so... Lots of stuff this week. We were insanely busy at NBC due to the Fort Hood incident, MLB Opening Day, earthquakes-a-plenty, and the family that decided to take a 2 week boat trip around the world only to drift to sea with their 2 infant daughters and to be picked up by the Navy's U.S. vandegrift. I will say this, it makes me proud to be American that we would go as far as to send a war vessel out to rescue a family. One hell of a story... But omg what were those two people thinking!? The father should have been slapped silly once they were brought on board!
Ah well, glad to hear they are safe and that the children are being cared for... But if I were the brother of that husband, I would have a serious talk with him and his wife about their vacation plans...
Outside of that craziness, we had a lot of work thrown at us this week, and the staff count was low on account of a cold running around the building and vacation time. I guess the good side about being this busy is that the week was over in no time. In and out of the building in what felt like was only a few hours, it's quite nice... But I do remember becoming horribly frustrated when I found out what a couple of freelancers were doing. The senior designer, coordinators, managers, and myself got very upset when we discovered what "special" projects the boss handed a couple of freelancers. It's a busy week and we are being punished by non-stop orders, and we have two freelancers building pre-cut ornaments and paper airplanes for the office... Yes... Paper airplanes.
Apparently it was urgent becuase they were excused from our daily grind. Sigh... I tried not to let it get to me, but when I think about the purpose of a freelancer, I get a little upset. When I was a freelancer, I was forced to take over what a full timer had left over, mostly take care of the daily work so the full timers can work on their projects... Now... It's not like that anymore... I see more freelancers with empty queues, and full timers with 20+ queues of work that should be handled by freelancers. Glad the raise came in this week, becuase I was beginning to lose faith in this place. Although, my thoughts about working here still remain the same... Not so much a career as it is just a job. Want to go back to school and learn some new tricks... Perhaps get back into music and begin learning musical composition. I always enjoyed making music for my games, and even if the degree gets me nothing... At least I would feel as though I have achieved something that I had my heart set on for a long time. Design is fun, but it's also very dense in perspectives.
So I found out that they are building a high school next to the middle school across the street from my house. Property value shot through the roof, but so did the taxes. Living in this house, alone, is going to make my spending very tight from here on out. Kinda sucks, but that's ok. Kinda makes me happy to know that my badass house, that I got an insanely good deal on, has a higher value now. Love my house, but it's still missing one important thing... Another tenant... Preferably a female. Wait what am I saying, definitely a female! ;)