Furious, Frustrated, and other F words

I don’t even know where to start. This will most likely be incoherent but if I don’t at least attempt to get it out I may explode.
Step 1 in reaching this point was finding out a Big Work Thing at 5:15 on Friday. Without going into too much detail, basically as of the start of [...]

Ode to the IT Department

You fixed my laptop when its screen turned blue
Which is great ‘cause I have work to do
You recovered my files ‘round the clock
And that is why I say IT rocks 

When I called you AGAIN to make the projector work
You easily hid you desire to curse
You got my presentation off to a good start [...]

Blue Screen of Death

Yes. That’s right. On my work laptop. The very same laptop on which I have ALL of my files stored (backed up, but on my “personal server” which I can’t access from anywhere else without help from the IT dept) and the very same laptop on which I need to do countless work projects. To [...]

Sometimes I want to wring his neck, but I love him anyway.

The scene: I come home from work and trip over Matt’s shoes as I walk in the door. A few minutes later, I trip over another pair of shoes in the kitchen. Then I walk downstairs and, yes, you guessed, TRIP OVER ANOTHER PAIR OF SHOES. Mind you, I’m pretty sure that he only owns [...]

Battle Scars

Well.
As the weather gets nicer, it can only mean one thing:
It’s time for me to develop what I call my ’sandal calluses’.
Of course, in order for these to form, I have to endure the most awful blisters you’ve ever seen in your life. Because apparently I have the most paper-thin foot skin of any human [...]