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Jul. 10th, 2001 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twicketfaceWell, I'm on photo card duty at work. With the Convention a mere two weeks away, all new employees need to have their ID photos taken. So I sit in the lower level for 3 hours (yesterday and today) and wait. I've got a laptop (with a ridiculously small keyboard), digital camera and ID card printer. People pretty much trickle in when they want to and everyone remarks either "This is just like the DMV" or "Can you edit out my double chin?" Their attempts to be funny fall on deaf ears.
I've been really stressed out lately and I don't like it. I'm starting to realize that the wedding and the Convention are going to be one sandwich short of Hell's picnic. We've got a lot of stuff planned out and I think things are going to be fine, but it's weird to change your hours from 7:30 - 5:00 to noon to midnight for two weeks in a row and then get married 5 days later. At least, that's what I'm thinking. What the hell, it should at least make things interesting.
I guess that also means that my journal is going to fall by the wayside for a while. I'm usually beat when I get home from work and only have a few hours in the morning before I have to go back. Maybe I'll do some updates at home or see if the computers on site have web access, but I don't think they will. Somehow, I know you'll survive without staying abreast of my life, but it'll be weird. Except for the weekends and a miscellaneous, I've posted a new journal something or other for the past few months every day. I like the fact that I feel bad if I don't put anything in and it makes me want to keep it up to date. But starting around the 17th or so, I'll be out on site and won't be back from the honeymoon until mid August. It sucks because that will be the time that I've got the most to write about and will have the most going on in my life. I've thought about transcribing a written journal and then typing it up later, but I get lazy when it comes to writing and would rather punch plastic keys with letters on them to convey my thoughts. I'm such a technology whore.
Speaking of which, I've got to finish up the Manifesto. I got really into it and then got sidetracked for some reason. Too many library books that caught my interest, I guess. Anyway, I should be able to finish that up soon. I'm finding that I agree with a lot of it. Technology, while it can be argued is a good thing and progress is inevitable, it's also leading to major problems. With email, we can communicate with each other very rapidly and while the convenience is there, the expectations rise as well. I find myself getting mad when people don't write back to me within 24 hours or less. Expectations in the working world are increased as well. We've got voicemail, instant messages, e-mail, Intranets, the Internet, etc. All of which is supposed to make life 'easier' but it never really does.
But on the other hand, a huge part of the relationship that Marie and I had when we started dating was via chatting and email. After being faced with a one month, $250 phone bill, we knew something had to change. Through chatting and email, we were able to stay ‘connected’ and make up for the fact that we were 100+ miles apart during the summer. I’m so glad we had that opportunity to stay in touch.
Random thoughts for the day:
I’m busy.
I've been really stressed out lately and I don't like it. I'm starting to realize that the wedding and the Convention are going to be one sandwich short of Hell's picnic. We've got a lot of stuff planned out and I think things are going to be fine, but it's weird to change your hours from 7:30 - 5:00 to noon to midnight for two weeks in a row and then get married 5 days later. At least, that's what I'm thinking. What the hell, it should at least make things interesting.
I guess that also means that my journal is going to fall by the wayside for a while. I'm usually beat when I get home from work and only have a few hours in the morning before I have to go back. Maybe I'll do some updates at home or see if the computers on site have web access, but I don't think they will. Somehow, I know you'll survive without staying abreast of my life, but it'll be weird. Except for the weekends and a miscellaneous, I've posted a new journal something or other for the past few months every day. I like the fact that I feel bad if I don't put anything in and it makes me want to keep it up to date. But starting around the 17th or so, I'll be out on site and won't be back from the honeymoon until mid August. It sucks because that will be the time that I've got the most to write about and will have the most going on in my life. I've thought about transcribing a written journal and then typing it up later, but I get lazy when it comes to writing and would rather punch plastic keys with letters on them to convey my thoughts. I'm such a technology whore.
Speaking of which, I've got to finish up the Manifesto. I got really into it and then got sidetracked for some reason. Too many library books that caught my interest, I guess. Anyway, I should be able to finish that up soon. I'm finding that I agree with a lot of it. Technology, while it can be argued is a good thing and progress is inevitable, it's also leading to major problems. With email, we can communicate with each other very rapidly and while the convenience is there, the expectations rise as well. I find myself getting mad when people don't write back to me within 24 hours or less. Expectations in the working world are increased as well. We've got voicemail, instant messages, e-mail, Intranets, the Internet, etc. All of which is supposed to make life 'easier' but it never really does.
But on the other hand, a huge part of the relationship that Marie and I had when we started dating was via chatting and email. After being faced with a one month, $250 phone bill, we knew something had to change. Through chatting and email, we were able to stay ‘connected’ and make up for the fact that we were 100+ miles apart during the summer. I’m so glad we had that opportunity to stay in touch.
Random thoughts for the day:
I’m busy.
