Well it has been months since I have updated this thing. I was talking to a coworker the other day and she got me to start putting my thoughts back down in a blog. I haven't really had anything exciting to write about lately. My life is rather dull to the innocent bystander. I get up, I walk my dog, I go to work, I come home, I walk my dog ( Read more... )

Ok, I haven't done a real update in what seems like a thousand years and this one is a compelation of a bunch of days writing. So if it sounds jumbled and unfluid, it is because it is ( Read more... )

Well I don't really feel like writing, but I'm gonna anyway ( Read more... )

So yay! The internet guy came to my apartment today to hook up my new roadrunner internet! Fantastic! It's pretty quick, but still not as fast as the one at the office. Eh, you can't have everything ( Read more... )

This weekend was fantastic...and it's not even over yet ( Read more... )

Hey guys ( Read more... )

So I was talking with KDawne a few moments ago and I got some great advice. I was telling her how I was getting frustrated at work because I wasn't getting up to speed as quickly as I wanted and she told me that the next time I felt myself getting frustrated, I need to think of the green dot. ... At this point, I am wondering what she is ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a downer. I just couldn't seem advance past this imaginary ceiling of realization. I was able to formulate the report to Platts and the one for SRW, but as for keeping up with the traders...ugh. The meaning behind the processes were just evading me. I was so angry and frustrated with myself for having to ask Mark the same ( Read more... )

Work today was much better. Although I still feel incredibly overwhelmed by all the information and jargon, I am starting to see the light. Even if it is the smallest glimmer. Out of the thousand processes they "explained" to me yesterday, I am starting to understand 2 of them. Yippee! Tomorrow I'll start "driving" (as Mark calls it), and I'll ( Read more... )

So today was my first day of work. It was great. I love the people. I spent most of the day watching Mark as he went about the daily tasks that I will be doing soon. It is so much information. He was throwing anacronyms and spread sheets and numbers and prices and all kinds of business processes at me, I thought my brain would explode. I will ( Read more... )