flashback - at work!

yesterday

somehow managed to get out of bed (almost) on time. i came in half an hour late, but i figure they kind of owed it to me from the half-days i DIDN'T take. i slept until just before lunch, ate the crap they gave us, and spent the rest of the day doing random stuff.

including finding out that the army had the wrong bank account number for me... which theoretically meant that i didn't receive any paychecks for half a year.

had a horribly burnt toasted sandwich and passable lemonade for supper (7pm?), then crashed after watching fifteen minutes of fahrenheit 9/11. and i crashed HARD.

today

started off the day with a WEIRD work problem. at roughly 10, i started running around the base 'cause one of my soldiers was officially AWOL. which was bullshit - they've sent him off into the sticks to guard, and forgot to fill out a form. my welfare officer and i tried sorting out my bank issues telephonically, but

i ended up going to the bank personally anyway. trying to fix aforementioned problem over the phone, without success.

once i'd gotten to the bank, and waited a bit, i got the manager to help me out. and everything went smoothly. and i discovered that i did, in fact, receive all my money. two thumbs up.

had lunch, went past my boss's place for coffee and a chat, then returned to the base. it took me a loooong time to get back. i don't know why.

the problem had sorted itself out by the time i got back - we don't know what happened. i *hate* those problems. i spent the remainder of the day clearing out email, paying visits to people, and consistently doing badly in tetris.

i went straight home, and watched the rest of fahrenheit 9/11. that is one helluva documentary, mike. well done. funny that it doesn't show anything we didn't already know, but his points are lucid and valid. i don't know why everyone was complaining about the conspiracy theory thing, it's not directly related but it does make a few good points.

the fact that i'm reading 1984 right now does help :P

speaking of which, i don't know why i didn't remember the book as being THIS good the first time i read it - maybe i just didn't appreciate it enough due to inexperience. or something.

i'm now at work, after getting here all sweaty because the bus system sucks ass. gonna go prep - coffee and cigarette time.