hi, i'm jess, and i'm an lj-aholic

[fearlesstemp]

Horrifying development: Am barred from the internet at work! I nearly went crazy this afternoon, after spending all day sorting papers and doing data entry in this a tiny white quiet room.

As you know because I posted from LJ on my first day of this three day assignment, I do have the ability to get on the internet at work. But I was informed at the end of my first day that due to virus concerns, they generally didn't let people use it. Maybe it is office policy, maybe they're just playing Torture the Temp – either way, I figured, I could deal. It's just two days, I thought. I can do this. I'll grumble and mutter and complain about fascist office managers, sure, but it won't be a big problem. I'll be bored, but I'll be okay.

Wrong! So wrong! Not okay! Was most definitely not okay! By 4PM this afternoon I was positively crazed, bored out of my skull, desperate to check my e-mail or LJ or, at the very least, interact with something other than the pile of invoices I was inputting. I had the internet at my fingertips, the only thing between me and it my fragile, almost nonexistent willpower! It grew to be a kind of mythic thing, a test of my character, which gives you an idea of how small and unremarkable my life is. I started envisioning it: the sad turn of the John Williams score playing over the scene where Jess the Fearless Temp breaks down and frantically starts leaving voicemails for people in a desperate attempt to interact with the world.

(Note: This actually happened, at about 4:15 today.)

Anyway, I did survive. And will, hopefully, survive again tomorrow.

And now! Now I have to go to bed so I can be conscious enough to drive the wretched commute! Stupid, stupid job. Why did I say yes? Probably to justify some stupid shoe or DVD purchase I made. Or am about to make. Am always on the verge of stupid DVD and shoe purchases.

I owe replies to comments! Will get to them tomorrow night. Right now, must snooze.

Comments

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

I know! There was a brief period a month ago where I thought LJ had been blocked from work and I was like "whaaa? I'm cut off! I'm blind! Whyfor do you want me to suffer like this!!!" in melodramatic fashion. It gets to be something that keeps you company during the day when you're stressed from a million other things you're doing while multitasking. I think it'd be especially bad if I were temping (which I did for almost a year, at various jobs, early in my career). Hopefully you will be able to hold out until you get the next job.

Also, you still owe us your "you know you're Irish-American Catholic when" list! I think your family is just like my family. Yes.

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

Isn't it heinous and awful and wrong?? And! Then I come home and LJ is DOWN for like three days! I swear I started to get the shakes.

And yes, I have to fill that list out! It cracked me up so, I hope I can live up to the list and show my Irish-American street cred.

[jeviltwin.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, you are so describing my worst fears realized. We've been told that Horrid Parent Company is going to run our internet through their servers sometime this summer, and that a lot of sites will be blocked. I'm not sure how they can really swing this since my dept., at least, is Research, and we actually use the internet for legitimate work. I mean, blocking porn's one thing.

If they block LJ, I'll probably go insane. Hrm.

Best of luck surving this temp job!

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

Oh no! That's seriously upsetting, esp. since you have all this time to dread Horrid Parent Company making its move. I've heard of a couple of people finding ways around such blocks, but have never had to do so myself -- I hope LJ isn't one of them!

And thanks for the temp job wishes! I did survive, and have a week off before I have to go back there. Time to hone my non-internet goofing off skills. They're really rusty. I haven't played Free Cell in ages.