[golden child]

today was hat day, boy golly am i glad i didnt go to work today, some of these people are really fucked up with work spirit. we have potlucks sometimes, last one we had was dry run day, when the drivers go on a dry run before the school starts. we have to fucking PAY for the goddamned thing, something like 3 bucks for all you can eat hotdogs. i turned around and went right back to my desk because i forgot about the potluck and brought my own food anyway, susan the fucking hardcore biker chick who is really sweet and kind felt really bad and gave me 3 dollars (i didnt have any money, but wouldnt have paid if i did) i tried to convince her i didnt want it and was VERY satisfied with my leftover lasagna but she forced me so i complied (nothing like free food) i told her id pay her back, and as i write this i remember that i have failed to do that. oops? i didnt really mean to write a fucking book about where i work, i meant just to comment about how i work in the transportation system too... all this sorta flowed and i cant really stop, its entertaining... and i thought i had a boring life. edulog? do you guys use edulog? i fucking hate that program, really powerful i guess, but pretty difficult to use. esspecially when my boss is so goddamn vague, he sends me an email saying "change the walk zone boundry for liberty elementry" and i think wtf, ive never used this program, whats a border? change it to what, and i ask him about it and he goes, oh just open up maris and change it. ive since learned to get by with it, but still... terrible. he asked me to go through kevins excel code to see which sql server he pulls some bus information... and im thinking DUDE, just ask him. he works here everyday but is usually gone before i get there, but a few days ago he was working a little late and i asked him and he told me "tran.routes.bus_number", and then showed me how is program gets the info. i mean that took like 5 minutes, and i spent 3 days going through his VBA trying to figure this out (maybe a little slacking in there) and it turns out he doesnt even get it from the same spreadsheet as my boss told me. my boss is a terrible driver too, sometimes we have to visit some district honchos and take stuff to storage and boy does that guy love the brake pedal. most of my releases come from material at work, i was thinking it would be cool to have a release that was done entirely at work, packaging made there and recorded there but they dont have any kind of cases (i hate homemade construction paper cdrs) and they dont have cdrs. at school we do though, so maybe that will count? there is one girl named juanita, we have a huge mexican population in salem and she is like the only person who can speak it in the office. she has a slow ass computer, jesus christ. i think she may have a new one, alot of the field corrdinators and computer fucking illiterate, like yeah press "OK" after you stick in a USB drive and it says "would you like to install?", or why isnt my palm syncing? probaly because "PalmSync" isnt running? or Groupwise, alot of complaits about Groupwise... we even have a fucking class on how to use Groupwise. I dont really use it, i just check emails with it and other people run their LIVES around groupwise. calenders, syncing with outlook (just be thankful you have groupwise, dont complain and whine about how you wanna use outlook) people go into other peoples groupwise to check their calenders and appointments and tasks. when a computer program runs your life somethings wrong (although firefox has a place in my heart) one woman calls me "little computer geek", dont think she knows my name either, she is a little hyper too, funky laugh and the works. the only problem is no color printer in the place, and hardly any ink all just toner which is why ill be outsourcing most of my production elsewhere, except for flyers and general photocopied goods. i love that copy machine, it is my best friend. free shipping materials too. i used to pack all my packages there and take them to post at lunch, now school is in the way and i have to do it at home and take them on my way to work, which is a bitch because i go to work right after school, so sometimes i am taking packaged lps, several small packages and such to school which is ok sometimes but other times not ok. i was kinda worried when i started using the copy machine regularly, you have to enter a code and i was using someone elses code who told it to me when i acually needed and i thought it was to track usuage, but it isnt. a code is a just a security feature that comes with the machine, and instead of making one code for all, we must get the last for digits of our SS and enter it everytime to make a copy. so i was sorta worried doing 30 copies of covers and catalouge inserts here and there until my boss asked me to do 500 copies of some shit, legitimently. im sure its possible for our copier to track, but we sure as hell dont use that feature. need to find a good place to make really nice color laser prints, kinkos is .89 cents each. 100=$89!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
printers are the worst thing at work, boss freaks when toner goes low. even though it hasnt been replaced in months, and at the start of the school year we are printing thousands of shits a day. because each cart costs like 100 bucks and our budget is 5000 dollars i think (for routing only) transportation budget got cut by like 200,000 dollars this year so they are REALLY strict about overtime. for me that have 10 hours a week in their budget, no more... its tough making due, since i was working 40 hours a week over the summer. i dont really have time for more work anyway, with school, homework, noise etc. but i think could find somewhere else where i work equal amount of hours but less days, and closer to home, biking is fun and all but sometimes its a hassle, sure its healthy (fought back that baby fat finally, or atleast my mom told me its baby fat...) but sometimes its just inconvienent.like today, i didnt work there today, i worked at the elementry school but after that i had to bike just to get my paycheck, oh yeah and fuck government institution they all are lazy bastards. the dmv closes at 5:30, when most people are just off work and closes at like 12:00 on saturdays when everyone is off work and its the busiest day of the week. same with the bank, the payroll dept of the school dist etc etc etc. so since i got paid today i am getting a creative zen vision:m from walmart (i know its cool to hate walmart, but i shopped around and they are cheapest) since my cd player finally kicked the can, ripping some tapes n junk now. waiting for my friend to comeover, he said he was on his way like 2 hours ago. his parents are out of town and told him he couldnt stay home tonight and had to go somewhere so he called me from downtown (about 7 miles away) and told me he was coming but had to find a ride somewhere, didnt have a bike, i think the buses still come, and even though its only 7 miles it quite a long walk (2hrs?) jeez i am getting off topic, back to my office... i think thats about it, our janitors pretty kickass. he takes the garabage everyday and cleans the bathrooms, he seems like a total old weirdo with a hunched back and the hole deal but then i see him smoking outside like the badass he is.

i just had a long stream of thought, and now its dry. i guess i just work at a stereotypical office in suburbian small town america (130,000... maybe more like medium town?)
i have a greater love for the office, english version is great but i like the american one best because it has jokes i get and some things that might only happen in america. i defiantly feel a stronger bond with dilbert though... my favorite being the bowels of beauracracy.

ive almost steered off into other topics, like my school and city but this is pretty long, i just feel like i need to let loose. its fun, and i am waiting for my friend. usually the internet is pretty boring, takes like 5 min to read all the good topics.