the deep moans round with many voices

Have now learned to do key transfers, in addition to orders and returns. Am nonetheless massively bored.

Oddly enough, while I'm getting paid more and putting in more hours than when I taught homeschool, I'm doing less work. This seems illogical to me. On the other hand, I get to sit down and websurf when I don't have actual paperwork in front of me...

Supervisor apparently has bronchitis and borderline pneumonia, bad enough that she had to go to the hospital on Wednesday. So I'm on my own again, and probably also on Monday. She's aiming to be in on Monday, but I don't think that's very likely.

Today has been slow so far -- surprisingly few faxes were waiting this morning despite nobody having been in the office yesterday, and aside from one minor crisis relating to book fair supplies, nothing seems to be going wrong at any of the schools.

Of course, now that I've said that, something will probably explode. *sigh*

Stealing a minute at work. Supervisor is still out -- now has a fever. I'm thinking flu...

Am being all proactive and actually sending people off to deal with problems without waiting for the work orders to get approved. Because, you know, malfunctioning pilot lights and kitchens that reek of gas really need fixing ASAP.

Off to see about getting some battery clocks sent to a school.

First, the fic, because apparently even NaNo is not enough to cure my sporadic attention problem. Contains femslash implications:

[ETA: The AO3 crosspost is now up!]

( Why Not? )

Second, the job rundown:

Having been told the job started at 7:30, I made sure to get there in plenty of time. In fact, I got there 25 minutes early (oy vey!)... and my supervisor was out sick. So I didn't even get let into the office until 8:00. A less than auspicious beginning.

But it got better. Despite having very little idea of the technical details of the software and the process of writing up work orders, I was able to do a fair bit of data entry (completed work orders, y'know), send an emergency request off to get dealt with (broken glass windows in nurses' offices are not good), meet various co-workers, and generally organize my room.

I have a very low opinion of the previous temp worker. Partly this is because the other people don't seem to have liked her much, but mostly it's because of the utterly shameful state in which she'd left the desk. Totally disorganized, obviously never dusted, cat hair all through the keyboard, etc., etc. Yuck.

I think tomorrow will be better. For one thing, I now don't feel a need to get up quite so early (I always panic and allow way too much time when starting things, since I know I'm not the world's greatest judge of how long it'll take me to do things). For another, my supervisor should actually be there.

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Third, the random stuff:

I have finally learned how to bake in the house kitchen. First, hang a handtowel over the fire alarm. Second, open the bathroom door and turn on the ceiling fan. This seems to outsmart the insanely oversensitive alarm. (I wasn't baking anything exciting, just chicken for my next several lunches.)

NaNo total at 11 thousand something -- forgot to count accurately before coming to the computer lab. I left Ranna in the middle of a conversation with Garin last night, so today while waiting to be let into the office, and while watching other people try to find Filemaker on my computer, I started the next Talin and Bren scene. So I'm currently working on two unfinished scenes, after which Section 1 will be finished.

I bought the most absurd flower pot the other day -- it's like a turtle-scale lotus supported by three china frogs. Have put my mutant pink-spot into it. (The pink spot's a mutant because its spots are white. And who ever heard of a pink-spot with white spots? *grin*) I was going to give it to Susan as a Xmas present -- she likes frogs -- but it's too cute to give away!