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Labor Day
Monday, September 2, 2002
Location: DELL
Description: before i left Jill said i looked cute
Emotion: stomache turning uneasiness
i can't figure out why i feel so nervous right now. i feel like i've got butterflies in my stomach but there's nothing upcoming that should be making me feel this way. it's weird. i have half an hour of work left then i'm meeting up with the gang to go to gatti-land, but i'm not sure if my stomach is up to greasy gatti-land pizza, not that that's a bad thing, the less greasy pizza i eat, the better. I've decided it's time for a lifestyle change, i've got to start working out, and i've got to start eating healthier. it's my new school year's resolution, even though i'm not in school any more.
this weekend has been an absolute blast, friday night i made chicken and dumplings and everybody came over for dinner, erin brought enchilada's that were amazing, and it was really nice just to hang out with everybody. we played time's up. it's a game that i like to describe as hopped-up charades. rich and corey won both games, but the first one was really a tie between the two of them and doug and I. then we had a tie breaker and doug and i got really tough cards. oh well it was really fun. then we went over to doug's and hung out, over at doug's we played trivial pursuit, i really love that game, but i can't help being intimidated by rich and tim. which is so frustrating because i honestly know that i'm as smart as they are, and more times than not, i won't answer because i'm not sure that what i think is right and i don't want to be made fun of for the wrong answer, but then my original thought was the right answer all along. some examples from the game on friday: the space needle in seattle, mount everest in Tibet, vermont as the no coast east coast state. and several more that i can't recall. nevertheless my insecurities didn't keep the game from being a blast, and I got the best of both friendship worlds, hanging out with all the guys AND jill. it was perfect. saturday we went swimming and then jill went to dinner with jason and i went over to jed and sue's to watch the UT/UNT football game. it was fun, i really like jed, i always have, but now that i see him more often i remember how much fun he is, and how he's one of those people that looks at you when you talk and really tries to listen and understand what you're saying. there are so few people like that out there so when i find one i really appreciate it. misty mclaughlin was like that, i loved talking to her because she was so present with you in the conversation. i try to be like that, but i get distracted so easily....after the game and dinner with jason jill and i rendezvoused back at my place and went over to ebony's house warming party, we got really dressed up and made quite an entrance, then after that we went over to tim's and sat around watching space ghost in our party clothes. that was fun as well. there's a lot more to discuss about this weekend, however it's almost time for me to be getting off work, so i'm going to go finish enjoying my weekend and i'll elaborate about the rest of it when i'm at work for 8 full hours tomorrow.
Ally signed off at 03:44 p.m.
for the foodophiles
Friday, August 30, 2002
Location: DELL
Description: Papa's bowling shirt
Emotion: thrilled
it's the weekend once again. jill's back in town, and my bank account has just hit height that it hasn't seen since before college. laura's back in town so our apartment is back to three inhabitants. life is just going really well.
i'm probably going to buy a new car soon, well in the next month or so. i've decided it's just time to let go. i love my cutlas, i always will, and i'm not selling it, just putting it out to pasture like an old, well loved horse. hopefully someday i'll have enough money to bring it back to mint condition, and it can be my cruising car. until then, i'm hoping to upgrade to a car with at least as much charater and hopefully a bit more reliability. right now i'm think the new Ford Thunderbirds. They're pretty cool, of course it will be a drastic change from a car that seats 6 extremely comfortably to one that only seats 2, but i think i could handle it. plus i've always wanted a convertible. it's not that likely that i'll actually get a thunderbird, but right now i've decided not to put any limits on what i'm looking at.
i'm cooking dinner for the clan tonight - i've got to head down to central market for some last minute things, then i'm going to make chicken and dumplings and chocolate bread pudding for desert. it's going to be fabulous! i'm so glad it's the weekend.
Ally signed off at 05:22 p.m.
i want to get away. i want to fly away.
Thursday, August 29, 2002
Location: I'll give you three guesses
Description: jeans
Emotion: Amorous
i'm about to go home and hopefully have a relaxing night just hanging out with friends, but i had to post this before i left.
this is an e-mail i just received from another online slaes rep at Dell.
Team,
I just had a customer call in who was VERY angry that he had not received his order and demanded to know what we were going to do about it. While I'm frantically looking for shipping info on his order and he's yelling, the UPS guy walks into the customer's office with his system.
Occasionally, you win one!
it just goes to show that you shouldn't be a jerk when you call in to customer service!
Ally signed off at 06:10 p.m.
trading spaces has nothing on me!
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: freshly washed jeans!
Emotion: frustrated, disheartened and a little bit angry
well i had a great weekend, mom and i went shopping and fixed up my room and everything, and it looks great. unfortunately my sister did not have as much fun as i did. i don't know what to tell her except that i think she's the most amazing person i know and i wish i could protect her from every disappointment that dares cross her path. but i guess i can't do that, all i can do is be there for her so we can attack the very diginity of those who do not realize how wonderful she is.
