Recap: 4 days

A few events today, one of which being that despite of this being my last payroll week, I was asked to switch to the UCD online payroll/timesheet system, which has, thus far, caused me no end of grief. This is only a slight exaggeration considering the online system is new and doesn't allow things such as editing, cancellation, and only let you submit the forms in chronological order (meaning you can't fill out the recent form until the system thinks you've got all your old forms done already). This is the problem part for me since, apparently, my last two payroll was in paper form and the data wasn't entered into the system, thereby causing the system to demand "late timesheet, submit today, please!" and much phone-calling and head-banging resulted.

I have proven, once again, that "c" is apparently the last letter in the alphabet, not "z". This is after I repeated the "z-as in the last letter in the alphabets" phrase twice, at the person's request, and still ended up with the person spelling back "c-h-... right?".

We got our temporary foster, Rushmore, last night. Rushmore is a great deal bigger and older than Rose and is currently on a diet. Appearance-wise he's orange-ish and white, short-haired, with a very blunt looking face (I have no better word to describe it). He had spend most of today under Annie's bed, since Annie's room is where his current quarter is until a permanent foster home can be found for him. Rose is not too thrilled about him, nor is he too thrilled about Rose, but so far everything's been limited to hissing and growling. Mostly though, it's Rushmore ignoring Rose who follows (actually, STALK will be more accurate) him around and hisses whenever he turns around to look at her. He growls in return. She hisses some more. They engage in an epic staring contest until one of them gets distracted and wanders off. Five minutes passes. Repeat the process. Ad infinium.

Both of them are technically allowed the run of the house, but you ought to have seen Rose's hissing fit when Rushmore tried to step in my, i.e., Rose's room. Keep in mind, please, that Rushmore is a full grown male who's about half again Rose's size.

The stare-hiss-growl repetition got a little distracting this morning while I had to watch both of them by myself, so I ended up first shutting Rose in my room, then shutting Rushmore in Annie's room, just so I can study.

Meanwhile? The staring contest continues.