Bored...

[amezri]

Been at my mom's office since 8am. Not much to do here. I already looked through my other New Zealand guide book, but it wasn't too helpful. Meh. I thought I brought the Alias: Recruited novel with me, but I guess I left it at home. Didn't take the first Potter book, so I don't have that either >_< Spent the first 4 hours here sitting in a chair listening to Bowie on my discman and staring at the floor. Yay? Her office suffers from that weird thing that a lot of offices seem to - it's deadly hot outside, but like an icebox inside. I'm freezing in here.

It's frelling hot outside. 90 degrees or something today. Blech. Mom and I had lunch in the park. There was a nice breeze under the tree. Can't believe this, but I can't wait to go home. Next time I come I'm bringing sufficient amounts of things to do, that's for sure.

If my father doesn't hog the TV tonight, I'm gonna try to watch my Homicide DVDs. I can't even remember when I last saw the premiere episode.

Comments

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

When you read Alias:Recruited, will you tell me what you think of it?

[amezri.livejournal.com]

I will :) Just gotta get off my butt and read it ;)

[bee-oh-three.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a lot of offices are like that. My mother keeps bringing a sweater to work even though it's blistering outside. Of course I get the opposite, the non-air conditioned warehouse, which sucks just as bad.

Office work sucks anyway, especially if you have nothing productive to do. Internet is always an option...

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[amezri.livejournal.com]

Well, see, if I was actually working, I think I'd be okay. It was just the fact that I was sitting there for 8 hours with nothing to do. Not even internet except when my mom had a meeting.

[fyrdrakken]

(Stupid fucking LJ lost the post I made on this subject. So I get to recompose from memory...)

The latter two-thirds of my eighth grade year I took a city bus to my mother's office every day after school and hung out in the unoccupied cubicle next to hers until it was time to go home. I loved it, largely due to the huge public library mere blocks from her office -- every week or so I'd swing by there on the way over, and then I'd happily read (or do my homework, if I had any that day) until the end of the working day.

As for the AC, that's a familiar complaint down here -- indoor icebox to counter the outdoor oven. It's particularly nasty for me right now because my car's AC is out, and I'm having to struggle to find a business casual compromise that won't have me dripping with sweat by the end of the drive or freezing my butt off at work.

The above complaints are why I carry a big backpack rather than a purse, since it has room for all the useful things I've learned to carry. Such as a book at all times (or two or three, if I'm very near the end of the current read or expect to get in a lot of reading time before my next chance to change out books at home), and a rolled-up flannel shirt to put on in case of AC chill.

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[amezri.livejournal.com]

It seems that all offices suffer from that same problem. The help desk I worked at in Oneonta was so cold that everyone would have to wear a sweater or a fleece. Meanwhile it's 95 degrees outside.

I'd probably carry a backpack over a purse too. I'm alwaysing loosing purses, but never forget my backpacl :)

[fyrdrakken]

The backpack thing I blame on the weekend I spent in Paris armed with nothing but what I had in my purse and coat pockets. So when that purse's zipper broke, I went looking for serious cargo capacity in the replacement and wound up with a backpack instead. And now I can go on a weekend trip with nothing but a very small bag, or an overnight trip with just a change of socks and undies...