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dcseain ([personal profile] dcseain) wrote2007-07-29 10:23 pm
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Hi. How Goes?

Apologies in advance for my overtired and nearly-addled brain's lack of flow and coherence.

My mood, as [livejournal.com profile] benhill observed, has improved since i started working. Structure to life is good.

I worked my first weekend, which was a gentle way to end up on the phones. M, D, and i make up the current Black Team Group II. Both M and D have been great about helping me with things. M works much harder than D, and i've been trying to learn from him, though there's much i may not do until my level 2 clearance comes through, which is some months off.

Monday and Tuesday i plan to, in no particular order: help [livejournal.com profile] muzikmaker21 complete his move, get a haircut, see The Simpsons Movie, do 2 loads of laundry, and work 6 hours.

I learned today that IBM's time reporting tool requires me to enter hours in excess of 40 as overtime. I learned this because this is the first week in which i'll work more than 40 - looks like 54.

The cats, and the dog, were all very happy to see me today, and the rabbit did not run away when i gave him more kibble and hay.

Oh, and any of you have why the Spanish-speaking customers are always so much happier, or at least expressive of their happiness, with their dealings with me than the Anglophones and Francophones are?

[identity profile] muzikmaker21.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
I think I'm going to finish stuff on Tuesday. There's really not a whole lot left (two van trips tops, really), but your help would certainly be appreciated and I haven't seen you in FOREVER. Also, if you're into it, there's trivia night at Frisco in Columbia from 8:30-11:00pm. You'd probably enjoy that quite a bit.

[identity profile] dcseain.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Tuesday works. Though I need to be at work at 07:00 on Wednesday, so i want to be in bed not much later than 22:00.

[identity profile] mobmama.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
i think the spanish-speaking cultures are just much more effusive than the anglos or the francs . .. .they have much less of a sense of entitlement, too. :-0

[identity profile] maddogairpirate.livejournal.com 2007-07-30 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Spanish-speaking people see learning their language as an honest effort to get to know and value them. Anglophones in many ways see it as a necessity, not a courtesy. I'd offer my opinion on the Francophones but it would contain a hint of prejudice, so. ;-)

[identity profile] nadyalec.livejournal.com 2007-07-31 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
sorry yr sad, darlin. call if you want...