here i am. at WORK. i could be eating, i could be gone on break and damn near back by now, but no. NO. i am paired with this woman who up until now has been tolerable at worse. nice lady from california, just moved here. we talked. we filled out paperwork. we read things. we looked at apples. and then we were brought to the computer for training. after we finish, we are free to go break for an hour.

and here, the fun ensues. first, a two hundred question survey about ourselves. one of those personality quizzes i am used to so i flew right through it. a couple 'modules' on greeting and customer service and blah blah corporation blah. and then a bunch of reading for product certification. basically, it tells you all about how a computer works. and then quizzes you on it. all the stuff i learned in the college computer class i took in eleventh grade. you can go back and look through what you've just read after you've started the quiz. i take my time reading and jotting things down and looking up answers i don't know before i take the quiz. i finish the quiz. she's still in the middle of the personality survey. oookay. i move on to the second certification. modems and printers and digital cameras and personal information assistants. i read more, take notes less. as i start taking the quiz, she finishes the personality survey. she scans through the reading. starts taking the quiz. takes it over six or seven times. i think i gave her five of the answers, and i'm pretty sure there's only ten questions. mind you, this woman told me she taught a computer class. what the fuck? how to turn it on? i've been done for over an hour. now she's on the second quiz. and i swear, in between pinball and random internetting i probably shouldn't be doing while i am here, i've been watching her. she couldn't have skimmed or even scanned the reading with the quickness she flew through those pages. she took the test. again and again and again. she's using the method of trial and error. WHAT THE FUCK. OH GOOD. SHE ONLY HAS TO TAKE IT ONE MORE TIME because she only had one answer wrong this time. last quiz, she only had one answer wrong, took it again, and had four answers wrong. HOW IN THE HELL DOES THIS HAPPEN. there is no explanation. i am hunger deprived, that explains this entry.

this is an exercise in patience. my demeanor is cool. inside, if my stomach had fingernails it would be chewing them.

rambling mess. i want foood. foooooood.