note: I am not an actual IT person-thing.

I am just the only person in my office that can use excel.

anyhoo. I'm making this intranet web page. from word, as if I made it with html, nobody else would know what to do.

note: this occasionally makes it harder. I was having problems with my links, and all I wanted to do was go in and put an < /a> in there. but I can't do that! gdi.

ANYWAY. we had a meeting for this today.

(as I have been waiting on a shared folder, which I don't have the power to create, to put my creation in)

and had to not look like an idiot, because I've been waiting on this since the end of November. someone created one, sent me a link, I couldn't get in, and NOBODY FIXED IT

today, with help from the only other competent person in the building, I found out why.

someone with my last name, called Karen had been added to the read-write for the file instead of me.

she works in scotland. in tax.

I feel like this poor lady has no idea what she's been added to, or kicked out of.

ANYHOO. manager-lady comes over to see where I'm at. I go to show her, and my links are bust in a new and fun way. It was not like this at 5 last night.

fffffffffffffft.

I figured how to fix it in ten minutes. of course, the ten minutes after she left.

I feel like my fiddle-until-it-breaks, so I know how to fix it when someone else breaks it strategy just makes me look like I've messed it up.

So I'm a wizard. but expected to get everything bang on.

good news is, I sent it off this evening and it's done. bad news is, I'm still the mystical wizard.

I just feel more like Rincewind at times than Gandalf.

Oh lord, that is me at my office. THEY REALLY DO CALL ME "I.T."

the little indian lady on our team gets me every time she wants to know how to do something on excel. which is... at least once a day.

but it's kinda cool, as we can both put me showing her how to do a floating row on excel on our training logs.

'Helped colleague develop IT skills'. ...in every single month's PMR.

my entire team was utterly amazed by alt-print screen.