shiny pretty things---or maybe not

All alone in the office now-need a prank caller! Or just someone to call before I go mad. I can at least turn up the Thomas Crown Affair almost as loud as I want while working. I'm not actually slacking off that much at the moment even though there's literally no one to supervise me, not even Christina. They're at a staff meeting dealing with depressing numbers across the hallway. I'm procrastinating on calling back people on the hotline, which is not very nice of me but after dealing with at least fifty (I've kept count) indecisive middle-aged mothers and gruff terse businessmen I'm getting rather annoyed. 12 calls a day yields on average 1 ticket order over the phone. C'est angoissant, vraiment!

I just started translating Huis clos as my summer French project, and it's harder than I thought. Translating into English from French in general is easier than the other way around, but it's hard to convey some of the same nuances in the language. Parts of what I've got sound rather stilted, I admit, but I'm working on it. I finished the first scene over the weekend and am about to do 2 and 3 (2 is pretty short, anyway). Oish.

the barbarian invasion!

Tons of people (i.e. outsiders) have invaded the office. Quite busy right now. 'Tis exciting indeed.

A TV crew (KPIX) is coming to the office for publicity! So watch the news tonight. I'm curious about what it will be like. They arrive in a half hour. Tee hee. Maybe I'll smuggle my way onto shooting :P Thankfully I actually look nice and respectable (i.e. not sloppy) for once.

Just curious-who's done the prank calls today so far? A little before 2 somebody whistled for about 5 seconds and then hung up, and the second one was just...kind of creepy. I'm really curious now.