Mondayest of Mondays

 

Today was such a Monday. The guy came from the copier place to help me print envelopes, but it took over an hour because when they updated Windows it messed with the drivers for the printer, so he had to do a bunch of stuff I didn't understand. We printed all the envelopes as he told me a very entertaining story about trying to get home from Jamaica, then we printed the donor letters while we were at it. I gave them to the chair to sign, but we both agreed the font and the spacing were unappealing, and she didn't like the wording, so she's going to talk to my quasi-boss about it, since he wrote them. I used to write them, and I'll note that nobody complained about them when I did it.

I have heard from more than one source that if one entry in payroll is wrong with this new system, nobody will get paid, not just here but in the whole system, so Green Bay and Whitewater and Eau Claire, etc. People are losing sleep over this. I made the mistake of mentioning it to Hardingfele on our lunchtime walk, so now she's freaked out too. Also, when they brought over the funds into the new system, some of the coding wasn't right, so I have to use one with the code for research for payroll, but now it can only be used with the coding for instruction. I notified the grants guy, who told me I had to fix it, so I asked other people, who said the grants guy has to fix it. We're going around in circles, and it's not even a fund in my department, so I don't even think I can ask anyone to correct it. What a cluster munch this has all become.

I guess it's good to have things like this to remind a person that they aren't all that and a bag of chips, since the guy who was emailing me about my poetry said I had an astounding talent and am a genius, so it would be easy to get a big head except that the new system shrank my head right back to normal proportions. When Travalon picked me up from work with an iced pandan latte, it felt like someone putting a gold medal around my neck after a marathon. Oh, but I do have some exciting news!

I think that's supposed to be a shark's tooth necklace, but it looks like pearls, like he's Ruth Surfin' Ginsburg or something. Also, maybe it's just me, but it makes me think of Fred Flinstone for some reason. Is he a surfer or a caveman? The world may never know. Will it ever care?

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