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Perspective: An Account of the Previous Two Years
Here we are, a few weeks later. To be completely honest, I didn't think I'd make it. But here I am today, and I'm happy for the first time in 8 months. I'm sitting in my favorite coffee shop, the morning of Thursday, December 12, 2013. This is significant for quite a few reasons ( Read more... ) -
A Secret
I've set something in motion that will affect my entire life ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
It's tough to describe how I'm feeling right now. Home life sucks. Work sucks. I'm less worried about the danger now, but still working so many hours that I never see the sun or my home. I come home to sleep and then leave to go back to work. Steven tries to help me, but he can't. There's nothing he can do. My boss went to a conference today where ( Read more... ) -
A close.
It was all over my sister's Facebook this morning. My biological father, Stanley Max Revels, Jr. died at 4am on Friday morning. Besides a huge relief, I feel almost nothing, though after I knew he was dead I've been able to think about almost nothing but the grievous abuse I suffered at his hands. I believe I made the right choice in not seeing him ( Read more... ) -
Still going
I can't believe it really, but I'm still working 80 hour weeks. The project got pushed out even further, so we'll be continuing this madness until every single thing is done. The main success of the week was finally putting chemistry into the system I've spent so many months of my life building.
As a result, today will be totally devoted to having ( Read more... ) -
Cold somen
It's so hot today that I've decided to make cold somen for dinner tonight. Mentsuyu is cooling in the fridge right now, and I've got a Sapporo draft in my hand. Really liking today so far.
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Relief?
Today is the second day of my weekend. I have not had a weekend in six weeks. I can only take comfort in tradition at this point. An average of 80 hours/week in combination with a late night work emergency saw my boss finally having the Come to Jesus moment regarding the amount of time we've been spending there. He hit critical mass on Friday ( Read more... ) -
Gratitude
Lately I've been struggling quite a bit with feeling grateful. I don't really want to go off on this, but it's such a prevalent theme in my life at the moment that I find it hard to escape. For my own life and my own personal dealings, I consider myself very lucky. I have a job that I don't entirely loathe, I work with people who for once I ( Read more... ) -
Yesterday I asked to be promoted.
Who knew growing as an engineer would look so similar to the death of everything else in my life. I don't think I've been this tired in years, not since our big pushes at Impax. I'm fairly certain I have not worked this hard in my life. Ever. I stretch myself out of my comfort zone every single day at Aloha. I feel happy to be learning, but it ( Read more... )