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Wednesday, October 9, 2002
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Ally signed off at 02:40 p.m.
bleh...
Monday, October 7, 2002
Location: work
Description: jeans and a button down shirt
Emotion: beyond exhausted
I really need two weekends, one weekend for partying and fun, and another for productivity. i didn't do any laundry this weekend, nor did i clean up in my room, or go grocery shopping or any of the things that i wanted to accomplish this weekend. however i did do all sorts of fun things this weekend while i was not being productive, i went to the dark star orchestra concert and guy foresyth, hung out down in georgetown just about all weekend, except for the times when we were at jeff fowler's or when i was home taking a marathon 2 and a half hour bubble bath (quite possibly the highlight of my weekend).
i think i'm going to try and take it easy this week, get some of the stuff that i was going to do this weekend, and try and get motivated to look for a new job and a new place to live and all of that. maybe i'll even get around to the lay-out changes i've been wanting to make on this page.
Ally signed off at 10:38 a.m.
first thursday - another reason I love austin
Friday, October 4, 2002
Location:Dell
Description: friday jeans
Emotion: charged up (probably from the caffiene jolt i added in my smoothie king)
Today is a day of insights - the best one being from a dell customer, shocking i know but this guy really helped me just put everything in perspective and become one with the universe.
i process held orders, now a i held order is an order that was placed but can't go into production because of some sort of payment problem. I send out e-mails to these poor sould to let them know that we will not be shipping their computer until the get us our money. of course the form e-mail i send to them is much more polite than that. ususally the responses are something like "i don't know what you're talkinga bout my credit card is fine" or "this is crazy there's a ton of money in that account" or "do you know who i am? there's no way the credit card company denied this". but today all that changed. today as i was checking my held order e-mails i came across this.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: suh chris [mailto:********@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:33 PM
>To: Mabry, Allyson
>Subject: Re: Cust #: ******
>
>
>There is no ocean that doesn't have wave.
>
>
>
>From: Allyson_Mabry@Dell.com
>To: **@hotmail.com
>Subject: Cust #: ***
>Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:02:27 -0500
>
>We need your help!
>
>Thank you for your online order, however, we were not able to gain authorization on your credit card for this purchase. Please understand that this may happen for several reasons including billing address discrepancies
>or a daily limit on a debit card. Please contact your issuing bank to resolve this issue and reply to me by email to let me know how you would like to proceed.
>Thanks,
>
>
>Allyson Mabry
> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
>Dell BSD Online Sales
>For customer service help please see the link below
>http://support.dell.com/us/en/home.asp
This customer has the zen i aspire for.
Ally signed off at 03:44 p.m.
The population at large is basically moronic
Thursday, October 3, 2002
Location: work
Description: t-shirt and jeans (evidence of the fact that i was out till 4:30 last night)
Emotion: drained
man, last night was a blast, but i am definitely paying for it today. i'm not hung over, it's just not getting home until 4:30 puts me not actually going to sleep until way after 5. Then waking up at 9:45 to go to work is about the last thing i want to do. but babo is in town and i know his visit is going to fly by and before i know it he'll be back in saint louis, so what's a few less hours of sleep? tonight i plan on taking it easy, doing some laundry and cleaning my room. I've been planning on making pat a chocolate cake for about a week now, so maybe i'll actually get that done. my diet has been all shot to hell this week, i seem to have lost almost all of my resolve, and just when i had started to feel prtty good about my progress. oh well, i certainly don't want to be one of those people that laments every food decision - rather i'll just say i was celebrating this week, and it was worth it.
on my way down to lunch today, i was walking through the tables and low and behold there's a group of 30 somethings playing nothing other than "Magic the Gathering" and they looked like they were having a really great time. to each their own i guess.
Ally signed off at 11:13 a.m.
wishing it was friday
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Location: dell
Description: high cut dress because the creepy guy at work is back
Emotion: content
well it's wednesday, the week is half over and if you consider friday the weekend, then we're practically there, and that's really awesome. this weekend is set to be a blast for sure, dark star orchestra, guy forsythe, and best of all, bobo-o! i can't wait to see him.
i had an interesting realization last night. Laura and i were sitting around reading questions from my hotseat game and she asked "who in the group do you think is most likely to become wealthy" and the first answer that popped into my had was no one. isn't that crazy? i don't picture any of my friends as wealthy or famous people. i can't decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but i can see us all twenty or thirty years down the road, with comfortable happy lives, but i don't see any of us with tons of money, i'm not sure why i feel this way, i would much prefer to think of us a rich group of 40 somethings that could just take off to europe anytime we felt like it.
