Well, today is payday! That wonderful reason for actually going to work. Yippee! I’m really enjoying my job, although things are still very stressful and busy. Even though the exam is over, I’m still finishing up my certificate, and I started the last class in that last night. Whew! I want to finish *something* this [...]
Well, today I went to take the second part of the MA exam. I failed. I know this because I couldn’t even finish the text. Two of the three sections were on poetry, my weakest area.
One of them seemed to expect you to know the authors and historical contexts of the poems themselves, without [...]
Usually I have bad dreams. For the last week, though, I’ve been having bad sleep. Lots of tossing and turning, waking up in the middle of the night, etc. Weird dreams, more than bad ones, I guess. And, of course, this is frustrating because I need to sleep my full amount of rest at night, [...]
Well, you can tell that I started my new job on Monday– no entries since then, huh?
The job started on Monday, with a 90-minute (or so) orientation/training. Nifty. Learned all about the 401K, payroll, phone system, health insurance, yadda yadda yadda. Turns out, there are 2 other tech writers who started on Monday as well. [...]
I probably work so much so that I can avoid stuff– usually other work commitments. I don’t generally avoid emotional stuff, though– I tend to charge right in and face up to my realities pretty well. Except the one which has me realizing that I have too much to do, and need to cut [...]