how it's supposed to be
Sep. 18th, 2003 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chestnutcurlsHappy, happy birthday to my friend Jenn (aka ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
enjoythemoment)! I hope you have a wonderful Australian birthday. :)
I'm having a semi-crazy workday. We're in the process of quarter-end deal push, which is a frantic flurry of activity every three months in which we approve every hotel application possible to increase our numbers. The annoying thing about this (besides the millions of copies I have to make) is that most of the applications aren't complete and we may not get all the information until months later. Bleah. No one likes quarter-end deal push.
I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I'm going to Nashville this weekend to see Debra. I'm leaving right after work tomorrow and am not looking forward to the 3.5 hours alone in the car at the end of a long day, so I may be calling some of you to keep myself awake. We're going to have a weekend of sisterly activities - shopping, having lunch, working out. It should be fun.
Evan's new job is going pretty well. As an added bonus, it's only ten minutes from my apartment. Yay!
Tonight I have tutor training at Streets (the inner-city ministry where I volunteer). They've changed the curriculum and want to get us up to date. I wonder if the new curriculum will have less math. I'd be all for that. :) Half the time when I worked on math with Yolanda, I'd be like, "Um, I don't remember how to do this, either."
Random link of the day: I heard a radio commercial for the Purina Cat Chow website. Apparently it has lots of information about contributing to your cat's emotional well-being. I'm going to check it out now, since Gandalf definitely needs help in that area. He's been twice as spastic as usual since Evan started spending so much time at the apartment.
enjoythemoment)! I hope you have a wonderful Australian birthday. :)I'm having a semi-crazy workday. We're in the process of quarter-end deal push, which is a frantic flurry of activity every three months in which we approve every hotel application possible to increase our numbers. The annoying thing about this (besides the millions of copies I have to make) is that most of the applications aren't complete and we may not get all the information until months later. Bleah. No one likes quarter-end deal push.
I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I'm going to Nashville this weekend to see Debra. I'm leaving right after work tomorrow and am not looking forward to the 3.5 hours alone in the car at the end of a long day, so I may be calling some of you to keep myself awake. We're going to have a weekend of sisterly activities - shopping, having lunch, working out. It should be fun.
Evan's new job is going pretty well. As an added bonus, it's only ten minutes from my apartment. Yay!
Tonight I have tutor training at Streets (the inner-city ministry where I volunteer). They've changed the curriculum and want to get us up to date. I wonder if the new curriculum will have less math. I'd be all for that. :) Half the time when I worked on math with Yolanda, I'd be like, "Um, I don't remember how to do this, either."
Random link of the day: I heard a radio commercial for the Purina Cat Chow website. Apparently it has lots of information about contributing to your cat's emotional well-being. I'm going to check it out now, since Gandalf definitely needs help in that area. He's been twice as spastic as usual since Evan started spending so much time at the apartment.
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Date: 2003-09-18 12:02 pm (UTC)Feh. Cat's just jealous he's not getting more pet-time. Spoil him a bit. :)
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Date: 2003-09-18 12:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-18 12:10 pm (UTC)We didn't have quarterly stresses at my old job, but we had something similar: end of fiscal year budget crunches. Half the projects were spending money like drunken sailors because they had some left over and didn't want their budgets cut next year. The other half had run out of money months ago and were trying to cut every cost possible. Kind of comical in a sad way.
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Date: 2003-09-18 12:22 pm (UTC)That does sound familiar. Even though our crunches aren't budgetary, it's the same spirit of Making Everything Look Good. If we let some of these projects progress normally, they wouldn't be approved until Christmas. :P I will never totally understand the business mindset.
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Date: 2003-09-18 12:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-18 12:23 pm (UTC)Love the Debs!
Date: 2003-09-18 12:50 pm (UTC)Don't worry- the drive isn't that bad- especially since you haven't driven it 50 million times like I have...then it starts to get really boring. Just stock up on Diet Cherry Coke and you will be good to go!
love the brens!
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Date: 2003-09-18 02:21 pm (UTC)