September 2009 Archives
I've been hoping to start writing up again, because my life should be full of new and exciting things with my big move to Finland. But instead I've had the worst couple of weeks in recent memory. Allow me to recount for your entertainment:
- My lease was up on August 31, and I had to move out of my house. I am now bumming guest room space off friends and co-workers. I opted to do this to try to save my company money, thinking it would just be for a week or so.
- On August 24, we overnighted my work visa application to the Finnish consulate in Los Angeles. We were told it would take 4 weeks to process, maybe less. I got word two weeks later that the packet had finally arrived at the right office in Helsinki!? Apparently someone in LA left it sitting on their desk that entire time. The 4 week processing time hadn't even begun...and I had been homeless for a week already!
- On September 2, I was staying with a friend in Columbia City, which meant I got to take the new light rail train in to work. My office typically buys us monthly transit passes, but they were late for September. I was riding the train when the cops boarded to do their little fare audit...I pulled out my pass only to realize it was the one from August. The cops escorted me off the train at the next stop.
- On the morning of September 3, management announced more layoffs at work, but this time only affecting my group. This included the guy who sits next to me who is one of my favorites. This was totally out of nowhere, and very upsetting.
- On the afternoon of September 3, I stepped away from my desk for a couple of minutes in a hurry, and forgot to lock my desktop (which I'm usually very good about doing). It's a standard office prank to jump on someone's machine who is stupid enough to leave it unlocked, and send an embarrassing message to a distribution list. A guy from IT sent the following message out to the Analytics alias from me:
What the IT guy didn't know was that I had reconfigured my Outlook to my new email address for my new client. So instead of going to 20 or so people that I know at my Seattle agency...it went to hundreds (thousands?) of people that I don't know at an agency that is all over the world. Awesome. - On September 10, I arrived at my latest accommodation, house/dogsitting for my new boss. I thought I was done with the shittiest week in recent history, and then it happened...my week became LITERALLY shitty. The dog got a nasty case of diarrhea, and shit all over the living room floor. On three different occasions.
