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[03 Mar 2008|09:07am] |
You Are 4: The Individualist
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You are sensitive and intuitive, with others and yourself.
You are creative and dreamy... plus dramatic and unpredictable.
You're emotionally honest, real, and easily hurt.
Totally expressive, others always know exactly how you feel.
At Your Best: You are inspired, artistic, and introspective. You know what you're thinking, and you can communicate it well.
At Your Worst: You are melancholy, alienated, and withdrawn.
Your Fixation: Envy
Your Primary Fear: To have no identity
Your Primary Desire: To find yourself
Other Number 4's: Alanis Morisette, Johnny Depp, J.D. Salinger, Jim Morrison, and Anne Rice.
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| Well Done |
[22 Jan 2008|09:01am] |
So there was apparently white out storm conditions in Wisconsin last night and that made one of our deliveries extremely late. This was good for me. I woul dhave been done shortly after 4, otherwise. As it was, I went and helped roll posters for a while and then counted the prints in my error packages to kill time while waiting for the delivery to be sorted, spliced, developed and printed. I ended up with something like six more batches and it was nearly 7:45 before I finished everything up. Yay for an almost whole shift!
Thankfully, I wasn't sick last night. Made work a much more pleasant prospect.
( This Isn't Dedicated To Anyone )
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[17 Jan 2008|01:22pm] |
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Ok, so as soon as I posted to all journals, the net came back up. Go figure.
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[17 Jan 2008|12:55pm] |
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My net is down, typical. Call if you need/want me before I can get back on.
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| Mental Note.. |
[14 Jan 2008|09:55pm] |
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Don't sleep with the door latched, dummy.
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| bad GJ |
[13 Jan 2008|07:47am] |
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Ok, so after I posted my last entry and looked at it I found the one where I wondered about going out or not. GJ is being naughty. So I also checked out church schedules wanted to edit the prior post about it.. but GJ won't let me. Worship starts at 8, 10 and 10:30. I had wanted to do the 8am service but it's ten til and there's no way I can be ready and drive there in time. So not this week. Sorry God. Plus it's probably not in the best spirit to arrive smelling of last night's spirits, if you get my drift. Uf da.
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| I Would Have Sworn.. |
[13 Jan 2008|07:19am] |
That I'd posted about my dilemma of whether to go out last night or not, but apparently I did no such thing. Hm. Anyway, I did decide to go out. By myself, which is in itself an amazing feat for a weekend night.
I went to Pi and just as I was starting to think it was a really bad idea.. I was bored, didn't know anyone, didn't see anyone I wanted to know, drinks are expensive, music is not really my deal, the place is FAR from my house.. the lady in the cowboy hat wandered by and stood in front of my table to people watch. Background, the first drink I stood in line for, I was behind her and her friend. I was watching her friend at that point, trying to figure out why a slick lip ring was hanging out with an ernest cowboy hat.
Ok. So I watched her back for a little while and finally managed to (in the middle of my second beer) go up and attempt to open up conversation. I asked if the hat was leather and why I was seeing so many of that style (mostly straw). Apparently, there'd been a line dancing party earlier, which she'd missed, but wanted to appear to be able to fit into. I asked where her friend was.. oo.. there was my answer, slick lip ring girl is engaged to a man and he'd gotten tired of her dallience with the ladies and picked her up early. My good fortune.
Anyway, we clicked very well and spent the rest of the night chatting on the sidelines of the dance floor. At 23 she has a bachelor's in biology and is pissed off because she would have done better going and learning a trade. Not so graceful on the dance floor, by her admission, no evidence to back it up. Sometime smoker. Drinks the same brand of beer. Was able to laugh with me about factory work, though she's in an office, currently. I got to tease her about her non tech geek status, that was a lot of fun.
I haven't laughed and had good conversation with a stranger like that in ages. I told her straight out that I wasn't aiming for a pickup, which probably killed any potential tension. We were able to just sit and BS instead of doing the 'mating dance' that makes life so impossible.
Overall, it was a fun night. I didn't get home til close to three this morning.. now why am I awake? I do not know, but I do have a headache. I've been up since six. That's ok though because I do work tonight and a three hour nap will tide me over til I should go back to bed around 1. I might go to church today, I also think I'm supposed to do brunch with M. I should look up worship schedules for the churches I went to as a child to see times so if I decide to go, I can schedule brunch around that.
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[12 Jan 2008|08:33pm] |
I dunno what my problem is recently, I keep pushing one of my pillows away and tossing all day long instead of sleeping properly. The result of this is a constant stiff neck and always being tired, bleah.
Work has slowed down to nothing, I finished by myself on Friday with no help before 6 in the morning. If I'd been using more than two machines, it probably would have been before 4 in the morning. Makes me wonder why they want me to go faster.
So I got a new phone, which I've been getting used to slowly. It's forcing me to use T9 texting because tap style doesn't predict and it takes me five minutes to send a most simple message on the qwerty hybrid otherwise. I've never liked T9, but I see why people use it once they get used to it. The camera is better and the speaker is absolutely better, I dislike that I can't chose the vibration patterns on it though. Most phones give a choice between four or five different patterns. Meh.
