THEY WANT ME TO WORK AND STUFF

Ok - I know it's been a long time since my last post. See - this job - well it keeps getting in the way. I have to talk to people and write things and mail things and whatnot. Apparently they think I'm here for them...

I just returned from our Annual Convention and Trade Show. For those of you that have never worked one of the events it goes something like this:

6:oo am - Show up for a staff meeting that was cancelled without anyone ever telling you. Proceed to kill time until 7:00 by daydreaming about sleeping.
7:00 am - Give out handouts
7:12 am - Remind a speaker (repeatedly) to speak INTO the microphone because the session is being recorded
7:15 am - Prop open eyelids with toothpicks
8:00 am - Collect evaluations with illegible scribble
8:12 am - Dodge annoying member
8:30 am - Try to imagine what it would be like to still be sleeping.
9:07 am - Wonder how you can be receiving enough compensation to do all of this running around and answering questions and troubleshooting and starving...
10:02 am - Try not to scream at co-worker for being an idiot
11:22 am - Dodge lecherous member
1:00 pm - Try to dodge people long enough to eat so you don't have to talk with your mouth full
1:02 pm - Send someone to the wrong room
2:43 pm - Try to figure out which room you should have been in an hour ago
3:00 pm - Answer the SAME question for the 4,765th time (that day)
3:18 pm - Dodge ugly member
3:53 pm - Reminisce about the old days when you worked in a daycare center with 12 babies under 6 months. Remember how it was easier than this...
4:07 pm - Wonder why that part of your foot hurts...and that part of your elbow...and that part of your earlobe.
4:09 pm - Begin a love hate relationship with your shoes
4:27 pm - Yell at hotel staff
5:06 pm - Dodge lecherous member again
5:09 pm - Finally make it to bathroom
6:14 pm - Wonder if you will ever get to eat dinner
7:02 pm - Flirt with cute member - try to get food from them
7:35 pm - Move boxes - anywhere but where they are right now
8:23 pm - Go to restaurant - wish that annoying staff members had their own credit cards so they could eat on thier own
8:24 pm - Listen to them bitch about everything
9:45 pm - Start to head to room - get waylayed by member who wants to discuss an important issue
10:18 pm - Try to imagine what it would be like to be sleeping
11:42 pm - Beg member to let you go to your room so you can get some sleep
12:07 pm - Got to sleep

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