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| Thursday, December 20th, 2007 | | 12:39 am |
| | Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 | | 7:58 pm |
I has a bunny!
I caved and did something I've secretly (or not so secretly) wanted to do for years: I bought a pet rabbit. He's a mini Holland lop, or so the nice lady at the Pet Ranch store told me... all I know is he's an adorable little brown lop-eared bunneh. I saw him when I went in yesterday to get a new comb for my cat, Diamond, and the sneaky critter swiped my heart. Frynge was a bit skeptical about it, but he came around. Haven't named him yet. I just hope I prove responsible enough to take care of him. House rabbits are more work than cats. For now, he stays in his cage, but once he gets comfortable in his new digs I'm planning to see if I can housebreak him enough to let him out for extended periods of time. Haven't bunnyproofed the place yet though, so I'll have to watch him like a hawk when he does come out. | | Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 | | 4:34 pm |
Hey guys, guess what? I'm not dead! | | Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 | | 1:44 pm |
Kingdom Hearts 2 Get! *vanish* | | Monday, February 13th, 2006 | | 11:03 pm |
Update time! Work: I endure. However, they are instituting mandatory overtime for EVERYONE. Given that I am already at the maximum 24 hours/week allowed by my doctor (okay, nurse practitioner, but that's 2.5x more syllables), I can't do this. HR told me I wasn't even ALLOWED to go over that limit without another note, so I don't see how they can suddenly decree that I MUST just because, wah wah, the company can't retain enough employees to fill its needs and the overtime incentives they were throwing out weren't working. HINT: if you can't retain employees, THERE IS A REASON. Anyway, my coach is working on getting that overridden now... and also fixing my new schedule; despite the clear and concise note I left on my shift bid about the situation, they scheduled me for full time when everyone gets their new shifts at the end of the month. THAT, at least, I'm pretty confident will be classified as an error and corrected, but corporate bullshit springs eternal, so I have my fingers crossed. Home: Things are okay here. One of my two unemployed roommates should be going back to work soon, which will relieve some of the financial tension. Frynge, of course, is stressing over the mandatory overtime mentioned above... I feel sorry for him, but seeing as he deliberately locked himself into this job by getting his RX-8, there really isn't much advice I can give him. Also Comcast is officially giving us the runaround regarding the ping-floods coming from two of their servers to us. I would THINK that there would be stealthier and more effective ways for an ISP to DoS their own customers... Play: After having my Second Life account for months without using it, I finally nabbed a fox avatar and explored a bit. I am now UTTERLY hooked. Dorn, Draci, Soreth, and whoever: Come see me, if you ever play! I usually hang out at Club Vermin if it isn't totally dead, and Rainbow Tiger otherwise. My name is Kyrien Lightworker; just look for the somewhat chibified fox with the purple halo. ^.^ | | Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 | | 2:06 pm |
The work schedule thing all worked out in the end. I'm not going back to work until Thursday, because today and tomorrow are my new additional days off. Still not keen on working at this call center at all, but having two weekends every week will go a long way to making it survivable. I just hope they don't screw up when I fill out the required shift bid after going back, and try to put me back on full time. I'm probably going to have to start walking to work or see if the bus can help in this situation, because the chances of Frynge and I being on the same team afterward are mighty slim... I'm on Lithium now, but it's too early to say if it's helping or not. At least it doesn't seem to be having any significant side-effects. Might be unsettling my stomach a little at worst. ( And now, the memewhoring. ) | | Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 | | 1:53 pm |
Still on medical leave here, should be going back a week from today. I still haven't heard back from HR about the change to part-time, and I should have. Trying to pester them into getting it done... my suspicion that some bs is going to crop up and prevent me from getting the reduced shift I need is not good for the anxiety levels. x.x I'm being told (by my roommates) that they *can't* refuse to honor a doctor's request in this respect, though. I hope that's true. As far as the medication goes, it was working. Unfortunately, I'm running out and there isn't much point in refilling it, as I wouldn't be able to work while under its effects. Even taking only one dose before bed instead of morning and night, I was still unable to focus for the first half or so of my day. I didn't recognize, while I was still taking that, how good of a job it was doing, though. The last few