my umbrella perfectly. it was really nice, but someone came into my backyard and stole it. make no mistake, it was a human being responsible. since it was tied onto the pole the wind did not get it and neither did a bird or squirrel.
i really hate people sometimes.
// posted by stacey on 7:47:00 PM // |
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dogs, popes and gay tv
you know dog's can be really gross sometimes. (this should be taken as a warning if you get grossed out easily) julie, the poodle likes to eat cat shit. not just any cat shit but sam's in particular. it's like she has sam cat shit sixth sense. she knows when he does it. what makes it worse is that sam has an issue about the litter box. he refuses to use it. this is especially disturbing since it is one of the electric ones that automatically rakes the stuff into a special container. but back to julie and sam's shit. so she senses that he has left a pile and then frantically goes running down the hall to the bathroom to go snacking. if i am alert i will try to beat her to the "prize." it must be a sight to see the two of us racing down the hall. people would think it is weird.
kind of like the way i looked at the people lined up in st. peter's square who have been on popewatch05. i just can't fathom being that excited over it. these people frighten me sometimes, most overly religious people do. i understand having faith, shoot, i even have faith. but mine does not involve discrimination and hate. well...we may have to revisit that. i do hate people not all but there are a few that make my list but that might be another post for another day. but the religious right folk scare the crap out of me. they are everywhere.
more and more of them are even popping up on my directv. i have noticed that there are more religious channels appearing in the area below msnbc and fox news. coincidence? i don't think so. i am more convinced than ever that these "religious" folk control the airwaves, at least the news. i also find it interesting that directv placed the gay tv channel here! up by the pay-per-view porn channels like spice tv. i guess that is what directv thinks about us. but i'll subscribe to it anyway, even though it mostly airs cheesy lifetime movies. i need to let them know i found it.
i wonder if the vatican has directv?
// posted by stacey on 6:17:00 PM // |
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Monday, April 18, 2005
a birthday wish for you zaida!
ok, so i forgot today was your actual birthday. i knew it was this month and kept thinking i need to get you some sort of candy that you like.
but i also thought you would enjoy a birthday blog post.
// posted by stacey on 12:25:00 PM // |
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fix my chair....please!!!!!!!!!!
the hydraulic pump thing in my chair is broken has been for about two months now. i contacted facilities two months ago and am still waiting for it to be fixed. so most of the day i sink down until it looks like i'm a little kid sitting at the grown-ups table.
i have also discovered that sitting like this for extended periods of time will cause your knees to hurt if you are somewhat tall.
maybe if i'm lucky i can get a doctor's note and make them buy me a really nice chair. yeah right.
// posted by stacey on 9:27:00 AM // |
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Sunday, April 17, 2005
orange popsicles
this weekend was incredibly amazing.
my lawn boy from last summer has turned into my yard god. for the past two saturday's he has cleaned up a lot of the messy-ness of my yard. yesterday he did the vegetable garden area which became overgrown with grass, weeds and small maple trees. so now i can see into my evil neighbor's yard. yard god and i have plans to put in a fence to allow me to never see them from my backyard again.
today i put out all the backyard furniture, including my beloved hammock. i put a string of lights around one of the giant market umbrella's and then hit the hammock in bliss. of course julie, the poodle, joined me on the hammock. then my mother came over and brought with her some popsicles. i had an orange one which made the day absolutely perfect.
// posted by stacey on 8:19:00 PM // |
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Friday, April 15, 2005
am i busy?
most of the time i am busy at work. when you work on 10 conferences, the smallest with 100 authors and the largest having about 4,000, it is easy to see that most of my days are spent answering their tech support emails, uploading their papers and finding out how little common sense they have. this point frightens me since these are mechanical engineers and the stuff they build etc. are things we use every day like elevators and airplanes. i am convinced that members of our society have supervised the construction of the elevators in our building cuz they suck.
any way, i'm getting tired of people in the ep and it departments thinking and saying out loud that they are amazed that chrissy and i are always busy. granted there are days and yes, even entire weeks when my workload is low but it sort of cancels out when you consider the days that i do toolbox stuff non-stop, or when i have run out of time at work and need to finish it over the weekend and yes, even on vacations.
all i have to say is sit in my fucking chair for a week and we'll see what you say about my busy-ness after you deal with all the people that i deal with on a daily basis. my one wish is that they'll have to deal with people like themselves.
fuckers, is all i have to say!
// posted by stacey on 2:53:00 PM // |
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dyson
i got my dyson animal vacuum cleaner yesterday, the purple one. all i have to say it is incredible. i vacuum every week but when i tried the dyson yesterday you would be amazed at how much dirt it picked up. fucking awesome.
// posted by stacey on 10:37:00 AM // |
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
no supervision
you know it really sucks when for the past two weeks your workload has been light and then the one day when there are absolutely no supervisors you suddenly have more work. what's worse about it is that none of this work came from your supervisor.
i was planning to watch a movie this afternoon and then leaver early.
those damn volunteers know how to ruin everything.
// posted by stacey on 2:52:00 PM // |
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
pvd hatred continues
if you say you are going to be out of the office on monday, tuesday and wednesday don't show up on tuesday.
i thought i was hearing things when i heard his voice. then he walked by my cube.
my hatred for him continues to grow.
// posted by stacey on 10:53:00 AM // |
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Monday, April 11, 2005
a cheeto with a tumor or another good use for a camera phone
zaida's cheeto had a giant cheese tumor. don't know if she ate it tho.
// posted by stacey on 3:31:00 PM // |
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Sunday, April 10, 2005
wild kingdom
today i ventured into my backyard to discover the fattest squirrel ever swinging from the bird feeder. this squirrel figured out that if you swing back and forth on it a bunch of the bird seed will spill out onto the ground. so much for squirrel proof. as he dove back onto the ground he was joined by two doves and a rabbit. all the while princess the cat was debating if it was worth getting up to catch some lunch. ultimately she decided sleeping in the sun was much better and let the wild creatures eat all my bird seed.
// posted by stacey on 5:56:00 PM // |
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Friday, April 08, 2005
jeans
pvd broke the dress code policy today and wore jeans. it is not jeans for charity day. i have noted this in my status report for future use.
// posted by stacey on 2:35:00 PM // |
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Thursday, April 07, 2005
my baby's back
it was only a week and a half but i felt so lost without my ibook. it came back today and of course i am blogging from it. dodn't get me wrong, i love my imac but it really felt as though a part of me was missing.
even more awesome was that i didn't loose a single thing or have to install my apps again. sweeeeeet.
one thing i do wonder though, is whether or not any of the fixit folks looked at my docs. thankfully i took all those porn images off. ;P but i do have some of m short stories on here and those can be somewhat sexually explicit. i know my temptation to take a look at other people's documents would be close to overwhelming if i were in that situation. ok, yes i would look. i'm not going to try say i would try and fight the temptation. i would flat out look. i bet this is how some pedaphiles get caught too. just like when the film developer happens to look at your pictures and goes wait a second that's not right.
this need to look into other people's files is why i need to be an undercover operative. i could do it without people even knowing i opened their files. yes, i am that good.
want to see a good terrorist cia, mi5 movie/mini-series? rent the grid with dylan mcdermott and julianne margolis. two discs well worth spenidng fours hours of a sunday afternoon.
// posted by stacey on 6:10:00 PM // |
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