"Don't call me Little Bastard, call me Snake."

Met the client, she asked if there was any progress in the machinations of Cookie Monster, and that was about all she wanted to know from me.

I called Cookie Monster on Friday, and instead of it between me and some other guy for top spot at the site (like he said the last time I talked to him) and just came down with "there's no need for a supervisor position at that location, and since there's no problems there, I'm concentrating on other places".

Huh.

He also said that he was surprised to know that the client was in town and was taken aback that she hadn't called him. Despite that, he said that he already had it on his schedule to call her on Monday (today), so he'll tee up with her then.

If that isn't a crock of shit, I don't know what is. It's been five months since she took over the liason duties, and he's never spoken to her except when she called up to have Barney removed.

After finishing that call with Cookie Monster, I realized that if the site doesn't need a supervisor, then I don't need to be called all damn week at all hours of the night because Palooka wants to tell me about his key not working, his key suddenly working, escorting a lady to her car, remembering a detail of a conversation we had hours previously, et cetera. So I pulled my number out of the site phone. If someone there needs help, they can call Operations.

In addition to that, if there's a problem at the site, I'm not going to issue any more instructions to deal with the matter. If it builds up and up, let the client and my boss deal with each other. After all, if it doesn't happen on my shift it's not my responsibility, is it?

And all weekend, my phone didn't ring from the site. Ah, bliss!

I went and saw Mirrormask on the weekend. I can't speak for anybody else, but I loved it. It did for me what Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal did for me the first time I saw them, as a kid. Just a coincidence that the Jim Henson company was involved in all three, I'm sure. ;)

And Fictional, if you're reading this, it's exactly what you'd get if you went astral in Mage.

Normally I'm fairly irritated by logic I can't see, even more so when there isn't any but people pretend there is. But in this, since I know that Helena is the centre of everything, it negated that inclination of mine towards irritation. That was good.

Now, I've got a psychological tic. I hear a snatch of song and it gets stuck in my head. So I search it out and listen to it several dozen times to exorcise it from background track in my mind. And I heard such a song while I was waiting for Mirrormask to start.

It was Popular, by Kristin Chenoweth as sung in Wicked. Thank TPTB (The Powers That Be) for the internet and the ability to search via lyrics.

I should add that I hate musicals. Bah.