Usurper ;)

Well, in the course of 2 days at work I went from the total newbie to replacing a girl who'd been with the team for months. And no, she hasn't chosen to leave, the boss has made that decision for her. Primarily because I'm around now. In truth, it started because of her drama-queen attitude when Shane decided to let me pick up an extra hour of work since I live 2 blocks from their Bothell campus. Oh, and he also picked me for Red Hat on Monday, which is an extra 8 hours that she normally gets. When she found all this out, she got upset and whiny, and Shane just didn't wanna deal with it. He said she probably feels threatened by me because I'm another of those rare creatures, a female tech. I think she's just a prissy drama-queen who knows a LOT more about being a tech than I do but who doesn't have the ability to get along with the guys that I have. By the end of my fourth day, Shane and Dana and I made such a comfortable team that there was much laughing and joking, and many pranks (for one thing, Dana stuck tape on my back, so I ripped it off and stuck it in his hair). Shane constantly made comments that Dana and I were making him feel old, and that he wouldn't trust us alone in a room together. Of course, he usually made these comments immediatly before leaving us alone in a room together, so meh ;) Dana's pretty cool, despite the fact that I often have to ask him to repeat himself. He was born and raised in Seoul, S. Korea, and despite having been in the military his enunciation still isn't what I could wish. This weekend it'll be just Shane and Tim and I, there's only about 150 PC's to be moved and Dana had "stuff" to do. Tim's an older guy who worked for (and striked against) Boeing, among other things. He has a few interesting stories, but I wouldn't say we really get along. I'm hoping I'll either be on my own most of this weekend, or be able to hang out with Shane. We still have a lot to discuss of Sci-Fi books and miniatures games... oh! I gotta remember to bring in a couple of my painted 'Mechs. We didn't finish watching Serenity on Monday either, but we won't have a chance to finish that up until Red Hat.

Pat called tonight (amazing that they got service!), it sounds like he's having a blast on his Alaska cruise. He listed a few of the critters he's gotten to see, and I'm very very jealous. I was hoping he could give me a time when he'd be getting home, what with Sea Fair this weekend, work, and some cooking I want to do once I get my paycheck, things are gonna be busy, but I'd hate to not be here to say hi. Oh well, it's not like he'll only be home for 2 hours this time ;)

Stormy is telling me to go to bed, and while I'd like to play some more Thief: Deadly Shadows, I think there are undead in this next mission, and I don't feel like getting spooked tonight.

Oh! I forgot. I signed up with Stardust, to help scientists locate the interstellar dust picked up by the Stardust mission. I've done about 60 "real" images/movies, and I've found definite dust particles in 2 of them, with another few probables. I'm also like 19/20 of the test movies (the only one I missed, it was a slanted track, and I didn't think it was one but they said to mark anything that MIGHT be something, so I did, and it turned out to be a test, not real, and I was wrong). I'd like to get all 3 certificates... one is for completing the training (which I did 10/10), another is for doing 100 movies (which I can easily get) and the last is for getting in the top 100 (which will get exponentially harder the longer it takes, so I really wanna sit down tomorrow and crank a buncha these out, to get to the top 100 right now I'd have to finish about 300 movies). So that's incredibly fun/cool, thanks to Jen for pointing me to it :)

I guess that wraps things up pretty much. I'm quite proud of usurping this spot on the crew, and it feels doubly good because it means I'll get the maximum hours possible from this job, since I'm near the top (probably only Dana is higher) of Shane's list of who he wants to work with.