Fri 13 Feb 2009
It’s not even 9am yet, and this is how the day started:
* We left late. (My fault, cuz I suddenly remembered that I have to dress up since I’m assigned to a criminal court today.)
* After getting to work, I realized I don’t have my court keys or my badge. (Mr. W’s fault; when I had the day off yesterday for Lincoln’s birthday holiday he drove to work on his own and moved my stuff in his car and didn’t tell me.) So I couldn’t retrieve my stamps from my desk (locked), get on the employee elevators (special elevator key needed) or get around at all. I was SO PISSED because this has happened before and it’s always a major inconvenience.
* Someone had been at my desk yesterday and moved stuff around, and made a half-ass effort to return things to their original locations. Things were misplaced, and my photos on the corkboard were moved and someone pushed pushpins through the center of photos and through other photos! I NEVER puncture my photos, especially not ones I don’t have the negatives for and therefore can’t reproduce. And they pushed a pin through a Polaroid!! *grinding teeth*
* After finally getting to the criminal calendar court I am assigned to today, I tried unsuccessfully to log in the computer but realized that the keyboard did not work. At all. Totally nonresponsive. A slew of cussing later (I think I bewildered a bailiff who was just passing through), I traced the keyboard line and reset it manually and got it working.
* I have cramps. Owie.
The bailiff who caught the fire of my morning came through a few minutes later to check on me, and after I apologized for his seeing me in a non-professional moment, he reminded me that today is Friday of a long weekend, and that it’s also payday. He promised it’ll be better from now on.
He also pointed out it’s Friday the 13th. Figures!
Since I started this post I was involved in solving the mystery of 3 defendants in custody that the sheriffs department brought to this courtroom who aren’t on calendar.
Gotta love Friday the 13th.
WHO had the audacity to mess with your desk and especially a corkboard full of photos??!!
I wish I knew!!! Since Thursday was a holiday, I’m thinking it was just the cleaning crew, and someone probably brought their kid and sat him/her/them at my desk and said, “Here, play with her stuff while I work.” And then they tried to put things back.
That sucks! But at least they tried to clean up. One of my co-workers had a cup of noodles in his cabinet. Someone had opened it, taken it, eaten it, and put the empty bowl back inside his cabinet.
Over one long holiday break (christmas shutdown) one of my coworkers turned on his computer and found that a bunch of porn had been downloaded onto it.
Then he realized the keys on his keyboard were sticking.
Not good.
cindy: bad kids! either that or someone took them down to photocopy them. hmm
james: that’s disgusting
James – are you sure that’s not a prank? That sounds like a pretty deliberate prank cuz it’s SO BAD.
Jordan – hmm, indeed.
Well if it was a prank no one owned up to it. and usually if it was a prank someone would pop up and say they did it and laugh.
yeah, you’d figure that’s the fun part of the prank: the point-and-laugh. 🙂
Know that I get to see pictures on your blog maybe, just maybe it will let me comment. This is a test!
YAY!!!! I can comment from work now!!!!!!
YAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!! VANESSA’S BACK!!!