Things We Wrote Today

I'm trying to write SOMETHING every day, whether it's this blog, fiction, or both. I guess I can count the blog today, but mainly I wrote these things at work throughout the day:

1. Email reply to girl mentioned in a previous post. Wouldn't you know it, she didn't actually realize I was interested in being more than friends until I told her. I conceded that due to my general flirtatious nature, I might not be that easy to read. Anyway, it's all fine now.

2. Numerous work emails. Even though I'm a productive member of the company, one thing that holds me back somewhat is that I will really labor over emails, sometimes going through several drafts if I'm replying to something that makes me angry. Sometimes you have to be helpful, professional and informative while imparting a lesson or subtly admonishing the other party, and it can be difficult. I do think over the years I've gotten a lot better, because I see younger coworkers emails that remind of something I might have written years earlier, and which now look kind of pissy now.

3. Wrote some free verse on the back of a piece of paper I was going to recycle. I think it was something like,

"Black gulf
Ocean and denial
Succumb
Sea cucumber"

I had read a mention of sea cucumber in a book I was reading at lunch, so that's where that part came from. The word "gulf" was bouncing around in my head since the morning.

4. An email came out from the VP of Operations that as they were switching to a new (Workers Comp insurance) policy processing system, they could not issue any endorsements from Oct 22 to Nov 3, and that we should inform the agents we work with. That's a pretty long time, especially when some policyholders, such as contractors, need certain waivers processed in order to satisfy some of the people for whom they're performing contracting jobs. Among a few coworkers, I wrote some wiseass comments that we shoudl tell these insureds not to do any work during this time, and I asked if this new system grew from a seed, as I couldn't see why it would take so long to switch over. This was followed by others making fun of this VP, who is a former military woman and widely despised for her poor treatment of her employees.

5. I replied to my former wife about our son's baseball coach, and me burning her husband a Weezer cd.

6. An email from the Operations Manager/Executive Assistant (don't ask) warned that there were several "incidences" of people trying to dial a fax number, "9" to dial out, then "1" then the area code, etc., and accidentally dialing 911, and the police were here today. I wondered to another coworker how I was supposed to get help next time I was assaulted in the copy room.