Bad Day Cliché

Today started alright. I think I got close to the 7 hours of sleep I had hoped to have. STM let me know about service changes on the train so that I was able to alter my route accordingly.

However, today has been decidedly bad.

It's been busy at work, which is sometimes a good thing, but not today. A file we needed was corrupt, and after going back to the original email and pulling it back from the archives, I discovered that it, too, was corrupt.

A room for a presentation today that had been moved twice already was moved, yet again, unbeknownst to me or my boss. So, she sent the wrong room number to the distribution group of 800 or so attorneys only to be corrected by one of the girls in attorney training (who actually hadn't been notified of the 2nd or 3rd change but luckily the 3rd change was to the same room as the 1st change had been). Point of story - my boss looked bad, and she doesn't like that. This was not my fault but still not good.

Then, a couple attorneys couldn't open the documents links from that same email. Must have been some technical glitch, so still not my fault but still not good.

However, shortly thereafter I did screw up by not calling someone I was supposed to. This is a minor slip but it was not my only one of the day.

Lunch came and went, and I only had time to eat the sandwiches I had packed, unable to get any chips as I had intended.

Then, my bigger slip came from not changing the sharepoint calendar for this training that was switched last Thursday. The frustrating part is I could have sworn I changed it. I know to update the calendars. There have been lots of changes lately, so I've made a deliberate effort to be more on top of these changes. So I was shocked to see that that particular change hadn't been made. Of course, this came to light because my boss emailed 4 or 5 attorneys reminding them of this date (better than 800 attorneys but still not good).

On top of work stuff, my iphone's touch screen just decided to stop working today. I slid to open it, and then couldn't type my password. I turned it off and couldn't even slide it on. I tried turning it off to see if it was just the bottom of the screen that was broken, and I can't slide the top bar to power off. wtf. And, of course the genius bar doesn't have any appointments until like, tomorrow at midnight.

However, to top off this already bad day, when I went to the vending machine to get some cheetos for my now starving stomach--10 minutes after my shift had ended but with work still left to do--they got stuck in the machine. We have really nice machines here. Stuff like that never happens. But of course it happened to me. today. I'd take a picture to show you my sad cheetos stuck in a crevice at the bottom of the shelf above them, but I can't. My phone (also my camera) is broken. Boo.

Next thing I know some one will accuse me of having a case of the Mondays.

Update: I just tried the vending machine again in hopes that the second bag of Cheetos would push the first bag out. Now they are both stuck. Really?