cold

Heat has cut out in the house. It's been out since yesterday evening, before 6pm - -we've been calling the company with which we have the service contract at regular intervals, to no effect.

And a winter storm's coming?

Need heat. Desperately.

My morning

Approximate way things have gone today:

Me:

scan scan scan copy

scan scan scan copy

scan scan claw staple scan copy

scan check discrepancy scan scan copy

scan scan clear jam clear jam clear jam clear jam clear jam scan scan copy

catch breath

Big Boss: (leaning over shoulder, sharply) "What's the holdup here?"

Me: "...what?"

Big Boss: (even more sharply) "Why aren't you scanning?"

Me: muttering about having to catch breath before diving back into it

Big boss walks away.

Me: scan scan clear jam clear jam clear jam swear to god the next time he breathes fire down my neck I get busy with a brick and a ferret and two square feet of sandpaper and three pints of sulfuric acid scan claw staple scan clear jam scan copy