Brian Fields

This is, quite possibly, the only bad week I’ve had at RPI thus far. Monday was alright. Since then things have sorta gone downhill. I’ve been working with a nameless customer and it’s been very frustrating trying to get things exactly as they want them.

For starters, I’ve gotten 3 emails that tell me to change something, then less than 24 hours later I get emails telling me to change it to the way I had it. I don’t understand why. Secondly, the terminology they are using is very poor, and the details of what needs to be changed is lacking. I spent 10 minutes reading the stuff over in my head before I (think I) understand what they want. Then, I was told to change something to match another piece, changed it and told it was wrong. Then I had to figure out 24 hours later that we were working from different copies of the piece that is supposed to be the example. Now I’m told we’re being pressed for time on all of it and that’s the worst part… had the communication from them been clear and detailed, it would have been done already. And I wouldn’t be crabby about it. And I wouldn’t be frustrated.

Tonight I have to take my cousins to see the movie that I thought was supposed to be last week. I kinda wish I could go home and be lazy or finish up my Christmas shopping, but oh well. I know they’ll appreciate it.

This past weekend was pretty fun, but went by way too quick. Friday after work a bunch of people from work went to Maloney’s Pub and had a grand old time. I brought my camera and the results of that can be seen in the pictures section. I didn’t quite intend to stay until 1am… but I had no clue what time it was because I forgot my phone that day. Oh well.

Saturday was sort of a bore. I spent most of the day just looking for something to do because I was home alone. Big surprise that I ended up just sitting around playing video games. I hung out with the roommates for a little bit downstairs, but ended up going to be sort of early because I was beat.

Sunday I woke up and was on my way right away. I had to take Doug and Kate over to her place because they had taken a cab home the previous night. Then as soon as I pulled in to our driveway I had to leave to go babysit for Aunt Maria and Uncle Brett with Joe and Kristen. They were going to Bengals game, so Joe said he would watch the kids, and dragged me in to it (Not that I didn’t want to, just sort of a last minute thing.) Kristen’s company party was the night before, and as a result Joe was beyond hungover.

Monday night we apparently had to have a “house meeting”. I thought it was sort of a waste of 2 hours. We (not exactly me.) just sat around complaining about all of the obvious bad habits we have and how we should start a money pot to buy things for the house. Nothing that couldn’t have been done in 20 minutes, but of course things had to get long winded and debated as if it was the most vital information ever. I hate to have such a sour outlook on it, but I’ll be honest and say it seemed mostly like Mike and Joe talking (or implyng) that they do more than me and Doug. Yeah, they’re probably going to read this at some point and get pissed, but so be it. Things have worked just fine in our house for 14 months and when I brought up the same ideas a month before we moved in, nobody gave a rat’s ass or people just started getting ridiculous with the suggestions. The only conclusion that could be drawn from 2 hours of my life is that we all have different opinions, with the exception of the fact that we can all agree we need to clean up more. My policy has always been that I put in as much effort as anyone. I know how we are though, and I know we wasted two hours because since Monday night, nothing has really been done that we’ve talked about doing. Oh well. We’ll be moving out by the time people change.

So yeah. My venting is done for the week, I guess. Let’s just hope we can finish the week on a high note somehow.

See ya.

…has been strangely exhausting. I worked on some brochures and other materials for some Pharmaceuticals all day Friday, Monday and Tuesday. It gave me the awesome pleasure of staring at pictures of people’s dysfunctional colons for 3 days. If that can’t scare a person into using this medication, I don’t know what will! Immediately after finishing that stuff up, the email for UDF giving their monthly signage came in, and I had to get started on that right away.

Getting the signage together for UDF isn’t that bad. In fact, it’s really easy because most of it is just recycling old signs. The part that sucks is that once you have the signs all made up, you have to deal with getting the shipping orders together. Certain stores get certain signs based on region and stuff, and for some reason the person making the signs gets stuck with figuring that all out. Whatever. It mostly just sucks because I only finished up December’s signage a week and a half ago. If I can get this done ASAP, I’ll have about 3 weeks of not seeing UDF.

Last night I was really tired. Mike and I were supposed to go to “The World’s Largest Office Party” but I didn’t really want to go. I didn’t figure that going there would be all that entertaining, and the tired thing sealed the deal. Then later on Mike decided to go to some event at the Art Museum, and that sounded more entertaining than attempting to socialize with a bunch of boring people I don’t know.

So we went to the art museum and met up with one of Joe’s former interns, Molly (Who informed me that I don’t update my site enough… … … hence the update.) They had a British themed party going on, complete with samplings of popular British cuisine. It was fun, but we didn’t get there until about 8:50, and they were closing up at 10. So we talked with Molly a bit, grabbed some food samples, then checked out a couple of the galleries. I would have liked to spend more time in the galleries, but oh well.

After we left I pretty much did nothing the rest of the night. I know, I’m thrilling.

Tonight I was planning on going to see a movie premier for Earagon because Joe asked me if I would want to take our Cousins Jake and Kaitlyn to it… he originally told me it was this week, but I found out yesterday that it is next week… so that just sort of opened my night up. Now it looks like I’m just going to be home alone. Guess I’ll just end up playing video games and catching up on some sleep.

See ya.