days, I've taken only a half dose each night (as I was unable to get back in touch with the person who prescribed it and she wouldn't be back in her office until after I'd run out, so based on what she said about stopping it I figured stepping down would be better), and now the cold feeling of dread is back in my stomach a lot of the time. Funny how I completely forgot I'd had that until it came back. Still, I can't completely write this off as a waste. Now I know there's actually a chemical cause (and, at least theoretically, a solution) for these feelings. Having been free of them for a bit, I can see just how little *sense* they make. Emotions are often irrational, but they at least make some kind of sense most of the time. This is baseless and a ROYAL PAIN IN MY ASS. I've applied for an assistant librarian position in a nearby library. It's part time, pays better than my current job, and I know from experience I'd find the job a lot less onerous than working at Echostar. Plus, it has benefits even at part time, while I'm losing mine from reducing my shift here. At the very least that'd give me a chance to try something else to fend off the negativity and fear haunting me. | | Thursday, January 12th, 2006 | | 4:55 pm |
Apparently I'm more screwed up in the head than I suspected. I'm now on a two week medical leave from work (and will actually get my part time shift after that, thank Ghu) while I try to adapt to the mood stabilizer the N.P. gave me. I've taken three Tylenol PM at once before, and they didn't tranq me anywhere NEAR as bad as my ordinary dose of this does. Slept a total of around 16 hours last night and it is a major struggle to stay up even now. On the plus side, if this fixes my sleep problems at the same time as my depression issue, it'll be well worth the trouble. Expect the 'resting' AIM status to be on for the foreseeable future. @.@ | | Monday, January 9th, 2006 | | 2:25 pm |
State of the Fox Update
So I've been switched over to the disconnections department at work as of a couple of weeks ago, after a bit of additional training. Working as a tech full time was pretty stressful. I'd managed to endure it so far... but this was the grand piano that broke the camel's back. I'm currently attempting to switch over to part time. I'll still make enough money, and hopefully I'll no longer feel this overwhelming dread whenever it's time to head to work. Unfortunately, they're dragging their heels about letting me do this... after a lot of time spent talking about it and trying (unsuccessfully) to cry, I've resolved to go straight to a manager about it and ask for special treatment, something I hate doing. If they can't bend the rules for me, well, I lose an $11/hr job and they lose the month and a half of training they invested in me. Given that most of that call center is full of people whose job it is to make compromises with our customers, I'm trying to maintain some hope they'll extend that principle to their employees too. Currently home sick from said job. Have fever, headache, body ache, nausea and you don't want to KNOW what my throat is doing. This absence pretty much destroyed the only other option I had for getting to part time, but I simply cannot work like this. I still feel very guilty for the likely outcome of me going abruptly unemployed with no other job lined up. To everyone affected by my employment or lack thereof, I apologize sincerely in advance. x.x If I do lose this job, I fully intend to start the search for a new one as soon as I recover from whatever's got me. You're all welcome to poke me to get moving on that with impunity if I seem to be slacking. | | Sunday, December 18th, 2005 | | 1:00 am |
Mail for Kit!
I have mail for Kit, but don't seem to have the phone number for that house. I'll check the IRC channel occasionally, but if anyone living there happens to see this, have her give me a call. I'll be off work until Tuesday. | | Friday, December 2nd, 2005 | | 1:08 am |
City of Heroes kicks ass. Ass covered with tight heroic spandex. That is all. | | Sunday, November 27th, 2005 | | 12:24 pm |
What a night. @.@ My last call consisted mostly of me being yelled at by a customer who was lied to by a saleswoman before she signed up with us, and now she's locked into a contract so there's not much she can do. (Apparently she'd been told all service calls are free. Yeah, right. We'd go out of business in no time...) She DID have a problem I could help her with, and I did... once she finally let me help her, it was fixed within about 90 seconds. Then she ranted some more. I FINALLY managed to get a word in edgewise (Ma'am, I'm a TECHNICIAN. What is it I may do to help you?) and she realized she was wasting my time... after about 25 minutes of yelling. The really weird thing is, she ended up asking to speak to my supervisor so she could leave a compliment! Based on the fact that I let her bitch at me! Oi... Anyway, due to the total lack of response from our friends regarding A Tale in the Desert, Frynge and I are unsubscribing. The game isn't worth playing without a group. Instead, we will be signing up for City of Heroes very soon now, we bought the software on the way to work today. | | Monday, November 21st, 2005 | | 11:34 pm |
