Ooh boy, office jobs are so boring. I mean, some kinds of offices I enjoy very much –ones that are in a field I’m interested in, ones which are doing something important, or even just ones that are doing something totally boring but have a good culture – i.e. the employees like each other. Unfortunately my summer job doesn’t really fit into any of those three categories. my computer hasn’t arrived yet (after four days of full-time work) so basically I am doing ridiculous and useless work, like checking the entire website for spelling and grammar errors. Needless to say they picked the wrong guy. But then again, I now am dreading the arrival of the computer, because it means I’ll be held accountable for semi-independent work (creating all their .pdf graphic files in indesign). It’s just counting down the hours that really gets to you. Like right now, I have five and a half more hours here, since I’ve been here for two and a half. God this place is weird. It’s in this weird old seventies office building off of the freeway that goes to the airport. It’s one of those office bldgs with the orangy-glass cladding. From the window I’ve been sitting at, I can see the city’s skyline and the freeway leading towards it. The white dome of the Cowboy’s stadium is to the left, while endless car dealerships and fast food places are to both sides. One fun thing is to watch the weather roll in and out – it’s so flat here that you can see for hundreds of miles, so storms that are in Oklahoma are visible to the eye.
This building is really a dump - tons of mirrors, a rickety elevator, cockroaches, and an ornery maintenance man who claims he’s retired! Today they told me that the men’s bathroom is being used by “vagrants” at night, because the door lock is gone. I asked what vagrants, and they were all “don’t worry!” and I was like, I’m not worried, I meant seriously, what homeless person would come all the way out here on the airport highway to use these shitty bathrooms? And go to all that trouble? So my opinion is it’s an inside job. Oh boy am I excited to get out of work. Maybe it will be sunny and I can go to the pool.
This weekend was kind of sad simply because it rained the whole time, and I was so excited to go to the pool. But father’s day was yesterday and that was great because I made dad some blueberry and raspberry pancakes.
