Saturday, September 25, 2004
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My InboxGaad. Looking through my inbox at work makes my head ache. I see 2202 items (180 of which are unread) in the inbox, which I hope includes the mail I segregated to different folders per unit. I have so much irrelevant-yet-useful stuff clogging my mailbox. I knew I had a problem with the stuff in my inbox when someone was shoulder surfing (ha! New word I picked up from our information security thingamajig) and exclaimed, "Whoooaaa..." in a very shocked tone. I was looking for his general mail to us before and I couldn't find it. As in, it took me a while. He seemed amazed that I hadn't sorted out my mail so much. Yeah, my fault. I know his inbox is quite neat.I have a problem with deleting things. My cellphone has about 150+ messages stored there with memorable text messages sent to me by friends (especially long lost ones), (former) crushes (but still makes me kilig), general announcements from my favorite shops and so on. For my phone, it's more for sentimental value that's why it's so hard for me to delete messages. Sometimes, I think, I'm so over that phase/crush/etc so I can delete it, but sometimes I just can't because it's such a fun memory. Sigh. So it takes me much longer to delete things from there. Same goes with my personal e-mail address. Good thing Yahoo and Gmail offer larger storage space for sentimental packrats like me. But my work e-mail! That's another story. Sometimes, I'm in the CC field of the message so I get a lot of the sagutan which is not really relevant to me--although I have to admit, the process is fascinating. I get to see who to refer to to make something work or who's the point person. I can't just delete that because I think I'll need it later on (which is true). There are also long, overdue cases which I get in my mail, but I do need to keep for reference... It's really a lot and I've been segregating mails back and forth, deleting some others and I still have 2000+ in there! Goodness. And yes, I'm guilty of not reading some. I just read the replies from the other units, so that it's all in one mail instead of accessing each e-mail in the conversation. I realized I tend to delete the original or source e-mail as I know there'll be a string of e-mail replies to that, might as well just read the reply. So right now, while there's not so much to do, I'm trying my best to clean it out. And I'm getting a massive headache already reading everything from the beginning just to see if it's resolved already. Hmm. This is going to be a long afternoon.
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Monday, September 20, 2004
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I'm coming down with cough and possibly, cold. I think because I've been working straight for nine days last week. Even if I was in training (it was in a hotel!) last Thursday with April for work, it wasn't a literal day off. My dad says it's due to the change in the weather and yeah, I think so. It's been so cold in the office, in the hotel, etc. My cough isn't full blown yet, but I have a sore throat and my walrus-y cough is coming out... although I think I may have aggravated it. My throat started to ache last Friday, but no, I took two cups of ice cream (complete with nuts, whipped cream, chocolate syrup and cherries) that day and a Pure Chocolate from Coffee Bean on Sat. As Ravs said, just feed your cold. And today, I ate so much M&Ms, which I could feel was irritating my throat. Hee. I'm going to be paying for this!
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Sunday, September 12, 2004
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Haha, working on both Saturday and Sunday is both a bummer and quite fun. Generally fun--I got to bond with people I wouldn't normally get to talk a lot to. One of the boys na talaga ako! Candy and I were seated between three guys and well, they dominated the conversation so we were "one of the boys". Eep. I never got so much insight about guys, relationships, love and action films in one day. Which is good. I think.
Other than that, nothing new in my life. Gwennie was asking me how I am and I couldn't really think of anything to say. That surprised me. I find myself so boring all of a sudden! Ew, ganun, my life revolves around work lang?! Unbelievable (I can imagine Crissy's voice when she says that), not to mention pathetic. *hmph* Have to make things interesting. I think it's not interesting right now because, again, I am waiting. Waiting for what, I'm not exactly sure. All I know is everything is on hold because I'm waiting. One of my good friends at work also advised me to put on hold everything and wait and see what's going to happen. But then again, this is what I have a hard time dealing with my job: waiting and hoping for the best to happen and sometimes it doesn't work out. I'd really love for some definite answers right now so I know what to do! Kainis. For now, I'm giving the waiting until October--or is that too late? Ugh, I really really don't know what to do anymore. Yun lang. Just rambling. Weekends in the office can pretty much do that to you (ie, give you time to think). * * * Ang babaw ko, but everyone knows that one song that gets me all happy is "Dove" and hah! I found the lyrics online. My bro says it's not a song to sing along with, but I can't help it. Super aliw lang. Will be definitely sending the lyrics to the Fab Team's Yahoo Groups (it's our team song!).
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Sunday, September 05, 2004
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Had been looking forward to the teambuilding weekend for quite a while already--especially when I found out we were staying at a pretty nice hotel and we'd have a lot of free time. The girls were planning the rooming arrangements for two weeks already (two in a room!) and then... it's over. It was so-so fun, the activities were okay, the food passable and the room good enough (it was a hotel, so I didn't actually worry so much about it). It's just a sense of let down after a big hype about the whole thing and it doesn't live up to what was expected.
Anyway, as a result of the weekend, my body is aching. The coordinators were so right in telling us to wear jogging pants and sneakers. Gaad. It was so physical. We played under the sun (which is better, under the sun or in the rain? Or having it drizzly? I couldn't quite make up my mind because I longed for the rain or water or something. It was just sooo hot) as in the whole day. Good thing no one got heatstroke or something, considering. * * * I ran into my former Theo 120 teacher from college yesterday. He was standing in the hotel lobby and I was just coming in, very sweaty and stinky from the activities all under the sun (with no sunblock--I completely forgot all about that). Fr. Perez immediately recognized me and asked what I was doing there. Haha, how cute, after so many years he still remembers me. I also told him that this other guy from school was with me in this company outing, blah blah blah and then he advised me of the Mass schedules at the hotel. How thoughtful of him. Anyway, I spotted other people from school, but I have no idea if they were in the same program which was what Fr. Perez was asking me. I checked out the Mass as I thought he would be the one saying the Mass, but it wasn't him.
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