Ally signed off at 12:12 p.m.
idea-a-day = very cool
Monday, September 30, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: dress that's probably a little too low cut for work
Emotion: pleasantly absorbed in life
well it's back to the daily grind. life is ticking on and it's not stopping for anyone. i don't know why that always seems like such a big deal to me - TIME STOPS FOR NO MAN - that's absolutely crazy, how can we have not control whatsoever over time. anyway enough of that crazy rant. this weekend was fun and pretty relaxing which is rare. i went to dallas saturday morning and got to hang out with mimi and papa. i won a hundred bucks at the blakjack game and i got to watch several movies on papa's bootlegged payperview. the drive to dallas was great. it's been awhile since i've ben by myself in the car for a long period of time, and i fell right back in love with my car. i really just don't see myself driving anything else. i know that's crazy and it's just a car and i need to think about how i feel when it's broken down on the side of the road - but somehow all the bad feelings disappear and i'm left with only great memories. it's funny how you can be so attached to an inanimate object, i guess that's how most people feel about their pets - i know pets aren't inanimate, but i'm making a point here. anyway, i had a great drive up to dallas, got to think about all sorts of stuff. i didn't come to any conclusions, but that's ok, it's the thinking that really makes the difference. well i'm off to lunch.
Ally signed off at 12:00 p.m.
motivational speakers = ugly
Thursday, September 26, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: peach shirt that i used to feel to big to wear (yippee!)
Emotion: optimistic and encouraged
if you haven't clicked on the title link, you simply must! why is it that all the motivational speakers are so ugly? somehow, it made me feel better about life in general when i learned how unattractive most motivational speakers are. don't ask me why i feel so cheery about this, i have no idea. but there it is, my silver lining, ugly motivational speakers.
Ally signed off at 11:20 a.m.
hungover....
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Location: in a cloudy fog at Dell
Description: black shoes, brown pants, white shirt, navy do-rag (horrible, i know)
Emotion: wrung-out
There is nothing worse than being hungover and not able to find your sunglasses. i am speaking the gospel objective truth - wine bottles should come with sunglasses just to prevent the situation i was in driving to work this morning. the sun has never been so piercingly bright. plus to top it all off i have no recollection of when tim, jr, and doug left last night - i have a sinking suspicion that i passed out on the couch before they left. i really hate that. it makes me feel like a bad host, and a lush on top of that, but being drunk always leads to some good stories. last night i was making rice krispy treats, but little did i know bugs had infested my krispys and i poured them into the marshmellow mix so i had rice krispy treats with bugs in them. it was quite funny but also very upsetting, because we had our hearts set on those rice krispy treats.
the whole drunkeness began at ginger's birthday party. when i got ther they had already ordered a 3 liter bottle of wine and needed help drinking it, so i stepped up and took care of it. probably not the smartest move, but you only live once right?
Ally signed off at 11:26 a.m.
oh, the pressure of a title
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: black dress and red sweater (it's fall ya'll!)
Emotion: manic
today has been the day for crazy customers, so far i've had a woman call in becaues she didn't get her 5% discount on a $147.00 order, which for those of us that aren't math wizards that's only seven dollars and thirty-five cents! but she wanted it so i pull up her order and while i'm waiting for the screen to load she says, "oh! look at this, i already got the discount, sorry, i hadn't checked the bottom with the total." -idiot. then i man called in and said that he had placed an order but "forgot" to add in his coupon so he wanted me to add his 20% discount. I asked for the coupon number and he said, "well the order is already in production so can't you just credit the 20% back to me?" I told him i certainly could once i confirmed that coupon - well after about 5 minutes of excuses and delay, he gave me the code. the coupon was expired and it had expired before he even placed the order, i told him this and he said he had planned to oreder earlier, so he thought he should get the coupon. -moron. then (oh yes, there's more) a woman called to track her order, i asked for her bill to phone number, and she said which one, so i repeated, the bill to phone number, and she said, yes i know but there are two of them. and i said, when you order a computer online you are required to enter a bill to phone number. then she cut me off and said, "yes i know, but do you want the ship to or the bill to phone number?" -dim-witted twit
Ally signed off at 11:04 a.m.
reflections?
Monday, September 23, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: jeans
Emotion: stuck?
well I'm back at work for another 5 days before the next weekend that always ends up to short for fun and productivity. I can either do laundry or hang out with friends. well of course i choose to hang out with friends, but then the laundry doesn't get done during the week either. the last three months have just come and gone at almost light speed, i don't know if that's good or bad. i feel like i should be doing alot more with my life right now, but i don't know what and i don't really understand why i feel this way - i'm enjoying life day-by-day it's just when i look back over the time since i've graduated i don't feel like i've done anything to be proud of. rationally i know that's not true, i've got a job and an apartment and friends and all sorts of things that validate my life since graduation. so why do i feel like i'm just biding time? and what am i waiting for?
