hooray for today

I tried to go to bed nice an early (around 930) but couldnt sleep because my knee hurt from basketball earlier that night. Finally after watching the end of the unc wake game i was tired enough to try sleep thru it. I finally fell asleep around 11. Then at 1230 someone text messaged me and woke me up, which is a pain because once im back awake the whole awful process of falling asleep starts all over again. So around 2 i was finally asleep. This only leaves me 3 hours to sleep because i need to wake up at 5 to be ready for work on time. After not getting much sleep, i over slept until 518. I have to be ready to leave by 6 because thats when my ride leaves so we can be to work on time. I scrambled and was outside (where it was 23 degreees) waiting for him by 605. His car was there so i knew he didnt leave without me but he didnt come outside so i wasnt sure what to do. At 610 he finally came outside to tell me he really overslept and is just gonna work late today and hed see me tomorrow. so that meant i had to run back inside, get my keys, scrape the ice off my windshield and rush to the metro station. I finally got on the road by 620 which is generally about the time im arriving at the station. So i sped to work in really thick traffic, the whole time wishing i was lucky like shia lebitch and that my car would transform at any second and id be able to stomp a hole in the idiot tailgating me. when i finally got there, the metro was crowded and i had to sit next to some smelly weirdo, who was laughing at the crime section of the newspaper, while the heater in the car burned the hair off the left side of my head because it was set to "volanic". All in all i was only 18 mins late to work. once at work things slowed down for a bit which was nice until i decided to talk to my boss about getting leave for thursday so i could work my other internship. He said sure but i couldnt use my RDO (registered day off) cuz i only get 1 per pay period so id just have to use leave, which i knew. I just didnt know how much leave i had. So i wanted to check. Upon checking it said i had 0 hours of leave. Our office secretary told me i had probably been paid for it after working here over the summer but she didnt know for sure. She gave me the name of another woman to speak to and that woman, christine, told me to check my last pay stub on employee express, the payroll website. I figured that didnt seem too tough...wrong. I didnt remember the password from summer so i asked for a new one. But instead of the email me option, it gave me the mail me option. So in a week i can expect an actual letter with my new password (which will end up being voided out anyway). I decided to try and remember my password which failed miserably and i tried so many times it locked me out. So i called their help desk and waited on hold for 13 minutes. Then a man named beau (im assuming from the dukes of hazard) told me it was my agencies fault not his so i should stop blaming him...the problem was obviously with my pop up blocker. After 5 minutes of arguing with this i.t. einstein i convinced him that when i told him my pop up blocker was off that i wasnt just "pullin his leg." Then he blamed it on my "furwall", told me to call my agencys i.t. and to have a nice day. i know for a fact i have been on that site before and neither my furwall nor my firewall stopped me, so i knew he was wrong. I went back on the employee express site and tried to redo the email me feature, so i could avoid calling him back. i filled out all the info correctly 8 different times but it kept telling me one piece of info was wrong, so i kept re trying all of it...it turned out my birthday was wrong...silly me after 20 years i dont know the day i was born. i forget ALOT of stuff, but i know my birthday altho according to them i dont. so because they think my bday is different than i do (maybe they know something i dont) i figured id see what they think that bday actually is. so i called their help desk again where i waited for 18 minutes this time. The next woman, who sounded like she was the inspirational character behind the beverly hillbillies, was nicer and while ignorant, was semi less worthless. she again blamed my agency and told me to call "them people" i "worked about with" (whatever that even means). she told me to call "burburuh willyams" at "ta un ta- ta sex sev- three et sev three"...she got really annoyed when she had to repeat that for me 5 times, man am i an idiot cuz i cant even take down a simple phone #...at least she could say three right, gotta give her that. So i checked for barbara williams in our employee directory and it had the same number that i had translated from hillbilly (its a sad day when they let people who dropped out of a west virginia community college run a government related employee payroll site, i can thank george bush for that im sure). anyway, i call mrs williams and she doesnt answer. so i call our HR person, christine, back and ask her to call our payroll and see if i got paid for those leave hours and she said sure but it might take a few days (which is sweet cuz im only here till friday and the day i wanted off was thursday, there goes that). After that i tried barbara williams back and after making me explain my problem 4 times, she said sure shed look into it for me and call me back in a bit even though she wasnt sure how she would go about seeing what birthday they actually had stored for me. (i'm sure somehow this is all my fault where on 1 of the 83 forms i filled out to be rehired here i wrote that day's date on a birthdate line so they wrote down i was born 12/14/2008, because noway that would seem odd to anyway entering it into the system). its currently 1238, i havent been able to actually do any of my real work, i havent eaten really today and the best thing i can say about today so far is that for the most part every1 has been really nice if not totally stupid. oh and i set up a computer for a new employee i probly wont meet until i come back to work here this summer..that really validated me waking up today, good thing this day wasnt a total abortion from the start! the minute i get in my front door tonight around (which means at no point today will i see the sun), im eating dinner, turning my phone off, and sleeping from like 7pm till 5am; just to make up for the fact that today ive spent more time on the phone today then i spent asleep last night. that is the single thought keeping me from walking out of the building right now, good thing i only have another 4 hours of work left, plus an hour and fifteen minute commute! Standing on the metro on a day where my knee is swollen with fluid like a deformed grape fruit sounds ideal. im about to lance my knee cap because honestly its not like i could be in more physical discomfort anyway and theyd have to let me use my sick leave then right? right? Thats what i get for trying to play basketball last night and enjoy myself instead of just resigning to the fact that my life is the equivalent of a gawdawful sitcom. its not funny to me (but neither were 36% of all episodes of Friends)and i know itd get better ratings that house of payne, the #1 rated cable sitcom in 2008! God bless america but as soon as i have enough money im heading south to try and start a chain of bait shops on the coast in the yucatan area of mexico.