spoke too soon in 2018

11:55am

So I guess at some point yesterday I opened a new entry window to start typing and hours later I came back to find it sitting there with not even a date. Honestly I don’t even remember opening the window so I must have immediately gotten distracted. It was kind of a crazy day, at least where the phone was concerned. That thing would not stop ringing. I think I’m going to have nightmares about it. =\

Less than a week to go!!

I’ve got 4 people on hold. One should finish today, one’s coming Sunday, one probably won’t come back, and then there’s the Sheriff. That kind, fun man that’s testing my patience.

It’s not even his fault. Which is probably what drives me crazy. Because the dude has legitimate excuses. The other day after he sent the emails I responded to say thanks. I thought it was his day off so I figured he was going to either call or tell me he was done but I didn’t hear anything else. Before I left the office I sent an email asking if I was still waiting on more stuff. My impatience combined with the fact that he’d been on such a response roll made it seem strange that he’d stopped replying. I guess I was the one who jinxed it. I got excited and spoke too soon! hah.

Yesterday when I got to work I did my usual routine of checking all my accounts. I got to the gmail one and I see a couple new messages, one with a headline about threats to schools, and I thought what the heck is this? I hardly use that account so I couldn’t figure out how I’d get such random spam. I glanced over and noticed it was coming from the Sheriff [at almost 1am!] and thought he’d been hacked. hah. From the preview I was able to see, “here’s what I was referring to…” and because I’m paranoid I went to check my other email to make sure it was him before I opened it. Too many people losing their information these days! Sure enough though there was a message in my work email about how yes I was waiting on more forms and he wanted to apologize for the delay but he’s been beyond busy. Apparently work’s been insane with arsonists and school shooting threats and he’d spent an entire day protecting a school just in case the threat was real.

I went back to read the article and I guess this threat is happening all across the country [and maybe in Europe?] where some random people online are sending these standardized messages to a ton of schools to see who can cause the most hysteria. So stupid. People are such idiots.

Dang it. So I was sitting here forever right? We had a client walk in about 2:45 and I was hanging out reading stuff online, helping when I was called, whatever. Then I decide it’s not too bad right now I should get up and use the restroom. I mostly wanted to wash my hands so I could eat a chocolate from the box JR brought after Easter [I haven’t had lunch today!]. I come out, search for a chocolate, and am contemplating how I can sneak it up front when mom calls me over to help because something isn’t transferring on a form. I was researching this issue when she whispers “J called”…Which one?…“The only one” with her eyes all big like duh girl. The Sheriff? I whisper back. Yup. I’ve been trying to get ahold of this guy for days and he calls in the 3 minutes it takes me to go to the bathroom. Ugh. She said she told him I wasn’t available and if he wanted to call back in like five minutes. He said he’d call.

It’s been almost an hour though and nothing so when the client left I verified that he was calling me and not that I was supposed to call him. She confirms he said he’d call. Also he was talking to her in Spanish and called me her “nina” or something about how I was looking for him. I haven’t gotten the whole story.

Two hours later and the phone call is complete! No, I didn’t spend the whole two hours on the phone with him. haha. Maybe like 40 minutes or so? Very productive. A little personal, mostly business. It was hard to stay completely focused because the phone kept ringing and people were coming in and out. I had to put him on hold twice to take care of other things but that wasn’t so bad.

It’s Friday now and even if I continue here it’s going to get too long so I’ll post and continue part two later. Maybe if I have time after I get home tonight.

rose.

Last updated April 14, 2018