Office porn, Transit hostage, and an Electrical Fire!!!

Yep, the title is riveting, I know! The stories don't really live up to the hype though... Just so you're aware!

Let's move through this chronologically, shall we?

The office that I work in does a weekly backup of all the information on our server, and I am the lucky individual who is in charge of seeing that the backup goes off without a hitch. It should be noted that for the backup to run properly all of the brokers need to have their computer programs shut down to the desktop, and their computers need to be on. So the backup is all set to run, and as one of the brokers is headed out the front door of the office, I said to him,"STOP! Go back to your desk and shut everything down so that backup can run."

He replied,"Can you go do it? I've got to be somewhere in 15 minutes."

Visibly irritated, I groan and say, "Yeah, whatever... I'll take care of it."

So a few minutes go by, and I go back to his office to shut things down... I close the 17 open e-mail windows, I close the 9 open excel spreadsheets, I close the itunes, I close the instant messages and the buddy list... and then I get to the last window... a media player. A media player that has been running and is currently stopped on a particular screen capture of a woman in a rather "compromised" position. And by "compromised" I mean she is in the middle of giving a blowjob to a spectacularly large gentleman.

As someone who has never needed or spent much, if any time viewing pornographic materials, I am a little put off by this. Honestly, I don't really understand porn, and I certainly don't understand the need to view it in the office. So this encounter was more than a little shocking, and just a bit unsettling for the ol' lizzle! (Unsettling in the most humorous way one can be unsettled.)

So not long after this, it's time for me to head home. So I pack up my belongings, and head for the bus stop. I board the bus as usual, only to be folowed by a crazy woman. (I tell you, I am some kind of magnet for crazies!) This woman proceeds to sit down without paying her fare. The bus driver tells her that she can't simply board the bus and not pay, so she needs to either pay a fare or get off the bus. She shows the bus driver a piece of paper, and the bus driver tells her that there's nothing she can do about that, and that she needs to pay a fare or get off... The crazy woman refuses. So the bus driver starts calling the CTA offices, and nobody seems able to do anything... Long story short, the woman held us all hostage on the bus for 20 minutes until the cops came and removed her.

So then I got home, changed clothes, and went up to campus for a volleyball game and then to dinner with some friends. When they dropped me off at my humble abode, I noticed that the lobby was smoky. I see a woman standing in the laundry room, and one of the washing machines spewing smoke. Another long story short, the machine had gone on the fritz, caught fire, and is now kaput. Thank goodness it didn't go unnoticed, because lord knows I can't afford to go out and replace all my shit!

So that's the long and short of it! I'm headed off to another volleyball game, and to wherever the evening will lead me! Have a great weekend bitches!