Ally signed off at 11:22 a.m.
slaes reps are like the drummers in Spinal Tap
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: new shirt, great grey skirt
Emotion: so close to frustrated
i finally laughed out loud at work. it was fabulous! one of the customers had been talking and talking, i wasn't sure he would ever stop, but then he said, and i quote,
"you know sales reps seem to be like the drummers in, This is Spinal Tap, they keep blowing up or something, we just can't seem to keep track of them."
it has just made my day.
Ally signed off at 05:50 p.m.
so close!
Thursday, August 22, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: Red skirt that i used to love, and now i'm just luke-warm
Emotion: shocked
i can not believe how stupid some people are, stupid and inconsiderate - i don't know why a customer would demand that i sit with them on the phone as they fumble around online - even when i've told them exactly what they need to do and asked them to call back if they have any problems. this is the most frustrating thing ever!!!!
Ally signed off at 01:28 p.m.
going home
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Location: about to be in my non-air conditioned car
Description: hung-over
Emotion: be-fuddled
it's 6:30 and i'm going home, but i wanted to make a little note before i left, because i know i won't do this once i get home. last night was crazy. crazy, crazy, crazy, we had a blast at office lounge, i think just about everyone that knows bob-o was there. then we went over to tim and pat's well actually we had to drop corey off at home first, because erin had gone home and he couldn't stay out late with her not there. which is a whole different topic to be discussed later. after we dropped corey off bob-o and i had a long talk before going to tim and pat's - that was where the craziness began. i hope i didn't take advantage of bob-o's drunkenness, but it's hard to tell. i guess we'll see tonight.
Ally signed off at 06:24 p.m.
tired? yes definitely!
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: new skirt from the outlet malls!
Emotion: nostalgic
i've been talking to paul williams online for the past 15 minutes or so. man, i miss hanging out with him. not only was he super cute, but he's just so much fun. he's a stockbroker now, which i'm sure means that he's cut his hair and shaved his beard. and for everyone that does not know paul, that means instant cutie.
talking with paul has made me think about the past. barrett and such. and that's led me to the present, and wondering about how i'll think of this time in my life when i'm older. 6 years ago i truly believed that i had the best friends ever, and that my boyfriend and i would be together forever. since then i've discovered friends that are a million times more true than in high school, and barrett and i have broken up. now i'm extremely happy with my life but i wonder if i'll look back on this time with different feelings?
on to lighter topics. i had a great time last night, and i'm looking forward to an even better one tonight. bob-o's last night at the office lounge. it's gonna be crazy.
Ally signed off at 01:37 p.m.
scattered with the winds
Monday, August 19, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: jeans
Emotion: disillusioned
well, i am definitely feeling disillusioned, another one of my friends is leaving austin. bob-o is moving to Saint Louis to take a job as a prefect with a catholic boys school. it's absolutely perfect for him. i was hanging out with him when he found out he had the job, so we talked about it the rest of the night, and all though i really didn't want him to leave i tried not to seriously influence him one way or the other. he ended up making the decision i knew he was going to, even though i didn't want him to. and even though i know he's moving up and doing good things with his life i really wish he was just sticking around austin.
we also had a very interesting talk that night, the contents of which is mainly why i'm feeling so disillusioned (which by the way is a tribute to a song of bob-o's)i don't want to go into the details but it basically came down to the fact that he felt sorry for me for a situation that he thought i was in. now there was no way bob-o could have possibly known how much i dislike the mere thought of someone pitying me. but i kind of went off, we talked for a while but i'm not sure anyhting was better, i still felt like he felt sorry for me, and he still felt like i didn't understand. i wish i could have explaine dot him better how importnat it was to me that he not pity me. but then i guess you can't really help it if you feel sorry for someone. i just hope now that we've talked he doesn't feel that way anymore.
whew! that was a long one. but luckily it's almost time to go home now, and i can take a nap.
Ally signed off at 04:52 p.m.
computer systems DOWN!
Thursday, August 15, 2002
Location: a computer company with serious technical problems.
Description: nothing special
Emotion: beleaguered yet relaxed
Dell's computer systems are down. both systems that we use to process and cancel orders are not working. this basically renders almost the entire call staff useless. it's sad and i really can't stand hearing the customers gasp when i say our systems are down. it just amazes them the dell could have computer problems. and i have to explain to them that there's nothing i can do, they'll have to call back tomorrow. they don't like that at all, which is understandable. but, and listen closely, THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT.
Ally signed off at 05:05 p.m.
"what if i'm an angel?"
