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Okay, so here's a real post. I promised, didn't I?

(Quizzes are easy and fast! Life takes time to fill out.)

I really didn't want to get out of bed this morning. Tossed, turned, punched the snooze bar, punched it a couple more times, and still got out of bed with more than an hour and a half before work. Showered, took pills, ate breakfast, and got 3 emails about things I had to take care of before I came into the office. (YAY!)

Hit the offices and such, crawled into work. Was restored with a pumpkin bar and asked to redo our print release stations today since it hadn't gotten done Wednesday. (This may have something to do with the College sending everyone home at lunch...)

Worked that out, and made prep to handle it after lunch. Got a series of 'I'm stupid, but...' phonecalls, one of which culminated in me going to a professor's office to remove 300+ pieces of spyware from her machine and teaching her for the third time how to actually log into her network space rather than simply cancelling the login and calling us demanding we talk her through it. (*growl*)

Lunch was had, and I terrifed a table near the usual suspects, who were discussing one person's habit of hoarding and eating pieces of holy Host from her church.

Lean over. Tap girl on shoulder.

Pardon me, miss. But rather than the ranch dressing you've been using, you might want to try some Jeez Whiz.

Jeez whiz?

Jeez Whiz. It's like Cheez Whiz. But with Jesus. From the same people who did "I Can't Believe It's Not Savior" for the low-cal eucharist.

Turned back. Finished my nachoes. They had that sort of laugh that says 'Who was that guy, and does he have a gun?'

Re-imaging the release stations went remarkably painlessly, but then I got to go and camp in an African professor's office to fix his email, because he took his computer to Ghana over the break and blew his settings up.

On the upside, after I fixed it and some document formatting problems he was having, he gave me a genuine Ghanaian chocolate bar. Not bad. Tasted a bit like Cadbury's milk chocolate. Now, I sit in my office, chatting with Mike B, and listening to Voltaire before I go walking after my shift.

Only Deaaad girls like me....have you ever tasted love like this, so cool and smooth?

Oh, one other bit of good news: They had a kitty with the therapy dogs. Admittedly the cat was about 30 pounds, 20 years old, and looked like a big cream colored puff of fur that was planning to kill us all, but it was nice to pet a cat today.

Date: 2003-12-01 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] muttnik.livejournal.com
Bravo, old man. Good show. Chocolate aside, that sounds surprisingly like my day. :)

Date: 2003-12-01 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzarcher.livejournal.com
Really? Ew. Nobody should ever have to deal with PHAROS release station software. :D

Date: 2003-12-01 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com
*groans* Bleh. Pharos. Ohio State started using that in its computer labs shortly before I left.

Date: 2003-12-01 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzarcher.livejournal.com
Once they actually let me work with the Pharos rep rather than trying to arse around off the readmes and manuals without actually understanding what they were trying to tell me what to do, it got a lot easier.

In fact the guy who came out a couple weeks ago complimented me on how well I'd set stuff up on the client/release side. I got fuzzy.

Date: 2003-12-01 02:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] muttnik.livejournal.com
Okay, so maybe not EXACTLY like my day.. and I'm sure you could wipe the floor with our database system (which still confuses me sometimes though mostly due to data entry error..jackass fundraisers..).. but well. So the bad news is I have no awesome chocolate. The good news, no PHAROS either.

Date: 2003-12-01 02:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzarcher.livejournal.com
*grins* Well, maybe, maybe not. I'm not that good at databases. And the chocolate wasn't 'awesome', just good. But hey, you're alive! And can go get even better chocolate!

(Send me dark chocolate! You must! This line will hypnotize you!)

Date: 2003-12-01 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] muttnik.livejournal.com
Yesssssssss.. dark chocolate is the best.. particularly godiva dark chocolate with rasberry filling.. If you haven't already, give it a try sometime.

Date: 2003-12-01 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzarcher.livejournal.com
Mmmm. That does sound really good.

Oh, well. I think I have a box of jello pudding in the pantry from when I inherited a ton of dry/boxed goods....

Date: 2003-12-01 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mithikall.livejournal.com
ROFL. Now I want to go to lunch with you. Who was the prof, if I might ask? I'm always game for a heads up on the stupid ones. Hurray for Voltaire!

Date: 2003-12-01 05:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzarcher.livejournal.com
The stupid one in the morning was Frau Frieda Fuchs. (Say it three times fast! With a German accent!) The one who gave me chocolate was Boubacar N'diaye.

Date: 2003-12-01 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] narel.livejournal.com
awww that was after i left. pout. that's brilliant though. i wish i could have witnessed it.

Date: 2003-12-01 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzarcher.livejournal.com
*grins* Actually, you were there, but you were talking to others, and I was kinda quiet, just to build up the 'eeheehee' factor. :D It was while I was sitting at the other table, just before I moved over.

KITTEN!!!

Date: 2003-12-01 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sexy-librarian.livejournal.com
the KIT-TEN was SO CUTE! he was so angry and too old to do anything.

in all my years, i have learned that there is one key difference between cats and dogs: if a dog was the size of an elephant, it would still be every human's best friend. it would get your slippers and defend you and want to play catch with tree branches. however, if a cat was the size of a saber tooth tiger, we would all be fuckin DEAD.

Re: KITTEN!!!

Date: 2003-12-01 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzarcher.livejournal.com
Hee. Indeeeed.

Date: 2003-12-02 08:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasubergeek.livejournal.com
Therapy dogs?

Wow... I used to do pet therapy back in the day... with a golden retriever and a West Highland White Terrier.

Date: 2003-12-02 08:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzarcher.livejournal.com
*nods* They bring in usually 3-4 dogs, put them in the student union for students to see, pet, visit with. The cat was new this time.

They're so cute. Especially this little black sheltie.

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