a fast update

Fast, and….cheery!!! How weird is that?? So far I REALLY like my new job. And that’s with the usual displacement and confusion and being the new guy who doesn’t know anything. I still love it. Everything is all shiny and new, and what I’ll be doing seems like it will be complicated enough that I don’t get bored. Yet it’s just ONE thing that I’ll be doing- or variations on one thing – and not five totally different jobs. That never get done and exist in an endless loop of interruption.

I’m half-sharing my desk with the woman who is retiring, so nothing feels like mine yet, but it will be soon enough. I thought where I’ll be sitting would be kind of in a semi-thoroughfare, but so far it’s very quiet and peaceful, and people seem to make an effort to NOT go though my "office" to get to other spots in the building. Which is old and very oddly set up – I think at one time it was apartments for house mothers, so it’s really strange. There are little kitchens and tiny bathrooms all over the place, and it’s a very small building. But it’s a maze of little corridors and rooms.

I have a window. A great big window that I can gaze over at the English building through. And at an old dorm where I lived one year. My freshman year dorm is right behind us. I guess that’s why things seem so weirdly familiar over there-  I lived beside/behind this building for my first two years on campus. It’s not that far from my old building, but is a whole different world. A wonderful world!!

It’s not busy at all right now, either. I’m sure things get much busier after school starts, and this is a very good time to start. I’ve got plenty of time to learn this fairly complicated stuff. Which I already had a semi-understanding of from my old job, so I’m not totally lost.

Insane Boss has only called once, so far. She called me today, asking me what someone needed to do to get admitted to teacher ed and take restricted classes. This person was in her office having a meltdown. Insane Boss hadn’t even thought to look for this person’s folder, which lists exactly what she has to do to get admitted. I’m sure Meltdown Woman didn’t have a copy of her program and requirements, since nobody seems to think keeping a copy for themselves might be helpful down the road. Like when they need to know what classes to take. Anyhow, this made me fear even more for what will happen in that office when she couldn’t figure out something that obvious.

She asked how I liked the new job. I said I like it so far, and that it’s very complicated. She said, "Oh, you didn’t expect that, did you!!!"

Ummmm…. well, yes, I kind of did! But what a bizarre thing to say! Thanks!! She did keep trying to convince me that I was making a terrible mistake. Yeah, right. Loon.    

Okay, I have to go to bed now. Everyone gets there way before eight -they are morning people – so I am making a supreme effort to be on time now.

Oh, the house is still being worked on, although the end may be in sight. NEXT TUESDAY. Apparently the raising will happen on Monday, though. They’re sure. Hmmmmm. And the car is still at the shop. State Farm has to send someone over AGAIN to approve them putting it on the diagnostic machine. Because it could be something OTHER than the engine!!! Looks like at least another lonely Stella-less week. My father has insisted on renting me a car again this weekend if mine is still not fixed, though, so that I can go down there and do the bills and clean the house. So I’ll visit her then, at least.

And although I was going to post more pictures, I’ve only got time to conjure up one via dial-up – lovely irises in Blowing Rock: