One of Those Red-Shirt Guys

Well, it's 1752 here at work, and I basically have an hour to kill. I refuse to find something to do, both the big bosses are done and gone, and quite frankly I don't think they would care if I did nothing since I've covered off what I needed to. It's interesting the way I act at work. I treat one of the bosses with the utmost respect and the other one I try to pull one over regularly. It's almost become a game for me. Let's see how far I can push it before I get into shit. Well, so far over the past six months I have told her to "fuck off" and "shut up" and nothing. Not a reprimand, nothing. I always thought I was one of the red-shirt guys from Star Trek. Easily disposable. But as time wears on I begin to wonder if I am.
Last year, when I was so fed up that I was ready to walk out and tell them to shove their job, I got into a "discussion" with the dark boss. She had asked my why I never told one of my co-workers what I thought about them. Now, this particular co-worker is hard enough to work with on a regular day, let alone when I have given her a piece of my mind! So basically, I told my boss that if I spoke my mind I would get fired for the things I would say. Now doesn't Ms. Boss come out and say she would never fire me for something I would say? My jaw seriously almost dropped to the floor on that one.
Gotta run for now, but remind me to tell you about the horrible news I just received about my bestest bud, Lorna.

I've Concluded It's An Addiction

So...it's much darker outside than it was earlier. But of course it is, cos now I'm at home (and most definately a much happier camper) and have realized that my addiction is b-a-a-a-a-a-a-d. I couldn't go past the Goodwill store without wondering what was inside. The parking lot was full but do you think that deterred me? Not a chance! Found alovely parking spot on the side of the building. Nothing can stop a book-aholic! It's not like I don't already have a ton of books to be read, nor a ton coming in from the Sweepstakes I won. But I had to buy some more today. And you know how I rationalize it? I got about 15 books and they cost me only $15.00! You can't even but one book these days for that price!
Of course, now that I am home, and all the books have been registered under me on bookcrossing.com I feel better. I'm wondering if I should hide them though? There's way too many bags of books in the livingroom, and I know Richard would never notice one more...but I'm not sure where I could put it! I've even got most of the cat's space under the living room table taken up with bags of books. I was thinking about shoving them under the bed, but I think there is bags of yarn under there! I think I see an empty space under the dining room table I can shove them under for now!
Time to fold this up for today as I was kind of hoping I could finish The Summer That Never Was and pick up something new for the trip into work tomorrow. (What I mean is, new to me!)

Isn't Work Wonderful? :(

Okay, so it's almost 1100 and almost time for that stupid meeting we have every Wednesday which is a total waste of my time. Like most corporate meetings. The good news is, I dragged my ass out of bed early enough so that I can leave half an hour early. It's such a shame that I can't seem to start my day at 700 so that I could leave by 1530.
Meetings are such a waste of time. Do you realize I spend half my day waiting on other people in order to complete my work? I'm waiting on a manager to tell me if we have extra hours to work with on his schedule. I'm waiting for another department to send me the true tenure dates of associates who originally came from that department. I'm waiting for an extra list of members to our ESAT team so I can plug them into the Pillr Teams and get it all in teh system. I guess, though, that this gives me extra time to vent in here.
Time for the meeting. Blah!

Feb 15th - A day of Reckoning

Half day at work...you'd think it was a great thing. I've been dreading this doctor's appointment since October. Which explains why I skipped the one in November...slipped my mind due to Christmas in December...couldn't possibly let a doc appointement ruin my birthday in January and finally took care of it today.
To say Doc was impressed would be a big fat lie! Atleast I didn't get told off. Just had my pills upped again, told her I wasn't comfortable with the one type of pills...yet, but was working my way up to it. All in all, I guilted myself far more than she guilted me. So....basically, I need to change a few things. I will....I just don't know when. Atleast I have nothing to dread for another 3 months til the next visit. :)

Books......found me an awesome new-to-me magazine. It's called Bookmark and it's wonderful! It gave me about 20 more books to add to cliff1976.com and a bunch of new authors to look into.
Just finished Microserfs by Douglas Coupland and may look for another one by him....maybe Shampoo.
So I picked back up The Summer That Never Was by Peter Robinson. It's not that it's a bad book, but I keep buying used books that tickle my fancy and jump in the way of this one! But, I'm determined to finish it shortly as I need to send it to a fellow BCer.