What a weekend! Friday night mom and I ventured out to the football game at Robinson to see my alma mater (not even sure if that's the correct usage of the term)... the team was pretty awful, but the band was rather good and I got to say hi to my old retired band director. We left after halftime since it was a chilly rainy night and the team was losing, and I went to bed early that night. Saturday I slept in, made delicious omelets for me and mom, and then went out to DC for a date... giant lattes, falafel for dinner, and a live blues band rounded out our evening, and I was up way too late. On Sunday my brother and his girlfriend came up for dinner, and we got to eat yummy Thai food! After dinner, I went over to Laura's to catch up (best friend from high school) with her and the fiance...
Monday morning... Actually, just glanced at the clock and realized it's already past noon! I feel like I've done next to nothing since getting to work this morning, while really I've made one or two important phone calls and distributed like 4 FedEx envelopes... I also got to call my friend Lisa, the lady in building management who always answers when I call for the 47th time to tell them it's too cold in here and she promises to "have somebody out right" away to fix it... As I write this I'm wearing the old faded black hoodie I stole from my last job and which I keep in the bottom of my personal drawer for just such an occasion, and sipping my third chai latte of the morning just because it's really warm (well, it is now that I microwaved it again). I think I'm going to be sick if I don't eat something solid soon to soak up all that tea!
... I really don't know what I'm supposed to do with downtime at work. I know it's usually frowned upon to surf the internet or do "personal" activities while at work, but I'm an assistant. I don't really have my own projects to work on, unless my supervisor asks me to help her with something, and she happens to be on vacation this week. I just finished a big project on Friday, and nobody else has asked me for help in the past couple of workdays, so my to-do list for the day only has three items on it: the first is to contact building management to "have somebody out right away" so they can install our new water filter. I've already emailed, and just need to let the guy in whenever he shows up. The second is to get in a shipment of new water filters, which doesn't even require me to be here as I already placed the order and they know where we are. The third is to set up a meeting with a guy who hasn't emailed me back yet to set up the meeting, so I'm just waiting for his email.
I like this job; seriously, I do. But I really don't know what they expect me to be doing in between projects and mass mailings other than messing around on my computer. At least here I look busy, rather than having out a book or my iPhone or being away from my desk... but still, I'd rather be actually working. It makes me feel useful and makes the time go by faster. Also I like to feel that I've earned my paycheck at the end of a long week. So, I'm going to send a few emails to the coworkers I feel most friendly with and see if any of them have projects I can help out with. Barring that, I've got to start studying a new subject or something if I'm going to have chunks of free time like this with internet access, so at least I'd be doing something productive.
Any suggestions would be welcome, those four of you who follow my blog and might actually read this. Thanks =P
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