Win

One of my co-workers, GB, sent me and another girl (RGD) an email at work after she had just completed a round of handing out chocolates to the team.

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From: GB
To: melody, RGD
Subject: Deals at Rexall

Laydeez

Good deals on once a month lady items at Rexall

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From: RGD

To: melody, GB

Subject: Re: Deals at Rexall

you call chocolate lady items?

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From: GB
To: melody, RGD
Subject: Re: RE: Deals at Rexall


Nope - I call chocolate delicious.  And I resent that you think I was only sharing cos I got a deal.  I will have you know that the chocs were full price. FULL price.  Such is the milk of human kindness within me.

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From: RGD
To: melody, GB
Subject: RE: Re: RE: Deals at Rexall

*mini violin*

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From: GB
To: melody, RGD
Subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Deals at Rexall

*crunch* - me stepping on your mini violin

*boo hoo* - you feeling sad next time I hand out chocs and you don't get one

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From: RGD
To: melody, GB
Subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Deals at Rexall


*growl* sound that will follow you as I wait for my chocolate.

*swoosh* sound of my catlike awesomeness taking the chocolate away for my enjoyment.

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From: melody
To: RGD, GB
Subject: RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Deals at Rexall

I have no sound effects for my actions - ninjas don't make sounds...

Quote of the moment

A worry shared is a worry halved.

There wasn't a credit for the saying in the book I borrowed the quote from, but this is my philosophy.  Even if I don't receive advice (or receive good advice) from sharing my problems, I can feel a weight lifted from just sharing my burden, and then I feel like I can deal with it head on.

S'no(w) joke

The last few days, as everyone knows, has had the news and weather reports screaming out warnings about the Snowmaggedon looming at the end of the week.  For me, the Frankenstorm (good ol' Hurricane Sandy) saw me out frolicking in the streets with Senorita and the last Snowpocalypse melted away within 12 hours of wreaking its white-out havoc (the fact that we had more than 4 able bodies lying around to shovel it away from my parents' driveway toned down the havoc as well - especially since one of those bodies was from Calgary and kept asking "is this it?" as he danced in a thin coat and running shoes through the drifts).  So you can kind of understand when the warnings went off about this upcoming storm, I was hesitant to call in the army.

However, following the lead of many of my co-workers, I made the preparations to work from home today, thinking that, if anything, it'd save me the GO train fare into the city and back.  When I awoke to the winter-wonderland that had been predicted, I was impressed.  I dutifully logged in and started to make my way through my to-do list that I'd brought home for myself.  As I worked, I couldn't help but watch the snow fall and fall.  I could actually make out a noticeable amount of accumulation of snow from the time I'd gotten up until that time an hour later.  This was is for real.

Two hours into the work day, my connection to the work servers became apoplectically slow.  Turns out it wasn't just me.  I received three emails simultaneously, shortly after that.

Email 1 from co-worker: "System has crashed. VPN won't connect. Will keep trying."

Email 2 from VP: "I've heard the same from the team here in Montreal. Please all take a break and stay safe. For the few of you in the office, please wrap up and go home."

Email 3 from Director: "Was just sending the same note myself. Travel safe everyone...see y'all monday."

Can't argue with that.  Wrapped up and saved what I could, then logged off to make the most (and in this case, that really means the least) of today's snow day.

BTW

I was just on the phone with the project manager of this massive project that I've been working on basically since I started here.  We had a quick chat about a few details for upcoming communications and some edits to some past ones we'd done.  We talked about our plan of attack for some web messaging and finished up with discussion about the invoicing of a side communication through a third party. We were just about to hang up when I heard her voice call me back.

   "Hey, melody?"
   "Yup, still here."
   "Oh good.  By the way, you're doing a great job."

That was nice.

Quote of the moment

This one actually happened a while ago.  It was at our first meeting with our new director.  He's great - he's taking a look at what we're supposed to be doing and at what we're actually doing, and trying to get us help to be as efficient as possible.

   "Please let me know if you need any help at all.  I want to take all the menial admin work off your plate so you can get back to doing what you do best.  You know - tech, writing, marketing, e-..."
   "Just to clarify, that's not the drug..."