DISCLAIMER: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL OPINIONS WILL BE DISCUSSED.
So you all know that I'm a McCain girl, and have been since he first ran 8 years ago. But did you know that Senator McCain adopted a Bangladeshi girl, and opened up his family? Well, he did, and that act causes my respect for him to grow that much more.
On the flip side of the potential first family coin, is Senator Obama... who doesn't have a relationship with his own brother. Take a look at this from Russia Today (not even a US paper)
Obama’s brother lives in a Kenyan shack
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s lost brother has been tracked down in Kenya. George Hussein Onyango Obama, aged 26, was found by journalists from the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. He reportedly lives in poverty in a shack on the outskirts of Nairobi.
He has the same father as the U.S. senator, Barack Hussein Obama, but a different mother. Her name has been given as Jael.The youngest of Obama’s half-brothers says he lives on less than a dollar per month in a 2m x 3m shack. Its walls are decorated with posters of famous footballers and a calendar featuring exotic beaches. The magazine also noted George has a newspaper picture of his brother.
He has only met his famous brother twice. Once when he was five and then in 2006 when Senator Obama visited Nairobi. George admits their meeting was very brief and cool.
If you want your president to have good family values, take a look at their choices.
~~ The Wig (Don't forget to vote for McCain!)
Monday, September 22, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Too Many Plates
When I'm feeling overwhelmed at work, with too many random emails and faxes and voice mails and other random shit on my desk that needs to be taken care of, I put it all in one pile, and then write a list of all of it, and prioritize from there.
I'm currently feeling overwhelmed, both at work and out, and I think that I need to make a list of all the random shit that's on my figurative desk, and prioritize it so that I can calm down and stop freaking out about all the chaos.... So, here goes:
1. Negotiations Moot Court
~ Competition this Saturday at 9 am.
~ Materials already printed out and skimmed.
~ Meeting with my partner tomorrow after my 6 pm class to discuss strategy, etc.
2. SBA Meeting regarding the treatment of Evening Students
~ Address the current 1LEs, who are probably the most fired up of the 4 evening classes.
~ Come up with a "wish list" of the things that evening students would like to see
~ Determine the difference between what day and evening students invest ($) into the SBA, and compare that to the relative benefits/access that the two groups have.
~ Write statement to be given at SBA Meeting on 9/15 at 5:15
3. College Republicans
~ Ran for VP of Events
~ Wait for election results
4. International Law Journal Candidacy
~ Cite and Source Due Sept 17
5. Student Trial Lawyers Association
~ Competition Sept ??
~ Materials are printed out, but need to be read
~ Determine meeting time with Team and Coach
~ Meet with team and discuss strategy
6. General Election -- November 4
~ Serving as Election Judge
7. International Human Rights Law
~ Print out and Read the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
~ Look for Senate floor debate when it was last brought for ratification, to see what the arguments on both sides are
~ Look for drafts of similar petitions so that we can have a jumping off place
8. Concerts with Mom
~ Bernadette Peters
~ Burt Bachrach
9. Georgia Grace
~ Due for an oil change soon
~ Needs to be taken into the shop to have leak fixed and recall issue resolved.
~ Would benefit from the attention of a vacuum.
10. International Trade Law
~ Start thinking about topic for final paper
11. Administrative Law
~ Listen to old lectures/read Paul's notes to catch up on what I've missed (I'm a bit lost)
~ Look at reference material to figure out what the h*ll this guy is talking about.
~ Start outline
12. Legal Profession
~ Listen to old lectures to catch up on what I've ignored.
~ Start Outline -- focus on rules and commentary, not the casebook.
~ Follow up with Michal about getting the moot court guy's barbri book -- on second thought, I think I have a barbri book at home... Need to check on that.
13. Life in general
~ Get Issac to send me his address so I can ship his stuff
~ Feed Buddy
~ could use a pedicure and a haircut.
~ laundry. Always laundry.
~ Take shoes to the shoe guy to get fixed.
~ Put jewelry away
~ Put shoes away
~ Take magazines to work
~ Take dishes to kitchen
~ get new charms soldered onto charm bracelet
~ figure out why the notary application was denied.
