this is not good, captain cranky

I am in the Worst.Mood.EVER today. I’m alternating wanting to slap several someones’ heads off with wanting to burst into tears. And this is SO not a good thing. Not just because I’m at work and I’m really not at liberty to do either one. It’s really bad because this is how I get when I’m coming down with something.

And guess who has the flu!!

Well, other than pretty much everybody in town, I mean. Yes! Baker B has the flu. Baker B has spent two days at home with chills, fever, and serious achiness.

{And just as a little example of how pissed off at everything I am right now, the fact that OD is telling me I am spelling "achiness" wrong, even though Websters AND Word are telling me that no I am NOT spelling it wrong goddammit it’s perfectly FINE is making me seriously want to throw my computer out the window. Or burst into tears. Whatever!}

{Oh and don’t even get me started at how OD keeps timing out and not wanting to let me leave notes and is just being a generalized fuck in general. Just don’t.}

So. Aggravation Receptionist is clomping around with her damned clompy shoes that sound like a herd of elephants in army boots is pacing the office (she weighs like fifteen pounds and I have NO IDEA how someone the size of a gnat can make as much damned noise as she does just walking from her desk into the file room). Aggravation Receptionist is ignoring the phone and claiming that she ooooohhh, doesn’t hear it riiiiiiing when she goes clomping to the file room. Aggravation Receptionist has a headset to wear but she always "forgets" it so she can pretend she doesn’t hear the phone ringing.

Aggravation Receptionist is currently pretty much on the mend and if you don’t ask her how she feels she doesn’t start telling you all about it anyhow. Because now she has yet a new illness to obsess about. This time it’s her daughter’s "almost-fiancee  (whatever the hell THAT means – how can you be "almost" engaged?) who – and this isn’t funny, I don’t mean to make light of it but …. I’m cranky!!! – had a mild heart attack the other day. He’s not quite 30, so is REAL young for having a heart attack. Apparently he does have a family history. It was caused by a blood clot so they’re not operating on him and it sounds like it could have been WAY worse. So, I’m glad he’s okay and I don’t mean to make light of his situation, but now Aggravation Receptionist is obsessing over him and telling us all in great detail everything that’s going on with him and sending around emails asking us to pray for him and updating us on his condition.

I’m also a little peeved because of course she hasn’t asked me the first thing about how Baker B is doing (and she knows him personally – she is the one who requested files from him before I got here) . Nope, I had to listen to all the details of her and her kids and her grandkid and her husband’s flu stories ad nauseam, but does she ask me one single thing about Baker B?? Why, no! Because he’s not part of HER oh-so-special family.

Okay, fine! I’ve whined until it’s nearly time to go. I WANT to go play with the cool nifty amazing camera, and naturally it’s gloomy and threatening rain and is very windy. It has three lenses than I have barely experimented with – I messed around with them a teeny bit last night at home, but not much. So, hey, here are a couple of pictures, taken before I have the faintest idea of how to work Nifty Cool Amazing Camera:

Eddy on the desk – he’s a little blurry because I was using the zoom lens and not holding it steady –

And now he’s a lot blurry! I have no idea how this happened, but I kind of like it:

This is what I want right now. I just really liked the blurry background which I usually couldn’t get with the little canon, and the cool color –