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today the glitterbomber is... |
2003-08-05 i told myself i was going to get to bed early tonight because i didn�t sleep well last night, but it doesn�t look like it�s going to happen any time soon. there just isn�t enough time in the day, i suppose. i mean, i was at work until 5, then i came home and immediately started doing more work, taking a break only for my nightly phone call to my boy. this isn�t the way i�d like to be living my life, but i know it won�t last. i don�t know what was up with my sleep last night. i got to sleep a little after midnight, then was woken up at 1.30 by my neighbors trying to back a boat into a garage. there were around six people involved in this process, and it caused quite a commotion. i went back to sleep, finally, but i kept waking up for one reason or another--weird dreams, cat suddenly being hyper, having to pee, being hot, freezing, etc. i was super tired this morning. i felt worse when i thought it was monday, then i remembered that it was tuesday when i got to work. suddenly, the week didn�t seem so bad. all of the people in the cubes in the upper part of my office have moved out, and there is a guy from facilities rearranging the cubes into a new configuration. cube walls have been taken down and put back together in new patterns. when i walked in this morning, i went my usual way to my cube, only to run into a dead end. i felt like a mouse in the maze looking for the cheese. the office is back to disarray because the cube dismantling has caused garbage, junk, and wires to be strewn everywhere. my group is still supposed to be moving to new offices, but we�ve been hearing that for a year now, so i�m not holding my breath. another weird thing about my workplace is that, when there�s a fire (or fire drill), they announce it as a "condition f." i suppose they do that so they don�t alarm patients and visitors by saying there�s a fire, but "condition f" never fails to set me off in a giggle fit (or a fit of eye-rolling; i�m prone to both). this afternoon, a condition f was announced on my floor. we all debated for a minute or so on whether we should actually leave. most times after a condition f is announced, a new message follows it telling us to "disregard the condition f." we decided we might as well leave, so we headed out into the hallway. everyone else on our floor must have been debating, as well, because a lot of people were milling around. we spotted a security guard walking into the cafeteria with a fire extinguisher. i guess it wasn�t a drill, but it must not have been an emergency, either. while we were out in the hall, k., our annoying work study boy, was saying how he wanted to get back in the office to do work. "those scoring queries aren�t going to write themselves," he said. i pray he was attempting to be funny, but i don�t know. he�s a real do-bee, but annoyingly so. he almost never leaves his cube, never seems to take a lunch, and hardly ever socializes with the rest of us. eh, he�s going back to school at the end of the month anyway. oh, so the condition f� we hung out in the hallway for a while, then went back into the office when the fire lights stopped blinking. none of us really knew what to do once we were out in the hallway. should we leave the building? we could leave through the parking garage, but wait�we�re not allowed to do that during a fire. are those fire doors on the cafeteria? what if we couldn�t get out of the office? none of us had any clue. if there were ever a real fire--uh, i mean condition f--we�d be in trouble. a minute or two after we were back in the office, we had an announcement that the "condition f is complete." that either means that the fire was extinguished or it was fake. i think. oh, we also have "condition a" and "condition c." i'm pretty sure "condition c" is cardiac arrest, but i can't remember what "condition a" is. it might be a patient freakout or something. yeah, if there were ever a real emergency, i'd be in trouble. |
