Lose the Battle, Win the War

Went to bed at 11pm last night even though I did not get to sleep until midnight and even then it was a fitful sleep where I kept waking up. Startlingly enough, even though I got up at 7am, I am not presently tired. I was supposed to go work out with De and Rachael. Rachael finked out on us so De and I went around 7:15. The Fitness Center does not open until 8am so we did a mile and then had breakfast. Cheese bagels are yummy. I had forgotten.

Just went to the Registrar a few minutes ago. Another battle waged and lost. Talked to Jackie, the redhead, who told me that they have to get some paperwork from McMullan before they can put our section into the computer. She suggested that I go talk to McMullan. I told her that Margaret had been out of town and that I'd mention it to her after my class. Eventually, this is all going to end. Oh shit! I forgot to ask them why my British History class from last fall didn't count as that floating WC credit. Oh well. I'm sure I'll be back in that office eventually.

Have to work for OTS from 11:30 until 12:30. Hopefully, this is only temporary as I'm not a fan of such a short block of work. They need more workers, though, so it could take a while.

In other news, Chris is randomly appearing on campus later tonight. I told him I'd hang with him for a few hours after either my proctor hours (because I'm not sure we're doing those yet) or the various meetings I have tonight. Tomorrow he and Charlie and going to go down to Clarksville for the weekend. As I spent most of my summer with Chris, this is fine. I'll probably see him for a bit when he brings Charlie back up on Sunday as well. I think we still have a visit scheduled for a weekend in September that I'm not working.

I Own This Office

Went back to OTS to work for the first time today. It was...interesting. I had no access to anything that I needed to get to in order to my job and had to explain--twice--that it's okay and even--gee, what a surprise, necessary for me to be able to use the Acenet database, the Helpdesk and the AV requests. And the new guys, the real staff mind you, are busy going around doing things and then saying, "Now it might take a moment for it to go into effect." Well, duh. And then they're all, "Is this your first day?" Not even. And they look surprised when I know more about the office and the software and shit than they do. Hello! Geez, people. But I'm not taking shit this year. They can deal with my way of handling things or I can find somewhere else to work. I'm not incompetent just because I'm female so don't treat me like it.

Went to class and Margaret said that the whole schedule thing was peachy now. I'll go over there later and get my LinC internship added. So majorly won the war there. Right now I'm just hanging out in the room and thinking about how I'm going to write about my summer when my summers are always uneventful. I have a few drinking/drunken stories but I'm not sure if I can take it to that level. Fuck it. I'll go there. It was a big part of my summer. There's nothing else interesting. I painted fences. I hung out with people. I went karoking with Mom and Chris. I learned to play pool, which I apparently have an inborn talent.

I have some meetings tonight but no proctor hours. There's something of a plus, I suppose. So I'll be in and out for the rest of the night. And Chris should be prowling around these parts before too long.