~ pay bills
~~ The Less Overwhelmed Wig
I'm currently feeling overwhelmed, both at work and out, and I think that I need to make a list of all the random shit that's on my figurative desk, and prioritize it so that I can calm down and stop freaking out about all the chaos.... So, here goes:
1. Negotiations Moot Court
~ Competition this Saturday at 9 am.
~ Materials already printed out and skimmed.
~ Meeting with my partner tomorrow after my 6 pm class to discuss strategy, etc.
2. SBA Meeting regarding the treatment of Evening Students
~ Address the current 1LEs, who are probably the most fired up of the 4 evening classes.
~ Come up with a "wish list" of the things that evening students would like to see
~ Determine the difference between what day and evening students invest ($) into the SBA, and compare that to the relative benefits/access that the two groups have.
~ Write statement to be given at SBA Meeting on 9/15 at 5:15
3. College Republicans
~ Ran for VP of Events
~ Wait for election results
4. International Law Journal Candidacy
~ Cite and Source Due Sept 17
5. Student Trial Lawyers Association
~ Competition Sept ??
~ Materials are printed out, but need to be read
~ Determine meeting time with Team and Coach
~ Meet with team and discuss strategy
6. General Election -- November 4
~ Serving as Election Judge
7. International Human Rights Law
~ Print out and Read the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
~ Look for Senate floor debate when it was last brought for ratification, to see what the arguments on both sides are
~ Look for drafts of similar petitions so that we can have a jumping off place
8. Concerts with Mom
~ Bernadette Peters
~ Burt Bachrach
9. Georgia Grace
~ Due for an oil change soon
~ Needs to be taken into the shop to have leak fixed and recall issue resolved.
~ Would benefit from the attention of a vacuum.
10. International Trade Law
~ Start thinking about topic for final paper
11. Administrative Law
~ Listen to old lectures/read Paul's notes to catch up on what I've missed (I'm a bit lost)
~ Look at reference material to figure out what the h*ll this guy is talking about.
~ Start outline
12. Legal Profession
~ Listen to old lectures to catch up on what I've ignored.
~ Start Outline -- focus on rules and commentary, not the casebook.
~ Follow up with Michal about getting the moot court guy's barbri book -- on second thought, I think I have a barbri book at home... Need to check on that.
13. Life in general
~ Get Issac to send me his address so I can ship his stuff
~ Feed Buddy
~ could use a pedicure and a haircut.
~ laundry. Always laundry.
~ Take shoes to the shoe guy to get fixed.
~ Put jewelry away
~ Put shoes away
~ Take magazines to work
~ Take dishes to kitchen
~ get new charms soldered onto charm bracelet
~ figure out why the notary application was denied.
~ pay bills
~~ The Less Overwhelmed Wig
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Back in the Saddle Again
Well, school started two weeks ago, and I'm already behind. But I have every intention to use this, the three day Labor Day Holiday weekend to get all caught up. Wish me luck!!!
~~ The Overscheduled Wig
~~ The Overscheduled Wig
Barenaked and Alive
TORONTO (AP) — Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson and three others have survived a float-plane crash near Bancroft, in southeastern Ontario, the band's manager, Adam Smith, said in an e-mail.
The private float-plane went down Sunday afternoon. The singer, who received pilot's license in 2005, was behind the controls.
Robertson's friend Gord Peel told The Intelligencer that the other passengers were Robertson's wife, Natalie, and their friends Julie and Jeff Jones.
Smith said Sunday night in an e-mail that everyone was fine, but would make no other comment.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada was assessing the scene of the accident, spokeswoman Julie Leroux said Monday.
~~ The Wig, who's glad everyone made it home okay.
The private float-plane went down Sunday afternoon. The singer, who received pilot's license in 2005, was behind the controls.
Robertson's friend Gord Peel told The Intelligencer that the other passengers were Robertson's wife, Natalie, and their friends Julie and Jeff Jones.
Smith said Sunday night in an e-mail that everyone was fine, but would make no other comment.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada was assessing the scene of the accident, spokeswoman Julie Leroux said Monday.
