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[semperfiona]

Why yes, I am bored. I went to ask one of our technical people for help with something, and he still hasn't shown up. Not terribly unusual for him, but I'm stuck and I really need the assistance. My problem seems to be attributable to some changes he made last week. So what do I do in the meantime? I can go bother him again, but as I write that I can hear his voice: he's working with someone else.

So what do I do in the meantime? What I've been doing whenever I'm stuck like this and waiting on someone else: write LJ entries and comments, follow every remotely work-safe link supplied by mactavish or others, take surveys (watch for a couple of those posts coming Real Soon Now), obsessively check email (even though I'm not particularly expecting anything--though a reply from Rachel is probably due about now--and why is wombat so damnably quiet when I want to be entertained? Yeah, I know, start a conversation. I have to think of something to say.), respond instantly to moves in my games at It's Your Turn, and if I get really really bored, as well as daring (since I sit right outside the office of the department vice president), play Collapse or one of the other games at Yahoo! Games.

Oh, and one other online timesuck: Kajitani's Paint by Numbers site.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'll try to remember to mark what's worksafe and what isn't. :)

Have you read news on http://www.ananova.com/ ? I like it better than standard news sites. They find some pretty obscure stuff, more uplifting things, sometimes, and more international news.

[semperfiona]

You're usually pretty good about marking them...and something that seems likely to be questionable I just save for when I get home. Like "I see naked people".

No, but I shall. Always need more timewasters. ;-)

[jingoro.livejournal.com]

http://www.fark.com/ is the ultimate news time-waster.