getting rung at work by orange people
Oct. 3rd, 2005 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperThat is, the sales/accounts dept was a tad irritating. These are work hours! What makes you think I'm not in a meeting or on the shopfloor or in the middle of trying to work something out?
Anyway. They'd tried to track me down last week but I had been in the middle of something then, so put the phone down on them. This time, they're apparently sending me a free phone - which I didn't request, I'm fine with the one I have - getting free weekend calls and checked whether I needed to change my phone plan. Which I do, since I regularly go over the 30 mins one. But still, am a tad annoyed about being hunted down at work.
Fun and games today in that I got headache around 2:30, due to jaw, as these things normally are. This one was spectacular. Was waiting for the pills to kick in when I got queasy and started wincing at the light. (those who know me know I have very big pupils, which often results in looking stoned in photos, but more importantly means I have very good night vision and an intolerance of excessive light. Those who turn on electric lights during mid-afternoon can all die. Only after 20 years of grumbling about my mother switching on lights when she comes into the kitchen when I'm already in it has she finally this weekend actually cottoned onto the fact that it gives me mild headaches as it's actually painful when she does this.) Anyway. It got to the point where I had my palms pressed against my eyesockets when I realised the queasiness would go away if I sat under the desk, which would also fix the light problem.
Cue Tim coming round with a query about comments I'd made on the author checks and doing a double take, of course asking why I was under there, which was riding out a headache. A good 20 mins of this, I got out from under there, and spent the next half hour or so working at snail's pace with the screen turned down to 30% and with sunglasses on, the only way I could work since I discovered my pupils were actually expanding and contracting at a rate of knots. With added breaks for sitting there with hands over my eyes.
After that, vision went back to normal and headache went away. Screen stayed turned down though. But some of the looks I got when I walked through to production with sunglasses on were ..interesting. Because there's no way you can have a hangover at 3:30pm.
Anyway. They'd tried to track me down last week but I had been in the middle of something then, so put the phone down on them. This time, they're apparently sending me a free phone - which I didn't request, I'm fine with the one I have - getting free weekend calls and checked whether I needed to change my phone plan. Which I do, since I regularly go over the 30 mins one. But still, am a tad annoyed about being hunted down at work.
Fun and games today in that I got headache around 2:30, due to jaw, as these things normally are. This one was spectacular. Was waiting for the pills to kick in when I got queasy and started wincing at the light. (those who know me know I have very big pupils, which often results in looking stoned in photos, but more importantly means I have very good night vision and an intolerance of excessive light. Those who turn on electric lights during mid-afternoon can all die. Only after 20 years of grumbling about my mother switching on lights when she comes into the kitchen when I'm already in it has she finally this weekend actually cottoned onto the fact that it gives me mild headaches as it's actually painful when she does this.) Anyway. It got to the point where I had my palms pressed against my eyesockets when I realised the queasiness would go away if I sat under the desk, which would also fix the light problem.
Cue Tim coming round with a query about comments I'd made on the author checks and doing a double take, of course asking why I was under there, which was riding out a headache. A good 20 mins of this, I got out from under there, and spent the next half hour or so working at snail's pace with the screen turned down to 30% and with sunglasses on, the only way I could work since I discovered my pupils were actually expanding and contracting at a rate of knots. With added breaks for sitting there with hands over my eyes.
After that, vision went back to normal and headache went away. Screen stayed turned down though. But some of the looks I got when I walked through to production with sunglasses on were ..interesting. Because there's no way you can have a hangover at 3:30pm.
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Date: 2005-10-04 10:55 am (UTC)there's no way you can have a hangover at 3:30pm
You obviously just haven't tried hard enough... :-)