System Overload

[offbalance]

AAAAH! Orientation was half an hour shorter due to the woman who was supposed to explain all of the IMPORTANT stuff to us being out. So she will schedule individual sessions with us. Which is good, as I have a giant box o'paper to browse through. .__. eep.

Now I'm back at my desk, getting hungrier by the minute and trying to do many of the things that my actual 'job' now requires. My brain is trying to process and remember all of this data, and is acting slower than Windows 3.1 in a 386! AAAH! (And I forgot to bring in that stupid pad I was planning to bring in to write everything down in.)

Oh, and we got invites to the holiday party, and we're allowed one guest each. And it's going to be a HUGE thing at this big club, with the entire parent company, our company, et.al. I heard someone say something about a couple of thousand people. Another grand reminder of how life as a singleton pretty much sucks. No date on national holidays or for office functions. *sigh*

I think I got flirted with by a (really cute!) guy who works at Forbidden Planet yesterday, when I was buying something. Which is nice, at least I know I'm not grossly deformed. Still, I'm surrounded by much older people who all have husbands and wives, and some sort of S.O.s, and I'm just this silly little recent grad with not so much as a nibble. *sigh*. I know I just got the job sorted, and this will all happen when it's meant to, and bull shit ad nauseum, but being single this time of year is really the hardest. I keep almost thinking that the job hunt is much easier than the hunt for a prospective romance, but I know that's a load of self-pitying crap. *sigh*


But anyway, work. I went Christmas shopping yesterday and got a few more things for some people, among them angelicillusion, Raskin, Jeff, and my dad. Jeff and I had the usual really good time we always have, I successfully managed to pick the most overpriced restaurant in a 20-block radius *shakes head* and avoided Sephora. ;)

(and in more fun news, big thanks to dotsomething for her reccomendation of the Birds of Prey trade pb. I haven't read all of it, but what I *have* read is really great.)

Anywho, I should really get back to work. Yeah.

Comments

[lauralatham.livejournal.com]

I totally hear ya on the crappiest time of year to be single, besides Valentines, which come in a close 2nd place.

I like to tell myself that on some internet journal site out there, there is a cute guy writing how it sucks to be single at christmas and another single(and equally as cute) guy is writing a reply that he too feels his pain.

...if they only knew where we were.

:)

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[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. *crosses fingers and hopes*

[femmedyke.livejournal.com]

Christmas always brings up a lot for me, too. I mean, I have Dane, and I am truly grateful for that, but my parents split up ON CHRISTMAS DAY, and it still affects me, even though that was nine years ago.

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[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Oh my God! That's horrible! And it totally trumps all of my whining. I will shut up now! *hugs* I can see that bothering you. That's the sort of thing that never ever gets easier.

[femmedyke.livejournal.com]

No, whining is COMPLETELY allowed! :) *HUGS*