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whiskyinmind
18 June 2004 @ 08:31 am
 
Crap. Got caught up in a traffic jam this morning so I only just made it into work. Means I have to stay late to make up the hours I took yesterday. Flexi time's great but every now and then something like this happens which screws up my plans. Ah well, at least it's raining outside - if it was nice I'd be mightily pissed off at having to stay late.


Got in after taking yesterday off to find the bitca boss had not only left a pile of work on my desk which has nothing to do with me but has also sent me an email concerning work which is mine, that she did yesterday when I was on leave, and she wants me to look into what she did and talk to her about it Monday when she's in. Why didn't she just leave it to me to do in the first place? She probably sat with it for an hour or so yesterday, I'll end up fixing whatever it is she screwed up which'll take me an hour and then I'll have to go over it with her on Monday - probably another hour. If she'd left it on my desk for me to do from scratch today I could have done it in 15 minutes. Plus, she has "issues" with the way I train a new member of staff because it's not the way she would do it so she's demanding I do it her way. My instant reaction when I saw the email was "Aye, right. So I will."

Two weeks and counting till I get rid of her completely. Yay!
 
 
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[identity profile] alltherealice.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 01:19 am (UTC)
Is two weeks whne you start your new job, or is she leaving?

Sorry your day isn't off to a good start, that sucks.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 01:25 am (UTC)
Two weeks till I move to the new job, it's still in the same department and within spitting distance of her but I won't have to answer to her any more - yay!

Just realised I didn't put sugar in my thermos of coffee this morning, and I made it extra strong today. It's like drinking tar.

I think I should go back to bed and have a do-over day today!
[identity profile] alltherealice.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 02:24 am (UTC)
Yeah but then you'd have a whole starting over of a day to get done along with a whole day before the weekend. And that would suck.

I'd say I'm sorry about your coffee, but I'm craving caffiene (I'm waiting for my caffiene withdrawl headache to kick in) so I'll just salivate in it's direction and resign myself to the caffiene in my Earl Gray tea.

:salivates:
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 02:35 am (UTC)
I gave up and went to get a coffee from the vending machine downstairs. It's Rombaulds coffee - I love Rombaulds coffee so how the hell can a vending machine make it taste like cat urine?!!

Gah! Just as well I have a fudge brownie in my desk to take the taste away... *grin*
[identity profile] alltherealice.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 02:42 am (UTC)
Oooh brownie. :continues to salivte: I haven't had a brownie in so long. I've stopped trying to cook them, because we have no proper brownie pans and they get burned or under done and it sucks. I can't bake. (Besides cake, I kick ass at cake) I can cook the hell out of anything else though.

I've been craving coffee for a while, and even your talk of cat urine is not helping any. Starbucks won't be open when we leave tomorrow morning, so I'll have to wait till Vegas for my Caramel Machiatto, and we probably won't even be there early enough for that. Bah.

But as an answer to your question at how a vending machine can make coffee taste like cat pee? Well, it's a vending machine, fun to watch, not exactly known for high quality product.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 02:47 am (UTC)
Caramel Machiatto.... oooo, I could quite happily kill for one of those right now! And I'd possibly go so far as to maim for an Americano.

Although Starbucks uses too much hickory for my taste - Costa or Cafe Nero are much better.

I'm going to be craving coffee all day now. I'll just have to imagine the coffee cup in my icon is real and see how long I can kid myself for...
[identity profile] alltherealice.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 02:52 am (UTC)
I want coffee so bad I ate some choclate covered coffee beans that have been sitting in my fridge for over a month.

Luckily they haven't soaked up the flavor of the frisge. Which my Mom was very worried about.

Are the Americano's good? I haven't tried one of those, the description sounds kinda gross to me. But I have an unreasonable vendetta against water, so it might be just that.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 02:55 am (UTC)
Americanos are great for when you need an extreme caffeine kick but can't stomach straight Espresso. Right now I'm actually more in the mood for something with some flavour - that Caramel Macchiato is sounding better and better every second...

Chocolate covered coffee beans... my absolute favourite! Unfortunately the only shop that I know of that sells them has just shut for refurbishment and wont be open again for 18 months.

18 months! I think they're rebuilding the entire place from scratch or something!
[identity profile] alltherealice.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 03:11 am (UTC)
I've realized Food Network is to blame for my grudge against water. Thier always using stock in recipes and saying, "Water has no flavor!" And it's just seeped into my psyche. :)

That and if you drink water out of the tap in this town you get kidney stones. Bad water. And I'm not fond of the taste of the bottled water we get.

The only place that sells them here is starbucks and theirs are kind of waxy, which is why the ones in the fridge have lasted so long. Theres a chocolate shop in Lughlin with dynamite espresso beans. They are perfection. Unfortunately their in laughlin and their expensive.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 03:16 am (UTC)
Our starbucks don't have them yet. Or at least the one at the bottom of the road doesn't, might ask the barrista next time I'm in there (which'll probably be lunchtime at this rate - there's no Costa within walking distance and I'm not driving across town just to get a coffee... *grin*)
[identity profile] alltherealice.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2004 03:24 am (UTC)
Our Starbucks is in a grocery store, so they have a ton of starbucks product for splurge shopping. We're gettng a real one built just around the corner from the one we have now. Which is on the other side of town from my house.

Which sucks.

Lake Havasu is basically three parrallel roads that it takes forever to get from one side to the other of. I hate it.
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on June 19th, 2004 10:30 am (UTC)
That reminds me of a story I heard about a lecture on the use of language. In it the lecturer said that it's possible for a positive and a negative to produce a positive, a positive and a negative to produce a negative and two negatives to produce a positive, but in no language was it possible for two positives to produce a negative. A voice rose from the back of the lecture hall, "Aye, right.".

Thought it was funny at the time.

Andy

LoatF
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 19th, 2004 12:29 pm (UTC)
LOL, yeah linguists always underestimate the power of the good old Scots language.

Maybe it's just our natural sarcasm that turns it into a negative but that's exactly what it is. Said in just the right tone of voice "Aye, right" can be more cutting than F.O.A.D. really. So it can.

*g*