Ally signed off at 01:39 p.m.
another movie that tickles my fancy
Thursday, September 19, 2002
Location: home sweet home
Description: pj's
Emotion: tingly
i just got through watching a midsummer night's dream. it is one of the best plays ever written, and one of the best movie concepts i've ever seen. plus, and this is really the best thing - christian bale is in it. christian bale is the best looking movie star i can think of, ya'll can keep your brad pitts and tom cruises, i'll take christian any day. it's funny that feeling you get in your stomache when your gazing at someone you think is just scrumptious. why haven't they bottled that yet? it's such a wonderful feeling, it makes you feel alive and excited, like life is full of possibilities. ok maybe most of you don't get all those feelings just from looking at christian bale, but i do and really that's all that matters. so now i'm off to feast on another movie staring my future husband - Metroland.
Ally signed off at 12:41 a.m.
I can't wait for this movie
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Location: work
Description: long denim skirt and t-shirt
Emotion: stagnant
i have an hour left at work and i've already taken 112 calls and right now i'm SO ready to go home. i didn't take a single break today because there were always a million calls in the queue....ok, i know this isn't interesting. we'll move on to something less brain numbing.
Video Games. I'd forgotten how much fun it was to actually play video games. Often times i gets stuck just watching rich and jr and tim playing - mainly because they don't play the games that i think are fun. they're pretty much stuck on soccer and hockey and football, and i like the games like mario, and SUPER MONKEY BALL 2, which is they game we played last night over at jr's. for those of you who are old school it's alot like marble madness except you have a monkey inside a ball and it's rolling around on different courses. it's so much fun, and way more exciting than video football, yay for jr and his new fun video games!
well time has flown by once again and it's time to go home. i'd love to stay and bend everyone's ear about life, but home is calling so loudly i must go.
Ally signed off at 01:16 p.m.
Vegas Baby!
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: grey and red striped shirt
Emotion: at ease
i haven't done a serious update in awhile, and it's not going to happen right now either. I'm leaving in just a few minutes to meet erin and laura at la margarita for a last dinner before erin leaves for jolly old england. she's going to have a blast, i'm very very jealous. This weekend was great fun as all my weekends recently have been. hopefully i'll tell everyone about it later tonight.
Ally signed off at 06:39 p.m.
Spasmodic Dysphonia
Friday, September 13, 2002
Location: work
Description: brown pants and red shirt
Emotion: thankful
i am so glad it's friday. this week has been really hard for some reason. i think i just went out a little to much and didn't rest enough, because now my voice is so hoarse i can barely speak. and of course that doesn't bode well for a TELEPHONE sales rep.
Ally signed off at 05:18 p.m.
a Dell customer's website
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Location: work
Description: tshirt, jeans and my adidas
Emotion: content but excited
today has been a good day. it's not tuesday anymore, which is always great. i got to hang out with barbara yesterday and even though we live together that rarely happens. i bought some great movies at walmart, and even though i've already taken 96 calls and i still have three more hours at work they've all been pretty good call. plus, and this is the best news of all, i found a plane ticket to london for $385.00, and it has an hour layover in St. Louis, so i might even get to see bob-o. it would be perfect, i just have to make sure pat is still up for the trip, we talked about it on saturday, but neither one of us was exactly sober.
I spoke with a deaf woman on the phone today, actually i spoke with someone who was typing to her and then speaking to me, but it was very interesting. i had to say go ahead at the end of my sentences and speak slow enough so that the operator could type what i was saying. i still wish i knew sign language, i've been really wanting to learn for awhile now and i just haven't done it - i'm going to put that on my lifetime goals list.
Ally signed off at 04:44 p.m.
one week
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Location: my cube in dell
Description: cool dress that zips around the hem - with a sweater over the top, to keep away the leering eyes
Emotion: hungry
well it feels like monday, but i know it's tuesday. i wish it was friday, but i guess i've just got a case of tuesdays.
this weekend was a blast, party at johnny's on saturday. it was tons of fun, plus i got to hang out with pat and he's always just great. watched alot of football, real and virtual. i have to say the virtual games are a bit more exciting, but then i guess if you actually got JR or any of those guys on a real football field, the plays probably wouldn't be excuted quite as accurately.
i'm probably going to be heading down to houston this weekend, that is if paige does have a party for danielle and does call me to let me know about it. otherwise jill will probably come up again and everything will be fabulous as always, except i'll be hungry. but i think it's worth it. and actually it's not that i'm hungry, i'm eating often, but i'm eating healthy stuff, so i guess i'm just hungry for mcDonalds, or taco bell or something equally fattening. but i am pretty proud of myself, i've gone a whole week without caving. and i usually deal with temptation by yielding to it.
