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Aug. 29th, 2008 12:49 amYay, I don't have to work tomorrow - it's my week to work the Saturday shift (OMG EW 7.30 KILL ME NOW) so I have Friday off. And I am so relieved - it has been such a - not bad, but very draining? - week that I don't think I could manage another shift without a day off. *is a total wimp*
On Monday I took /90/ calls in /8/ hours, which is just absolutely and completely insane. Seriously. Normally even on the really busy days when we're getting nonstop calls I only average about 70. /41/ retention calls. Again, on a normal day? My average is about 14. This was A FUCKING CRAZY DAY. I hate the Bank of America so much for introducing two major price jackings within about a week of each other. Not good business sense, guys! This week was also the first time I've ever had someone threaten to sue me. It was kind of awesome. But I made it through the week, and I'm giving my two weeks' notice on Tues when I get back to work if I can figure out how. I feel so bad about it; I guess I just really hate quitting jobs, since I had the same guilty, anxious attitude toward quitting the movie theater job and that I hated with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. But I will do it! Somehow!
This is certainly not news to anyone, but I am a tremendous geek. XD I had this solidly reaffirmed today, when I realized that I am seriously considering calling in sick from work so that I can listen to a Torchwood radio drama and make sure the CERN people don't blow up the world accidently. But honestly, can you blame me? Jack+giant particle accelerators=HOT. SO HOT.
The fact that I am about 550 pages into Anna Karenina, which I have been reading entirely of my own free will, does not help me shake the geek hat. It's lucky I like the hat. And the book. Which is odd, since it's the sort of book I normally loathe, being all concerned as it with the sundry love affairs of Russian aristrocrats. But it's actually rather fabulous - Tolstoy's writing, for one thing, since the man was /brilliant/, and the way he works so many bits and bobs about Russian history and politics ans culture and religion and philosophy into it. And all the characters are strangely sympathetic. Normally by this point in a "classic" I'm beating my head against the wall shouting "how can you all be this stupid?!?!" but in AK, even though everyone's making frightfully bad choices I can understand why that would seem the only choice to them. It's a nice, if disconcerting, chance to like a classic for once.
( Excerpt from the alternate-universe!Ted Boostle fic I may post if I can think of an ending )
On Monday I took /90/ calls in /8/ hours, which is just absolutely and completely insane. Seriously. Normally even on the really busy days when we're getting nonstop calls I only average about 70. /41/ retention calls. Again, on a normal day? My average is about 14. This was A FUCKING CRAZY DAY. I hate the Bank of America so much for introducing two major price jackings within about a week of each other. Not good business sense, guys! This week was also the first time I've ever had someone threaten to sue me. It was kind of awesome. But I made it through the week, and I'm giving my two weeks' notice on Tues when I get back to work if I can figure out how. I feel so bad about it; I guess I just really hate quitting jobs, since I had the same guilty, anxious attitude toward quitting the movie theater job and that I hated with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. But I will do it! Somehow!
This is certainly not news to anyone, but I am a tremendous geek. XD I had this solidly reaffirmed today, when I realized that I am seriously considering calling in sick from work so that I can listen to a Torchwood radio drama and make sure the CERN people don't blow up the world accidently. But honestly, can you blame me? Jack+giant particle accelerators=HOT. SO HOT.
The fact that I am about 550 pages into Anna Karenina, which I have been reading entirely of my own free will, does not help me shake the geek hat. It's lucky I like the hat. And the book. Which is odd, since it's the sort of book I normally loathe, being all concerned as it with the sundry love affairs of Russian aristrocrats. But it's actually rather fabulous - Tolstoy's writing, for one thing, since the man was /brilliant/, and the way he works so many bits and bobs about Russian history and politics ans culture and religion and philosophy into it. And all the characters are strangely sympathetic. Normally by this point in a "classic" I'm beating my head against the wall shouting "how can you all be this stupid?!?!" but in AK, even though everyone's making frightfully bad choices I can understand why that would seem the only choice to them. It's a nice, if disconcerting, chance to like a classic for once.
( Excerpt from the alternate-universe!Ted Boostle fic I may post if I can think of an ending )