~~ The Wig, who's glad everyone made it home okay.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
A Shitty Day, A Pleasant Evening
It is a rare day that I come home after 8 hours of work, a cross town commute in rush hour traffic, and 3 hours of dry law classes, in a good mood. And never in my life did I think that today would be one of those days. Because at work, I had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
It all started with needing to play catch up because the systems were down for the first half of yesterday, didn't come back up until after I had left at noon for class. Which means that I had to play make up as if I had missed a day of work, without the benefit of playing hooky the previous day. In addition, about half of my clients were inherited from a rep who was on leave for several months before leaving all together, and all her former clients have all these time sensitive issues that they email her about 3 months ago, but because she's been out, they haven't been addressed. So I have about 3 months of work to do on 200 clients, most of which is time sensitive. Then, I was going over my teams errors, and some weird errors came up for the client that my trainee is running corrections on. On his first day on the phones, he inherited 150 clients from a rep who was fired for doing absolutely nothing for his clients. The former rep's supervisor gave very complicated corrections to my trainee, corrections that as the former rep's supervisor, he should have done himself before passing the account off to a brand new rep. Not only did he dump these corrections on my trainee, but he gave him incorrect instructions as far as which check date to use when entering the corrections. Plus, the whole point of the corrections was to back out wage info that was entered with incorrect coding, correct the coding, then reenter the info. Well, the supervisor changed the coding before giving my trainee the corrections to do. Meaning that the two weeks he spent backing everything out was a waste of time, because now we have to reenter it, change the coding back to what it was originally, back everything out again to bring the whole account to zero, enter the correct coding, and reissue everything. By jumping the gun and changing the coding early, the supervisor created 2x as much work for my trainee, and more work for me. Work that I don't have time to do. So after all these frustrations, and 45 minutes in rush hour traffic, I was prepared for a mind-numbing evening in class.
I had very low expectations regarding the professor's ability to make my Tuesday Thursday classes interesting. Administrative Law and Legal Ethics were my classes tonight. And right away, Admin surpassed my every expectation, because the prof managed to justify giving the class free beverages (sodas, juice, even beer) as an object lesson in how widespread Admin law is in our lives. And that beer made all the difference. In addition, in Ethics, the prof told us that the final would be an objective, multiple choice exam, (i love objective exams) and then we had a fun problem to discuss using only our preconceived notions of the tensions btwn morality and ethics. Then, on the way to my car, I ran into Monique, my buddy from my history class last Spring. I left with a smile on my face, not because the day was finally over, but because I was in a great mood.
Now I'm printing out the form that I need to have notarized to become a notary, because it's worth the $10 fee every for years to be able to notarize my own stuff.
So I'm winding down my evening, watching the balance beam finals on the Olympics, reveling in my cheap beer buzz, and smiling.
~~ The Wig, in a rare, post-class good mood
It all started with needing to play catch up because the systems were down for the first half of yesterday, didn't come back up until after I had left at noon for class. Which means that I had to play make up as if I had missed a day of work, without the benefit of playing hooky the previous day. In addition, about half of my clients were inherited from a rep who was on leave for several months before leaving all together, and all her former clients have all these time sensitive issues that they email her about 3 months ago, but because she's been out, they haven't been addressed. So I have about 3 months of work to do on 200 clients, most of which is time sensitive. Then, I was going over my teams errors, and some weird errors came up for the client that my trainee is running corrections on. On his first day on the phones, he inherited 150 clients from a rep who was fired for doing absolutely nothing for his clients. The former rep's supervisor gave very complicated corrections to my trainee, corrections that as the former rep's supervisor, he should have done himself before passing the account off to a brand new rep. Not only did he dump these corrections on my trainee, but he gave him incorrect instructions as far as which check date to use when entering the corrections. Plus, the whole point of the corrections was to back out wage info that was entered with incorrect coding, correct the coding, then reenter the info. Well, the supervisor changed the coding before giving my trainee the corrections to do. Meaning that the two weeks he spent backing everything out was a waste of time, because now we have to reenter it, change the coding back to what it was originally, back everything out again to bring the whole account to zero, enter the correct coding, and reissue everything. By jumping the gun and changing the coding early, the supervisor created 2x as much work for my trainee, and more work for me. Work that I don't have time to do. So after all these frustrations, and 45 minutes in rush hour traffic, I was prepared for a mind-numbing evening in class.
