Judge Judy prank calls and how I've been adopted at work

Several months ago, a coworker from another office introduced me to the absolute hilarity that is celebrity soundboards. You can find a bunch of them on Ebaum's World. (Yes, I know there's a movement against that guy for being a sleazy theif, but his site is still flippin' hilarious.) I've answered a few phone calls only to have some celebrity (usually Arnold) talk to me. We joked that we should set up a weekly phone call where we use soundboards to converse. But I didn't have computer speakers.

Until a couple of weeks ago.

I started poking around the soundboards again this week, and I found an awesome Judge Judy one. I warned him that he might get a call from her soon. Yesterday I delivered.

It was the end of my day, and I was brain-dead from editing HTML on our KB articles. So I planned out a 19-click conversation from Judge Judy's soundboard to leave a message on his voicemail (since he was gone for the day). I practiced it for a couple of minutes and then made the call. It was all I could do to not immediately send him an IM saying something about checking his VM. I restrained.

I got to the office this morning... and nothing. All morning long, I waited for a response. Nothing. I was scared that maybe the volume wasn't loud enough or that the VM had cut off or something. Finally, after lunch, I couldn't wait any longer and I sent him a message. He claims he thought it was awesome, but I'm totally depressed about the lack of a reaction. Boo.

Today was fun at work. The Payroll support team has kind of adopted me and the rest of my team as part of their social activities. My team is spread out all across the floor in separate offices, so we don't plan things like potlucks or white elephant gift exchanges very often. So this afternoon, the PR team invited us to eat pizza with them, and later we had a gift exchange. I tried to steal a funny calendar, but it got stolen from me. Then I opened a bag of mini liquor bottles. That was promptly stolen, too. I ended up with some funny, artsy ant knick-knacks that I've decided will be traveling ants (I'll put them at random people's desks). On Christmas Eve, those of us who are stuck working are going to do a potluck. I'm going to try to make my mac and cheese and then stick it in a crockpot. Hopefully that'll work out.