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June 27, 2003
Bolstered by a coffee
I woke up in a great mood this morning. Then I got to work, sat down at my desk, and immediately went to pieces. Went and cried in the stairwell for a while. Washed my face, came back to my desk, immediately went to pieces again. Left again, dripped and sniffled in Nefeli for half an hour. Bolstered by a coffee, I have returned for the third time.
All day, I sit in a corner facing a windowless wall. The carpet is brown and the walls are beige. There's no air conditioning and no air flow and no privacy. My job is to fill out various forms and submit them to various people. If I make a mistake on any of these forms, the entire packet is canceled and returned to me, and I fill out a new packet with the correction. I file copies of these forms in a binder and a folder, and keep three separate records of them online. When I need a break from these forms, I can turn to my office mates for vicious gossip about other Berkeley employees. When I run out of forms to fill out or correct, I check the same three websites obsessively until it's time to leave.
I simply cannot imagine why I can't stop crying.
Posted by didofoot at June 27, 2003 10:28 AM
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Whenever I'm dealing with useless paperwork and faceless bureaucracy, I like to watch Brazil! It's not all that entertaining throughout, but it gives a picture of a world worse than this one, which always helps.
Is your job really all that bad?
Posted by: Cody at June 27, 2003 12:08 PM
i'm a bit behind on carthage, so forgive me if you've seen it or suggested it, but watch "Haiku Tunnel" (available for sure at Global Video on 51st and Tel) and be bolstered by the audacity of one of our temp brethren,
all ye writers particularly :)
p.s. europe is nice today, sometimes she takes away my bed and laughs at me in foreign languages, but today she is nice, and i have the keys to a slavic apartment. be well homefolks.
Posted by: kt at June 27, 2003 01:44 PM
holy crud, i gotta stop reading these backwards. so i know i've seen you twice now since this post, one of which time involved a rope and a not-quite-baby elephant, but, hey, are you alright? if you need to talk, i'm just at the other end of the canoe.
Posted by: allen at July 8, 2003 08:41 AM
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