The Current State of Things

Sorry for missing last week's entry. It was actually vacation time for me, though I suppose I could have at least included a short entry reminding all of you about said vacation; Originally, I dismissed such an entry as a lazy excuse, although in hindsight skipping the week altogether may also be considered lazy. Two lazy's don't make an up-to-date blog.

Part of it had to do with my scheduled deadline of Sunday. I had originally picked this particular day due to my upcoming work schedule, although I had recently found out that my new schedule won't take into effect until December.

Therefore, I'm moving the deadline up to Monday. From now on, all weekly entries will be made every Monday.

A vacation from work was greatly needed, considering the debacle that occurred last week; All of us trainees were under investigation, as it turned out a few of us were prematurely hanging up on our customers, either to reduce our call time (one out of three things we get scored on) or to just shut that annoying jerk up. Shortly after, a couple of people were called aside and to this day have not returned; Their silence confirmed their guilt. One person I wasn't terribly surprised about, since he was the equivalent of that one jerk in high school who always hung in the back of the room, laughing it up with his idiot friends and constantly being shushed by the teacher. I'm surprised he even lasted this long.

The other person, however, was a complete shock to me; He sat behind me under one cubicle, always showing dedication to his new job with clipped notes and daily monitoring of his scores. He even asked me beforehand if I had any clues which one of us was responsible for the early hang-ups. Either he was putting on a show, or he had no idea what he was doing.

Between the shock of seeing him being "suspended until further notice", and the fact that I was carrying the lowest hold time scores (lowest is best, by the way), I was constantly looking over my shoulder for the remainder of the week, worried that I would be approached next, despite my confidence that I was performing as expected. It didn't help that I had a vivid dream the following day, where I'm typing away at my cubicle, when suddenly this giant man (giant for someone who's over six feet, mind you, so he had to have been at least twelve or so) with a thick long beard and glasses towered behind me, quietly but deeply muttered "We need to talk." as he hoisted me up effortlessly with one hand on my shoulder. After taking me to a small desk, he then bellowed "Sit your ass down" and dropped me right to my chair. Afterwards, he pulls out a thick book and begins flipping the pages.

That's when I woke up. Needless to say, I constantly looked over my shoulder the following day. My boss got a good laugh out of the dream, though, and assured me that I the investigation was over.

I really needed that vacation. Sadly, I spent the majority of it playing Halo 3, though the real sad thing was that I'm not that sad about it; I'm late into the series, but I can see why it's so popular, although it's still ridiculously overrated (reports say the game made more money on its opening day than the movie Spider-Man 2).

As for this blog, I'm currently researching templates in the hopes of making the site stick out a bit more (although I made it a big priority that the text would be easy on the eyes, so I'll be sticking to light backdrops). I also included a little slideshow application in the bottom, which I'll be routinely updating with my photos. Feel free to pass along the ones you find preferable.

Finally, I'll be typing my first story, the one I mentioned in my opening post, onto my computer, then sharing it here. I won't make any promised dates on when it will be finished, but I can promise "soon".

Later.