Damn Right it was a good day.
So today was a pretty good day all around. It started off at 6am as all my work days do. Today, though, had a moment of possibility that I had to actually arrive at work to find out if it was true or not, luckily for me it indeed was true.
You see, there is a man at work that does the same job as I that I have to work alongside three days a week. He has been there for thirty years and so he feels entitled to be the laziest person possible, and up until last Friday he got away with it day after day. Last friday however, our front line supervisor and the assistant general foreman had an almost two hour meeting with him that apparently put things in motion that made Matt a happy panda. They called him on his shit, they made him go do house moves, instead of working at the service track with me like he always does. That means for however long he is being re-trained, or whatever they are calling it, that I am free of him dragging me down, of me dreading work those three days a week, free of having to make excuses or hear someone elses. Yes the future looks just that much brighter.
I have something making me nervous at the moment, something that really shouldn't, but something that I have brought on myself and will have to own up to tomorrow. I am a graduate student at the University of Montana, but since December of 2005 I have been living 570 miles from the school and still signing up for writing credits on my thesis, but making excuses for myself and also just being lazy when it comes to finishing my thesis and presenting it to my committee. Tomorrow I have to call my advisor/chair and talk to him about getting back on track, the phone call itself probably won't be that bad as I have always gotten along with Dr. Campbell, and I am sure it isn't the first time he has had a student do something along the lines of how I have been. I simply have to own up to my laziness, and talk to him as an adult, bcause somewhere along the way that is what I became. So yeah I kind of am leary of that, but I am sure that it is just something I am building up in my head to be ominious and in reality it will be shiny, I hope.
I have a cloud of creativity hanging over me and I think that is because I have been able to keep in touch with people through facebook and whatever. People that I have always enjoyed talking to on some level, people that I wish I lived nearer to so that I could do the talking in person, but I will take what I can get. It is through these conversations that I can feel my words putting themselves in order as they should be put, put into a stream of consciousness that has me looking forward to the next sentence, the next paragraph, the next page of dialog that is going to come forth from me and them. It is through these conversations that this creativity has come back around me, as though these conversations have cleared out the cobwebs that I have allowed to buildup through years of mental inactivity. I also found out that an old friend will be in town while she is between jobs, so she could be around for a month or more, or possibly less, she is a traveling nurse, but either way she will be around so I will have to try to catch up with her. She is a great girl that I used to go to school with that has always been a bit of a flirty drunk, but really she is just a great person that I like having around me to talk to when I can, that and she's easy on the eyes. lol.
These are the immediate things going through my head and putting a smile there, and making the thinking process a blessing and a burden, just what my brain has always been to me.
Finally added the pcs from my most recent vacation and they can be found in the WE fest 09 album.
I called my chair today but he wasn't in so I guess it's attempt two tomorrow.
So today was a pretty good day all around. It started off at 6am as all my work days do. Today, though, had a moment of possibility that I had to actually arrive at work to find out if it was true or not, luckily for me it indeed was true.
You see, there is a man at work that does the same job as I that I have to work alongside three days a week. He has been there for thirty years and so he feels entitled to be the laziest person possible, and up until last Friday he got away with it day after day. Last friday however, our front line supervisor and the assistant general foreman had an almost two hour meeting with him that apparently put things in motion that made Matt a happy panda. They called him on his shit, they made him go do house moves, instead of working at the service track with me like he always does. That means for however long he is being re-trained, or whatever they are calling it, that I am free of him dragging me down, of me dreading work those three days a week, free of having to make excuses or hear someone elses. Yes the future looks just that much brighter.
I have something making me nervous at the moment, something that really shouldn't, but something that I have brought on myself and will have to own up to tomorrow. I am a graduate student at the University of Montana, but since December of 2005 I have been living 570 miles from the school and still signing up for writing credits on my thesis, but making excuses for myself and also just being lazy when it comes to finishing my thesis and presenting it to my committee. Tomorrow I have to call my advisor/chair and talk to him about getting back on track, the phone call itself probably won't be that bad as I have always gotten along with Dr. Campbell, and I am sure it isn't the first time he has had a student do something along the lines of how I have been. I simply have to own up to my laziness, and talk to him as an adult, bcause somewhere along the way that is what I became. So yeah I kind of am leary of that, but I am sure that it is just something I am building up in my head to be ominious and in reality it will be shiny, I hope.
I have a cloud of creativity hanging over me and I think that is because I have been able to keep in touch with people through facebook and whatever. People that I have always enjoyed talking to on some level, people that I wish I lived nearer to so that I could do the talking in person, but I will take what I can get. It is through these conversations that I can feel my words putting themselves in order as they should be put, put into a stream of consciousness that has me looking forward to the next sentence, the next paragraph, the next page of dialog that is going to come forth from me and them. It is through these conversations that this creativity has come back around me, as though these conversations have cleared out the cobwebs that I have allowed to buildup through years of mental inactivity. I also found out that an old friend will be in town while she is between jobs, so she could be around for a month or more, or possibly less, she is a traveling nurse, but either way she will be around so I will have to try to catch up with her. She is a great girl that I used to go to school with that has always been a bit of a flirty drunk, but really she is just a great person that I like having around me to talk to when I can, that and she's easy on the eyes. lol.
These are the immediate things going through my head and putting a smile there, and making the thinking process a blessing and a burden, just what my brain has always been to me.
Finally added the pcs from my most recent vacation and they can be found in the WE fest 09 album.
I called my chair today but he wasn't in so I guess it's attempt two tomorrow.
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keely:
no doubt.
moira:
I definitely wish you all the best for completing your MA, remember, it will feel absolutely amazing once you have completed it and it's such an achievement. I know there are always little obstacles to be overcome but it is so worth it in the end. I also finished my MA while living abroad and sometimes I thought I would never complete it, but hey, it all worked out. I know it sounds cheesy, but just believe in yourself.