July 12th: Everyday is Exactly the Same

I took considerable pains to log my day on Tuesday minute by minute. You'll see how productive I am....Except, wouldn't it just make sense that I get all sassy here and for the rest of the week, I am slammed with more work than I've ever had. Go figure. So this day is not that out of the ordinary, but it is a little extreme.

7:00 Turn off first alarm. Go back to bed.
7:17 Turn off second alarm. Get up.
7:41 Finish getting ready. Set Jason's alarm for 11. While kissing him goodbye I accidentally hit him in the face. He doesn't stir.
7:52 Pick out red shoes. Remember i broke them on the fourth. Say screw it and superglue strap down. awesome.
8:03 Enter car.
8:24 Arrive.
8:26 Enter office. Key problems. Tried to turn it the wrong way.
8:24 Either office clock is two minutes slow or car clock is two minutes fast. I suspect the latter. Sit down and type thus far.
8:27 Check messages. None. Read email. Twelve new. One important. Rest Junk. Summer is slow.
8:29 Jacques enters. Asks for folders and schedules. Retreats.
8:31 Phone rings. Wrong number.
8:35 Give up trying to fit comic books into scanner.
8:36 leave Suzy a myspace comment
8:40-8:45 Jacques has made copies on our really nice paper. great. Switch paper in tray, throw box in dumpster, say hi to pedro, try to make copies of comic book, gets jammed twice, give up.
8:47 Start watching the office episode I downloaded yesterday. (S3E01, or so its labeled)
8:51 Phone rings. It's an annoying ex-coworker. Take message.
8:55 Something wrong with video players. Only plays audio. Download Videora iPod Converter.
8:59 Begin to regret installing converter.
9:01 Stretch
9:03 Start to make list of all shows my DVR is set to record
9:04 Converter finishes installation. Run.
9:24 Simultaneously ignore Jacques telling the same story for the eighth time and trying to figure out how to work this stupid converter. I am so talented.
9:26 Jacques gives up and leaves. I lock door. Ahh, silence. Think about breakfast.
9:28 Suspect missing codec. Try to recitfy.
9:33 Download codec tool to find missing codec since none of my video players wants to tell me which one is missing
9:38 Get video working. Now sound is missing. sigh.
9:54 Discover my speaker volume has been turned all the way down....double sigh. It works. Convert to Ipod format.
9:56 Kevin arrives. Tells me how his vacation went. i lose interest halfway through. 9% on the conversion so far.
10:01 Confirm episode is labled correctly. The Office-S3E01-"Gay Witch Hunt". Decide if conversion works, I will try and get all I can. Good for sitting in traffic or lines. Forget that. I'll get them anyways.
10:02 Open limewire
10:10 Suspect episode is not full in length
10:15 Limewire has not yet commenced. Triple sigh... Let's get on this one. Lane arrives.
10:18 oh hello Limewire. Thank god.
10:20 Conversion at 58%. Use bathroom.
10:22 Ms. Lucille arrives. My hand flails uncontrollably and knocks my pencil cup over. I can tell this is going to be a fun day.
10:36 On way back from bathroom, Lane tells stories of her weekend. They are slightly amusing. And then somehow when Ms. Lu comes up we get to talking about staph infections and holes in skin. I feel nauseaus and come sit down.
10:41 conversion complete! click on 'add to itunes'. awesome.
10:43 everything on limewire is coming up need more sources. even if there are 83 different sources...ok. also pulls up a lot of porn when i search 'The Office'. interesting.
10:46 creepy! as i reach for the phone, it starts ringing. it's our intern. she's starting to bug me.
10:48 call dad. learn mick got a job at taco bell. talk about visit in august, arrange book exchange: his 'thirteen moons' for my 'bayou farewell', maggie in a magazine, (my stomach is rumbling), promise to send him my strange dream transcription,
11:24 notice that parts of certain keys on my keyboard are smoother than others, wonder why..., discuss generation gaps with dad
11:29 limewire still has not found any sources. I shut it down. I'll try again later. Need to call Jason.
11:36 hang up with dad. Jacques returns. my ear hurts
11:39 actual work! wow. call insurance company to make workers comp claim on when big old wooden ladder fell on Ms. Lu's head. Am given 800 hotline number.
