Not Punk Rock Enough

Mini-Update:  Apparently I’m not Punk Rock enough to see The Dreseden Dolls in concert.  Tear.  The concert was canceled yesterday afternoon.  After the requisite freaking out I immediately scoured the internet to find any alternative places in the city where I could see my beloved/raunchy Dolls.  I discovered that they are doing an in-store performace and signing at Amoeba Music in San Francisco.  I called Amoeba Music to double-check and totally gave the Promotions Girl a panic attack when I told her the concert was canceled.  She bemoaned the thought that her event may also be in peril.  She put me on hold and called the Dolls’ manager and then her store manager.  I worked her into a Punk Rock frenzy.  It was awesome.  So we’re going try this bitch again.  I am nothing if not persistent.  I didn’t travel almost 400 miles to be denied my chance to Rock Out.  I brought my cute shoes and everything, damn it!

Incidentally:  I think my memoir should be entitled, “Because I Can’t Travel Anywhere With Less Than Seven Pairs of Shoes.”  And, I do apologize for my lack of postiness.  My brain has been fried at the end of the day from timekeeping classes, leaving me little snark and wit to report the latest goings on.  I’ve started random posts on the tragedy of hip baby names and crazy things my coworkers have done, but I decided not to bore/burden you with these ramblings in nothingness.  So think of my lack of blogging as, “No News is Good News.”

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Panic! At My Desk-o

I’m getting very excited about my trip to visit my peeps and fam, but panic is starting to set in.  I just wrote down a list of things I need to take care of before I leave, and I’m not sure if there are enough tablets to cover it all.  All this payroll and timekeeping stuff is really mind boggling and it sucks that I have no one to help me when I have questions.  I ask my supervisor things and walk away even more confused than before.  So then I pull out my directory and dial my little fingers down to the quick.  It’s a tough life I lead in my vast cubby (I don’t think it’s really a cubicle because it’s sorta a triangle).

One of the managers is going to work on the Semester At Sea ship and I am entirely jealous.  She’s sailing around the world and all I get out of this arrangement is Leave of Absence paperwork.  There is a fabulous opportunity for my admin pals aboard the ship, if you’re interested.  It would be rad to see the world, but there’s this thing called money that I need to pay for things like rent, etc. and my landlord really doesn’t care that I want to see the world.  Yet my boss was all for encouraging me to go, as if life is that easy!  I guess I’ll have to hold out for fame and world domination before I set out on a seafaring life.

In the meantime, I’m starting a list of all the things I look forward to enjoying on my mini-break:

1.  Not being at work; 2.  Not getting up to go to work; 3.  Not going to sleep so I can get up on time for work; 4.  Home cooking and eating out, really…food of any kind that doesn’t come in a microwaveable sleeve; 5.  Shopping (enough said); 6.  Everyday low prices at the supermarkets and none of this Club Card business; 7.  Coffee and books and gabbing with various Gal Pals; 8.  Tile, hardwood, granite, and berber carpet–all clean surfaces that have that homeowner feel and none of the gritty, sticky stuff in my apartment; 9.  Accidental tanning sessions and lounging by the pool, because I’m way too pasty for July; 10.  Hanging out in the city with Lucky 10-Key and going to see The Dresden Dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just have to get through another week and I’ll be a happy valley girl!

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A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

I have been under a lot of stress at work lately.  There are so many new projects I am taking on (translate to: assigned).  The learning curve feels forever steep and I sort of curse myself for caring so much.  I am not one to half-ass anything.

Even this blog can be a strain.  I do not like to post things in a hurry.   I like to take my time and make sure everything is just to my satisfaction.  I try to make use of every spare minute I can carve out, but it never seems like enough.  It is not fair that I should spend so much time perfecting things like payroll and timekeeping when those things do not matter much to me at the end of the day.

I loved the idea of creating a cheeky admin assistant identity, but more and more it lacks humor in everyday life.  I am a girl Friday to so many people.  I am the girl that fetches copies and grits her teeth and bares it.  I am the girl with so much potential who wastes it in a job and does not pursue a practical, lucrative career.  They think this is all I am and all I am ever meant to be.

On the precipice of job security, I send a wish out into the great wide expanse that someday I will be more than I am today.  (And since I know wishing is only whining in a wistful voice, I will sit at this desk and string humble sentences together, one at a time.)

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