WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT.
Aug. 8th, 2007 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meitantei_cjI was awake when the storm rolled in. (Another night of insomnia, which I'll regret terribly later. I'm not as tired right now as I ought to be.) It was nice. Lots of lightning and thunder. I tried not to stay up to watch it, though. I was up somewhere around two, three in the morning and didn't go back to bed until five, after switching to the second alarm from the first (the first goes off at six, the second at 6:30). Mom called me and woke me up at 6:11 to tell me the windows were open in her room and Craig's, so I had to drag myself up to shut them. I woke up again at 6:30 and snoozed about three times before I got up.
Dona wanted me to give her my resume, so I tried to print it. It didn't print. Nothing popped up saying it couldn't print, nothing happened at all. No busy icon or anything. Nothing. I tried to print a test page, and Vista had the nerve to tell me the printing failed and it needed to install the drivers for the printer.
... WTF. First the tablet, now the printer. I'm e-mailing them later and pitching a bitch fit, because I never, EVER had randomly misplaced/deleted drivers on XP. I reinstalled the driver and still got no response, so I had to e-mail the thing to myself here to print it.
By that point, it was ten to eight and I was still in my pajamas. I hustled to get myself together. Then I started looking for the $20 I had yesterday. I emptied my pockets yesterday because there was tons of change in them, and at that point I had to have pulled out the $20 bill and the receipt from CVS. I must have put it on my bed while I was getting out of my clothes. Problem is, I forgot I put it on the bed, and slept in the bed. Gods only know where that bill is right now. In my room, definitely, but I couldn't find it this morning. So I was pissed because of Vista, pissed because I couldn't find my money, and I left the apartment in a huff. The elevators were around the same floors again: The one that stopped was jam-packed, and the other one flew past me. Both hit the lobby at the same time. Both came back up at the same time. Both flew past me going UP and both went to the 21st floor. 9_9
When I got to the subway station, IT was jam-packed. Train troubles. Again, I was faced with, "Well why doesn't the MTA send one of the express trains local to alleviate some of the congestion?" But no, they didn't do that. An M came, and I'm not a sardine, so I stayed right there and watched as everyone tried to force their way into the train. Next train came ten minutes later. (It was 8:45 by that point. I should have been at work at 8:30.) IT was packed, so I had no choice but to slam myself in there with everyone else. Whatever, I was on the train.
Well, the train wasn't going all the way down to Bay Parkway the way it usually does. It was stopping at Chambers Street. Chambers is close to my job, but not as close as Fulton, the next stop. I've walked from Chambers before, but I didn't want to today, because I was already running late.
When everyone got off the train at Chambers, the platform was full of people unsure of where they were going and waiting for the J train that probably took another 20 minutes to get there. Leaving the platform, there were MORE people standing around, literally just standing there and blocking the flow of passengers dumped off the M. That station connects the J, M, Z, 4, 5, and 6 trains. The M had stopped, the J and Z were nonexistent at the time, and the remaining trains were suspended. Announcements were blaring over the loudspeakers from aggravated dispatchers. People were totally lost and I didn't see anyone helping them, but I may not have seen them because I was in commuting mode: Get me to my destination, get me there fast, get me there NOW. A rhino couldn't have stopped me.
Getting outside and walking along Park Row on the way to Broadway, there were tons of people on the sidewalk waiting for buses. I basically had to bob and weave to get through it all. Finally got to McDonald's (since I could grab breakfast there and pay with my debit card instead of pulling out money not in my pocket) and got here at 9:30.
And here I sit. And there are... well, a few people here, but I've already gotten several notices that people won't be coming in, or may be in later if things clear up. I wouldn't bother. Honestly, today is a day where everyone should've just stayed home. A day of productivity won't kill anyone.
I haven't had a good morning. -_- The dumb thing is, you'd never know anything happened this morning, looking at the sky now.
