Tuesday, July 14, 2009

A day at hydro with Becky

Since I've been working at hydro lots of people have asked me "what do you do?" The truth is, I don't really know, or more so, I don't know how to explain it. So for those people here is a log of my day today. It is long, sorry. But I put an intermission in so you could easily find your place another day!

6:14 Wake up 1 minute before alarm and shut it off.
6:36 Wake up freaking out cause I slept in and I now have four minutes to get ready.
6:45 Leave house 5 minutes late.
7:02 Arrive at work.
7:05 Turn on computer enter hours, figure out what I was doing 3 days ago.
7:15 Text Thomas, see whats going on with him.
7:17 Plugging away at an old drawing I found.
7:28 Go turn on kettle for oatmeal breakfast.
7:35 Back from oatmeal extravaganza, and back to work.
7:50 "Joe" gets to work, say hi to him.
7:53 Start eating oatmeal and get back to work.
8:10 Finish oatmeal.
8:27 Some drawings are dropped off on my desk and I have to figure out what to do with them...later...
8:34 Beyond frustrated working on this stupid program, take breakfast dishes to dishwasher for a little break.
8:37 More drawings are dropped off on my desk.
8:47 My supervisor, "Sally" has her daily phone call to her mom, and I listen to one end of it.
8:52 Sleeping guys beside me arrives.
8:57 My first bathroom break of the day.
9:03 "Sally's" phone conversation ends.
9:12 This when I start wondering what the point was of the past 14 years of school were, and if my life is actually going to benefit anyone, and why aren't I helping shut down sex trade businesses or on a long term missionary in Rwanda teaching and educating the people so they have a fair chance at life?
9:17 I can hear the rain on the roof, you can only hear it when its really pouring.
9:36 Finishing up drawing and talking to Pam on Gmail chat.
9:36:45 Fric, I missed my 9:30 break, I guess I'll go at 9:45 just because I like round numbers.
9:45 Break with "Joe".
10:05 Back from break, continue on drawing.
10:26 Bathroom break number two.
10:30 Oh my goodness, someone stole my footrest! I've been here 2 and a half months and no one has ever needed that thing...weird, I hope I get it back.
10:35 I really miss my footrest, it made everything better!
10:38 Step stool (footrest) returned, safe and sound...
10:49 Get some papers to go with the drawings on my desk.
10:52 More papers dropped off, I should probably look at those soon...
11:03 Corrie and Pam are being mean to me.
11:24 Ugh, I think I might be getting sick, my eyes and nose seem to be leaky today. Maybe its from all the yawning
11:34 Bathroom break number three, I'm beginning to think there is something wrong with me. Do normal people go pee this much?
11:35 Pry off space bar with my handy pliers because it squeaks when I press it, very annoying.
11:39 Space bar out but I have discovered typing without it is very tiresome. Put some niva soft on it to stop the squeaking.
11:43 Got the space bar back in place, but not working properly. I will have to further investigate.
11:56NotreallyworkingoutthewayIwouldlikeitto.Ihavenospaceforthetimebeing,butI'm goingonlunchin4minutessoI'llfixitafterthat!
11:58 Spacebar fixed!!! HAHA, take that!
11:59 Takeing lunch a minute early just because I'm such a good space bar fixer.

*INTERMISSION*
(Again I apologise for this post being so long, but in order to get what my day is like across to those who care, it was bound to be a long post!)

12:11 Back from subway because there was no food in my house. Going to eat now.
12:45 Back from lunch, had a nice talk about auctions with the guys! Ha ha.
12:46 Crap I forgot my bag in the car with my phone, Tom was going to call me at lunch.
12:48 I missed Toms call, and he wouldn't answer his phone, darn it.
12:56 Finished drawing, moving onto items people have been dropping off at my desk.
1:10 Crap, I missed another call from Tom.
1:10:30 Call Tom.
1:14 Very confusing conversation, every things sorted out now, see you at 5:00 Tom!
1:18 I hear sleeping guy sleep breathing beside me.
1:22 Made a box for drawings out of these big cardboard slabs I have, the smell always makes me think of pizza.
1:30 Finished with desk items, what shall I do now?
1:32 Still procrastinating, I don't want to start another drawing, but I don't want to issue these ones on my desk...
1:33 Okay I'll start issuing these ones.
1:35 Ugh, my brain can't function, I wish it was warm and dry out so I could have had a nap at lunch.
1:38 Sleeping guys phone is ringing, hope its not important cause he's busy sleeping!
1:51 "Sally" randomly sings out, "it's raining, huh-huh-huh." What the smack? Why do people feel the need to do things like that?
1:52 Oh, sleeping guy decided to get up and do some work.
1:53 I hear "Sally" record a new answering machine thing, she's probably going out this afternoon.
1:54 I can hear the downpour on the roof...again.
1:56 I can't figure out whats going on with these drawings. It's giving me a headache, decide to go visit "Joe" and see what he's up to.
2:02 Bathroom break number 3? 4? Wow, I think its four. Something is wrong with me...
2:06 I heard laughing as I walked passed the guys bathroom, how bazaar. As soon as someone comes in the bathroom when I'm in there I get out as fast as possible, and that doesn't happen very often, maybe it’s the 15:1 ratio of guys to girls here. Story of my life...
2:17 Break in 13 minutes.
2:19 I can't believe how much its raining, its going to flood the parking lot again! Ha ha.
2:22 "Sally": "its really raining out there." Thank you captain obvious! Aha-ha...7 minutes.
2:31 Crap I already missed my break by a minute, and I was just waiting for it.
3:13 Holy, time flies when your having fun. I was in the break room no longer than anyone else! I swear! But that was a nice long break and now I'm off in 17 minutes!
3:18 Just organizing some drawings that I renumbered, I'll send them away tomorrow.
3:21 Uh-oh, I have to go pee again, whats this? Five? They're going to send me a water bill.
3:30 Whoa, sometimes that sneaks up on me...and now I go home. The end of my day! Yay!

5 comments:

mmichele said...

oh honeybun, promise me you will quit before you start trying to figure out how many hours you have until you retire.

(yes, i said retire)

*alarm bells ring*

Linda said...

I had to take a break reading this post because I couldn't handle all the exciting details. I hope this is just a summer job so you can make some money kind of a job.

pamero said...

Wait...is this Becky's Blog or Bridget Jones Diary?! ;)

corrie said...

Funny. Vair, vair funny.

You still didn't explain what you *do* with these mysterious drawings...

Also, point of note, *I* had an oatmeal extravaganza yesterday, too!

MJB said...

You should start a cafe disco