Well, I decided not to post again until I cooled down a bit about the election and all, or at least, until there was someone new I wanted to strangle. heh.

Yesterday, I had an important presentation in front of the NCN big wigs. I was up late working on it, and I was almost late to the presentation the next morning. Snippy wasn’t cooperating in the potty department. Speed humps and high speeds don’t go well together either. Neither does wet roads and pulling out really fast. (haha but I felt sooo cool) Well, my supervisor guy presented right before, and let me tell you, I found someone new to strangle. He had so much shit to talk about BUT what does he start with? Introducing my new site prototype AND telling about the different parts of it. So I’m like, well, that’s great, he just presented 3/4 of what I was going to present. I was so pissed. I’ve only been working there about 8 weeks and this was my first time with all these people. It was my first work to show them and he showed it. That was MY work to introduce and why was he having me present at all if he was going to do it? The guy is a sucker for attention though. That much I know.

Well, I decided being pissed wouldn’t help, so I decided to make a comeback with sarcasm. Yeah, so the NCN director was sitting front & center. I stood up there and began by saying, “Well, Mike stole my presentation, so this may be short” haha and they all started cracking up. I became instant friends with all of them, especially after I said, “I was learning to speak Unix so I was an official geek.” They all said “welcome to the club” haha so my presentation went great. I just winged it, which I’ve never done. I’m a note card freak, but I just left them on the table. I felt very comfortable, and the director really liked my design (he gives final yay/nay). I’ve heard he’s hard to please, too. I was ecstatic. I could tell everyone else was shocked that he expressed positive thoughts. The director guy one level down from him turned and gave me a thumbs up and said, “Mindy, did you hear that?? MARK likes it” He is a German guy. He & I had bonding time by both walking in late to the meeting. hehe I stopped running when I saw I’d walk in same time as him. So it was a very good day. Maybe these people will want to keep me after March.

I had my very first teleconference that afternoon the hospital clients. Let me tell you, they cracked me up. The one guy totally wasn’t paying attention. (Jeff’s the man!) The other guy would randomly break into song and insult the other guy. My boss was stabbing the speakerphone with his pencil at the annoying lady we were having the conference with. Coincidentally, her name was Jennifer (name of our initial contact who sucked), and so I developed a new motto:

Don’t trust anyone named Jennifer.

Poor Evan & Johnny missed it. Although they did get to enjoy the one guy’s Elvis singing. Oh man, makes me want to go work there.

As I was walking to the car after the meeting, I started singing in the parking garage stairwell, a completely original aka non-existent song. haha. I was totally oblivious and all the sudden I realized where I was, let out an “eek!”, and covered my mouth. I lucked out. The stairwell was empty. I would have started giggling like a three year old if I’d encountered someone, sort of like the time I fell on the stairs—2 steps in a row—in front of a guy. aww…that made a good story though.

Well, we have a new hire on the hospital project. She should do well. oooh Kellen mocked me today! It was totally weak, though. haha but I can always tell he just wants to embarrass me or make me look bad, because I see the look he gives me when I “bash” him. haha we did succeed in getting him to tell us all to kiss his ass today. haha great times.

Quotes of the day:

E: “earmuffs, kellen!”

“nir-nir-ni-ni-nah” (Kellen’s amateur attempt at mocking)

“friends don’t let friends use Windows”

Andy: so did you guys have a great Halloween?
Evan: yeah, I was Spiderman
Johnny: I was p. diddy
Andy: cool, I was a Japanese Elvis impersonator *breaks into song over speakerphone*