The secretary at the library wrote me an email on Monday afternoon to remind me that I have twenty-four hours of personal time left in the year, which means free vacation time I have to use by January 1 or it disappears into the abyss of lost opportunities. Everybody and their brother has already asked…
Category: work
Glamour and Wit
The day has gotten away from me, and I’m having a hard time putting together any coherent, bloggish thoughts (the wit). But wait, there’s sarcastic glamour, too. What caused this amazing passing of time? I’ve been dealing with RFID tracker gates that aren’t tracking a blessed thing. Like I said, very cool. Not only am…
Extra Free Time
I don’t know about you, but when I find myself with more free time than I thought I had, it’s awesome. It’s like skipping class in college combined with finding free food at any point in my life. Or at any point in my life that involved paying for my own food. So the past…
Grumpy Face, Pretty Tree (Just like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”)
It’s been a tough day at work. When people ask me for statistics or reports at my new job, I assume that they’re asking for something that I can in fact find. Sometimes that’s not true. Today’s search lasted for the morning and the first hour or so of the afternoon, and it ended with…
Pockets of Chaos
Sometimes I forget that I’m a neat person at heart. I look at my kitchen counter and see recycling that hasn’t made it outside, plant information tags that may or may not correlate to what’s currently alive in the yard, and lots of other stuff that shouldn’t be in a kitchen at all. I internally…
Death by Database, Revival by Commute
I’ve been struggling with this one stupid database all day. All. Day. The good thing about having a new job in which you have very little background is that there’s always an exciting challenge around the corner. Life is certainly not dull, and you feel a real sense of accomplishment at the end of every…
Moving In
As the years have progressed, I’ve developed a bit of a nesting habit. At first, it only came out during my summers as a camp counselor. The camp I worked for traveled to different locations every week to maximize the people we could share camp with and to make life a little simpler for parents. …
Small, but valuable. 