My life as a comedy of errors

[daemonluna]

This morning: Get to work. Discover that I've left my purse sitting by the door at home. My purse, wtih my work lanyard holding key and passcard. Fortunately, someone else is arriving at the same time I am. Get Lily to let me into the building. Walk towards staff room. Realize I can't get into staff room without swipecard. Have to track someone else down to let me into staff room.

Get upstairs. Realize I should be carrying the PIC phone. (PIC = person-in-charge, aka the most senior librarian in the building. Aka, this weekend, me. Scary, isn't it?) Phone is not there. Go back upstairs, realize someone else has already retrieved it from the charger.

Lunchtime. Come home for lunch. Sit down at computer with my bowl of perogies. (We need to go grocery shopping, oh yes we do.) Take a bite of food. Cat jumps up on my knee. Remove small cat from knee. Take a bite of food. Cat jumps up on my knee. Remove small cat from knee. Take a bite of food. Cat jumps up on my knee. Remove small cat from knee. Take a bite of food. Cat jumps up on my knee. Remove small cat from knee. Take a bite of food. Cat jumps up on my knee. Remove small cat from knee. (This is not an exaggeration.) Look down.

My knee and arm are covered in cat hair.

*headdesk*

Comments

[mockingspike.livejournal.com]

Only in Canada would there be a title like PIC. In an American movie about the trials of teachers in poor inner-city neighbourhood, the principal called himself the HNIC. The H stands for Head, but you'll have to guess what the N stood for.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Was he perchance a gentleman of colour?

Technically, it's not the PIC phone any more. It's the SPB phone--senior person in the building. But we haven't decided how to pronounce the acronym yet.

[mockingspike.livejournal.com]

I had a friend with two large dogs who gave herself a title after learning the right psychological techniques to make her dogs behave. She called herself the Alpha Bitch. You seem to have some work remaining to do with the cat, though.

I wonder if there's some gaming of the system involved with acronyms. They supposedly exist to make long phrases easier to say, but then it seems like they encourage people to invent longer phrases than necessary in order to make an acronym long enough to sound like a full word. If Alpha Bitch were used at your workplace, it might not be appealing on the basis of acronym length. I like the sound if it in a library context, though, because of the progression of the first letters and the resemblance to "alphabet." Could you be the Alpha Bette, maybe? (I guess might depend on whether it makes people think of the character named Bette on "The L Word"). Maybe it's too obvious a pun, too, for those who don't see the other entendre. Alpha Better would be more gender neutral, and it has a bit of that "One librarian to rule them all" vibe. Maybe you could use a C on the end, too, just to give a sense of the full progression, which could bring you back to Alpha Better in Charge. Not ideal, but it would leave room for knowing winks and hints of what the B really stands for.