Another Day of Drudgery

[lupestripe]

Well tomorrow's another weekday and I can already tell you how my day's going to pan out:

7.10am - Wake up, stab mobile phone grumpily to make the noise stop, go back to sleep
7.24am - Get out of bed and get dressed
7.26am - Brush teeth and flatten hair down through the miracle known as water. Inevitably spill toothpaste down my shirt, necessitating a change of attire
7.29am - Gather wallet, keys etc
7.34am - Get a lift to Yarm station
7.36am - Arrive at Yarm station
7.37am - Catch train
7.41am - Get ripped off by the extortionate prices TransPennine Express charge first thing in the morning
7.54am - Arrive at Northallerton station in a grumpy mood
8.01am - Buy milk from Tesco. Get no Computers For Schools vouchers. Get stuck behind the whole of the local comprehensive school buying E-numbers for their day of truency ahead. Every little helps my arse
8.07am - Arrive at work
8.08am - Sign in at work. Be annoyed that someone has written 8.10am in the book before me, denying me two additional minutes of Flexi.
8.10am - Switch on computer. Find it doesn't work. Try again
8.11am - Forget password. Hit computer for a bit. Remember password. Log in
8.12am - Pour myself a glass of said milk and put the rest in the fridge. Anticipate it to be warmer than Satan's Buttcheeks before 10am
8.14am - Lose will to live
8.17am - First assinine conversation of the day - usually regarding Big Brother or some other such nonsense
9.00am - Order toasted teacake from local sandwich place for breakfast. Order food for whole office too. Get one joker who wants to pay for a £1.25 bacon bun with a £20 note
9.20am - Get a colleague to make tea for me as I'm too damn lazy. It comes back resembling toilet sludge but I feel too self-conscious not to drink it
9.25am - Teacake delivered
9.26am - Find out teacake firm has overcharged me for my order. Complain. Anticipate they will do it again the next day regardless
9.40am - Finally wake up
9.41am - Wish I hadn't
10.00am - Observe Fire Alarm test (Monday's only). Release that the lady who announces that the Fire Alarm test is about to commence is louder than the Fire Alarm and put the idea to management that they should do away with the siren and just keep the woman
10.35am - Go to the toilet, release they are cleaning it, hang on for ten uncomfortable minutes
10.45am - Go to the toilet once more. Find someone has stuck a whole toilet roll in one of the toilets. Resign to using the pebbledashed one instead
11.00am - Receive motivational speech about targets and tasks for the day. Feel patronised
11.10am - Sink into depression after having entered the "dark hour" (11am-noon). Spend the next three hours trying to work out which way I fancy being ripped off for lunch today
2.09pm - Go to toilet
2.10pm - Go for lunch
2.40pm - Come back from lunch
2.41pm - Go to toilet
3.40pm - Recieve cake from colleague who is into home-baking. Release it's the best thing you've eaten all day and curse the packaged sandwich people for charging £2.50 for some soggy saturated fat wedged in a plastic container
4.20pm - Wash up cup and cutlery from the day's activities
4.25pm - Get phonecall from angry farmer demanding my time just as I'm about to go home
4.40pm - Leave work
4.53pm - Arrive at station
4.55pm - Chunter about train being four minutes late. Always
4.59pm - Catch train home
5.11pm - Arrive at Yarm station. Get stuck behind an old couple with a suitcase. Try to get past them and fail. Eventually manage to dodge round them and walk home
5.15pm - Contemplate getting alcohol from local supermarket. Generally resist temptation
5.37pm - Arrive at home
5.38pm - Go on computer
5.40pm - Check emails, LiveJournal etc
6.00pm - Do updates for my website

Not that I'm a creature of habit of course - I just live a painfully dull life during the week. Ah well, only three more weeks of this job before something far more interesting will come my way. That's the hope anyway...

Comments

[balto-mike.livejournal.com]

Surely working for DEFRA is exciting or extremely hectic currently seeing as you've got foot & mouth and NOW bluetongue too. You guys must be running around the office like headless chickens.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

We've been doing that for two years now - we've been in complete disarray. I like to think we're experts in the headless chicken impressions hehe.

My division of defra only deal with EU payments so we're not really involved in this mess. We may have to be if it gets as widespread as the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis but I don't see that happening. So it's just boring old payment processing for us. Ho hum :(

[(Anonymous)]

Just think; Money, weekends, furmeets, RBW. A mantra of positivity for the rest of the year.

[fen-ra.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was me.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Plus I'm changing my job :D

I agree there's a lot of positive stuff going on, it's just work really saps my energy and sometimes it's hard to enjoy all the other stuff because I'm so tired. The sad fact is that even though I get paid, for 40 hours a week I'm bored off my tits. Still, I change job on October 17 and my new role should be a lot more interesting and fulfilling. That's the hope anyway :)

[daisuke-miles.livejournal.com]

awwww busy wulf *hugs* u need something to cheer u up... soccer? :PPPPP omg cant wait to see sporting again, and oporto, damn i want sporting in 1st and porto in 2nd lol benfica in last lol, i have oporto scarf lol, the rest of family is mad, they all say to eachother "nvm him he's from oporto team" wtf lol

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I'm a Middlesbrough fan, soccer can never cheer me up. A life of pain and disappointment awaits anyone who supports the Boro :(

[daisuke-miles.livejournal.com]

awww the team isnt bad... well look to sporting, lots of draws and losing cuz something happened.. damn, oporto is winning all matches lol, oh well, last season sporting finished in 2nd with ONE point behind of oporto, the oporto started losing in the lst game, we were all happy lol, then they drawed and won lol, but oh well one week after we were in the final of portuguese cup, and won, yay! 2nd place + cup^^

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Thing is that Middlesbrough have only ever won one trophy EVER (the Carling Cup in 2004). We got to the UEFA Cup Final in 2005 and this has been the most successful period in our history. Our first Cup Final was in 1997. It only took us 124 years to get there.

We're an average mid-table Premier League team - little chance of winning anything and little chance of any real excitement. Grrr!

[daisuke-miles.livejournal.com]

awwww well u have hard teams in ur table too, if u jump over to pt table i think u will be like oporto^^

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

The Portuguese League is weaker than the Premiership, that's true. And if we got into Europe again I think we'd do quite well. But with the dominance of the top four teams in England, plus the fact that no foreign investors want to buy Middlesbrough, a lifetime of mid-table mediocrity looms :(

[daisuke-miles.livejournal.com]

awwww still a good team^^

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* - a mediocre team if anything. But thanks :)

MY! AREN'T WE THE ORDERLY FURRY!

[mefurry.livejournal.com]

Ya' forgot our occasional sparkling IM conversations........

--Me/Henry

Re: MY! AREN'T WE THE ORDERLY FURRY!

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Ooh that's true but after about 6pm I class things as getting interesting. Before then it's just drudge but hey I've only got three weeks of it to go now :D

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

As a pawnote - I got up at 7.25am this morning. This meant I was a minute late for the train and I had to dash down on to the platform screaming at the conductor to wait for me. Thankfully he did but it was all rather embarrassing. It's worrying that my schedule is so inflexible it doesn't take into account an extra minute in bed (and being stuck behind some old woman in a Ford Fiesta who was determined to go 40mph down a 60mph road).