I finally got a new computer. Currently in the process of acquiring a few games so I can remember what it's like to play games with a keyboard and mouse. o.O I've installed Second Life, but its performance is such that I won't play much unless people I know invite me to join them. (Draci, I'm looking at you.) I'm Kyrien Lightworker in-game. | | Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 | | 3:31 am |
Oh look, I haven't updated in forever and a half. Everything is more or less fine... it's gotten really hard to drag myself to work each day, but I think I'm past the worst now and it's starting to get a little easier again. It's hard to get used to dealing with upset people over the phone for 40 hours a week, is all. Also I'm getting back into A Tale in the Desert. I know I plugged this last time I played and got no response, but I figured I'd try again. Frynge will definitely be joining me soon and pretty much the rest of my household is waffling over the idea to some degree or another, so with a little luck we'll be able to form a pretty significant guild right off the bat. And make shinies. Mm shinies. Feel free to ask me questions or check out that site and the player-maintained wiki if you're interested in joining us. | | Friday, September 23rd, 2005 | | 4:39 pm |
Week 2 test has been pwned. Frynge and I are now officially #2 and #1 in that class, respectively, with no ties. If we can just maintain this for another week or so, until we do our shift bids, we'll have first pick of all the team openings in the call center. :D Sor, your check got here today. As such, Frynge and I get to celebrate a little bit. ^.^ By which I mean eat something that is neither microwaved nor from Kat's Kart at work. Current Mood:  optimistic | | Monday, September 19th, 2005 | | 6:04 pm |
By the way, to anyone who's been missing me on AIM in general, and to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) draci in particular, sorry I haven't been on more. I know I said I'd try to become less scarce, but going from 'briefly unemployed' to 'omg first fulltime job ever' does bad things to the quantity of your free time. I expect my time to feel less crunched as I get used to the pattern; hopefully then I'll stop being a dick and turn on Trillian more than once every three weeks. o.o; Current Mood:  okay | | Sunday, September 18th, 2005 | | 7:57 pm |
First CSR test = totally pwned. Still sick. Still poor. 12 days until the latter is fixed, former had better not take that long. It's a good sign that, while I very much wish I could stay home tomorrow, the fact that it's my workplace I'll be going to does not increase my reluctance to leave. Kupok bought Kirby's Air Ride; vulpine addiction rapidly commenced. Extreme LJpost terseness will end when illness does. Current Mood:  drained | | Thursday, September 15th, 2005 | | 5:27 pm |
Job started on Monday. First five weeks are training. So far it's looking like I'm onto a really good thing... the job sucks less per unit time than any I've had before. Frynge and I are sick... pretty nasty cold. It's easily quadruping our suck quotient right now. I hope I can rest enough tonight to do decently on the weekly test tomorrow. Any sign of that partial deposit refund yet, Sor? If you need to call me, I'm around and awake about 3-7 PM Mountain time weekdays, and prolly something like 5 AM-7 PM on weekends. My half of that would sure help get me to my first paycheck if it's available. Current Mood: uncomfortable | | Friday, August 26th, 2005 | | 3:07 pm |
We're Hired!
Just got off the phone with Diane from EchoStar (actually Frynge is still talking to her). We're both hired! We start training Sept 12th. :D It'll take me a bit to get used to working full-time, but oh such moneys... Current Mood:  bouncy | | Friday, August 12th, 2005 | | 6:24 pm |
Job GET! Lease GET!
Frynge and I had our second interviews with Echostar today, and provided our drug tests (which we also took today) and background checks both come up clean (they will), we're both hired. We'll start training in early September, and rack up some REAL income. I'm still a little afraid of the change to full-time, but there are worse jobs to have to endure for 40 hours per week. This'll leave us with THREE people making $11/hour or more even AFTER Axle leaves, four until then. In other words, we're out of the woods financially. :D We also got my housing application filled out and turned in today... the background check for that should clear tomorrow, at which point I can sign on to the group's lease and be a legal resident, instead of a not-so-legal long-term visitor. In other words, things are almost ready to stabilize for me here. :) (Note to self: OMG, 5 days between moving in and the application that got me hired? Nice change of pace from the debacle I allowed to happen back in Washington...) Current Mood:  accomplished |
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