They Want to Meet Me!

Yesterday my team lead said clients were asking their agents where I was because they wanted to meet me after speaking to me on the phone. That's pretty neat. Looks like my sparkling personality shines through and through. He also asked what kind of reward I'd like for being consistently awesome. My first thought and consequential response was candy. He suggested a gift card to Subway, which kind of deflated my happiness and made me suck in my stomach. If he asked me again today, I'd probably say a raise.

He Tried to Kill It

I went on an eight mile hike on Saturday which was kind of dumb because I probably haven't walked eight collective miles this whole summer. But I really wanted to go. Not even a quarter of the way up the mountain (so we're talking about 1 mile in) I realized just what a bad idea it was. I'm not in very good shape and my shoes were flat and worn out. I was the slowest of the group, and I was amazed how I kept apologizing for being slow, the other hikers would assure me it was perfectly fine but minutes later mention how it was taking longer than they remembered. That's because I was the bowling ball chained to their feet. Oh well. I saw a pheasant and a deer and right by the top we heard a rustling and I saw a rattlesnake right by the path. It was probably three feet long! Most of us continued on, but one guy with some kind of manly vendetta against innocent wildlife tried to kill it and instead only partially crushed it. So beware the angry, half-dead snake if you plan on going up there any time soon. We reached the summit right at sunset and found a hiker who had climbed straight up the cliff face and was consequently lost because he couldn't climb down it in the dark and he wasn't aware there was a path. He called 911 but they told him they wouldn't rescue him unless he was injured, so he's lucky we found him. Especially because he was to give his farewell talk at church the next day as he's about to leave on a mission. It would've been kind of awkward if he went missing instead. I think the descent took less time than the climb, though it was dark and I was talking to the rescuee and focusing so hard on not stumbling that it's hard to say for certain. We passed two people walking their dog but their dog was big and black and I saw it before the people so I shrieked and jumped and the dog growled but an instant later we saw its owners and we laughed and the dog wagged its tail. Dogs are smart. What an adventure. Only my legs are really stiff and sore and I need to buy groceries today.

Fifteen

I set fifteen appointments yesterday, folks! That's the most I've ever set in a day! My previous record was fourteen. And I was split-dialing for five of them. I was telling the new guy that I was doing unusually well and not to think it was normal because I've seen other people set five in an hour and he said "Yeah, you just did." Still, not my typical performance. Actually, I've gotten 10, 11, and now 15 this week, which is probably higher than I got in the last two weeks combined. I seem to have started doing less-well once I made friends and was flirting (a little) with Sheep Boy. But now that I sit in isolation beneath the freezer--excuse me, air conditioning--my stats are way up. I credit the window. Yesterday I saw a double rainbow and a lightning storm. Oh, and the air conditioning was broken, so I thought I might die.

North Pole

They switched teams on us again. I've been relocated to the North Pole, or at least it feels like it! I sit right under the air conditioning vent. My nose started dripping thirty minutes into my shift. On the plus side, I have a wonderful view of the mountains. I just have to slouch far enough down in my chair to use the window frame to hide the scenic sewage treatment plant that fills the bottom half of the landscape.