I Hate Mondays, today more than ever!

I don't do mornings. I don't do Mondays. So Monday mornings provide that extra double-whammy that I don't appreciate.

This craptacular morning started out last night-- when I awoke before 4am and then couldn't get back to sleep for a a couple hours. Makes for an extra-grouchy Helly in the morning. But okay, it's not the first time I've had a sleep-deprived night, and I usually manage to get by.

Then I got into work this morning. I noticed that the walls had been painted. It's actually very pretty-- the smaller rooms each have an accent wall, and upstairs, where it's a big open sea of space filled with cubicles, all of the supporting columns are painted pretty pastel colors. What boggles my mind is why the company would bother wasting the time, effort and money on this endeavor when we're gonna be moving out of this building in another year or so anyway!!

So I settled down in my cube, grabbed a teabag and my mug and went to the water dispenser to get some hot water. Only problem? There WAS no hot water. Apparently the painters had to move the water coolers to get to the walls and when they plugged them back in, they forgot to switch the hot water back on!! So I went to the kitchen and used the hot water dispenser attached to the coffee machine. Which is usually okay... except this one must've had some cross-contamination going with the coffee filter, because now my tea tastes like friggin' old COFFEE!!

Next, I logged into my computer and fired up the first thing I always do-- my email. Only one new message. For a meeting invite. Okay, that was expected. I knew I'd be shelling out a few hours either today or tomorrow for a planning meeting. Closer inspection, however, revealed that the meeting is to last All. Day. Long. From 9:45am to 5pm. The only break we get is from 2-3pm and that's only because there's another department-wide bi-weekly meeting scheduled for that time. I mean, seriously!? WTF!?

Now, there's a whole side story to why this meeting is so long in the first place, but I'll save it for another rant. I think I shall wait out the day to see how the ensuing meeting goes, before I blog about how this snafu came about.

So yeah. This takes the cake in terms of Monday morning blahs. On top of it all the weather got crappy again-- cloudy and dreary and gloomy and chilly. Bah! Tomorrow HAS to get better... right??

(originally posted at:  http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/393274857)