Posts Tagged ‘Work’
The Relativity of “Early”
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Getting up, and waking up my parents, at 6am to watch Garfield and Friends was not early at all. My parents saw it a little different. But to me, it was a necessary way to start each day.
In high school, having my first class start at 7.20am was painful. Rushing on the freeway with a bunch of other students and workers who also refused to get out of bed when their alarms first went off was obnoxious. By senior year I’d discovered a way to hit the snooze button one more time and not earn myself a detention. Negotiation. That’s right a high school senior successfully negotiated not having to arrive for class until 7:30am. The 10 minutes were much appreciated.
These days I beat the sun up, even on the weekends. Having a 4:42am call is crazy early to have to be at work. Having a 5:12am call is early. Not having to stand out in the dark and cold until 5:42am is considered sleeping in. Having a 6am call is cause for celebration and an extra round the night before.
Early is a relative term. Some day it’ll mean 10am. I’ll get up and creak down the stairs for coffee just in time to watch The Price is Right (reruns with Bob Barker, of course) and yell at the television set.
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Los Angeles Kings
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Even after working (volunteering? They fed me…) for the Milwaukee Admirals back in high school I’d still never learned the awesome that is hockey. That is, besides the universal joy of hockey fights. It wasn’t until floor managing college games that I learned rules and penalties of the sport. The game is now just as fun between the fights.
I have watched plenty of good hockey, the Admirals are a feeder team that often dominated the minor leagues and both women and men won national titles while I was at school. But until this weekend I’d never attended an NHL team. So the Kings game it was. It is a very purple team, which I never thought I’d have to again embrace after graduation. Suck is life. My first time at the Staples Center and I 1). found great parking, and 2). Got to walk on the ice and check out the zamboni West Coast Chopper flair.
Besides the sever lack of cheers, songs, standing, and dancing (what sports are all about) it was a good time. I think that is more of an issue of having “old people” at the game; it was nice to sit down for a change.
Living in Los Angeles I should probably have at least one west coast team, and the Kings will easily fit the mold. Rumor has it the Kings don’t suck, making it look like the Kings will be my team.
Go Kings. I’ll take my t-shirt in black.
Tags: Los Angeles, Sports, Work
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Halloween
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
This year I made up for three years of not participating, by celebrating Halloween three times before Oct 31st rolled around. Work was having the Second Annual Michael Scott Dunder Mifflin Scranton Office Memorial Cast and Crew Fun Halloween Contest for the Duldrums Cure and I was told I had to dress up.
Fight Club. No, not Tyler Durden. Fight Club. The people in the movie that participated in the underground fight club and then had to show up to work in their normal clothes with the crap beaten out of them.
We showed up dressed as usual. Lori was awesome enough to come in just to do our makeup. Then whenever anyone asked what we were we said that we can’t talk about it or that the first rule is that we couldn’t talk about it.
We had three brilliant judges: Vartan (crafty), Brian, and BJ. They gave us a much undeserved third place in the costume contest! We were pretty baffled, but took our candy and prize just the same. Really we should have won the Jim Halpert Award: something witty, but only requiring minimal effort.
Quite a few people thought I crashed out on my bike over the weekend, and one of our security guards offered to beat up whoever did this to me before he figured out it was makeup.
The only thing that could have made it better was if Lori was working that day, because who doesn’t love a pregnant lady in their fight club?
Classy: Drinking Vintage Don Perignon at wrap. Some of the best Champaign I’ve ever had, with my face as is. Looked like I was celebrating an abusive husband divorce settlement.
Tags: Blog, Halloween, Holiday, Los Angeles, Work
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Times When Sarcasm Has Proven to be Less then Appreciated (Part I)
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
PART ONE: LOT GUARDS
Studio lot guards are encountered every day, so be nice because they can waste a lot of your time if they want to. Generally I have had good experiences with security at work, but there is one lot in particular that has it out for me. Not just one guard at this lot, all guards at this lot. A memo must have gone out.
Recently I was stopped by two security women when their system was down and I wasn’t listed as cleared to enter. I had seen both of these women the day before at this exact spot. In fact I saw them a few days before that too, and another few days before that… people say patience is a virtue. I waited nicely while their computers mustered enough strength to reboot, then reboot again, and finally while they checked that all the cabling was plugged in. No good. I could easily outrun both of them but feared a taser. My destination was nearly in eye shot of them and after being denied an escort I started bartering. I offered my phone if they promised not to call anyone internationally; no go. Offered a shoe as collateral; no go. This went on for quite a while with multiple failed attempts at getting to the payroll person. Eventually I was getting bored and realized that while I was making one woman laugh hysterically, every time she laughed it pissed off the other one that much more. I switched to Twittering for the rest of my wait which probably didn’t help their heightened sense of security either.
Tags: Blog, California, Hollywood, Not My Fault, Ouch, Work
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