Well, that just pilfers the chocolate Hob Nobs… in OD

So, last time I wrote about my work was on the 22nd of last month and I didn’t have systems access.

Well, I still don’t have systems access. Kinda.

Since moving to the Middlesbrough office, I have mostly been reading, dealing with mail and writing.

Not that kind of writing. They have dividers for our personelle files and the first one also has a thing for saying what each section is actually for.

I’ve been the one writing that information there.

This far, I have done about 420 of the bloody things. They usually give me 3 boxes at a time and each box contains 30 of the fuckers.

Do you know how much it bloody hurts doing that? I’m still getting the feeling back in my fingertip.

Oh, and I also open the door for people. Cos the bloody magnetic bloody lock keeps causing bloody issues.

Still, my team leader got excited today as she had actually been given a user id for me to get onto the system which allows me access to all the other systems. I still have to use the guest log in for actually getting on the computer (to be fair, so does she) but all i’d need to do is phone IT and get my password.

Simple, right?

Oh, how poorly you know my work…

I phone up, tell them what I need, my manager goes through security checks , they put me on hold and…

It turns out I’m not authorised on the system to have access to Citrix.

I tell my manager what happened. Turns out, I should have been given a reference number.

So, I phone up, again, go through the whole process, again, get the reference number, give it to my manager and go back to reading The Time Travellers Wife.

And now I’m begining to think that, at work, I am the Milton.

In other news, I didn’t get the Northern Promise thing I entered for. Ah well. I’m going to keep writing the novel (work actually helped me with that, it gave me a great idea that really helped unlock things) and the Bloody Scotland results are this month so, still got fingers crossed for that. Also, came up with another book idea and a couple of things I really want to get into a story.

Going to finally see The Dark Knight Rises on Wednesday, so in preperation I went to a Batman Begins/The Dark Knight double bill. Two films for the price of one and I already knew they were awesome. How could I really turn that down?

(Incidentally, am I the only one who finds it amusing that the tumbler has a GPS system?)

Booking my tickets home for Jamies blessing tomorrow. And the great thing is that because of when it is and when I finish work, I don’t need to book time off work.

Which I couldn’t do anyway, I need system access for that.

Still missing Nessa monster like crazy.

Will