Ally signed off at 02:40 p.m.
life-style adjustments
Monday, September 9, 2002
Location: DELL
Description: nothing special -i've taken to wearing especially conservative shirts to work because of the leering guy that has taken to standing around my cubicle and trying to stare down my shirt.
Emotion: Lackadaisical
i just got off the phone with the most gorgeous Scottish accent! he was a little upset when we first started talking, but i calmed him down and tried to keep him talking as long as i could. man, i really just want to melt. there's nothing like a man with a scottish accent....i wonder if he can dance????
Ally signed off at 02:57 p.m.
better friends a girl could not ask for
Saturday, September 7, 2002
Location: Apt. 1218
Description: white terry cloth robe
Emotion: pleased
i've been talking with Jill. and she is just great, every time i have a problem she swoops in with the perfect answer, and the perfect amount of compassion and toughness. it really great. i'm so glad to have her in my life!
Ally signed off at 08:46 p.m.
in high school we used to call this trippin weather
Friday, September 6, 2002
Location: evidently the middle of a wind storm
Description: dress
Emotion: content
outside the trees are almost bent over from the wind, the sky is a steely steely grey, and even though it looks like it may rain any second, i know it won't really start for several more hours. i love this weather. it's the kind of weather that makes everything you're doing a little bit more exciting. it makes me want to either curl up with a good book next to an open window, or go out driving. allthough i'm not sure that my car could handle it at this point. it's the kind of weather that makes you want to yell just to compare your voice with the wind's howling. i can't wait to get off work and go play!
Ally signed off at 03:05 p.m.
feeling better
Wednesday, September 4, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: same as earlier
Emotion: included
my horoscope for today says:
You have a natural, innate charm, you know, which doesn't have to be reserved completely for your personal life. Why not turn on this charm with a wider circle of people, and see if you can get others to see things from your point of view. It's worth a try!
i just thought that was nice and wanted to share it.
Ally signed off at 07:48 p.m.
DARLING, BABY and DEAR!
Wednesday, September 4, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: favorite blue peasant shirt
Emotion: indignant
In the last three calls i've taken, i've been called, dear, honey, and kid. yesterday it was sweetie. I'm really really REALLY not enjoying this. i don't understand why these customers think that they can refer to me in such a personal way, i address them with sir or mam, and i give them my name at the beginning of the conversation, so allyson would do just fine as well. i would never presume to call someone i'd never even seen honey or darling or anything like that. it's patronizing and so extremely frustrating i can't even put it into words.
Ally signed off at 01:19 p.m.
working late
Tuesday, September 3, 2002
Location: still Dell
Description: same as earlier today - except i've put my hair in a ponytail.
Emotion: hesitant and conspiratorial
alrighty, well one more person that i actually know has the address to this page, but i'm sure bob-o is to be trusted and understands that this page isn't to be gossiped about or anything like that.
moving on to yesterday's events. jill decided to stay another night and we all had a blast. we went to gatti-land then watched the big lebowski over at doug's then played some spades and headed over to tim's for a game of Catan. it was really fun, kara was there and she had some bad news, evidently her house caught on fire or something. she seemed pretty down. she said, "i just don't want to be here anymore" and i couldn't tell if she meant southwestern or tim's or life in general. she sounded about ready to give up, i'm going to have to give her a call or something. i hope everythings ok. it's just about time for me to head home. i don't have any plans for the night, except for the second season of friends on DVD!
Ally signed off at 06:43 p.m.
no title
Tuesday, September 3, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: skirt
Emotion: lethargic
i don't really have alot to say, but the calls have dwindled down and i don't have any held orders to process, so i thought i'd add an update.
i talked to a guy on the phone today that had ordered his system back in july, and was supposed to have a mail-in rebate, but he never got the mail-in rebate. did he mail anything in? no, he thought that dell just sent a check. well now the date has passed for him to send in the form and he's mad - which is understandable. i would have had no problem crediting him the 100.00 dollars, but the first 4 times i tried to tell him i could take care of it he cut me off and went on a long tirade about how I was trying to pull a fast one on him. so finally he said, "look i don't even want to talk to you, i'm going to call back and talk to a manager, but it would be a shame if deal lost ten thousand dollars of sales for a silly hundred" then, before i coud respond, he hung up. it seems like such a waste of his time and my time.
Ally signed off at 05:20 p.m.
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