Work Front
So our little Indian friends are here. That first day, two weeks ago, looked like a black suited Indian invasion. Everywhere I looked was an Indian guy in a black suit looking slightly dazed and confused. Two weeks in, the D&C look is gone, and now we are trying to teach them everything and anything about the job...in six weeks. There are two aspects of my team at work, and we have 2 guys we are training- on EVERYTHING (well each guy is learning one respective function). I'm sure in six weeks they'll have all the 'technical' stuff down, but the background knowledge...not so much. But guess what??? (chicken butt) It's not my problem!!! HA!!
Tourettes and I are doing the training for our functioning half. Tourettes does thing when she talks to foreigners... she talks loud and without prepositions. Because missing a small preposition is really, really going to bridge the language barrier. Yesterday, my "Little Indian Friend" (aka LIF), was training with Tourettes and here's some of the conversation:
Situation #1- getting headsets so LIF can hear our calls-
T: So you get head phone and plug here. Then you hear what I say.
LIF: Okay, but I don't think the adapter that I have is compatible with the Platonics box. I thought Supervisor-J was going to order a new device or splitter for us.
T: Oh....plug does not fit in box? I talk to Supervisor-J. You need hear calls.
LIF: I know. The calls would be most important for me to listen to.
Situation #2- getting technical working a file/report-
T: So now you assign new identifier to new outlet. Do you know why we make new identifier?
LIF: Blah, blah, blah- provided answer in normal English.
T: Goooooooood. You seem understand process.
T: Now how you work next record?
LIF: Blah, blah, blah- provided answer in normal English.
T: Gooooooooood. You seem understand process.
I talked to Super-J and asked if she noticed that Tourettes talks to LIF like he's an idiot and doesn't know how to speak English, similar to her Puerto Rico calls (she can't speak Spanish, and talks in loud English with no prepositions with those folks too). Super-J is aware- we laugh about it in her cube, roll our eyes. What can we do?? Tourettes, probably thinks she's being helpful, when really, she sounds ignorant.
A funny little interaction with LIF and myself. After working with him for a bit his first Thursday, after lunch he asks me about the pictures all over my desk. I explain briefly that it's just an actor from Hollywood and I have a slight crush on him. LIF doesn't fully understand and asks if he is a "friend" or "a romantic interest". Now I laugh. I go into detail about the book/movie character crush thing. He laughs, apologizes and said he's never heard of Twilight, and all that jazz. Friday, LIF is with me all day. He asks how I can work with all these pictures on my computer, mouse, by the keyboard...I told him it was distracting at first, but now I can work and gaze all day and I'm not distracted by the pictures anymore. Then on Monday, LIF comes to my desk in the morning and said that he was at WalMart over the weekend and he saw my friend there and the movie. He was very excited. He said that they have a lot of pictures, and shirts, and items to buy with his picture. LOL!!!! It was very humorous.
Also, thanks to all the training. I've done more work in 2 days the I normally do in the entire week. And of those 2 days, I was at jury duty for 5.5 hours. It's seriously cramping into my fun/play time at work...having to actually, you know, WORK.
Bobo and Music
I've been busy with my crack dealer, and have been buy CDs like there's no tomorrow. I wanted to share some of my new finds with Bobo (the self entitled music god). I hit a land mind with one album.... The Decemberists: Hazards of Love. Sweet Jesus, I had an auditory orgasm when I first listened to this gem. It's a concept album, lyrics are literary, it's truly amazing. The Bobo actually agreed with me. I also just received yesterday in the mail, three more Decemberists' albums. Cannot wait to listen!!!
AND when Bobo met us for dinner last night, he saw some guy getting head in the parking lot. Haha!!
Death Penalty
I was having a conversation with mom about the relief I had to be dismissed from jury duty, and the odd feeling I had when I saw this kid in courtroom and it was partly my choice to say "yeah, I think you have to die now." Mom's response, "Oh don't worry, by the time they actually get to kill him, he'll be in his 40's. It's not that big of a deal then." So, not what I was expecting.
Yesterday I was talking to Hitler at work, she wanted to know what happened with court and I had failed to inform her earlier in the week. So I reiterated the story and my spiel about telling some kid in his early 20's that he needs to die. Hitler's response, "They'll kill him when he's 40, who cares then?"
Deja vu.
Hitler is definitely living up to her nickname, and apparently I'm the only one that has any guilt/conscious/feelings for people.
Harper's Island
Anyone watching it?? It's the fist 2 shows in, and I'm highly intrigued. However, I decided to watch this past episode in real time, instead of watching after I've DVR'd it. I spent the first 20 minutes convulsing from pop outs and the last half watching it through my fingers. It's good stuff.... But I have no intentions of watching it real time, ever again.
Rough Morning
This morning at 530am some assholes decided it was a great time for a swim, and loudly jumped into the pool. The jumping (and subsequent hooting/hollering) then prompted Jaeger to bark his ever loving head off. I was slightly pissed. I mean- it's five fucking thirty in the morning....on a Saturday!!! I concede to the noise and get out of bed. Around 6am, I'm bored and decide that I'll watch Twilight. That will make the morning better....a little Edward action. I set everything up to find out I HAVE NO FUCKING SOUND!!!! The dvd player is hooked up through my receiver....my receiver was working yesterday... I have NO FUCKING SOUND THIS MORNING!!!!! Granted I can repeat the movie, practically verbatim, but that's besides the point!! GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
Then a little later on in the morning, I'm flipping through the channels and stop on an HBO that's playing Pay It Forward. It's the last 10 minutes, I'll just watch the end, after all I haven't seen it since college. I wind up SOBBING LIKE A FUCKING BABY!!! Not just casual tears, but big ol' boo hoo sobs. Yes, I know the last 10 minutes of the movie is a killer, but I figured it's the end and I have no emotion investment...I'll be okay. I was wrong. So I text Tuschka about the sobbing. She reprimands me slightly, saying that I should know better. And I should.
It was a rough way to start the Saturday. Let me tell you.
Candy
My aunt found some candy for me....
Isn't that great??? The hearts say "Lamb" "Dazzle" "I heart EC" "Bite Me". The candy will be proudly displayed at my desk at work. And I have no intention of eating them.Reamer
I was at the Marshalls with Oma today and saw this citrus ream, that weighed about 3 pounds and was probably 3 inches in diameter.
When I first saw it... I didn't see a citrus reamer, exactly, but rather a whole different type of reamer. So I took a picture of it and sent it to PPE. A bit later I was told by TWAH (via PPE) to "get my head out of the gutter and back in his lap, where it belongs". Hahahaha!!!!
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I think that is all my fronts for the moment. Going over to Hitler's tonight to hang out, Ava's chaperoning the prom, so it will be a girls night in.
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