Things That Have Made This Week AWESOME

Awesomeness is prevailing down to Lamar University.  Here's why:

1.  The FEMA auditors have been back in town for the past two weeks, auditing all of the school records from Hurricane Rita. They've pulled all of the people from my office to question them on the specifics of all of the repairs that were done at that time.  Hurricane Rita was 4.5 years ago.  No one remembers specifics.  They're lucky if they remember general details.  One of the auditors even asked how many inches of rain Beaumont got the March following the hurricane.  Ummm....12.762 mega inches??  Anyway, FEMA auditors = everyone being in a really bad mood.  And that = awesome.

2.  There's a marathon taking place in Beaumont tomorrow.  Apparently no one informed anyone in the facilities office that due to the race route, the entire campus will be closed from 5am-5pm.  This means the grounds people, the contractors, and the maintenance people can't get in or out.  This spurred a 90 minute discussion (AKA yelling match) right in front of my desk this morning during which absolutely nothing got resolved.  Oh, and just for the record, no one in my office actually knows how far you run in a marathon or how long it takes most people.  When I told them the race course would more than likely be open for 7-8 hours, hell really broke loose.

3.  The Internet has been down everywhere on campus (except the building right next to ours, who has their own server...guess where I am now!) since yesterday at 11am.  That means no one can get into the work order system, the time card entry, the shared drives, email, print to any network printer, etc.  And what about the girl whose only apparent job is to play on the Internet eight hours a day (AKA Erin)??  What the heck is she supposed to do?  Maybe today my pretending-to-have-something-to-do ruse will be exposed.

4.  My Boss has no idea how to use his cell phone.  He is constantly calling my desk to ask for the same telephone numbers over and over.  So, today, as soon as he walked in the door, I commandeered the phone, programmed it with every number I could think of (except my own...I am now laughing evilly) and handed it back to him.  He just stared at me blankly when I explained what I'd done.  Then I had to explain the concept of a phone book/contact list.  He still didn't get it.  Finally, I wrote instructions on a piece of paper and taped it to the back of the phone.  I made him go through the instructions with me (and his phone) until I was satisfied that he understood them and could use them in a practical sense.