Monthly Archives: December 2003

Laurie vs. Temp Agency

I never got a pay­check last week because they never got my time sheet for the week before.
Well, that’s nice. I’m glad that didn’t actu­ally get resolved until I called in to ask where the heck my pay­check is.
The good news is that if both checks go through, I get about $500 this Fri­day.
The bad news

Pre-gifting

YAY! Kat and Dave’s wed­ding today! I put their presents in a box orig­i­nally belong­ing to a steel teapot, which I care­fully manip­u­lated to say “NOT A TEA KETTLE.” I could have got a more cre­ative present, so I fig­ure the cre­ativ­ity will go into the box and that is that.

I grad­u­ated from relay oper­a­tor train­ing, and will be spend­ing the next two days tak­ing live calls by myself (pre­vi­ously I had some­one sit­ting over my shoul­der.)
The neg­a­tiv­ity that a lot of the employ­ees have toward the jobs, the callers, and every­thing in gen­eral really both­ers me. I guess maybe it’s because I feed off

And a little piece of the story of my life died

Word on the street (well, in the Post-Standard) is that Happy End­ings, the best cof­fee shop in the world (well, out­side of Ams­ter­dam I sup­pose) closed on Novem­ber 30th, a sup­posed casu­alty of the smoking ban.

Gainful

I passed my first week of train­ing and get to come back! Yay!
It’s hardly rak­ing in the bucks, but it’s 30 hours a week more work than I had before.