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My day to day life is sometimes interesting, sometimes full of insight, and sometimes just plain weird. So, here for the very first time is the totally insane rantings and ravings of Catherine. I don't normally approve of sharing my thoughts with the internet at large, but what the heck. Let's give it a try, shall we?

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Hmm...

So, it's a bad thing when the University of Michigan Ross School of business wants to use one of your photos in an email version of an article about how a cluttered workplace reflects poorly on you, right?

Labels: odd smells in my office, photos, postcards, published, send me love, sending our love down the well

posted by Catherine, 10:58 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Friday, September 28, 2007

Yo, all...

Been very slack with blogging recently, I know. But it's okay, because the PhD is mostly going along, I survived my review meeting without tears and someday I hope to graduate. Please god let me graduate. Oh, and I moved offices again. Which was probably the best solution to the bee problem (though filling the hole in the wall was a good attempt).

I'm going away to Mudgee tomorrow, to get some driving experience, since I'm only halfway through the practice I need to get my driver's license. I'd like to get my P plates before I go away in December. Have fun without me, and don't burn the place down in my absence.

ETA: I keep forgetting to tell you guys, but I signed up for a cake decorating class. Expect interesting photos once it starts.

Labels: bees, cake, feeling better (with application of alcohol), fire pretty, mudgee, odd smells in my office, phd

posted by Catherine, 6:35 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Monday, September 10, 2007

Brought to you by the letter 'B'...

Today's office bee count: 8 dead when I arrived in the morning, 2 alive before the buildings and grounds guy came to check on the room and 5 more alive ones afterwards.

In some ways I'm looking forward to the excitement that going in tomorrow morning will bring.

Labels: bees, feeling better (with application of alcohol), odd smells in my office

posted by Catherine, 10:45 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

AIIEEEEEE!!!!! BEES!!!!...

The PhD is going great, I'm having so much fun at the moment and the thought of spending my entire long weekend working on it doesn't fill me with dread at all.

So instead, I would just like to declare: Bees! In my office!!!

Labels: bees, odd smells in my office, phd

posted by Catherine, 2:52 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Thursday, May 17, 2007

A minor rant...

But first, a note to say that if you're going to reference someone in your blog multiple times, Catherine, it helps if you actually post the original rant, rather than keep it hidden. *_*'

Frankly, dude, if you're never in, don't tell me how to run the office. Yes, it's warm in here for the first twenty minutes of the morning until the cold air outside causes us to normalise. It's not hot, and it's not even that stuffy. It's just a bit warmer than you would expect for a May morning.

And don't go switching the air conditioning on without first closing the windows. The gods of climate change (and my rage at your continued existence) will smite you for that.

Labels: odd smells in my office, paging the jigoku tsuushin, stupid people

posted by Catherine, 9:34 AM | permanent link | (0) comments

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Slipping through the cracks in reality...

So, every time I step out of my office, I am greeted with this view:

And every time I find myself pondering why that doorway was bricked up. Was it too cold? Too noisy with all the students walking back and forth? Is there someone trapped inside, unable to get out but still able to breathe through the snorkel?

Or is it the case that there was never a door there, and I am the only person to see that the wall's texture changes at that point? Perhaps it's a portal to another realm, and if I just take the courage to step forward and touch the cement I will find that my fingers slip through it and I am magically transported to another world.

On the other hand it's probably just the quantum physics students being antisocial again.

Labels: doorways and portals, magic, odd smells in my office

posted by Catherine, 11:19 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Thursday, March 22, 2007

A seriously crappy day was just made better...

Me: 9 people in the office...
James: Time to vote someone off.

Labels: I want to go home now, love my boy, odd smells in my office

posted by Catherine, 12:29 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Rah...

So, they moved me from my office of awesomeness into a cubicle farm of doom and gospel music (and while I have no objection to gospel music as a form, it bugs the hell out of me that I have to spend all day either blasting techno in my ears or listening to how much the person sitting next to me loves jeebus).

Labels: odd smells in my office, paging the jigoku tsuushin, stupid people, why didn't I post this?

posted by Catherine, 3:59 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

I liked my old office...

It was nice and big, there were only three people in it on the busiest of days and only one person could be gazing at my screen while they were at their desks.
Sure, it didn't have air conditioning, but it had a fan, which was nice, and most of the time I was the only person there.

Now they've put me in a huge cubical farm, with no whiteboard, air conditioning that is on by the vote of a committee of overheated peoples (I should not have to wear a jacket at my desk) and they won't stop talking. If they're not arguing over the position of the fridge (which I suspect Korinne won't be happy about, since everyone will be congregated at her desk if it stays where it is), they're fretting over what numbers the phones currently possess (which are being changed as soon as IT services gets around to it) or they're just fucking talking all the fucking time!
I was told it was going to be quiet in here. That it was nicer than my old office. That I would be seated with a bunch of people who are never in. Only now those people are saying that they like it so much they want to be in all the time, and they are all looming behind me making it so I can't concentrate and do any work.
Frankly I'm tempted to switch my computer off and move it back, because I'm really very unhappy here. Either that or switch the position of my desk so that I can face the window (another plus of my old office) with my screen pointed away from everyone else.

I hate it here, and I wish that W would get off the fucking phone and do some bloody work. It takes him an hour to drive here, he ought to respect that effort more and not spend the whole time talking to his wife.

Edited to Add: Break out the fucking headphones, or I will break them out for you, dipshit. Your taste in music sucks arse.

Labels: get off my lawn, I want to go home now, never going to graduate, odd smells in my office, stupid people

posted by Catherine, 12:14 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Overheard at Central Station Last Night...

Hello passengers and welcome back to Central Station.
It's wicked Wednesday and all trains are travelling approximately on time.
Have a great evening and thank you for travelling with cityrail.

Labels: nice people are nice, odd smells in my office, public transport, reaffirming my faith in humanity, trains

posted by Catherine, 9:08 AM | permanent link | (0) comments