poor discombobulated brownie

So, I have issues.

This new job thing, well, I love it, but I'm realizing, for about the 14 billionth time in my life, that I tend to get obsessed by things.

Such as, when I'm into a TV show, I just want to watch it all the time. And when I'm waiting for the next episode to air, I can hardly contain myself. Or when I'm working on my house, I live, breathe, sleep, etc. "the house". Or when I'm in the chat mood, I just want to chat every possible moment.

So this transfers to the job thus: I wish I could be there more than one week per month. Because when I'm not there I think about stuff that should be done, I wonder what happened while I wasn't there, and even when I'm there, I want to try to learn things, and get frustrated because there's either no one there to help me or whoever is around doesn't have answers to my questions.

The last day I worked, which was last Thursday, was a nightmare. I was so brutally busy. The goddamn phone wouldn't stop ringing, Word went on the fritz and I was supposed to be writing letters, and...AND...get this.

I had been at work for about an hour, so it was approx. 9:30am. Mr Realtor was out for coffee. I got a phonecall on my cell. "Hello, this is the Vice Principal at South Kamloops Secondary. I have Dawson here in my office and I wanted to call and inform you that he was caught skipping class yesterday. This is his second infraction. He skipped English last week because he hadn't done his homework, and yesterday he skipped Math with several other boys."

Um

I was livid. And embarrassed. So the VP tells me D-man will be on double detention for the next two days. I tell her I'm disappointed, and I will be sure to talk with him about it. 10 Minutes later, as soon, I suppose, as the VP let him out of her office, he calls me again on the cell. I say to him "Dude. You have to expect that I'm not impressed right now"

"uh...yeah"

"you CAN'T skip school. It just can't happen"

"uh...yeah. It won't happen again"

and in the back of my mind I'm already stressing out about how Mr Brown is going to react to this news. Because I know, he will FLIP OUT.

Then, after pacing the office to get over this news, I get about 3 phonecalls that have questions I just can't answer. So I take messages. And then I get one more phonecall, I gave her an answer (she was asking if a property was still available) and I told her, "Well, I understand that there are two offers in on that house" and later Mr Realtor tells me that I'm not actually allowed to say that. How would I know????

Plus, fulltime gal gave me a list of things to do, and 3 of the 5 things, I couldn't get done. So then I felt bad. So I emailed her that night, explaining, and she never responded.

So I'm feeling like a bigtime goof.

As far as I know, I'm not working again until the 17th, so I guess I just leave things as they are and wait and see. Mr Realtor didn't seem unhappy with how the day went. He said, "It takes time to learn things. It'll come" He's pretty cool. I guess I should just go with that.

But GODDAMN D-man! I could strangle him!

I pick him up from his first detention, and ask him what happened, and he said he just had to take a garbage bag and walk around the schoolgrounds for an hour picking stuff up. He said " pretty lame detention". So I asked him "What do YOU think you should have to do on detention?" and he said " I dunno". Then the next day, it was raining really hard, so he didn't have to do detention, and so I asked him, "Well,when will you have to make it up then?" He replies "Oh, I dunno. Whenever I feel like it"

I thought THAT was pretty lame. So I told him that if I ever get another call from the Vice Principal, and he's going to have to get detention, I will tell her that I insist he gets a significant punishment, that she 'lays it down' on him, because I totally disagree with some pansy-assed detention for infractions and I think it doesn't teach him any lesson whatsoever if the detention is lame.

okay,I guess I'm done venting for now. Just think of me, and wish me peace of mind.

Ruvs you!