I’m tired.
I spent Thursday and Friday working 11 hour shifts, and then I was at work today (but only for 8 hours, yayz). We ran out of water All. Three. Days.
Seriously.
We desperately need to upgrade our ultra-pure water system. Right now we can only produce 10L/hour of water, and we can only store 200L at a time. Soooo not enough. It used to almost be enough to make 5 batches in 3 days (we still have the woman come up from the States for “supervision”, and she has a real job so she can only come up for 3 days in a row). Now we’ve got a minor pH problem (read: some customers are complaining that the pH is too high, but we can’t verify this internally, and external testing says we’re high, but not as high as the customers say we are, so part of the problem id their stupid incubators anyway. Blargh.) so they’ve tweaked the process a number of times resulting in more and more water being needed for each batch, so I freaking run out. I ran out each of the 3 days this time. Usually, we might run out once during a production run. I also have to make the final batch on Monday because … guess what… we ran out of water.

My boss promises that we’re upgrading our system. I’m not holding my breath. Josh and I are buying a house, too, but it’s not like that’s within a reasonable time frame.

Of course, the week where I work at 7am is also the week Josh works until 12:30am, so I don’t get home from picking him up until 1:30 am, so yayz for running on 4 hours of sleep.

On the plus side, I was told I have a great work attitude by my boss’ associate. Here’s to fakin’ it while I die of sleep deprivation and severe water-related frustration inside.

Also, Jim* (our scientific director): please stop making changes to the process in order to figure out the pH problem. Make ONE change, and we’ll see what happens. I cannot determine cause and effect when you change 4+ variables. Plus, it just wastes the water that I don’t have in the first place.

/rant

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I’m thinking of getting this wig in white for my Smirnoff Fairy D*C costume.
It looks kind of “frosty” to me (or, well, it would in white) instead of a normal wig.
This costume is going to be mostly a frost/ice themed costume, involving some “icicles” and faux fur. I really doubt I could pull off a Russian accent to go with it, but if stop being lazy (haha) I might try to give it a shot.

I really want to get these boots, in white, for this costume (Get it? See, the clear heel is like ice, yo.). I think I just have a thing for knee-high boots. I wish I could find them in matte, instead of patent, though.

*name changed to protect the innocent my job.