Sunday, May 30, 2004
One of the more interesting blogs I read comes out of Australia. Thanks to the web-goddess for all sorts of interesting information like Pop v. Soda war Which do you say?
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Thursday, May 20, 2004
Y'know....
Southwestern Virginia is growing on me. I drove a different route today, and wound around through the green, green mountains, noticing they really are a BLUE Ridge and it was just NICE. Just couldn't find the right music to accompany the drive today. I'm getting punchy...time to get some sleep!
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Southwestern Virginia is growing on me. I drove a different route today, and wound around through the green, green mountains, noticing they really are a BLUE Ridge and it was just NICE. Just couldn't find the right music to accompany the drive today. I'm getting punchy...time to get some sleep!
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Almost forgot!
HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAYS to Christine and to Tracy!
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HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAYS to Christine and to Tracy!
I am leaving for Virginia again this weekend. I have one main task besides hanging out wtih Debbie. I will be steam-cleaning carpets. Woohoo!
Something terrible has happened in all of this. Others have realized my "full" potential. My other sister, Michelle, told me so the other day on the phone. I've sort of been lounging around with my current job...for the last 6 years. I don't take it lightly, but it's definitely not aeronautical engineering or underwater basketweaving. I do try to at least do what I am expected to do by those *GASP* managers. While I have a sense of humor about things that fly out of people's mouths most of the time and am not prone to running to report off-color comments, I am really bothered by the people who have to fling insults about other people on an almost continual basis. I have started realizing that yes, some things that are said may be true, bu the words are being said by people who feel threatened; they are not being said as unbiased observations, and once the bias is created most of these people are not willing to re-examine their feelings.
I just struggled for 4 months with a person who I develeoped a bias. I tried to nip the problem in the bud early on, it didn't work. I sank to everyone else's level of taking the low road and talking about how I felt about the person. In the end, it just made me feel worse in the midst of the rest of my stress of what's going on in my family. Yesterday was probably the last day we'll work together (the other person is leaving, not me). We left work at the same time yesterday, so I gave the person a ride home and explained my position, that I never did dislike the person, but the circumstances that played out by other people helped create a very frustrating situation, and it got the best of me. I may never be friends with this person, but I wiped away any animosity I'd built up.
I have read the horror stories of the people online who've lost their jobs because of the wrong person knowing their blog and turning them in. I am not going to go into great detail or namedropping because I am not quite ready to receive a pink slip.
That's my deep thought entry for the month...
And how about that episode of Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited!?!?!
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Something terrible has happened in all of this. Others have realized my "full" potential. My other sister, Michelle, told me so the other day on the phone. I've sort of been lounging around with my current job...for the last 6 years. I don't take it lightly, but it's definitely not aeronautical engineering or underwater basketweaving. I do try to at least do what I am expected to do by those *GASP* managers. While I have a sense of humor about things that fly out of people's mouths most of the time and am not prone to running to report off-color comments, I am really bothered by the people who have to fling insults about other people on an almost continual basis. I have started realizing that yes, some things that are said may be true, bu the words are being said by people who feel threatened; they are not being said as unbiased observations, and once the bias is created most of these people are not willing to re-examine their feelings.
I just struggled for 4 months with a person who I develeoped a bias. I tried to nip the problem in the bud early on, it didn't work. I sank to everyone else's level of taking the low road and talking about how I felt about the person. In the end, it just made me feel worse in the midst of the rest of my stress of what's going on in my family. Yesterday was probably the last day we'll work together (the other person is leaving, not me). We left work at the same time yesterday, so I gave the person a ride home and explained my position, that I never did dislike the person, but the circumstances that played out by other people helped create a very frustrating situation, and it got the best of me. I may never be friends with this person, but I wiped away any animosity I'd built up.
I have read the horror stories of the people online who've lost their jobs because of the wrong person knowing their blog and turning them in. I am not going to go into great detail or namedropping because I am not quite ready to receive a pink slip.
That's my deep thought entry for the month...
And how about that episode of Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited!?!?!
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Woohoo! I have a computer up and running! It's my old Compaq from 1999--but, hey, at least I have something running!
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The only book which doesn't take place in Narnia at all, per se, you're the story of a voyage to find the end of the world and hopefully the Seven Lost Lords (remember Rhoop!). You contain some of the most unique people and places and beautiful descriptions of the whole series.
Find out which Chronicles of Narnia book you are.
