From Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale

People disappear when they die. Their voices, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living mempry of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continut to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humour, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.

--Diane Setterfield



Monday, June 2, 2008

Whoops!

I forgot I am trying NOT to be a whiney-baby.

Today i met the CEO of our company. And he said, as I was leaving the room (and he kinda interrupted another conversation he was in) 'nice to meet you'. This evidently is a big deal. Woo! I made a favorable impression in like 3 seconds. :)

Then I made him laugh as everyone was leaving. And everyone was very nice about everything.

AND I had leftovers from the big meetings that our CEO and CFO and COO and other important people were at, and I feel like I might burst from so much fruit and fruit dip and more fruit and oh I had a roast beef sandwich and chips and birthday cake and salad and more salad and chicken pasta primo and cookies and water. SO MUCH FOOD!

AND I get to do it all over again tomorrow. Tomorrow also comes with breakfast. Wow.

And tomorrow which will be a very busy day, I get to do the new hire orientation for our new Senior Staff Accountant. This may not sound so exciting, however I have been doing staff accounting in the interim between accountants. Ugh! I'm excited I had the opportunity to learn what I did, and now I have another spiffy thing to add to my resume, but I am TOTALLY glad it will be over tomorrow. I will have lots more time to do my actual job.

Today I was helping out Paul, who is the Environmental Protections guy for the Texas and Colorado Region, and I didn't finish inputting the permit information until like 5:30 or 6 this evening. By that time Tom who works with Paul on these permits had called and left e-mails and stuff that I had not received because I was upstairs sitting there. 'Dat very boring.' and refilling the coffee carafes and re arranging the cookie trays and other very important tasks that are partly my responsibility when we host the regional operation reviews. So I sent it to them at 6:30 and Paul asked if he was not an 'important person' because i said I was babysitting important people instead of getting this project done for him within the hour (which usually happens) HA! I told him that he was important because i actually did the project. He replied that he is extremely grateful for helping him out. I don't know why but it made me smile.
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