Monday - Really?

I swear to all things good and beautiful that Monday mornings are hard. Not in the way that driving is hard - really damn hard. Next Monday my family is coming - how exciting is that! Let's hope that makes Monday easier - at least for one week.

On Transitions

tran·si·tion [tran-zish-uhn, -sish-] –noun
1. movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
2. Music.
a. a passing from one key to another; modulation.
b. a brief modulation; a modulation used in passing.
c. a sudden, unprepared modulation.
3. a passage from one scene to another by sound effects, music, etc., as in a television program, theatrical production, or the like. –verb (used without object)
4. to make a transition: He had difficulty transitioning from enlisted man to officer.

I've been in transition for about a month now - it began with the prospect of the physical transition of moving, and is so much more than that. It's a transition from living with a roommate to living alone, from a big apartment to a small one, from one way of doing life to another.

I don't have patience for transition. I expect myself to adapt right away and get frustrated when it doesn't happen. For whatever reason yesterday I looked up the definition of transition, and the point about music struck me. Musical transition, modulation, key change - it's not the most pleasing sounding part of a piece, it's not the part you sit back and say ahh and yet, it's usually the most interesting part of piece of music. The part with the most theory to dissect and talk about, and the part where much of the time you see really what a composer is trying to communicate.

So for now I'm trying to have that type of attitude toward this transition. That it's not pretty or enjoyable, but it's a time to find my true motivations and get in touch with more reality. Hopefully that attitude will help me adapt more gracefully.

That's What She Said

I jumped on this bandwagon quite a bit later than my friends. However - playing the "that's what she said" game at the Cork House and the Elm on a Tuesday night = great fun :) That's what she said.

PS - I didn't get fired!

I'm A Two Faced Liar

Not because I want to. Because I'm being forced into it by the powers that be at my job and I'm not willing to do it any more. So I challenged it. And my boss and the big boss are in a closed door meeting - I think I may get fired. Time to start looking for temp jobs again.

Thank God for the Camera Phone

Cause without the camera phone how'd they have the idea for the big camera? Thanks to vbt for the pics :)

I Need a Hobby

Any suggestions?

Seriously, Make Up Your Mind

I am so angry. I worked on a project for another employee at my office yesterday because my boss asked me to. It was ridiculous and I told him that I didn't think the time I would need to spend on the project would be worth the results. He told me to do it anyway. It took me the entire day - working on another person's computer, with a program that crashed every 5 minutes. (That's not an exaggeration.) I finished around 3:45, my boss and this other employee were in a meeting, so at 4:30 I left and went home for the day.

This morning they tell me that the reformatting I did - they're not going to use it. I asked on multiple occasions how much time my boss wanted me to spend on this, each time he told me to keep working. I am angry on so many levels.

1 - This has nothing to do with me and my job.
2 - This employee consistently treats me like his secretary even though I am no such thing.
3 - I am the only person in my department who gets pulled to do this shit.
4 - This shit is not part of my performance goals, so I consistently don't make them.
5 - No one will listen to my side of the story.

Gah! I can not wait to get out of this hell hole today.