What are you meant to be doing at work and what are you actually doing? (apart from posting, obv)

Processing international roaming invoices between mobile phone companies. I'm supposed to be doing Norway right now. Snore.

Oh, duh, I am actually eating a flapjack. So I guess it's really lunchtime.

The whole of Norway? Blimey!

I am supposed to be doing all things accounts, but obv I'm not!

bah i am at home all day and MEANT to be tidying up an article on children's books for dr vick

so far i have changed the title: it is still 4000 words too long and i haven't even started one section yet

I'm meant to be researching the law of possession but I've decided on having the day off and I'm just gonna print some stuff off and then go home.

I'm supposed be sitting on reception checking students in and out and answering the phone, and that's what I am doing. As well as listening to CDs, this, and playing Arkanoid...

I'm meant to be typing all this shit from pieces of paper and from dictation and then proofing it all. I'm drinking coffee and occasionally doing work.

I am eating some melon and kiwi fruit while doing what I am meant to be doing which is a desperately boring thing that pretty much comes down to data entry, however melon juice keeps going all over the paper so I have abandoned the work in favour of the eating.

I'm just supposed to be sitting around here in case someone comes by needing research or books. And I'm supposed to check in some magazines, but since that takes all of ten minutes to finish I'm not in any hurry to work on it.

drawing up contracts for a pretty big IT company for a pretty big news company - i am actually day dreaming more than posting

now im trying to decipher a hong kong sneaker forum

reading the Ellroy's 'Black Dahlia' at my desk instead of making some grant payments

Actually working. Boo. I'm busy.
(And flogging stuff on ebay).

new weebl: http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/cheese.htm

Warning! Contains reference to cheese and frontal nudity

I'm supposed to be ploughing through Line 21 SDH origination for series two, episode nine of T*achers, and, I am, but I'm also looking through the Touch back catalogue and listening to Asa-Chang & Junray samples on Amazon. T*achers is bloody awful - the killer combination of something that's bad and difficult. M*gnum, p.i. was a joy compared to this.

I'm supposed to be writing the final version of our entry and accession process guidelines which were originally supposed to be finished this time last year. Alternatively I could be writing process guidelines for cataloguing public records, and non-public records, updating my microsoft project plan, writing a proposal for a project board, typing up minutes from two meetings, I could be making sure 200 data cds are labelled up correctly and finding somewhere to put them in the basement. In three weeks we should be getting an upgrade to our main collections management software, which means there's lots of planning I need to be doing so everyone can carry on working as soon as it's done....

What am I actually doing? apart from despairing because there's so much to do I don't know where to start, looking at various websites (ILE, digitalspy and annanova mainly) after every 5 mins of writing guidelines for our administrator, which need to be done, as he needs to follow them from monday.

Thank god it's friday!

Steady Mike, please explain to me why you have put an asterisk in Teachers? I mean, it's not even an uncommon word! I can see why Bangbu* puners might not be welcome here, but, you know, what is bad about random visitors discovering the wacky world of ILX?

I am on my last day as stand in receptionist and I have 2 minutes of lunch left. This afternoon I'll do some paperclippin', answer some phones, report on some scripts, reject some losers, and drink free beer.

Mike, you do closed captions for DVDs?

I have finally finished Norway, and now I am moving on to Orange. Sheesh, UK phonebastards, stop using so much long distance. I mean, did you REALLY need to phone Iceland/Maccau/Kazakstan or whereverthefuck weird places I have to recconcile? I'm not even sure I could find some of these places on a map, why are you ringing them?

JOB SWAP. I'll do the Teachers closed captions, if someone can go fix a mac in Glasgow and write this FTP interface. and so on...

Maybe they're the Royal Cartographic Society, trying to put them on the map.

"Straight on till Greenland, then left? Thanks."

Yeah, but Moldovia? Why is anyone ringing there? GARETH!!! You're on Orange, aren't you. It's you, isn't it?

I figured out the Khazakstan usage spike in early June, though. That was where they launched Beagle 2 from. It was loads and loads of scientists and astronomers and the like ringing home from the lab. (Or at least that's what I like to think.)

I'm supposed to be compiling a calendar of community events for Monday's paper. Y'know, stuff like AA meetings, bridge tournaments, flower shows.

Instead, I'm eating a muffin and writing a record review.

I think I'm supposed to be doing computer-related work ... I'm listening to a CD-R of a jam/rehearsal/session I did with a band I started and subsequently aborted earlier this year. I'm thinking of re-mixing this shit because some of it is great.

People keep walking by my desk, and I can barely hear them talking to me because I have my headphones cranked up so loud. I can occasionally make out phrases like "404 error" and "registry corruption" and "server is down" but I allow at least an hour between someone telling me something and me actually fixing it.

Tim Hortons beckons! I'm going to take the extra-long coffee break.

I'm not 100% sure what I'm meant to be doing today since no one is here. This week has been slow. What we are doing instead of running management reports that I think we're meant to do is reading a wedding magazine and singing Belinda Carslyle songs.

Mark: Yeah, that was stupid of me - I was phearin' a complex Google search from a VC*/Ch*nnel F*ur employee where 'T******s' was the element that took the bastards straight to me. I still get jitters over J*m and, to a lesser extent, B*ttlest*r G***ct*ca.

Alan: yes, I do. And no, I'm not swapping with anyone cos I really do love my job. If struggling to edit down a quick series of exchanges between Cl*re the headm*stress and P*nny the nervous part-t*mer so that that K*urt's solitary [Sighs] is transmittable is all that really gets me down, then it's a better job than most.

I did once have the bright/awful idea of starting a C/D thread for each and every single project I was doing - from Vertigo and The Andromeda Strain to Davina McCall Thanks O Positive Blood Donors and Communication Skills For Charity Trustees.

it is actually possible to post and work at the same time (phone calls... zzzzzzz)