curse your sudden yet inevitable work ethic!

My office e-mail is not working this morning. It does not seem to be an office-wide problem, because I don't hear other people complaining and the tech people are not scurrying around trying to fix things; it just seems to be a me-specific problem. I put in a ticket flagged "urgent" explaining that my Office Communicator works fine so it's not that I'm not connected to the network, but my Outlook sits on "Trying to Connect" for five minutes at a time and then gives up -- and then I sat back in anticipation of a peaceful morning being allowed to work without the e-mail ringing every two minutes with people asking me for things they could have done themselves.

And then it occurred to me to see if I could connect to webmail.

Sigh. The webmail works fine. So I'm back in touch with my team, and I have good-girl points for macgyvering up a solution, but, meh.

In other news, the new box of tissues I opened yesterday is the kind with lotion in them, so yay, but on the other hand, they are stiffly enough stuck in the box that by the time I'm about to sneeze there's not enough time to get one out. Grr.

[eta: Half an hour after I put in my ticket, someone from IT came around to let me know there's a problem with e-mail and I should use webmail for now. Glad to know they're on the case. ;-) ]