It's 7:15am and already horribly running late. Still need to shower. The only thing that's making me go is that I'm seeing Gang of Four tonight.

I don't really have to wash my hair, do I?

meh, I didn't wash mine either. I just stick it into hot rollers and it ends up nice and wavy but by about 2 it will look like absolute crap.

I didn't want to get up either. I've been kinda sick for like a week and a half and getting up and having to be pleasant didn't sound good this morning. I wanted to stay home with husband who is off today.

i'm not going. i'll go tomorrow instead.

I didn't wash mine either. And I didn't want to go to work either. I work from home on Wed and Fridays now though so I really can't complain.

But I will.

I'm at work, but not doing much of anything. Have a fundraiser tonite for the Mayor, and then the DA is outta town tomorrow, so I'm not doing shit after about 8pm tonite.

I'll probably stroll in around 11.

Split shift, then staff lunch meeting where we'll sit around and bitch about how everyone else is incompetent and destroying the efficiency of the station. We'll get mad at each other, drink quite a bit, then decide to implement some changes. Then we'll go home and go back to work tomorrow and forget about it.

I really don't feel like going to have this root canal done.

I'm not afraid of the pain (if there is any), just the bill.

fp

I say we stay home and get liquored up.

time to quit

I know this sounds dorky but I don't like to cold call people. Today I have to call all these hotels in the city and say "hi I'm blah blah blah and blah blah blah blah, blah blah" and I'm actually kind of anxious about it. Really.

My boss wants me to call each of them once a week and it's hard to explain to her that frankly they don't want me to call once a week asking them if their guests want services this weekend. One of them more or less told me last week that if they need anything they'll call but they don't need me calling often.

She doesn't get that.

I have some phone phobias at times. Ugh, now I REALLY want to go home today. This is making me hate thursdays now.

28 minutes until home time!!!

Charli-
Make a chart/spreadsheet of the hotel, with the concierge's name on it, etc.
Or even go so far as to make a seperate sheet for each one, so you can take notes etc...
Mark what you do with each call...as in "Left Message" "Talked to Concirege, he asked fro info" "Talked to concierge and he said he would send his clients to the Hepatitis infected Vietnamese spa is I call again"
Get a brochure/one page ad with some coupons or discounts to fax to them after you talk to them.

Then, make it a game. Come up with a phrase or something stupid you can call people without them realizing it...I call people "Gar" on the phone all the time, and they don't even realize I am talkingshit, its just a mechanisim to relax me.

Then realize that the worst these people can say is "No." call em, and show your boss what they said, and what you did about it.


And I basically just described what I do for a living.

Now THERE'S an idea.

i am so f'n tired. had a trip to california last Friday that lasted from 4:30 am until 9pm. went down again on monday - again woke up at 430 - then spent 3 days in full-day meetings down there with social events at night. i flew home last night and got home around 9 or 10. now I have 7am meetings today and meetings throughout the day - including some crazy investigations and employee relations issues that I just don't want to hear about...then its 2 hours of evidence with Professor Lurch tonight.

Yeah I already made the spreadsheet last week with similar things, I could just show her and say well they really don't want us calling EVERy week and maybe she'll understand. I hope.

With donors there is a fine line between "keeping them up to date" and "fucking annoying" your boss should learn that.

you should just go and do a half-assed job like me.

I'd like to apologise for waking you up this morning by typing a slightly crazy conversation on MSN about 'Who would win a fight between a petrel and a kittiwake'.

Next time you go to bed turn the speakers down.

i finally got wireless going in my house. i'll be working from home (or the pub) a lot in the near future!

been exhausted in the morning every morning this week. less so today, but i'm looking forward to days off (in november )

you lazy americans

Why would that sound silly? I don't even like to warm call people.

It was actually rather funny! In my half-somnabulent state, I stumbled to the bathroom and heard sounds emanating from my computer. Ignoring them due to my bladder protesting loudly to venture down the hallway, it was upon my return that the "beeps" were becoming persistent. I didn't have my glasses on but could tell it was you rattling on regarding ducks. It made me laugh, but I quickly went to bed once I said "Good night".

Silly Scotsman!