Nick Postagulous
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Yeah, I Guess I'm Back
Yesterday was my first day back at work since we went to China to get Nina. I have tons of the work that I dislike the most piled up on me. But, it's work, it pays me money, so what's the big gripe.
I was informed, after about 3 minutes in the building, by my boss that in my absence my job description had been changed. All the lame stuff that I do everyday since no one else seems to be able to do it without screwing it up has been considered to be work that is below the grade that I am. So, that stuff will be put on one of the secretaries or TC and I'll transcend to, of all things, flow monitoring since that's the big environmental thing these days.
The good news is that it's a ton of work. Not so much immediate good news, but they are planning on bumping me up two grades and hiring a 13 to be below me. I've had a 13 that I supervised before, but he was not cut out for office work, so they transfermoted him to a position where he does very little paperwork and lots of supervising.
Neener Neener
Alison took Nina to the doctor twice yesterday. In the morning, blood was drawn and the imoxxicilin (obviously misspelled) prescription came about. Trying to force 5 ml of nast medicine into an infant twice a day is not a wonderful thing, and due to my experience doing similar stuff when working for the vet, I'm the bad guy around the house as far as dosing the kiddo goes. The second visit to the doctor was vaccinations. So, when I got home around 3ish, my bunny was fussy. Well, I'd rather have a fussy bunny than no bunny at all.
Nina is getting more on my schedule though due to her long day of crap. She was restless but didn't want to sleep, but, alas, with only two micro-naps during the day, she fell asleep at around six. And then woke up around nine and fell back asleep around ten. I think she actually slept in the bed with us for a few hours. I wouldn't know, I was out like a light. Or a log. I slept like a log. I was out like a light.
Mr & Mrs Zoolander, The Tribe Has Spoken
I finally almost caught up on the TV that I missed while in China. I watched about 5 hrs of Big Brother 5, which can be done in a little over two hours if recorded, and got to the up to last Thursday, I think. I have one hour left. I've watched the Reign of Jase Zoolander and his wife, Scott.
No, Jase and Scott are not gay. But they do wear four inch high headbands which match whatever clothes they are wearing. They are both colossally stupid, but think they are smart. I'm sure if one of them wins the money, they will open Jase's School For Disadvantaged Kids Who Don't Read So Well And Stuff.
I do agree with the dumping of Mike by the Tribe though. Not because he wore Bush Country T-shirts, though that's not the brightest thing to do with the Zoolander/Barfly crowd, but because he started playing the game too soon.
Oh, and they have surprised two of the contestants with the fact that they have the same father but didn't know it. And one person is actually played by twins swapping out, and if they can get to week five, both are allowed to be in the house.
I'm assuming the only really smart players are the ones we really haven't gotten to meet yet. Oh, besides the Bush guy, and the gay fellow. The gay dude is my favorite currently. He's no Zoolander, but more like Matthew Lillard in his calmer moments in SLC Punk. He's the only male who isn't a wannabe male model, well, besides the Cowboy of British Smiles who found out his daddy also fathered a mildly gothy gal. I liked her better with the deep blue/purple hair. Though the light green seems to be well done also. I'm just a sucker for a gal with blue hair.
