hangin' tough

today was a tough day at work for me. i'm not the type to get stressed very easily but i just felt exhausted and my back was hurting so much. the breakroom discussions revolved around the merger and what the future holds. i felt like i was part of 'camera cafe' minus the punchline. we have a similar coffee machine at work and a lot of conversation took place around the coffee machine. coffee fuels our office as most of the employees are in by 530 am.

here is what you will hear in the breakroom:

'hey how's it going?'
'all things considered, not that bad.'

'how are you guys holding up?'
'it's tough but you gotta do what you gotta do.'

we ordered a bunch of new business cards for our employees, one email i got said, 'i hope we get to use them!' i'm not witty enough to respond to that. i just said to myself, 'i hope so. it will make a good souvenir though.'

speaking of souvenirs, i went to this website that sells our company's wearables and accessories and shoped for several things, they might not be around by january.

i was on a conference call this morning about a new rule that SEC wanted to implement. different people from the industry were on the call, not just people from our firm. there was about 150 of us on the line but only 10 people did the talking. the press was strictly off limits. i have never heard such frustration in all the conference calls i've been on, it was depressing.

and then there's just these random things in the office that makes me want to pull the hair out of my head. just little things that push my buttons but in the end i still said, 'no worries! that's ok' when in truth i wanted to say, 'seriously now! are you being ridiculous!?'

*sigh*

i need a massage. i'm desperate for a massage!

erase! erase! so depressing! my next entry will be purely positive. i promise!!!!