11:41 Go to bathroom
11:45 Call 800 hotline and reach actual person. Am dissapointed.
11:51 Hangup with them.
11:53 Phone rings. Take message
11:55 check balance. -$72. oops. transferred too much to savings/spent too much this weekend. transfer some. all better.
11:58 address envelope to mail application to register trademark back to baton rouge
12:09 (this is making my day go by so slow) Try and finish watching last five minutes of episode Send email to luana asking if shes definite.
12:13 Look for full episodes somewhere other than limewire, start conversion of S3E02.
12:17 express desire for lunch. lane agrees. jacques will go get subway...oh boy.
12:20 decide to eat what kevin's making instead. tunafish. tell him i'm going to start calling him tuna because that's all he talks about making, yet never makes. really just want to call someone tuna. it's an office joke.
12:21 conversion at 22%
12:22 try to locate list of clients to send xmas cards to. my job is so thrilling.
12:24 Michael Scott - "I'm glad this day spurned social change. Thats part of my job as regional manager. But you know, even if it didn't, at least we put this matter to bed. That's what she said...or he said," i love it.
12:37 chew on my hair
12:43 conversion at 63%. I like to say it with a british accent.
12:45 be disgusted at my nails. call jason.
12:58 have made my sandwhich, been told i am the pickiest eater in the office, and teased because I don't like eggs in my tuna. realize jacques and kevin combined are Michael Scott.
1:05 print xmas list from 2005 (its the only one i could find) and highlight people i recognize
1:07 finish sandwhich. my favorite 'that's what she said' compliation keeps giving me grief when i try to download. i'll try again later.
1:10 stand up highlighters and permanent markers where i just know jacques will knock them over. balance pen on top.
1:18 Locate pilot episode on fanpop. See if there is a way to download .flv (flash) files.
1:51 am getting sleepy now. lunch does that to me. i have spoken with Jacques about the xmas cards, passed the job of calling the intern back on to someone else, and downloaded another .flv downloader and am trying that out.
1:55 go to bathroom
2:01 play with my gum
2:04 begin to slowly address xmas cards so i can look like im busy
2:18 phone rings, it's lucille. there seems to be a discrepancy between event worksheets and event folders.
2:30 figure out new .flv downloader. seems to be working. may have the pilot on our hands people.
2:33 cool! i got a popup and a cute echoing beep when the download was done. plus that didnt take any time! now lets see if this baby runs.
2:36 get to bottom of discrepancy in folders.
2:40 Well it works but it does not convert. good thing i had downloaded that converter earlier....sheesh
2:45 the envelope scheme pays off. i am left alone. ahh
2:54 kevin comes in to yak. i suspect hes drunk again. accuses me of being sassy. i say you dont even know sassy yet.
2:58 begins to thunder loudly and gets dark outside. wind blows. with aid of new downloader have gotten first three episodes already. so stoked.
3:02 starts to rain. i burp quietly. episode four is done downloading. still acting like i am addressing envelopes.
3:13 phone rings. its lucille again. i take message. i better start slowing down on these envelopes. 3:26 figure i better start converting these, even though i dont have the cord to plug my ipod in today. i'm going for broke. i want them all.
3:27 bite my cheek and review these entries
3:31 get up to lock the door behind Lane as she leaves, check mirror as I'm passing. realize i have pam beesley hairdo today. probably did that on purpose. cant remember.
3:35 rainpour lightens to a drizzle. at least i can hear my show now.
3:39 my leg itches. i do not scratch it. decide to make list of all episodes and what they're called so i can check them off and label them properly. figure they will most likely go like this: The Office: S1E03 "Health Care"
3:41 break down and scratch leg
3:42 kevin needs check for gasoline. write check to cash for $60.00
3:45 call mom. leave message. get distracted in middle. trail off. end abruptly.
3:53 take down marker tower. put back in pencil cup. it's nearly time to go!
3:55 go to the bathroom
4:16 clean up. get ready to go. phone rings. it's jason.
4:18 fix afore mentioned discrepancy with folders.
4:31 normally i would have been gone ten minutes ago but i had to finish watching. what can i say? i am officially addicted.