Wow.. it has been too long… Hello friend, My name is David
I know… I know… My silence here has been resounding. Here is the thing. I got back from my trip home and Mary was in “writer” mode. This means any and all computer time requested on the docket was met with intense scrutiny and almost automatic denial. So, while the silence was perpetuated on the board/diary/electronic page, my life was anything but silent.
A few more heated discussions occured between me and UPS. UPS can be a stingy uncaring bitch, or i should say UPS’s representation. I got my settlement reward, and sometime next week i will be recieving my computer via ………………………… UPS. Dell couldn’t change their carrier no matter what i argued. So i might get a computer, or a box full of brand new broken parts. Not sure yet what will happen. I’m not getting my hopes up.
Work isn’t going so well. Apparently what was percieved as a victory in the begining has really kind of turned around and bit me on the ass. This is not to say that I did not forsee this occurence, but in the end i had hoped the world would prove more pleasant. If you tell a selfish egotistical person to stop treating you as though you killed their dog, then they take offense. I was only hoping it would fix itself, and it has yet. So i’m currently looking for alternative employment. This doesn’t mean that i’ve quit/been fired/laid off, this simply means i want to leave this company as fast as possible. What makes it more annoying is that i am not really pleased with the work itself. It is an accounting department. I dislike accounting, and what is more important is i dislike the lawfirm i’m working for. I’m helping big corporations lower the settlements on cases so that the victims of corporate neglect don’t get the correct compensation.
Sure i’m also helping the corporations pay less money to people who are looking to “rob” or “screw” corporations out of money the victim’s don’t diserve. Either way, both interpretations take on a view of the world that i’m not pleased to be working with. I’d like to be helping a noble cause in some way shape or form. I hope something comes up.
something. Hell i’d do accounting for an organization that i believe in and enjoy the fuck out of it. I would feel like i was apart of something bigger that i believed in.
yes well back to the drawing board.
August 27th, 2005 at 5:05 pm
i know i haven’t given you much computer time but locking me in the bathroom and pretending to ignore the screaming is unacceptable! didn’t you hear me? “help, help, lemme out of the bathroom, i’m stuck in the bathroom, i can’t breathe, i’m having a panic attack, i’m stuck i’m stuck,” i mean thank goodness jupiter is tall enough to reach the knob and knows how to open doors, otherwise i would have had to wait god knows how long while you edited and re-edited and found just the right words for this blog entry…. besides, i told you i wanted to write! how dare you usurp my writing time to blog!?!?! i am an artiste! an artiste, do you hear me!?!! you’re standing in the way of artistic progress!!! <throws oxford english dictionary>*,** — * not. ** i was going to add something in order to further clarify the original point of this post, that is, that i haven’t been blocking david from using the computer, but i have to go now because DAVID NEEDS TO USE THE COMPUTER! 8)
August 28th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
I completely sympathize with you. I got a piddling small raise after more than three years, and then my boss cut out all of the overtime I have been making since graduation. I am still expected to do everything I was doing before, of course. I was going to stick it out until it was time to move, but my hand is forced now, and I am going to look for a job locally. I don’t know how we are going to pay for this move, because we haven’t saved anything yet, and I don’t know what I will be making between now and then. Havilah is in school now, so Michelle is going to try to find a job to help things along, since she doesn’t have any paying clients at the moment. See how I respond to your post and it is all about me, me, me? Sorry about that. Good luck with the computer. I’ve bought two computers from Dell and they are very good. I’ve had a couple of problems but nothing major. Never had any damage in transit, haha. You need to do something about jupiter. How are you supposed to keep mayfly in the bathroom?
August 30th, 2005 at 7:52 am
[quote:263c30aa0d] Dell couldn’t change their carrier no matter what i argued. So i might get a computer, or a box full of brand new broken parts.[/quote:263c30aa0d] Well, I hope you’ve at least insured it.
Yes, I[i:263c30aa0d] am [/i:263c30aa0d]kidding. Ron.