Fun at Work

Work has been a living hell for the last few weeks, but today, despite our repro department calling me every ten minutes instead of just actually printing the damn stuff I gave them, turned out to be fun.

First, I had my performance review, which is always extremely anxiety-producing for me ("Oh, God. What if they tell me I suck and take away my internet access?"). But it was glowing and wonderful, with only a couple of notes, so I'm happy.

And since the last thing anyone wants to do after a glowing performance review is actually work, I wrote a silly little Stargate snippet to amuse myself in between the calls from repro. I produce it below for the possible entertainment of anyone else who has to do their performance reviews this time of year.

( Jack and Daniel Do Performance Reviews )

Then my boss (my Good Boss) asked me to tell her the end of the fourth Harry Potter book, because they only got a third of the way through the audio book on their way to the beach for Thanksgiving last week, and she was curious to know how the Tri-Wizard Tournament ended. I told her what I could remember, with the disclaimer that it's been a couple of years and GoF is the only one of the books I haven't reread. Then she made the mistake of asking what happened with Harry's godfather, which I was able to tell her in explicit detail, including verbatim quotes from the end of the book from memory.

Think I accidentally spoiled my coworker next door, though. Oops.

Fun at Work

Work has been a living hell for the last few weeks, but today, despite our repro department calling me every ten minutes instead of just actually printing the damn stuff I gave them, turned out to be fun.

First, I had my performance review, which is always extremely anxiety-producing for me ("Oh, God. What if they tell me I suck and take away my internet access?"). But it was glowing and wonderful, with only a couple of notes, so I'm happy.

And since the last thing anyone wants to do after a glowing performance review is actually work, I wrote a silly little Stargate snippet to amuse myself in between the calls from repro. I produce it below for the possible entertainment of anyone else who has to do their performance reviews this time of year.

( Jack and Daniel Do Performance Reviews )

Then my boss (my Good Boss) asked me to tell her the end of the fourth Harry Potter book, because they only got a third of the way through the audio book on their way to the beach for Thanksgiving last week, and she was curious to know how the Tri-Wizard Tournament ended. I told her what I could remember, with the disclaimer that it's been a couple of years and GoF is the only one of the books I haven't reread. Then she made the mistake of asking what happened with Harry's godfather, which I was able to tell her in explicit detail, including verbatim quotes from the end of the book from memory.

Think I accidentally spoiled my coworker next door, though. Oops.