In other news, I think I'm going to tell Dona I'm not interested in working as a legal secretary. Taking a job for money is silly unless you need the money. I don't. I have no dependents, my bills aren't high. And I'm not interested in law or working in that kind of environment. Working for a lawyer would be a stark contrast to what I have now. One, I don't want another secretarial job--I don't care how much it pays--and two, I like the freedom I have here. I'm not about to have people breathing down my neck. I don't work that way.
But anyway, I can't tell Dona anything if she doesn't come in, heh.
Dona wanted me to give her my resume, so I tried to print it. It didn't print. Nothing popped up saying it couldn't print, nothing happened at all. No busy icon or anything. Nothing. I tried to print a test page, and Vista had the nerve to tell me the printing failed and it needed to install the drivers for the printer.
... WTF. First the tablet, now the printer. I'm e-mailing them later and pitching a bitch fit, because I never, EVER had randomly misplaced/deleted drivers on XP. I reinstalled the driver and still got no response, so I had to e-mail the thing to myself here to print it.
By that point, it was ten to eight and I was still in my pajamas. I hustled to get myself together. Then I started looking for the $20 I had yesterday. I emptied my pockets yesterday because there was tons of change in them, and at that point I had to have pulled out the $20 bill and the receipt from CVS. I must have put it on my bed while I was getting out of my clothes. Problem is, I forgot I put it on the bed, and slept in the bed. Gods only know where that bill is right now. In my room, definitely, but I couldn't find it this morning. So I was pissed because of Vista, pissed because I couldn't find my money, and I left the apartment in a huff. The elevators were around the same floors again: The one that stopped was jam-packed, and the other one flew past me. Both hit the lobby at the same time. Both came back up at the same time. Both flew past me going UP and both went to the 21st floor. 9_9
When I got to the subway station, IT was jam-packed. Train troubles. Again, I was faced with, "Well why doesn't the MTA send one of the express trains local to alleviate some of the congestion?" But no, they didn't do that. An M came, and I'm not a sardine, so I stayed right there and watched as everyone tried to force their way into the train. Next train came ten minutes later. (It was 8:45 by that point. I should have been at work at 8:30.) IT was packed, so I had no choice but to slam myself in there with everyone else. Whatever, I was on the train.
Well, the train wasn't going all the way down to Bay Parkway the way it usually does. It was stopping at Chambers Street. Chambers is close to my job, but not as close as Fulton, the next stop. I've walked from Chambers before, but I didn't want to today, because I was already running late.
When everyone got off the train at Chambers, the platform was full of people unsure of where they were going and waiting for the J train that probably took another 20 minutes to get there. Leaving the platform, there were MORE people standing around, literally just standing there and blocking the flow of passengers dumped off the M. That station connects the J, M, Z, 4, 5, and 6 trains. The M had stopped, the J and Z were nonexistent at the time, and the remaining trains were suspended. Announcements were blaring over the loudspeakers from aggravated dispatchers. People were totally lost and I didn't see anyone helping them, but I may not have seen them because I was in commuting mode: Get me to my destination, get me there fast, get me there NOW. A rhino couldn't have stopped me.
Getting outside and walking along Park Row on the way to Broadway, there were tons of people on the sidewalk waiting for buses. I basically had to bob and weave to get through it all. Finally got to McDonald's (since I could grab breakfast there and pay with my debit card instead of pulling out money not in my pocket) and got here at 9:30.
And here I sit. And there are... well, a few people here, but I've already gotten several notices that people won't be coming in, or may be in later if things clear up. I wouldn't bother. Honestly, today is a day where everyone should've just stayed home. A day of productivity won't kill anyone.
I haven't had a good morning. -_- The dumb thing is, you'd never know anything happened this morning, looking at the sky now.
In other news, I think I'm going to tell Dona I'm not interested in working as a legal secretary. Taking a job for money is silly unless you need the money. I don't. I have no dependents, my bills aren't high. And I'm not interested in law or working in that kind of environment. Working for a lawyer would be a stark contrast to what I have now. One, I don't want another secretarial job--I don't care how much it pays--and two, I like the freedom I have here. I'm not about to have people breathing down my neck. I don't work that way.
But anyway, I can't tell Dona anything if she doesn't come in, heh.
