Random thoughts before bed.

I just cleaned out a ton of voice mails, and resaved a few.

Among the deleted:
- creditors wanting money (as I have paid them since getting asked for money).
- a couple old messages I don't even listen to anymore when I save them.

Among the saved:
- my friend M's message from July 5th, 2004, when she gave birth to her baby boy.
- drsnicket calling to say she is now a permanent resident of the "Estados Unidos".
- my brother's birthday message from 2004 saying "Happy biiiiirthday. I don't know what to get you. Not at all. No idea. So, uh... you're getting nothing. Okay, call me back, bye."
- my lush yelling at me for letting him "stay up and drink... uh... continuously."
- some of the cuter messages from JB.

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Work was hell today. Seriously. It sucked. Except that I got listened to and my objectivity scores are staying at a decent level (YAY FOR NOT INFLUENCING THE RESPONDENTS! :D), which means I am that much closer to getting out of training and getting a raise of 25 cents/hour. Whee.

Oh, and we got let off 15 minutes early tonight. :D I don't know why.

OH, and my shift might be cancelled for Monday. I am crossing my fingers that it is. While the <does math> $36 would be nice, I REALLY don't want to do that survey again for another four hours and fifteen minutes tomorrow night. It SUCKED. And any of you who don't live in Quebec are spared my rambling French about credit cards, reward cards, debit/Interac cards and Canadian Tire financial services. (I had no idea Canadian Tire had financial services apart from the Canadian Tire money. WTF.)

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Americans, have a great fourth of July. I loved being down in DC for it. Nothing in the world is like being at the Lincoln Memorial on July 4th when they set off the fireworks. Happy Independence Day. :)

I find it odd that England/Great Britain doesn't HAVE an independence day like the US or like Canada. Why don't they celebrate the Roman legions being pulled back home in the 5th century? Or the arrival of the Angles and the Saxons and the Jutes? (I love Wikipedia.) Just a thought.

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I still miss JB and, therefore, am lame.

<cracks up>

I just saw an ad for an American Celebration at Ford's Theatre tonight, in honour of the Fourth of July.

The President will be attending.

Now... is it just me, or is having a sitting President hanging out at Ford's Theatre, the site of a presidential assassination, not exactly the brightest plan? ;)

Sigh.

I should leave for work soon.

I don't want to go to work.

Five people on my team have had their shifts cancelled. Am I one of them? NO.

Despite the annoyance that is commuting, I would love to show up and not have a shift, because they made a mistake. Unfortunately, this will probably not be the case.

I don't know why it is I am dreading work these days. The shiny, newness has worn off, I suppose. I've been there for about ... five weeks? Yeah, I started on the 30th of May. And I'm getting good at my job. My monitor reports are improving, my spoken French is improving, my flow (complete surveys/hour) is always better than the average...

I should graduate into a "real" team any day now, which will be nice. Apart from actually being out of training, I'll get an extra quarter per hour. Whee to $8.75 instead of $8.50.

And yet, I'm terribly unmotivated. I think it's because each survey is more annoying than the last. Either we're calling irate Americans, French Quebecers for a survey in English or the survey is really long. I'd like an easy survey, if you please. Just once, a short, easy survey that won't pry too much.

I would love to be put on a Canadian political survey, but those are usually tied in with other surveys.

Oh, and the Liberal MNA for the district I work in/my parents live in actually thinks my birthday is tomorrow. 5/7 is MAY SEVENTH, not JULY FIFTH.

Okay. Off to work.