{"id":2584,"date":"2011-09-24T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2011-09-24T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T05:36:09","slug":"what-me-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"What, me worry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short Answer: YES.<\/p>\n<p>Long Answer: Here is why I haven&#8217;t blogged lately. It&#8217;s all just a loooong string of worry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worried about the stupid test (a week and a half to go!), passing it, failing it.<\/li>\n<li>Worried about work (a lifetime to go!), getting it all done in 40 hours per week. Big boss had a meeting where one of his talking points was &#8220;(company) has a negligible amount of overtime!&#8221; and I wanted to jump up out of my chair and a) throttle him or b) say &#8220;That&#8217;s because you BANNED it, you asshat. It&#8217;s easy to crow about the lack of something when YOU BAN it! All that means is that some of us are working off the clock!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Funny story: Left Tuesday @ 2:50 PM (two hours early and I hadn&#8217;t had a lunch that day) and returned Wednesday to find a fat (not phat) stack of shit to do, assigned to me by the recently returned Belinda. OMFG, I&#8217;m pretty sure I was being punished for daring to leave early. I&#8217;m still working on that stack, BTW, and it&#8217;s going to fire off a giant shitstorm on Monday and OH GOD WHY WASN&#8217;T I SMART ENOUGH TO GET A REAL JOB???<\/li>\n<li>WHY?<\/li>\n<li>Work to-do list has 14 items to do. I&#8217;m currently on item #5, I believe. I miss the good old days where my to-do list was &#8220;1) Make To-Do list, 2) Read Yahoo! for an hour&#8221;. Gene and I watched the season premiere of The Office, and at the scene where Pam&#8217;s watching something weepy on YouTube, I said, &#8220;Oh, for nothing better to do than watch YouTube at work!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I need 4 hours at the office to finish the stack from Belinda, start up two new clients, take an online class in whatever (it was due on 9\/2 so I am pretty behind!)*, and complete an exercise from another class that was due today at 7. I&#8217;m so embarrassed, but I had to ask for an extension for the exercise as I was too busy doing things that would actually make some money for My Fearless Employer. When the email from our trainer came in to approve the extension I almost cried.<\/li>\n<li>Ooh, right, been on the verge of tears @ office since Wednesday.<\/li>\n<li>Belinda said I should take half of today and barricade myself and study for the stupid test. Ha ha. Instead, I spent a little over an hour (half of it off the books) going over one troublesome test related thing w\/ a coworker. Time well spent? Who. the. fuck. knows.<\/li>\n<li>(Seriously, if I&#8217;d spent 4 hours today studying, the crap from Belinda from Wednesday would be even further behind and I&#8217;d get yelled at for that. The stack is actually 8 smaller tasks, each of which takes at least 2 hours to complete so really, my wish for 4 hours to get all of that done is foolhardy at best. Can I have 8 hours instead?).<\/li>\n<li>And on the home front&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Furnace is effed up so we need to replace it to avoid death by asphyxiation (carbon monoxide for the loss!)&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Which will probably cancel Las Vegas, which is OK, since I&#8217;ve only had my motherfucking hopes pinned on it since APRIL. (Not that I planned to strike it rich there, just that no one at Mandalay was going to ask &#8220;Hey, Elaine, could you reset my password\/answer my question\/input pay data for the equivalent of 480 people?&#8221;)&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>And tomorrow I get to take Scooby to the vet because his coat (skin?) is looking really awful (and not in a &#8220;My dog&#8217;s coat is not SHINY&#8221; way, more of a &#8220;Why is my dog spotted?&#8221; way).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>*Update: I just finished the online &#8216;class&#8217;, which was in problem solving. I solved the problem by taking the stupid course on a Friday night, finishing at 1:30 in the morning. Problem Solved!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short Answer: YES. Long Answer: Here is why I haven&#8217;t blogged lately. It&#8217;s all just a loooong string of worry. Worried about the stupid test (a week and a half to go!), passing it, failing it. Worried about work (a lifetime to go!), getting it all done in 40 hours per week. Big boss had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-get-ready-to-ramble","category-life-in-cheesecake-city","category-mahnewjobiscoolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}