no honey, nuh uh.

(warning: massive rant ahead. massive)

i am NOT a secretary, damn you. i wasn't hired to be a secretary, and if i wanted to be a secretary, i wouldn't be one for this organization. no way, jose. i have better skills and knowledge to be applied, and if i won't be using them, then i'm leaving.

having spent 7 hours last friday calling all 100 senators' offices and asking for the name of their health legislative assistants, i assumed that it was just a task that needed to be done. and alan didn't have time to do it. fine, that's okay, i don't mind.

today however, i have to send out 100 emails to all those stupid fucking health legislative assistants, attaching a memo that our org has written, concerning a recently approved piece of biosecurity legislation. of course, me being some lowly college grad, i didn't actually write the damn memo/paper/comment. i simply get to email it out. WOO-fucking-HOO.

there are only three interesting things i'm discovering amidst all this work:
1) there's a senator with a last name of crapo. seriously. Senator Crapo. how much does that suck?
2) some girl's name is danielle turnipseed. man, i hope she likes turnips.
3) some dude's name is jason money. i wonder if he ever yells "i am the money!"..

yeah, that's it. that's all i've learned. that, and microsoft outlook sucks balls.

so here, let's do an evaluation:

PROS --
it's a little company, no big shitty bureaucracy crap.
people are generally nice and relatively interesting.
information is intriguing, biosecurity is a relevant topic to our times.
new perspective on biotech, biology, research, etc
organization is decently lax on dress code, time of arrival, and vacation days

CONS --
we're dealing with the government, and the government is retarded.
everything's based on an ideal world -- "this is what we should be doing".. but nothing ever really works that way. fine, call me jaded.
we aren't actually able to do anything besides offer advice and commentary. it's completely up to the senator or whomever to listen and act. in the meantime, we just sit and hope. that stinks.
alan, the boss, is still coughing. i'm gonna secretly gag him one day. he's also, as i've discovered, still a newbie at all of this -- he's only previously worked for one year at DHS.. so really, he's kinda still figuring this stuff out. ehhh. and he's one of those slightly-socially-inept-too-serious scientist guys. agh.
one of the CEOs of the org is kinda lame.
sitting at a computer all day long is my idea of blah. flabby butt, numb toes, symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome, fuzzy sight, too much coffee.

okay so.. where would i rather be?

let's dream --
being outdoors sometimes
talking to real people!
slightly more practical stuff -- hands-on, with a real effect at the end of the day, i like results (and even a deadline or two)

oh me, oh my. moo.