To go out or not.. hm. I would like to. That means moving and taking a shower though. It also means clearing snow off my car, spending money and dealing with strangers. Ugh. Well. We'll see.
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| Uff.. |
[10 Jan 2008|05:21am] |
So tonight, just as I finished up working, I was informed there would be a meeting in a moment. Ok fine. I can do a meeting. So we all gathered around at the sorting hub and were handed a copy of a new schedule layout. Daniel and Kong leave us after Thursday night, Nick joins us from Ancillary. Which means I'll get to train him a chunk of the time. He's a nice guy. Nice to look at too, which is better than I can say for most of the people I've had to work with.
So tonight was probably the last time for a while that I'll get to leave early, despite the fact that it's slowing down to nothing at the moment. This is because with Daniel around, I had help all night and while he's virtually useless, he gets around a quarter of the work done. What he did tonight would have taken me an additional 3 hours, but it took him almost 5 to do. Granted, he was running only one machine, but it should have taken perhaps 3 hours on that one machine.
So we lost three people, gained one who doesn't know the work and the lead dropped from five nights a week to four and managed to keep her hours the same. Kathy went to mornings. So what this means is, I will keep the same amount of work, it will take me twice as long and the people running the cutters will keep the same amount of work but be swamped because they've lost a number of people. Huzzah!
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| Last Names Can Tell A Lot About A Person |
[09 Jan 2008|05:54am] |
Last night was rough. Within half an hour of starting my shift I got pulled into the office by Drew. George was there as well and this time I was in trouble. Basically, I got called out for stopping to chit chat occasionally (again), using a chair in my area (which everyone does, dammit), making decisions for myself on the best way to go about doing the work (as in, I should not do this), and not being fast enough. I think the phrase 'on task' was actually used in all seriousness.
Jesus people. You can't give me equipment that works properly because the companies that made it are out of business and no one else makes anything remotely similar, you can't give me product that won't cause errors in the old and fucked up equipment and you expect me to work FASTER?!?! I wander around when all my machines are down and I got no way to do anything, that's when I get nailed. I sit when everything is running smoothly and I don't have to be jumping back and forth fixing errors, mixes, reloading stuff, whatever. I'm almost always early for my shifts, I rarely take my full breaks, I'm the ONLY one who'll stand there and do the work for an entire shift, five nights a week and they want more? More when it's slowing down to the point that I was done at 5AM?
When it's slow like this, people come from other departments and do my work for me. That tears my rate down and makes me finish early. I can't get help when it's busy, that also tears my rate down but then I'm stuck staying late as hell. I can't fuckin' win. He told me I'm getting a new guy to help me out, I imagine I'll end up training the kid. If this is the case, I will train him to the best of my ability at night, hunt for jobs during the day and get the hell out of there ASAP.
I'm not a waitress cause I don't move fast. I could get hired at Perkins and be accepted for myself in a heart beat but I can't go that fast and I don't want to lay that burden on them. I will never be a person who moves quickly. I shuffle. I am deliberate in my movements otherwise. But never fast. Sorry Charlie, ain't gonna happen.
AUGH!
Myspace stupidity brought to you by.. Anne's need of an ego boost.
( Last Names.. )
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| On the upside.. |
[08 Jan 2008|01:04pm] |
Since I got dumped, my cashflow is back in the black at the end of the pay period. Two days til payday and I have almost a hundred dollars still. That's what she was costing me every two weeks, a hundred or more dollars in gas, food, bar trips and such. My milage has gone back up to almost 30 a gallon, my miles driven have dropped by more than a hundred a week. Whee!
Now, if I could just get a healthy social life, that'd be excellent.
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[08 Jan 2008|11:14am] |
It sucks to worry that a gift I sen tmight be stolen and sold before the recipient can even see the box it arrived in. Next time, if there is a next time, I will have to get Daryl's address and send it there instead.
Feh. Anyway, work is slowing down again, we were under 8k rolls last night and I was finished at almost 8:30 on the dot. That, though I was pissed at the time, was fantastic.
I don't know if I ever mentioned, but I got my grades back on my just completed courses. I was mildly disappointed, I got a C in critical thinking and a B- in writing. I completely blame myself for allowing a new relationship to get in the way. It's very annoying. In any case, I did pass though and I'll go on to the next two courses next month. The interesting ones are starting to come up, that's kind of exciting.
I still feel like I need a different job, but knowing Kathy will be in most mornings to cover the ends of my shifts so I don't have to stay late so much makes it a lot easier to tolerate. And the money really is good. I'm due another raise soon. In April, I'd be eligle for a week's paid vacation. My actual area will be obsolete eventually, but who knows?
I need to buy cloth bandaids, we just have cheap plastic ones here at home and honestly? They don't stay in place very well ..I use a lot of them on winter caused hangnails and split cuticles. Maybe I should buy some cuticle oil.
So can someone tell me, am I destined to forever bounce from relationship to relationship like some out of control little super ball? No, I have not gotten into another one. But it might be coming, I don't know yet. Uff.
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| Ahh.. |
[07 Jan 2008|11:14pm] |
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