It was a full moon yesterday. They say, that makes people a bit crazy. The abbreviated version of yesterday goes like this: we had a pickup truck crash, we had so many safety-related things go wrong on site that they actually shut everything down to talk and regroup, we almost lost our jobs because of a misunderstanding of the rules by a certain tattle-tale, rumours spreading like wildfire about which married person is sleeping with who, and a stupid amount of work for me to do in a stupidly short period of time. Whew!
On a completely unrelated note, I am being eaten alive my mosquitos. As much as I’m trying to work on my will-power to NOT scratch them, I still seem to scratch without even knowing it! I’ll scratch in my sleep and when I’m working at my desk and I don’t even realize it. At least the after-bite I bought before I came is coming in handy. That stuff sure works. Other people here say that it’s not just the mosquitos that are biting. We have deer flies and some other bugs called oil sands beetles. There are also TONS of black dragonflies here, but I don’t think they bite.
Now, I'm trying to take on more responsibility now that I'm getting the hang of my basic job description. I was asked by a coworker to send out an invite, using MS Outlook, to a bunch of people I don't know, about a meeting that I'm not invited to, in a place I've never heard of. Long story short, I had to send out 6 updates - two were a mistakes of mine and the others were just plain old annoying changes that needed to be made. Needless to say, I drove everyone crazy. I apologized and explained that I'm new (even though most of it was not my fault).
Today was definitely better than yesterday. It's no longer a full moon, we have these burning coil things in the office that chill the mosquitos out, and the meeting is a go. I even got my entire to-do list done! How's that for an improvement?
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| In case you're intereted, this is what I look at all day. For the record, this was taken on break. |
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