Thursday, January 20, 2005

I'm a Working Girl!

I am almost done with my second week of work. I still don't know what to make of it. Bascially I process exam registrations and orders that come in for study materials. This week I had to enter in all the FAILS for people who FAILED exams this fall. It may have been repetitive, but I felt a sense of power. Plus the names keep me entertained. Yay foreigners!

Today we got to wear jeans in honor of the inauguration. This is good because I basically have only two pairs of pants I wear to work. I doubt anyone will really notice, unlike at GEICO, but it's still nice to get to throw in a third pair this week.

We had a potluck last week on my third day and I made people like me by making my yummy brownies. And today I brought in a bag of mint oreos which went away very quickly! I broke down at the grocery store the other day when I saw them on sale, buy one get one free. At least I dimished my selfishness by sharing the transfat with others. But only the second bag.

I lost my driving-in-snow-viriginity yesterday and it was scary. I was so focused on the road that I almost ran a red light and had to break really hard. It probably would have been safer just to go through it since it had just turned, but oh well. It caused my overdrive to go off and I had to get the manual out to figure out how to fix it. Turns out there's just a button on the park/drive/reverse thing. I felt dumb, but relieved I didn't need maintenance.

For some reason I've been wanting to sleep with my head on my arms, but this causes my arms to fall asleep completely numb and wake me up in the middle of the night. Then, in my half awakedness, I let it tingle out and proceed to shift my head to a different part of my arm, thus repeating the whole process. I have no idea how I got myself into this unwanted ritual. But now I must go and try to stop it. Goodnight.

2 Comments:

At 1/21/2005 1:03 AM, Blogger Dick said...

Zelong Dong, come on Jane... tell me your not making this up!

Good for you for getting the owner's manual out to figure out about the overdrive! That's my girl!

Be careful driving in the snow. It's an acquired skill. You'll get better with practice. I'm sure I'm out of snow driving shape.

 
At 1/21/2005 11:10 PM, Blogger Murph said...

The idea that northerners (who get to practice) drive better on snow is mostly a myth. The difference between driving on snow in Hartford compared to Atlanta or Little Rock (and maybe around our Nation's Capitol) is that in Hartford (and most of the rest of the "snow belt") they sand and salt the roads!

In the south, the snow removal system is called "sunshine." Believe me, 4-wheel drive gets put to good use in the winter more often in Arkansas than in New England (although I've been driving 4-wheel drive vehicles during New England winters for 22 years--it does keep me from getting stuck).

Even if you are really good driving in snow, there will be lots of other drivers on the road who are not; so, my best advice is stay home and wait for the sun to come out.

 

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