Randomness & Stickiness
It's hot. We jumped from 2 weeks of 50s and 60s to now a weekend of 90s. Thank God we drop back down to 70s next week.
I'm basically set to stick around here until December. I guess there was a bit of a snag in that we trainees aren't supposed to stay for longer than the planned 2 years, but my department is working out the details with the powers that be to allow for an entension in my case. How nice.
It's summer, and that can only mean one thing - long days in the office! How lovely that it's our busiest time of the year. Last week was pretty hellish, and this week looks to produce more of the same. Oh well.
My doorbell rang last Thursday evening and my first thought was "Crap, am I wearing clothes at the moment?" This was followed up closely with my second thought of "Who the hell could that be?" So I opened the door and two girls - estimated to be in their early twenties, but dressed as though they were in their late seventies - were standing there. Oh boy. Well, they were like Mormon missionaries or something and wanted to share their views and basically recruit me. Good luck. The odd thing is that it turned out they were both Americans (one from LA and one from Utah). We ended up chatting in my doorway for about a half hour or so - longer than I would have cared to. Oh what fun. We covered religion, gays, families, the Bible, interpretation and everything in between. In the end, it was very clear that we have different beliefs, and that's fine. Before they left, I jokingly asked whether they were going out for beers afterwards, and they said they don't believe in drinking or something to that effect. I said they should've told me that in the beginning as we could've saved a lot of time. Sheesh.
My (way) early retirement plan is drafted, finalized and in effect. I worked on the damn thing the entire spring while in the office in Michigan. Heck, they didn't have much else for me to do so I used the downtime for personal financial analysis. And it's not like they had any idea that the spreadsheets of numbers on my computer screen were for me and not them. I ended up doing a LOT of research though both in and out of the office. I think I may have even became borderline obsessed with the topic, but the information was all very interesting. Let's just say it was a labor of love. And now I'm ready for some lovin'. Ehh, without the labor.
Got no real plans until the first week in September. Just doing my thing for the moment and taking it easy.
I'm basically set to stick around here until December. I guess there was a bit of a snag in that we trainees aren't supposed to stay for longer than the planned 2 years, but my department is working out the details with the powers that be to allow for an entension in my case. How nice.
It's summer, and that can only mean one thing - long days in the office! How lovely that it's our busiest time of the year. Last week was pretty hellish, and this week looks to produce more of the same. Oh well.
My doorbell rang last Thursday evening and my first thought was "Crap, am I wearing clothes at the moment?" This was followed up closely with my second thought of "Who the hell could that be?" So I opened the door and two girls - estimated to be in their early twenties, but dressed as though they were in their late seventies - were standing there. Oh boy. Well, they were like Mormon missionaries or something and wanted to share their views and basically recruit me. Good luck. The odd thing is that it turned out they were both Americans (one from LA and one from Utah). We ended up chatting in my doorway for about a half hour or so - longer than I would have cared to. Oh what fun. We covered religion, gays, families, the Bible, interpretation and everything in between. In the end, it was very clear that we have different beliefs, and that's fine. Before they left, I jokingly asked whether they were going out for beers afterwards, and they said they don't believe in drinking or something to that effect. I said they should've told me that in the beginning as we could've saved a lot of time. Sheesh.
My (way) early retirement plan is drafted, finalized and in effect. I worked on the damn thing the entire spring while in the office in Michigan. Heck, they didn't have much else for me to do so I used the downtime for personal financial analysis. And it's not like they had any idea that the spreadsheets of numbers on my computer screen were for me and not them. I ended up doing a LOT of research though both in and out of the office. I think I may have even became borderline obsessed with the topic, but the information was all very interesting. Let's just say it was a labor of love. And now I'm ready for some lovin'. Ehh, without the labor.
Got no real plans until the first week in September. Just doing my thing for the moment and taking it easy.
posted by jason at 7:25 AM
1 Comments:
Hm, and what's happening the first week in September? Hot date??? :)
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