PINK! (:

Jo: Oh it doesn't matter the deadline got extended anyway (:

Unnamed scholarship body called me at 6pm on Friday (in the middle of my 14-hour catnap) to inform order me to turn up for an interview at 12 noon the following Monday.
Note: Total of zero working days advance notice; long live the fabled efficiency of s.tatutory boards!
When I pleaded for an extention, pointing normal office etiquette demanded of me that I give my bosses Some Days' Notice (read: x greater than 0, where x is an integer), she (unnamed scholarship officer, laughed (annoyingly) and said, "Well, all scholarship bodies do this!" (Read: I can't won't reschedule, it's standard operating procedure to work on last minute phone calls; I believe I'm not being inefficient or unreasonable (supposedly) everyone else does it, so why can't I?)

Funny. The (few) calls I've received of late happened to schedule at least a week in advance-- by coincidence I'm sure.

I just wish I'd gone for French so that she wouldn't have been able to get me on the phone.

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On a separate and totally (well, almost) unrelated note. Work is piling up on my desk at the rate of 1 foot of files/correspondence/documents a day, and consequently I have fashioned a mini-fort around my chair with Canon boxes of papers and piles of files (hey that rhymes!).
In addition to my unauthorised acquisition of Yingchun's (she's on leave) chair and desk, and the desk behind me where I put 4 boxes + 1 trolley-shelf of (unnamed American hardware company)'s tax shite.

Hwei messaged me to say that a senior was looking for a file at my place for ages, and really all I can say is it's not my fault (:

Tally as of late: three tres riche incredibly successful female bankers (Suisse!) and over a hundred veryveryrich guys. Something tells me the banking world is unbalanced.

If there is one thing to be said about the past week, it is: I hate local universities and their fucked-up deadlines. Specifically one local university and its fucked-up deadline.

Thanks especially to Chengwei who made me feel lots better (: and Wenyu for giving me a good reason not to want to be a civil servant.

My day at work today (so far) equals sporadic trips to The Printer to collect piles of paper that my wondrous tax Excel programme has magically churned out- and conjured up figures to submit to the tax authorities too! Vive le manager and his superhuman computer programming skills. Copy+Paste is all my mental capacity is about, nowadays (:

I am tres bored.

christina
between the road and new york city


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