overnight requests, century mark

 around midday there was three emails in the shared box. it was a total of one hundred and one overnight requests from just one business line. this was no doubt a spike in volume, and the previous day it was eighteen, and on most days nearly twenty would be considered a spike on its own. i copied my boss on it and at first i said there wasn't enough overnight envelopes available. we were told it was due to replacement checks where the original ones were sent to the wrong payee, and it was a regulatory issue in terms of needing to overnight so many. i noticed many of them were under ten dollars, and the cost of overnighting them is nearly that much. these small checks wouldn't even buy a fast-food meal now, and some were for under a dollar. we went to the mailroom and i found out we had enough as the recent order of two boxes of envelopes had arrived. i didn't get to any in my share because i was tackling everything else. my vacation replacement finished share, which was forty-eight. in addition, the two Fargo files were late, and i printed all of the special handling checks. but the lion's share had to wait, two thousand in all, until the next day. we can only do so much in any given day and my boss let the manager know that not all of them would be going out the same day. it was yet another day of me getting a quick lunch at the convenience store on the main floor, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. this was the second time this week that i have done this. in the morning before things got busy i did find the time to apply for an internal job posting, first time since starting there. purely coincidental as it had been on my list to do so for a week. weird thing that was likely also purely coincidental? when i got off the light rail back at the park and ride, there was some big bird droppings on my car. i used the windshield washer fluid on the part that landed there. during my walks i found 1 dollar 98 cents. in the evening i went to get a small bag of chips at the laundromat vending machine. had to say to the kid who wanted to press the buttons that i wanted to use the machine. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when Amy makes a scene with Sheldon, after being coached by penny on how to do so. it was followed by the one where a competitor of Sheldon and Amy's for the Nobel got drunk and exposed his colleague at fermi lab for being a fraud, a plagiarist.