Thursday, August 15, 2002
Location: dell (i'm starting to wonder if this isn't getting redundant)
Description: Dress
Emotion: expectant
it's almost the weekend! and jill is coming to visit and we're probably going to go tubing. i can tell this weekend is going to be just great! i can't wait!
on my way to work today i saw a pna handler with a sign that said "what if i'm an angel". now i don't know exactly how i feel about this. one the one hand it's something creative and different which i'm always a fan of. but it also seems a bit exploitative. if he was a really an angle there's no way he would resort to that sort of guilt trip. however a part of me wanted to stop and give him some money - not because he's an angel, but because he's doing something, even if it is just standing on the side of the road. and he at least mad emy drive to work a little less mindless. it woke me up and got me thinking. and i guess that's worth a couple of dollars. unfortunately i didn't decide this until i was already down the road.
bobo-o and pat went down to bryan to visit richard on monday. i really wanted to go but of course i had to work. i assume they had a great time, and i have a sneaking suspicion that tim drove up there on tuesday. hopefully they'll all be back by this weekend and we can hang out. well the calls are piling up. Thank you for calling Dell, this is Allyson, can i help you?
Ally signed off at 11:00 a.m.
the daily grind
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Location: DELL
Description: i like to call this look, "business hippie casual"
Emotion: Acquiescent
alright, alright. i can't fight this any longer. i'm going to have to get a new car. i don't want to get a new car. i love my car. it's my most prized posession. i know i will be lost without that car. but it is just a car, and i will survive even lost.
of course i don't have time to write out the whole story right now. i have to take calls form people who aren't smart enough to order off the internet.
Ally signed off at 09:57 a.m.
cancel/re-entering my life away
Friday, August 9, 2002
Location: walking a fine line between the moral good and bad
Description: new shirt! and jeans
Emotion: humbled yet smug (is that possible?)
today is friday. i don't have any big plans for the weekend but i'm glad it's friday all the same. we had a meeting today with the e-order team, and i realized i was doing the cancel/re-enters incorrectly. they keep saying if you have any questions you should ask don't just do it wrong. but if you think you're doing something right then you don't have any questions. all though i was doing them wrong i think my way makes much more sense. the way the team works them now you have to go to three different screens to refrence the old number with the new one, in my way, you can see the old order number on the same screen, it's just under special instructions. - i think it's a much better way to do things. but i've only worked her a couple of weeks so i guess i shouldn't rock the boat.
Ally signed off at 10:52 a.m.
reflections on life
Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Location: my body's at dell, but my mind is somewhere else entirely
Description: a dress I threw on this morning, that doesn't really fit
Emotion: reflective
i guess i'm falling into a pattern. go to work, open up the programs i use, sign on to instant messenger and then open up my pitas page to update. then it's ususally a couple of hours before i can actually get to the updating, and by then i'm no longer in the same mood as i was in the morning. i don't feel quite as reflective anymore. now i'm more in a forward reaching, what am i going to do with my life, sort of state. but i don't really want to talk about that, so instead here are some interessting quotes that i've heard at my job, just in the last 2 hours.
"i bought a dell from you folks a few weeks ago and frankly i'm sick of it. i just want to send it back."
"i hope you can help me i'm having nothing but problems with you guys."
customer: how are you doing today?
Me: Quite well
customer: well you probably won't
be after you've finished talking to me.
of course most of the people i talk to are very nice and know what they're talking about, it's the idiots that keep the job interesting though.
Ally signed off at 10:00 a.m.
monday...monday...
Monday, August 5, 2002
Location: Dell
Description: jeans
Emotion: comfortable
well it's monday, but i've been having a good day at work. time is just flying by. i've been dealing with cingular all weekend trying to get my cell phone turned back on. i think i've finally worked out the problem. it was a huge ordeal! but other than that i had a great weekend. friday night barbara and i actually spent some time together. it was really fun. we went to central market and then made a fabulous dinner. the two of us hadn't really seen each other in awhile, so it was nice to spend some time together. then we went down to georgetown and she went to matt's and i went to tim's. it was quite a party over at tim's corey and todd and andrew were there, we had a great time. we watched killing zoey, well i actually fell asleep in the middle of the movie and didn't see the end, but i'd seen it before so the only real bummer was that bob-o owed me a massage and i didn't take him up on it then, and now i don't know if i'll get the chance. well i woke up and hung out for the rest of the night and didn't get home until 11 sat. morning - but a great time was had by all.
sat. night we tim and doug and i went over to johnny's it was super fun, and luckily pat and i left before the cops showed up, perfect timing as always. then on sunday we went to see into the woods. as far as a production goes it was just ok, but we had a great time sitting on the hill eating a picnic dinner and just hanging out. plus i got to talk to rich and he says he's coming in to georgetown early next week. i'm going to try and not go down to g-town as often as i have been. i've got stuff to do at home and i won't get anything done if i keep driving down there. so that's the goal for the week. stay in austin, be productive!
Ally signed off at 01:17 p.m.
FRIDAY!!!
Friday, August 2, 2002
Location:Dell dell dell
Description: bleh
Emotion: the friday giggles
it's amazing how working monday thru friday will make you appreciate weekends more than electricity, or running water, or almost any convience i can think of. the weekends are just wonderful.
Ally signed off at 08:36 a.m.
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