The Today Post

So it's only 4:30 in the morning, and today already sucks. For starters, I'm back at work and some sort of problem occurred with my instrument, which is now causing it to beep at least every 10 seconds. It's loud, nerve-racking, almost panic-inducing, and I just want to kick it every time it happens. I guess it's not recognizing the allergen caps it's dropping, so at this point I don't know if my run is even salvageable, but I have to wait it out just in case. Thank goodness it's only Tuesday and our sample load is small. However, I have no idea how they're going to fix this, so it might effect the rest of the week as well, and if this continues to happen when we're busy I will kick the thing. All of this is super, considering school starts tomorrow.

I also found out that of all the people who applied to become my new supervisor, the one person in the world I didn't want to get it, got it. He used to work in my old section, and he wasn't mean or anything, but he was anal about people not getting overtime, ate all the deserts at company parties before anyone else got a chance to get any, and most annoyingly would stick his nose into places where it didn't belong. Basically he would check other peoples' time hours on the time clock (which he had no authority to do, and which happens to be quite a breech in privacy at that), and then would get after them for it, even though we were short staffed at the time which begs to ask, "what else could we do?" But yeah, my school schedule is always messed up, so he's going to freak out on me, I'm pretty sure. I hope I finish that stupid pinata in time for my birthday.

On top of all of this, I'm tired and I just want to go home and take a nap. It makes it worse that I can't even go on a break in case my stupid machine breaks, so instead I have to stay here and listen to it beep.