81 posts tagged “work”

Not much to write about lately, but I've been reading you all - honest! Anyway, on to today's story. The consultant who takes care of organizing external training (insurers coming in to talk about the biz or their products, stuff like that) will be leaving on a year's maternity leave in a few weeks. Sortaboss is friends with her, and they both have the ear of the department head. Sortaboss asked me today if I was interested in taking over when she leaves. I'd be both fielding requests from these people to come in as well as putting out requests when we are looking for something specific. I'd also be responsible for ensuring we get continuing education credits where we can (which is a huge pet peeve of mine - they made us get licensed but had nothing in place to help us get the credits - it's getting better but can still use work). I don't know if I'll be responsible for training from within the company (eg head office putting on webcasts for us and such). I actually don't know much more than this at the moment. Sortaboss is going to bring my name to the department head so I imagine I'll hear something next week.

Well, it's back to work tomorrow - just in time for the rain to start! It was good to have a few days off, although I got nothing accomplished around here. That's okay, though, because I was actually out and about almost every day, which is odd, but good, for me.

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were museum days with my mother and aunt. Wednesday, we did the summer gallery exhibition, From Raphael to Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome. I try to see the special show each summer, and this one is an extension of sorts of an exhibit from a few summers back.

Thursday was the Museum of Civilization's Egyptian exhibit (Tombs of Eternity: The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt), which was cool because I've never seen this sort of stuff in person. Most of it was on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston which, it turns out, "houses one of the finest Egyptian collections of its kind in the world". Truly interesting exhibit - I'd love to see more in Boston some time. We also watched the related IMAX film, Mummies: Secrets of the Pharoahs. It was my first IMAX experience, and while the film itself was better than I expected, the experience wasn't as exciting as I thought IMAX was supposed to be. There was one 3D-ish moment, but other than that, it was just a big movie. I guess it wasn't an ideal choice for my first IMAX. At one point we had a few minutes to kill so we went to the Canadian Postal Museum, which is within the Museum of Civilization, and looked at Her Majesty's Stamps, which was more interesting than I thought it would be.

Friday was the Canadian War Museum. This is the new home of the museum as of a few years ago, but we'd never been so we figured it was a good opportunity to go. We saw almost all of the permanent exhibits and will probably go back another time to finish it up.

We had nice lunches each day after our museum stuff was done.

Friday night was, of course, CAKE, which I already posted about. I thought about going to more Bluesfest shows on the weekend, but I had already overspent what little money I allotted for my nonvacation.

Saturday was my day of rest. Three days of walking nonstop for hours on end and having my patience worn ever thinner by the day had taken its toll on me. I could definitely spend more time with my mother, but by midway through day two, I was ready to kick my aunt into the river. Sure, I can blame part of it on the permanent stroke effects, but seeing as I know damn well how much she would annoy me after any length of time even before the stroke, I know that's just giving her the benefit of the doubt. I was getting pretty snappy by the end of the three days. I told my mother I don't know how she lives with her, to which she replied it wasn't really that bad (either meaning she's just used to it, or it's not as prominent with people she sees every day - I vote for the former) and that I was more patient than she. I disagree on that point when it comes to my aunt - my sarcasm gets a real bite to it, and they laugh, but I'm rarely trying to be funny at the time. Anyway, I won't go into details because I'll just get annoyed all over again. It's bad enough I have to go over there tomorrow for supper so I can finish some computer work for them. I already installed and demonstrated iTunes for my aunt, and installed a videocam and Skype for my mother, but we ran out of time for me to do the cam/Skype thing for my aunt. Mom is getting it so she can use it with my sister. My aunt is getting it because Mom got it. She'll never use the damn thing. This is a woman who had to get her own computer just to play solitaire games. Oh, and to print off the weather report every morning.

Hmmm, what did I do on Sunday? Oh yeah, I went to the market and picked up a few things, then walked around for a while. It was a gorgeous day, as pretty much all of my days have been. Monday was eye exam day and more walking around. Oddly enough, even though my eye feels like it's getting a lot worse, my prescription has barely changed. I think I'll save myself the money this time and keep these current glasses as long as I can. Today was another lazy day.

I like taking mid-week vacation slots. It makes for two short work weeks, which is nice, and it seems to be longer than it really is, which is weird because if I did a regular week, I'd have a weekend tacked on each end. Anyway, I expect I'll be busy tomorrow catching up. Friday night is a surprise dinner for Boss for passing his sommelier course. We're trying to convince him to do the advanced and international designations now.

Time to put lunch together for tomorrow. I'll leave you with this back-to-work comic. Later, kids.

Vegetarian-weekend

It was just officially annouced for our office and it turns out I was the ONLY person locally to be promoted...

Of course maybe it's only because everyone else is already up there - ha!

I passed my last exam.

just curious

What beats a wine tasting, with delicious cheeses and a bit of chocolate and bread, at the end of an afternoon-long department meeting? Which way is home again?

That's all I have to say.

I'm not entirely sure there are words to adequately describe how crappy my day was and how cranky and annoyed I am.

Meaning I go for a few days without posting then I post a bunch of stuff at once. I'm no less busy at work today but I really don't feel like working. It seems to be in the air today. Head office still won't come up with a time entry code for "goofing off on vox" though.

Anyway, this song came up on my ipod this morning. I hadn't heard it for a while, mostly because I wasn't using my ipod during the strike and I just refilled it the other day (I've just got a first-gen shuffle, and I don't even remember if it's 512MB or 256). I got this song ages ago for free on emusic. It seems to still be free at a few sites. I can't upload audio since I'd probably get fired for putting it on this computer, so I went to the 'Tube and found a video of it performed live. It's a bit snappier on the recorded version, but them's the breaks. As a way of intro, here are the lyrics to the verse (or whatever that section is called by people who know something about music):

I’m Johnny Cash when I’m drinkin’,
I’m the Clash when I’m thinkin’

I’m Mad Max when I’m drivin’,
I’m Mike Diamond when I’m rhymin’

I’m Humphrey Bogart when I’m smokin’,
I’m Bob Marley when I’m tokin’

And in bed when I’m dreamin’
I’m a guitar slingin’ demon.

...5:30 am alarms and being at work at 6:45!!!!!!!!!!