That was my Tuesday

I spent a good part of the day working on these Word documents that…oh man, I just had to walk away from my computer on more than one occasion, I was getting genuinely angry that I was liable to break something. The material in the documents itself is fine, but it’s so confusingly ordered, both redundant and missing information, with elements mislabeled or labeled the same as other elements, that it’s tough just trying to figure out where to begin with my questions. I’m also trying to be vague here, because I’m not at all trying to badmouth the author (or the author’s grad student), but… There was a section where I suddenly seemed to be missing pages, despite the numbering still being consistent, and it turned out that a block of about fifteen pages from later in the document had been duplicated and tossed backwards in the middle of the earlier section.

But anyway, I digress.

I neglected yesterday to mention yesterday that our dog, Tucker, seems to be doing fine, and his trip to the vet didn’t raise any new concerns. He has a cut on his paw, which is probably why he’s been limping, and the limp itself has all but passed. He’s still got his allergies and chronic ear infections, but he’s on new antibiotics, and he hasn’t thrown up recently, which is always good. And he seems in no less good spirits than usual.

And that was my…Tuesday, right?

And the logical conclusion: Friday

The office was uncomfortably cold today, but luckily I only had to put up with it until one o’clock.

And therein lies the only benefit of summer hours, right there. It’s arguably a big benefit, and I am enjoying leaving early on Fridays, but the weeks themselves have felt kind of long. Only two weeks in (with a month-plus to go), and I’m already sort of missing my regular work hours.

I’m looking forward to a quiet, relaxing weekend.

Thursday

Today was an awful lot like yesterday. No sales meeting in the morning but otherwise largely identical. Even the image at the top of this post is from yesterday.

The one good thing? One day closer to Friday.

Wednesday

Except for the morning sales meeting that I didn’t know about until less than a minute beforehand, when my boss walked by my cubicle and suggested hey, maybe I could chime in on some of the supplemental materials I’ve been working on — you know, for the morning sales meeting? — today was a pretty ordinary day. And, in fact, there wasn’t a lot for me to chime in on anyway; most everything was covered in the slides the acquiring editors were presenting to our sales rep in Kentucky.

Which is about the limit to my Wednesday excitement.

Wednesday various

Batman and Harvey Pekar
  • If you’re out of work, it’s not because the economy’s bad, it’s because you’re a bad person. Or at least so says Ben Stein. Remember when he seemed like kind of a nice guy? [via]
  • “There’s a human tendency to resent anyone who disagrees with our pleasures. The less mature interpret that as a personal attack on themselves. They’re looking for support and vindication.” – Roger Ebert
  • It gets a little repetitive after awhile without the rest of the track, but there’s something fascinating about this isolated audio of Keith Moon playing drums on “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
  • I love these re-imagined Batman covers [via]
  • And finally, every Doctor Who villain since 1963.