I had very low expectations regarding the professor's ability to make my Tuesday Thursday classes interesting. Administrative Law and Legal Ethics were my classes tonight. And right away, Admin surpassed my every expectation, because the prof managed to justify giving the class free beverages (sodas, juice, even beer) as an object lesson in how widespread Admin law is in our lives. And that beer made all the difference. In addition, in Ethics, the prof told us that the final would be an objective, multiple choice exam, (i love objective exams) and then we had a fun problem to discuss using only our preconceived notions of the tensions btwn morality and ethics. Then, on the way to my car, I ran into Monique, my buddy from my history class last Spring. I left with a smile on my face, not because the day was finally over, but because I was in a great mood.
Now I'm printing out the form that I need to have notarized to become a notary, because it's worth the $10 fee every for years to be able to notarize my own stuff.
So I'm winding down my evening, watching the balance beam finals on the Olympics, reveling in my cheap beer buzz, and smiling.
~~ The Wig, in a rare, post-class good mood
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
PISSED THE FUCK OFF
My cubical mate, Josh, and I will take microbreaks from time to time, kick up our feet, and chat for a few minutes, just to stop looking at our computers. Well, sometime last week, someone took a picture of us in this position with their phone. Today, they decided to circulate that picture as a way to undermine us as members of a new project. We don't take phone calls, but we are responsible for 3x as many clients as those who are taking phone calls. But since our client base went up, and theirs went down, their availability requirement went up 15%, and most of them are kinda upset. So, Josh and I got called into an office today, not by our supervisor, or our supervisor's manager, both of whom are out of the office this week, but by one of the two supervisors who gets off on micromanaging other teams rather than their own. He pulled us in an office, and told us that if we wanted to stay on the new project, we needed to fill any time we had on our hands by helping our teammates or jumping in to take phone calls. He showed us the picture, and told us that it was going to the branch manager on Friday, and that we'll have to answer for ourselves.
The project started three days ago. The picture was taken last week. Last week, we had less than half the clients we do now, and were kicking back, waiting for the phone to ring. Neither one of us have had follow up problems, in fact, we were chosen for this project because of our great follow up skills. We are the two people on the team who, when a client asks to be reassigned for lack of follow up, are the person to whom the client is reassigned. We were tapped because our strength at works lies more in the follow up, and less in the customer service. So management gave us more follow up, and less customer service, and for the employees who excel at customer service, and are less reliable on follow up, were given more customer service responsibilities. It seems fair to me, but some blow hole didn't like that they didn't get picked, and decided to exact stupid, petty, childish revenge.
My annual review is in 4 weeks, and if I get reprimanded for some asshole's tainted version of the truth, and my raise is affected by this person's sophmoric prank, I'm seriously gonna have to kick some verbal ass. The way I figure, if I'm gonna get in trouble, I might as well do something to get in trouble for.
I hate office politics. There's no fucking point.
~~ One Pissed Off Wig
The project started three days ago. The picture was taken last week. Last week, we had less than half the clients we do now, and were kicking back, waiting for the phone to ring. Neither one of us have had follow up problems, in fact, we were chosen for this project because of our great follow up skills. We are the two people on the team who, when a client asks to be reassigned for lack of follow up, are the person to whom the client is reassigned. We were tapped because our strength at works lies more in the follow up, and less in the customer service. So management gave us more follow up, and less customer service, and for the employees who excel at customer service, and are less reliable on follow up, were given more customer service responsibilities. It seems fair to me, but some blow hole didn't like that they didn't get picked, and decided to exact stupid, petty, childish revenge.
My annual review is in 4 weeks, and if I get reprimanded for some asshole's tainted version of the truth, and my raise is affected by this person's sophmoric prank, I'm seriously gonna have to kick some verbal ass. The way I figure, if I'm gonna get in trouble, I might as well do something to get in trouble for.
I hate office politics. There's no fucking point.
~~ One Pissed Off Wig
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