About two weeks ago, I got home, threw my bag to the floor, walked into the kitchen, and screamed until I was out of breath. I threw something at the wall (I don't remember what) and moved on to yelling incoherent obscenities after that, tears streaming down my cheeks. Erick probably thought that I lost my damn mind, but bless him, he just wrapped ( Read more... )

One more week before this semester is over, and I could NOT be more thrilled about it. These two classes have been . . . well, painful is a gross understatement. I don't think I've ever been so utterly bored by learning that I would seriously consider just skipping assignments altogether. Many times have I looked to see what the bare minimum was ( Read more... )

The universe is funny sometimes. Monday morning I was busy fantasizing about finding a different job. Today, I voluntarily stayed late at work, cuz I was being productive and enjoying myself. I've learned to do all kinds of new things recently, including orienting new hires, and interviewing and hiring an employee of my own choosing(!!). I'm so ( Read more... )

I feel like the biggest pretender in the world. This job is like one big exercise in making shit up as I go along ( Read more... )

So yesterday, in an attempt to relax and recuperate, I stayed in bed all day and watched movies while Erick was off chopping wood up at the mountain. I watched a documentary called "The Human Experience," about a group of guys who decide to have a bunch of different "adventures" to see what life is really all about. They start off by seeing what's ( Read more... )

If I ever start romanticizing about this time in my life - please slap me, hard. Because clearly I will be either delirious, hallucinating, delusional, or all of the above ( Read more... )

It's always kind of strange, coming home.

There was a particularly profound moment for me when I was sitting on a bench on Main Street in Geneseo, thinking of the conversations I'd had over the last couple days, looking at the faces sitting in a row next to me. I just thought to myself, that no matter the time or the distance, these faces are just ( Read more... )

Probably 99% of everyone in this country (that was old enough to remember) knows exactly where they were, what they were doing, and what they felt on the day the WTC and the Pentagon were hit. It was an event that touched every American's life in some way, shape or form, in some very tangible ways.

I remember watching it happen live on tv. I ( Read more... )

Someone actually told me that I "really hurt them" when I asked them to cover up their tattoo (per policy!) because she "thought I understood and supported her."

. . .

Lol. How do you reply to that in a professional manner? My brain came up with about 50,000 non-professional replies in an instant, but the professional version is MUCH more

I see now why it's so very important to pay anyone in a supervisory position more money. Not just because it's more responsibility. Oh no. It's much worse than that. It's the whining. I am sufficiently shocked at the sheer amount of whining that 30 people women are capable of. This is, hands down, the worst part of my job. I used to like these ( Read more... )