Small Miracles

 

Today I went to campus and joined my other FART 5 peeps, thinking surely my issues with the new system had been resolved, but no. I ended up helping the same colleague again. My boss was very frustrated because she said she had submitted a request to update my permissions and the request was canceled by someone.

"I guess someone really wants you to get a paycheck for doing nothing," she said.

"Are you sure I wasn't laid off?" I asked, but she assured me that I was still on payroll. Still, I was feeling really down. She said I was the only one in FART 5 that this had happened to, but that it had happened to people in the other four FARTs. OK Universe, I got my comeuppance for thinking I could just breeze through Go Live - can I get back to work now? And then Seabird told me she couldn't walk at lunch because there was a retirement party in her department. She's been on vacation for a week, so I haven't seen much of her. Hardingfele couldn't walk either, so I set off glumly for my walk alone... and promptly ran into my Irish teacher, who works in my building but usually is remote all summer. She asked how I was and I told her my sad story, so she said, "I'll walk with you." After I had complained enough to get it out of my system, she told me about her wonderful trip to Ireland. It seemed like that had to come from God, because how else to explain the timing?

I'd like to say that set the tone for the rest of the day, but unfortunately the rest of my workday was just as frustrating. I have to print a bunch of donor letters, and our fancy printer can supposedly fold them, so I watched a video to see how it's done and tried... just to find that choice grayed out. I fetched my much younger and more technologically advanced coworker, but she was just as clueless so I didn't feel quite so stupid. We tried a million things suggested online, but the button for "folding" remained stubbornly grayed out. It looks like a folding party might be in our future. 

I am having a very restful and quiet evening because Travalon is hanging out with one of his guy friends. My big decision now is whether to go back to campus again tomorrow, and my second decision is if I should wear the goose T-shirt. It kind of fits my mood right now.

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