This just did

At the very end of the night last night I went to bring a garbage cart to the dumpster. The temp working there made small talk with me while we threw the lab trash into the compactor. He asked me if anything funny had happened last night. I said, "oh there's always something" but I couldn't think of anything specific. Then I wondered what I could possibly blog about...

  

Yes, i'm making a Jersey Shore reference

MH and I were sitting in the clean room, calibrating the cryoscope when she says, "so...I like pickles."
There was enough of a pause after that comment to make it seem like a completely independent thought. I laughed. She couldn't finish the story because I was laughing at her.
Once we collected ourselves, she continued, telling me about a barbeque she had attended with her boyfriend and that there had been homemade pickles and that her boyfriend had made the generalization that all women like pickles...because Snooki does.

Monday monotony

There's something about twelve hours of milk audits that just fries my brain. Eight or nine hours in I realize I have no idea what I've even been writing on my audit sheet because I'm just so locked into the routine. Like when you're driving a real familiar route and you don't remember the drive but suddenly find yourself at your destination.

Noooo (vartis)

The worst torture I have endured at work lately is spending half of a twelve hour shift without an ally but with the hope of leaving early and then after working my tail off to make that happen, not being able to leave.

Saturday nights' alright for tetra

Lucky DR got to leave early since nothing was going on. I wanted to go home but she had a bad case of seniority. 

Why I can't hold on to a bad mood

My job sucks sometimes, but I really do have the greatest coworkers ever. I was in a terrible mood last night, I hadn't eaten or slept much on my night off, and soy pudding was not making things any better.
I was frustrated and extremely cranky.

Picking up on this, all of my coworkers started doing my work for me to the point that I had to stop them and tell them I wasn't that busy, I was just being obnoxious. They acted like I was having the most overwhelming night in history until I just had to smile and relax.

Another DK classic

There is a customer or a representative from an equipment company or... Someone who is emailing DK ...whose last name is Bonekat. We imagine this name is probably pronounced Bon-kaht or something along those lines, but DK kept saying "Bone-cat" and then meowing. Not likely to please Mr. Bonekat, but it made my night.

I'm not actually sure this happened...

I think last night at some point Junior said something ridiculously awkward and then whistled part of the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme in the deafening silence that followed.
It was perfect.

Zen-frickin-soy

My very first day at the factory, zensoy was running in ESL. I tested it my very first day of work. It was the first thing I learned to do.
It runs about once a month. Since my very first day, I have tested zensoy base from tankers and after recieving, I have tested blends of zensoy, maybe even prismas... but until last night, I hadn't tested zensoy offline in ESL for the entire year and nine months I have had this job.

Escape

I know I'm repeating myself, but gelatin makes me want to clock out for lunch, walk straight past the breakroom, take everything out of my locker, get in my car, drive away and never come back.
Especially when I am simultaneously running main lab because my best beloved Smitty quit without giving notice and they didnt change the schedule to compensate.