Monday, March 27th, 2006
miscommunication monday
i got out of bed later than expected today, got dressed and then realised i had not shaved. …so i undress and shave before redressing and walking out the door. i get to work right on time… all is well.
i’m suppose to goto my drug test and finger print thing for this contract i’m on at 1:15 and then i had an interview in richardson at 2:30. so i head to lunch at 12 with everyone else and head to do my drug test hoping i can get it taken care of. by this point, i had not gone to the restroom all morning in anticipation for the pee test… when i pull out onto 114, i realise my cell phone has been turned off because i never got around to calling them about my genormous bill to setup payment arrangements. too late now, i’m phoneless… as i head to find the address, i cant find the building so i ran over to the school that my friend paul works at to ask him to google the address so i can figure out where i’m suppose to be going. while i’m there i call mandy and tell her hello and inform her of my phone situation… i see the address on google maps and head back up oconner in irving where the place should be. there’s nothing at that address… realising i have the wrong address, i head back over too where my finger prints are suppose to be. by this point it’s 1pm and i really gotta pee. my patience is wearing thin.
i found the building for the finger prints rather easily, since i had detailed driving directions written down with my citi group packet. i pull in and find the visitor parking. there are not emtpy spaces. so i drive around for about 20 minutes and finally the pee situation has become a priorty and i head over to park in the back lot, that was emtpy. as i pull into a spot, a security guard comes over to tell me, i cant park there. O.O wtf. so i head over to the visitor spots again, still nothing open so i decide i’m done. and run off to find food. the urge to pee has exceded priority flag and has been escaladed to immediate after the frustrations at the finger print place. i made an escape to the walmart there in valley ranch and b-line to the back of the store. at this point it’s near 1:45 and i realise it’s time to eat and get on the road to my interview so i ran over to popeyes for some chicken… after leaving the drive through i notice i’m missing half my order. >_< instead of wasting more time to go back and argue my rice out of them i just ate and prepared to head to the interview in richardson. before hitting the road i made my way over to a payphone to let the company know i might be a bit late and that my cell phone was not working, but i would be there for sure.
thus leading me to my journey to get onto 161 from mac arther and 635. appearently there’s not an easy way to do this trek. that or i was just too damn frustrated at this point. i managed to back track 161 via industrial roads back to 114 and got on from there. after doing 80+ mph, i made it to my interview just in time. the interview went excelent. 3 hours later i headed back to work, due to traffic, i got back to work right at 4:30. i was suppose to get off work at 5, but because i knew i’d be out, and becuase we where short 2 people today, i planned on working late. i had planned on staying till 9pm but realised that i better head out earlier than that since i needed to get my phone taken care of and i figured my family and mandy would be looking for me.
i headed on home at 7 and was fully prepared to get to my house, track down mandy, who i thought was at her mom’s house working on her table, and take a monday evening nap. i got home, without anyone there and no cell phone i first tried gtalk. mandy was online and i found out that she had invited neo over for dinner. she was cooking us spegetti. which was great, but i was so not in the mood for any social time, and i was not even hungry. not too mention other issue i have with that situtaiton given my history. but anyways, things got kinda outta hand, mainly on my lack of relaying messages properly and mandy headed to my house, after dismising neo without dinner. before mandy made it to my house, my entire family showed up. i was so not in the mood. mandy showed up soon after and we talked about everything going on. she had a hard day too, so we’re back at her place now making dinner and unwinding.
i’m going to take care of my cell phone tommorow morning and i’m determined it’ll have to be a better day than today was. if not, there will be casualties.
also, tonight i found out that the company i interviewed with today will need to do a credit check. heh, yea, that’ll be interesting. also, the planet wants a follow up interiview asap. wooohooo! too bad there is no way i’m getting away for anohter interview during work hours this week. i’ll see what they can do. :)
