In which Miss Lunatic acquires a new nickname

I do not think that I betray any confidences by mentioning that $WORKPLACE has pulled in me and my counterpart because things have become very busy for them very fast. So our training is proceeding at a breakneck pace, and we are doing a grab bag of things, including stuff that involves answering questions from their clients.

One exchange, yesterday, went approximately thus:

$CLIENT: "Do you know about X?"
Me: "Uh, I can look it up."
Him: "Are you new?"
Me: "Yep, they just pulled a few people in because things were very busy."
Him: "This is what I need."
Me: "Hmm, yes; have you also considered ___?"
Him: "OMG WOW I NEVER CONSIDERED THAT YOU ARE A GENIUS I HAVE BEEN IN THIS BUSINESS 30 YEARS AND YOU HAVE ONLY -- uh, when exactly did you start?"
Me (somewhat smugly): "Thursday."
Him: "All right, Thursday, so what else have you got for me?"

I have been slowly but surely festooning my cube with little hand-drawn index card signs. The first one that I put up on my first day had my (given) name. The second one was a little rocket ship. The third one was an admonition about the proper operation of the Clippings extension for Firefox. And so on.



After the conversation with that guy, I pulled down my name-card and added "Thursday" to it. :D

35 tweets for 2011-2-8

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Tuesday, 0548: @ifonlyella Diaspora is starting for just this thing. It is a very clunky beta.
• Tuesday, 0554: Six hours sleep is not enough, but I am comfortably not-asleep. Likely will doze until alarm.
• Tuesday, 0556: No coherent memory of dreams. Seemed scattered.
• Tuesday, 0601: @ifonlyella I don't know from Thatcher, but a lot of things that seem sensible in principle turn out cruel in detail.
• Tuesday, 0609: @shirozora @ifonlyella My class notes used to be crocheted.
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