Divisions and Precisions

*sigh* Without my usual props

*sigh* Without my usual props to entertain myself (namely programs like Arachnophilia and Paint Shop Pro and the like), I find myself drowning in the banal repetitiveness that is my job. We're deep in the middle of our busiest two weeks of the year, and so far today I've taken 317, no wait, phone's ringing, 318 calls.

The long and short of it, if you haven't heard me bitch already, is that due to various network conflicts with a task I do here, they had to give me a new computer with Windows 2000. (I know, I hear you, "Oh, poor baby! A brand new computer, how horrible!" Trust me, it's horrible.) I had a few hours to back up my documents and programs and such, then they took my baby away. Then when I got the Win2000 machine, I learned that I didn't have permission to change anything. I can change the appearance of the screen, and I can do things with documents. Everything else is locked out. As much of a computer geek as I am, it's making me absolutely nutty. This will not be 'my' computer until I have access to everything. Hopefully the testing period will end soon and they'll unlock my damned hard drive.

So anyway, I can't run any of "my" programs. And without those things to distract me, I'm realizing just how amazingly dull my job is. Help me. I keep reminding myself that I'm doing this to get through school. Argh.