So last night we were just hanging out watching Law and Order: SVU and Brubeck walks up beside me (I was on the couch) and proceeds to throw up next to my shoes. I sighed and ran to grab the paper towels to clean up the mess (not a whole lot). When I went to pick it up I realized that he had thrown up a pile of cat poop. My dog is the grossest thing EVER. Blehhhhh.
Well, it’s official November 29, 2006
I hate Christmas and all its expectations.
Bah-fucking-humbug.
Not much going on here November 16, 2006
I like the part of my job I’m paid to do, but the people I work for that don’t pay me are on my last damn nerve. My “other boss” is a shithead. No other word. He was on my ass all last week to get him travel stuff in from a trip he took over 2 months ago. What the hell?! Why didn’t he address this sooner? He said “You’ll need to include my registration on this one,” and so I asked him for a receipt. He said he didn’t have one and to call some random person at some organization. No phone number. Gee, thanks. I call her twice last week and didn’t get a call back, so I processed everything sans the registration. I told him whenever he got the receipt he could claim it on his taxes.
So she called back today. He never registered for that fucking conference. So he lied and gave me shit about something that was actually his problem. Not only that, but the envelope of receipts from the other trip that I had to process for reimbursement was full of bar tabs. Good luck getting the University to pay for those. I think he has a drinking problem. And he apparently was buying drinks for other people. Either that or he had 4 drinks in an hour. In either case, I know more than I wanted to know.
I may look to be a grad assistant next academic year so I don’t have to deal w/ his annoying ass any longer than I have to.
Yay! November 6, 2006
I’m back from Spokane! My trip was awesome and my presentation went over really, really well. I had a few people ask for copies of the paper and one of them is using it in one of his classes. The rest of the day people came up to me and said a lot of really positive things. Lots of good conversation, too. Hooray for a good first conference presentation. I’ll post some pics later on when I get home.
These idiots outside my window (maintenance guys) sound like they’ve been fed an unhealthy dose of Fox News and bigotry their entire lives. That and their cigarette smoke is wafting into my office and making me ornery. I’ve never heard such open ignorance in my entire life. I hope their fucking crane collapses and breaks their stupid necks. It couldn’t happen to better people.
