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One of the guys at work referred to the large hadron collider as “the big kaleidoscope” today and thus the large hardon kaleidoscope meme was born.

Well, I should have known better than to have trusted all those in the chain that my contract paperwork had to go through in order to go from a temporary employee to the comfort of a permanent role. Of course once I had made the assumption that all would go well, it did not. Instead of attaching my paperwork along with some others, it lay forgotten in the digital wasteland that is an Executive Assistant’s computer and did not reach the appropriate people to get me paid.

Of course, the people that it was destined to reach are a government-run outsourced nightmare of bureaucracy and stupidity so I thought it would be them at first. Alas, they had not received the paperwork so it was most likely to be a fault on our end.

The complete lack of information on who to call and talk to in this place is just mind boggling. I had to ask two different people before I could find the wrong person that just happened to know who the paperwork had gone.

They had to call me back because there was much walking and discussing to happen. I’m sure there’s Tolkien-esque paragraphs I could write about the rage that boiled inside me.  I won’t, I hate Tolkien.

I will say that I was physically twitching and feeling decidedly unwell with rage. And lo, it was solved! I got a call from RR, the wonderfully sweet young lady that is the Executive Assistant to someone incredibly important far up the chain. As the fires of anger raged within my gut, my heart and mind were instantly calmed. I can’t explain it, I couldn’t yell at such a Nice Young Lady. Her sweet voice was the music to the beast within.

As it stands, I got paid enough to pay rent and have splash cash, and I should have the rest by the end of the week. Sigh.

Dear User,

Repeat after me: The address bar’s history is NOT your bookmark folder!
Thanks,

yale.

Boy I love spam some days, it’s just … weird We had this one forwarded to us to block, I wonder if it’ll break something in our wonderfully crap filtering system.

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Sent: Monday, 11 May 2009 10:06 AM
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As I was leaving the carpark tonight on my bike I was going down the ramp as the carpark chicky was going up to leave… you could see the “oh fuck, cmon” on her face which is fair enough. She said something about not having change, and knew there was no way I was going to pay five times the bike rate, so … I said “you didn’t see me.”

After a second or so of blank stare, she said “yeah, that’s right, have a good night!”

I’m a fucking JEDI!