lauralyrics (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lauralyrics) wrote,@ 2007-12-30 19:31:00 |
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I'm not dead yet!! (Just thought I'd put that out there--some people have been enquiring.)
It's been about a month--one long month without internet--but today, at last, we're wired. I've been busy deleting spam, catching up with Facebook changes, and clicking the "back 20 entries" tab on LJ until it balks and refuses to go any further. I'm almost caught up.
The 28th was my 6-month anniversary at the new job, but I'm still in the awkward "know enough to have some idea of what to do, but still on one year's probation and I don't *think* they'd fire me" stage.
We moved--again--to what my sister charmingly calls Bumblef***, CT. Lot of cows, lot of deer, not much else. Although the general store down the road bakes a pretty mean almond danish. There are more ladybugs here than I've ever seen before.
I've been reading--some (and strongly recommend Wicked Lovely--and not just because it's the first teen book I've read where the hero says, "I love you; I want to have sex with you; I got tested for STDS and here are the results") and watching films--some (Charlie Wilson's War was good, but not really worth seeing in a theatre) and listening to new music (the new CDs of Stephen Kellogg, Maroon5, Matchbox 20, the soundtrack to Into the Wild, and a 1-CD performance by Billy Collins are particularly good). But mostly I've been recovering from all the upheaval.
I now know four different ways to get from work to the new house, and all of them take 45 minutes, one way. I weathered one major snowstorm (and there's another forecast for tomorrow morning) and the staff Christmas party (where, regrettably, there are pictures of me in a Dr. Seuss hat, distributing secret Santa gifts...long story). I inherited another page, progressed to ordering Christian fiction (if you thought me ordering new music was a laugh, you should see me trying to order Christian fiction. My current selection method relies heavily upon the use of darts and dice...ironically. And what is up with the popularity of Amish fiction? Seriously?) and wrote my first Nasty Note (in red pen, no less) to those pages unable to comprehend the necessity of shelving audio CDs with other audio CDs and not, for instance, with the audiocassettes. I got asked to dinner, randomly, by an absolute stranger as I was leaving a movie theatre, an invitation I declined because he was in his 40s, at least. And I got to see the ambulance show up for one of my coworkers--who is fine, by the way--but it was definitely more excitement than we needed. It was an eventful month.
And finally, here's wishing you all a very happy and prosperous New Year. :)
It's been about a month--one long month without internet--but today, at last, we're wired. I've been busy deleting spam, catching up with Facebook changes, and clicking the "back 20 entries" tab on LJ until it balks and refuses to go any further. I'm almost caught up.
The 28th was my 6-month anniversary at the new job, but I'm still in the awkward "know enough to have some idea of what to do, but still on one year's probation and I don't *think* they'd fire me" stage.
We moved--again--to what my sister charmingly calls Bumblef***, CT. Lot of cows, lot of deer, not much else. Although the general store down the road bakes a pretty mean almond danish. There are more ladybugs here than I've ever seen before.
I've been reading--some (and strongly recommend Wicked Lovely--and not just because it's the first teen book I've read where the hero says, "I love you; I want to have sex with you; I got tested for STDS and here are the results") and watching films--some (Charlie Wilson's War was good, but not really worth seeing in a theatre) and listening to new music (the new CDs of Stephen Kellogg, Maroon5, Matchbox 20, the soundtrack to Into the Wild, and a 1-CD performance by Billy Collins are particularly good). But mostly I've been recovering from all the upheaval.
I now know four different ways to get from work to the new house, and all of them take 45 minutes, one way. I weathered one major snowstorm (and there's another forecast for tomorrow morning) and the staff Christmas party (where, regrettably, there are pictures of me in a Dr. Seuss hat, distributing secret Santa gifts...long story). I inherited another page, progressed to ordering Christian fiction (if you thought me ordering new music was a laugh, you should see me trying to order Christian fiction. My current selection method relies heavily upon the use of darts and dice...ironically. And what is up with the popularity of Amish fiction? Seriously?) and wrote my first Nasty Note (in red pen, no less) to those pages unable to comprehend the necessity of shelving audio CDs with other audio CDs and not, for instance, with the audiocassettes. I got asked to dinner, randomly, by an absolute stranger as I was leaving a movie theatre, an invitation I declined because he was in his 40s, at least. And I got to see the ambulance show up for one of my coworkers--who is fine, by the way--but it was definitely more excitement than we needed. It was an eventful month.
And finally, here's wishing you all a very happy and prosperous New Year. :)
