work day

Working holidays is an exercise in frustration. I can only be glad I'm no longer in retail, and I don't have to put up with that sort of nonsense. But here, there are only too brief stretches of bored quiet punctuated by callers with special and aggravating needs. The people in the state facilities for the insane and mentally retarded like to call on days like this, because they get through. Normally, they get bored with the hold time and hang up. One guy from Rusk has already called close to twenty times in the past three hours. I had some weird person call to ask if the Abuse hotline was going to help him find a job. Angry parents and harried hospital social workers also call. I have four more hours, because the schedule in its cruelty put me down for a ten hour shift. I really don't know why, and I'm sincerely hacked off about.

All I can hope for is Saturday.

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Well there is a mystery solved. My voicemail was apparently somehow corrupted, in a way that baffled the phone people. Then it turns out I'm calling the wrong voicemail retrieval number. Fortunately, they figured all this out in relatively short order and now it's fixed. So if you've been unable to leave me a message in the past three weeks, now you can.

child's play

Bless the black little hearts of the guys at Penny Arcade. A post on my friends list today reminded me of Child's Play, the charity they started to provide video games and toys to kids in hospitals. (These guys are awesome, and this charity has zero overhead so all the money goes straight to the kids.) They've expanded enormously since that first year, and I saw they had wish lists for both Texas Children's and the hospital in Dallas. So there I am, shopping along and picking out all kinds of stuff.

They have My Little Ponies DVDs on the wish list for Texas Children's. I'm looking at them, and I find this one with the most hilarious review:


PARENTAL ADVISORY: NATURE WORSHIP & EVIL CHARACTERS, July 22, 2006
Rviewer: Brooke

We shut this show off within the 1st 10-15 minutes. Wow. First of all there are witches. Then the ponies have pyramids with "all-seeing" eyes on them where they live. Then they start a celebration where the sun shines through the clouds, shines on a jewel in the middle of the pyramids (kind of like a stonehenge ritual?), start singing a "nature worship/loving" song. Then the head witch looks at pictures of her ancestors on the walls that are long since deceased and asks them to come back and help her, they started coming back to life and stepping out of their paintings. This is where we shut it off and said NO MORE!

Oh my stars, I laughed so hard I cried. My coworkers must think I've cracked. And now, I leave you because I have to go buy satanic nature worshipping videos for the kids at Texas Children's Hospital. Bwahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!