Week's Flown By

I remember waking up for work on Monday thinking "aw shit, this is gonna be another long week." and feeling like utter crap. But surprisingly, I'm already writing this on the Saturday after and wondering where all the time went. I'll try to recall the week best as I can.

Monday started out pretty shitty cause dad decided that on the way to work, he wanted to pick up some gas, which could ultimately make me miss by bus and be late (because I still needed to buy smokes as I was freshly out and I didn't want to do it in front of him). But the gas station had something going on with their pumps - I didn't catch all of it, something like "wrong labels on pumps" so my dad ended up driving us around the gas pumps for like 3 minutes trying to find a pump, dodging other cars. I thought he'd give up and drop me off at the bus stop before going to another gas station but no, he wanted to complain. Really pissed me off so I went and bought my smokes when the attendant was helping him fill up (seems like the labels were stuck on the night before but hadn't been taken off yet).

At work, Mat was telling us how tired he was - hadn't slept in a long time and later that night he was going drinking with some girl, and how his body wasn't going to be up to it. I told him it'd be best to have gone drinking the night before and it was stupid now he wanted to do it now especially when he was so tired, but he shrugged me off in Mat fashion.

The next day (this was either Tuesday or Wednesday, I honestly can't remember the week too well) was possibly the worst day of my life. I was in the worst mood at work cause I wasn't catching any bugs and the ones that I wanted to catch, I couldn't cause Adrian was borrowing my tape recorder. So I thought I'd just ad-hoc for awhile, try to repro a bug I found late into the game but I couldn't cause the computer was kicking my ass and I couldn't make it that far. That morning my bug count sat at NOTHING. Finally after lunch we received our first scripts of the week and some new builds with new front end music and everything. Mine was testing to make sure all the poses and facial damages were in there, and some weren't so I had some nice bugs to write up bringing my count to 2. Woot ...

George, Sara and I were discussing how Mat wasn't at work that day so we were wondering what's going on. We theorized that he got fired because the rate he's missing shifts is not cool, and the fact there was someone else sitting at his desk now. George tried calling him on his cell phone to figure out what was going on but it was off. The next day George said he probably got into a car accident, which made me feel bad cause I remember telling Mat on Monday he'd better watch out or he'd get into a car accident and laughed about it.

Thursday was ridiculously windy. Sitting outside the cafeteria during breaks, the wind was blowing tree bits into my coffee. There wasn't a cloud in the sky but hte wind made is so freaking cold. Talked outside with Tricia and Chad at lunch for awhile, trying to move in the the sunlight where it was slightly warmer and that's really the most I remember about Thursday.

And yesterday was Friday thank god - Week was over before I knew it, and I was still willing to work one more day in a row and I'd start getting overtime for it, hahaha. Oh yeah, sometime earlier in the week, we got offers to do overtime, so I offered to do overtime for NHL09 for PS3 but I never got called back for it. Dave did though, lucky jerk. And he supposedly did that overtime today which means more money for him. Next week and I have Wii guidelines training. Of our team, it's only me and Donovan getting that training. Why they chose us over everyone else to get it, I don't know but at least more than one person on the team will know it, even though it's something I think everyone should know.

That's about the most noteworthy things that's happened to me this week. You know I hate to say it but when I was jobless, it seemed by blog entries were alot more exciting even though it was possibly the worst period of my life. Right now, I'm doing a little better financially (getting 300 odd bucks a week isn't too bad) but there's till the bruised ego I have to attend to. I think that might be the main reason I'm still hurting even after I've gotten a job and am well on the way to success ...