ammogirl

Do you have any particular pet peeves when it comes to spelling?  I definitely do.  My top two annoyances are loser/looser and desert/dessert.  Being in the military, the word desert is used a lot.  I would say a good 30% of the time it is misspelled as dessert, and every time I want to hunt down the author and dessert them in the head.  GAH!

So like I said twenty years ago, or whenever my last post was, John is in Italy until Wednesday for a softball tournament.  He’s with my entire office, and the night before they drove down, they all stayed over at Matt’s house.  In other words, they had a slumber party.  Anyway, I’m by myself again, but I get to do really fun things like…work on the 4th of July.  Actually, I am going in because I need to get some stuff done. So it’s not like it was mandatory work time or anything.  And somehow when you go in to work, but you do it on your own schedule, and you don’t have to wear a uniform, it seems almost like not working. Right?  RIGHT?

It’s just that of course, the minute everyone walked out the door on Tuesday, the phones started ringing off the hook and emails started flowing in and shipments had to go to Kksdfoaifheanstan and OH MY GOD it got so busy.  I had to work until almost SIX PM that night.  That is OUTLANDISH.  But all of that was just the topping on the fact that bla bla bla military work stuff, things you aren’t interested in, so as a result, I only have until Tuesday to get it done.  And that will be hard.  But!  It won’t be a problem, because I am awesome!  Sort of.  Well, when I want to be, anyway.

Have I mentioned that I hate my job, a little bit?  I try to like it but most of the time I fail with that.  The job I’m doing right now is 75% reactive, and I have a hard time with reactive situations.  For one, I don’t ever remember anything, so when people come in and go, “Quickly, I need to know how many bombs are located at one particular base in the UK and what their short tonnage is”, I can never answer right away.  I can’t keep that kind of info in my head!  It’s not interesting at all!  And then, to make it worse, once I DO know the information, generally you have to draft up either an email, memorandum, or bullet background paper on it, and being the military, you can’t just WRITE STUFF, you have to format it and condense it and officialize it and it would be so much easier if I could just WRITE DOWN WHAT I WANT TO SAY, but I can’t.  Definitely, without a doubt, written communication is my personal roadblock to my job.

Oh, speaking of communication, you know what else really, REALLY bugs me?  Forwarded emails from my boss, who is staunchly Republican and likes to send me “witty” “true” facts about both parties.

Also, FlatGreg trounced me in a drum-off tonight.  I hate him, a little bit.

Tschuss!!