This week's activities included:
- Having to tell Andrew that the "ball of snakes" he thought he had finally solved was still a mess. It took him, I kid you not, two hours to figure out four position numbers. I was so glad he did it and not me. I just fixed the mistakes after the fact. R.I.P snakes. May you never rise again.
- Finish an article. It was one of those weeks where I finished an article on Tuesday and didn't find a moment to submit it until Friday. At least it got submitted.
- Got "involved in a land war in Asia" while playing Chinese Checkers. Sister Gowans (a.k.a. a wolf in adorable sheep's clothing) and I are no longer allowed to sit next to each other.
- Taught our ward's young men and women about service missions.
- Scheduled meetings
- Made travel arrangements for the managing director (I actually just had to work with the Travel Office, they do the hard stuff).
- Ordered missionary badges. We're not sure whose job this is, but I guess it is mine now. I asked around and the missionary department forwarded my e-mail back to my own supervisors, not realizing that this would make a complete circle. It still amazes me how often I try to figure out something at my supervisors' request and get referred back to them. I should just preface all my e-mails with "Andrew and Alan would like me to ask you..."
- Fixed duplicate position numbers (this is like having two people in the same chair). I'm getting better at problem solving as time goes on.
- Organize lists of interpreters. I'm pretty sure the manager is adding more while taking others off, and it's wrecking my system. Sometimes I wonder if he reads my e-mails at all.
- Actually, I frequently wonder if people ignore my e-mails because I'm a missionary. Which is unfortunate, since I help arrange things for managers, whose work then gets backed up.
- Explain again that I can't transfer an employee if I don't have anywhere for them to go, neither can I terminate them just because you don't know who they are. They work for somebody.
- Bought birthday cards for the sister missionaries.
- Suffered through companion studies in which my companions talked about video games and fan-fiction for a whole hour, despite every effort to redirect. It would be fine if I wasn't missing work I needed to do to read scriptures. Those scriptures not being read, I got a little frustrated.
- Called the HR software master to explain that I was getting records that I definitely was not authorized to approve.
- Edited a PSD announcement.
- Was severely tempted to buy a giant stuffed lime green dinosaur. He even had a red heart on his foot. I would have named him Wally, and he could have sat next to me on my drive and we would have been the best of friends. Depressingly, my adult self won out and he was gone the next time I went to the store. Good-bye Wally. I know we would have been BFFs.
I do have some pictures to share this week. I finally took a few to use for my presentation for the youth, but I'm glad I have some pictures for myself too.
The Cafeteria:
Cookie/Doughnut Bar in the foreground and fancy desert bar in the background. These are my greatest downfall.
Some of the Missionaries You can see our game of Chinese checkers going on in the middle.
We are slowly taking over the cafeteria. Before we barely took up one row, now we take up two or three. We have decided we need a banner to declare our intentions to conquer the lunchroom. Ideally it would have a stick figure missionary with a fork in one hand and a giant missionary-badge shield in the other. We have a bunch of people with graphic design skills here, but since none of them have time either, we just imagine.
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