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My cushy job …

Today went by just as slowly as yesterday at work.. seems we are all having a bit of a hard time getting back into the swing of things.

My coworkers orchid is still half dead … she pulled off the dead flowers and is hoping the thing will come back to life … I thought perhaps I would be nice and brought in a plant of my own today … she’s been complaining that we dont have enough … er, any.. plants in the place. So I brought in my green plant and put it on the table between the two of us, so she can also enjoy it. Now my coworker is very happy.

I also was able to gain a little more space at work. Today, they removed one of the work tables in the island I work in, and so I now have my back to a wall, almost a little office of my own.. its a very cool setup, nobody can see my computer screen, and I can see everyone that walks in, good for clicking over to something that resembles work … when I chatting on ICQ or something.

Also had a meeting today with all the corporate marketing folks in my department. We got to find out about our new buildings, that we probably won’t move into for a year … but we are going to have plenty of space and our own cubes … oh the little things make me so happy.

We also learned there could be some raises, bonuses, and more stock coming our way … potentially. No one was promised anything, but I’m crossing my fingers … more money is always good.

Lastly, we learned that the company is setting up a charitable trust … which I have plenty of experience in. So I’ll probably be getting involved in that in some way.. I sent an email to my boss, the VP of Marketing, and she’ll contact me when she gets the thing rolling. Good way to kiss up too.

I mentioned earlier that I sometimes have to hide the ICQ when people walk in … well, today I spoke to Tim on ICQ chat for quite some time … and he thinks I have a cushy job …

I dont understand it … just because I sit and “design webpages all day” also known as, goof off on the web, listen to music, and wear comfortable clothes, all while getting paid … doesnt mean my job is cushy … just very comfortable. I mean getting paid to surf the web and do stuff … dont we all surf the web a little.

Okay, okay … so I also sit and chat on ICQ when I can. Nobody really checks on me … and to be totally honest, there are the times when things are hurried and rushed. Just lately that hasnt been the case.. when the shit hits the pan, though … its duck and cover baby.

Some of you might be wondering if I won the contest, because Katie didnt do an entry.. hmm, give the secret up Katie … well, that’s not the case.. she ICQ’d me earlier and told me that due to a test she had to study for, she wouldnt be able to do an entry. It’s part of our rules … if we can’t make an entry, we have to let the other person know about it … then you are granted a pardon for the night.

So the contest is still on.

Just when you start to think Y2K didnt affect anything, you hear a story of someone losing all their money, due to Y2K …

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Fear of the Y2K bug also proved expensive for a Thai street food vendor, police said. Kieuthong Attaparb was so concerned Y2K computer problems might swallow her savings that she withdrew 100,000 baht ($2,700) from a bank in Rayong, 210 km (130 > miles) southeast of Bangkok, and kept it at home over the millennium weekend. Sunday morning her house burned down and her savings went up in smoke. Thai banks have so far reported no Y2K problems.

So, to recap, this lady took her saving out of the bank for fear of Y2K problems, and then her home burned down and her money was burned up … I think if that was my whole savings, I’d have risked getting burned to save it … or I’d have slept with it. I’m just funny that way.

I’m staying up to watch the Tonight Show because one of the cast members of the show Freaks and Geeks is going to be on. I’ve become the spokesperson for the show.. and want to catch Linda Cardellini, who just happens to have grown up in this area, and see what she has to say about the show …

So, you all should watch the show January 10, on NBC at 8PM … that’s next Monday. Watch it, and then tell me that you watched it …

Like I said last night … I did this slight redesign of the site, and was talking to Tim today about how difficult it is to any sort of redesign. I mean, I went through two other fully designed versions of the redesign, before finally deciding to leave everything alone and just change a few minor things … sometimes I think less is more. Basically I couldve gone crazy with this, but then I have to think about what would get affected by one little change …

For example, if I change the background color of the site, then I have to go through and change the background color for all 128 entries, plus all the sub sections I have on the upper tab … it would be such a mess. So, it’s often better to leave it alone.

Of course, when I orginally created this site, I created it in Dreamweaver … which creates really screwed up HTML, but it’s quick and easy.. I still use the program for typing in entries, its just faster. After all, I’m not doing this to win a design/HTML contest or anything … its a journal for gods sake.

But redesigns are hard … they take so much thinking and usually end up in the trash bin … oh well.

Childhood Experience of the Night: In fifth grade I had a “crush” on this girl. I tried my hardest to hide it, while drooling all over her at the same time … you know, when you think no one knows you like someone, but it’s so obvious it isnt even funny. Anyway, seems this other guy liked her too, and mustve felt a little threatened by me … which I totally think is funny, since I’m no threat to anyone … but anyway, he walked up to me in class and told me that I couldnt like her. I was obviously surprised … first, that he even knew about it, but second that he would actually come up to me and tell me to my face I couldnt like someone.

He basically walked up to me and said, “do you like E**?” … at first I lied, and was like, “No”. Then he tells me, “I think you do, and you better stop” … so I told him I didnt know what he was talking about … he then told me that if I didnt like her, he wanted me to walk up and tell her. I figured he was on crack or something, because never in my life, have I gone up to someone and tried to hurt their feelings.

I ended up just walking away from him, like he was a kook or something … he didnt bother me anymore after that … I just found it funny that he would actually go through all that trouble.

He was pretty close with her family.. and my thought is that perhaps she had mentioned me or something, and it threw him into a fit … so he confronted me about it … the girl left the school in sixth grade, and I never saw her again … a few years later, my sister met her, and she remembered me and asked all about me … but that was many years later.

… and that’s my childhood experience of the night.

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