Carrot Cake Soup

Ara, Penny Arcade is gud.

I’m sitting at work, working for a change. It appears that there were some issues today which were held over for further work tomorrow and I get to look through these, summarize them into 50 or less words and prepare them for my daily ritual of reading said report over the phone to the entire operations department. Sometimes my presentation is a hit. Sometimes it is returned with gags. Once I was told to not laugh when I reported that the site was crashing *AGAIN*. What I do at work is really very esoteric and like magic, hard to put into words. I block spam. I read emails. I read emails out loud to other people. I make sure email is going from point a to point b successfully. I sit around and do nothing for six hours. I read webcomics. I smoke cigarettes. I read webforums. I troll AOD. It really is a full night. Honest.

What skills does it take to do these things, and to be good at it? Well, a knowledge of unix, a knowledge of html, a knowledge of Microsoft Exchange 2k, a bit of knowledge of random things and an iq that dwarfs that of normal people. Honestly, if I was a d&d character, I’d be a bard. A blade bard, but a bard nonetheless. Jack of all trades, master of none. But damnit, I have killer stats.

But honestly, most of what I do all night is just an effort to remain awake and not bored. Boredom is killer when you work nights, if you give into it, you end up burning out. I guess that’s why I post these things and read all these forums and shit. I don’t know. I’m just… trying to figure out why I do this…

This? All of this.

Whatever. Mrow.