A Day and a Half..

I can’t believe it! I’ve made it through the week of hell! All will be well come Sunday evening. Woohoo! I’m all in one piece and everything too!

I had a passport scare last night. Regardless of me wanting to take a lil vacation up north, I realized last night when I was laying in bed that I had no good idea where my passport was. I searched my computer area, part of the garage, and my bedroom and couldn’t find the little bugger. I sat down at my computer and started filling in the lost/stolen passport forms and the new passport forms in Acrobat. Then I had this minor stroke and realized that there was a chance, no matter how slight, that my goodies might be in a secret drawer in some of my furniture. I ran over, opened the drawer, opened the drawer within it and there it was! My wonderful friend. My empty passport! It needs to get some stamps in it so I’ve gotta do some traveling (I haven’t been outside of the country since 1988).

So anyway, I dislike bad business etiquette. I won’t get into details about it to protect the people and the company involved, as I do respect their products and have a mutual friend with some of the people involved, but there’s a fine line between inconsiderate and rude. Unfortunately, the line was danced over a lot today. Everything is fine now but I have a thing about being where you say you’re going to be and calling when you say you’re going to call. I am very rigid and structured about protocols, and this unnerved me. I don’t like being put off. If you don’t have time to have an in depth conversation with me, call me and tell me that. Don’t blow me off repeatedly. Maybe it’s because I grew up in New York where business etiquette still seems to mean something. And that’s all I’ve got to say about that.

Anyway.. I was listening to this one in my truck coming home from work… here’s to Sunday night! Next Thursday begins my second graduate level class. I’m nervous because this is a “real” class, not some fluffy introduction course. Fortunately it’s on Human Relations so it shouldn’t be too overwhelming. The other good thing is that it doesn’t seem as though I’ll have to purchase a book. I’m glad I’m taking this course because HR has always been a mystery to me. I never understood how they weren’t the first group axed in a company’s budget cut, while programmers, tech support, and IT people in general seem to hit the fan first. I just never put any stock in HR people until I met the HR rep at PSU (Bonnie). She was awesome at her job. Unfortunately, people like her are an ever dying breed, regardless of their discipline.