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twirlgrrl ([personal profile] twirlgrrl) wrote2009-10-15 05:45 pm
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Ecogrooviness at work

Well, howdy, everybody! I have a bunch of new LJ friends, thanks to the fabulous and amazing [livejournal.com profile] slinksgirl, and I should be writing a bunch of dazzling new entries to welcome everyone to my super cool LJ, but I am BEE-HEE-HEE-HEEAT. I am so tired that I feel like I'm walking uphill with every step, and it makes me weepy.

This morning I had a meeting in Santa Cruz (1.5 hours away) and I was up at 5am preparing for it. When I got to the meeting and passed out the agenda packets, this one doctor totally bitched me out in front of everyone because I had pressed the wrong button on the copier without noticing and not only were the copies single-sided instead of double-sided, but the machine had inserted an entire blank piece of paper in between each page. So instead of 6 pages long the agenda was 24 pages long. The doctor didn't stop talking when I said it was a mistake--nooo, he gave the whole room a giant lecture on how reducing and reusing was even more important than recycling because recycling uses so much energy and blah blah blah, and OMG it was all I could do not to dissolve into tears at the table. I wanted to explain how the mistake got made and apologize more and explain how I've been cutting the agenda down to a smaller size every month and how ecogroovy I normally am and that I taught a bunch of my friends how to recycle back in the day and how much I care about the planet and how I'm a dirty tree-hugging hippie but of course that would have been silly. So I just sat there feeling stupid while he went on and on and on. Awesome.

Of course I pulled it together and the rest of the meeting went great but yeah, I need a nap. Hope you are all having a better and more energetic day than I am.

[identity profile] thexphial.livejournal.com 2009-10-16 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, don't you hate it when some piece of technology gets you in trouble? Apparently our work fax machine ate the consent forms I sent to the daycare we were supposed to screen this morning and I got chewed out by all the people who showed up only to find that there were no kids to screen because they never got the consents. Stupid machines.

[identity profile] twirlgrrl.livejournal.com 2009-10-16 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn.

Do you work for a daycare licensing agency or something?

[identity profile] thexphial.livejournal.com 2009-10-16 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I work for Early Childhood Intervention. One of the things we do in order to identify kids who have delays and need therapy or educational help is to offer free developmental screenings to kids through their daycare. It takes a fair bit of cooperation, planning and organization, and it's really annoying when it falls through.

[identity profile] twirlgrrl.livejournal.com 2009-10-16 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes, I remember signing a consent for my son to be screened at preschool last year, but I don't think he was ever screened. We took him out of preschool early.