Office Holiday... SNOW!!!!!

OOOH! We finally got snow. Not just a light dusting like back in December, but snow that requires some shoveling and scraping off the vehicles. I took the truck today, figured that treacherous hill on the way up to this building would be hellish trying to get up this morning. The truck with LOVELY 4X4 made it up the hill while some cars were still sliding around trying to make it across the highway into the turn. I couldn't believe how slow some people were going in some spots. Granted, I wasn't going insanely fast, but fast enough to get to work on time. There were some points where it would be iffy if it was cold enough to ice over, but we haven't had enough COLD to make the ground cold enough to maintain ice patches except on the bridge over the Wabash River. Apparently some roads were closed due to flooding. I am glad I don't live or work in an area that requires going over those areas prone to flooding and road closures. I know that folks at ol' Wabash Valley Hospital are going to have to literally hike up the back way in and up the hill. :) NOT ME! Buwahahahah!

Other than that, nothing much to say today, it's only just getting started. I have decided not to fret about the fact that yesterday was an office holiday and that makes 16 hours shy of 80 on my first paycheck back to work at jolly ol' PU! It means extra work on the database and outsourcing some of that to a friend of mine who could use some extra cash. I'm just having her verify the newly added stuff to the main page where I get my information from. Joooooy. It keeps me from having to go back and do it myself and I can continue to work on the stuff I have not entered yet. The excitement never ends. :) Such is the joy of an educated yet underpaid person in this area. Still no word on the resume updates or my inquiries about the newly opened positions in this department/building I work in. I'll keep nosing around for more information.

It looks like the interns are back, or at least an intern and it might mean that I get to lose my space when they are here. I hope not, I like having this space and sharing it would suck. When I say sharing it, I mean getting sent away from here to another department with no space to use at all. *grumble* It could be worse, I could have a new spot every morning and then I'd never where I was going to be stuck. Ugh. So far so good, we'll see what happens with the rest of the day/week.

And now the last fifteen minutes of my lunch hour has arrived. I spent the first 45 snarfing down lunch and writing a letter to my pen pal in France. Yeah, no e-mail there, except on occasion from her. We use snail mail. It's kinda nice too. I mean it's not often to get a letter in the mail when people find it so much easier to shoot off an e-mail into cyberspace. I find that can actually ruin a pen pal relationship sometimes. Several of my pen pals from over seas got e-mail and we wrote back and forth daily and suddenly we found ourselves with nothing to say but "Hey" "Hi" "How's the weather?" "Oh it's not bad, 12 degree Celsius and sunshine." "Celsius? Crap, I gotta convert that." "Oh it just started raining." Eh? It's much more fun to get a real letter in the mail, it means time was put into slowing life down long enough to write and say something that is hopefully meaningful to the recipient. At least it does mean something to me. I enjoy hearing from her and how her family is doing. It's kinda fun sometimes and that's a good enough reason to look forward to getting a real letter in the mail.

Meanwhile, it's time to get back to work. The US Postal Mail didn't run this morning which means this afternoon at 1:30 I am going to get slammed with departmental mail from campus and the post office. Hopefully it will keep me busy for a few hours, because I don't want to spend the last part of my day competing with the other girl that does the "matching" stuff. I don't care for doing the "matching" stuff, but when all else fails and I don't have monster filing and sorting jobs to do, that's what is left. *grumble*

So I think I'm done here, nothing much of import that springs into my mind that warrants the synaptic energy to type it right now. It’s the afternoon, nearing the end of the day where I have finished the mail delivery and sorting. All that is left is for me to drag out this fifteen minutes as much as possible and then go do some "matching." Someone just shoot me in the foot and get it over with! Blah. Time to run now... Hope you're having a more exciting day than me!

T~ Bored silly

...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin...