Displaced. Dysfunctional. Discombobulated.
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This afternoon I find myself caught in that proverbial place between the mythical rock and the theoretical hard place. I have been speculating of late that perhaps I’ve been a bit drawing too much negative attention to myself lately with all of my boat rocking. To think the Director once complained that I was too [...]
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The director of our division has this major stick up his butt that all of us should expand our horizons. The rule he created two years ago was that we have to attend two classes/seminars/lectures/somethings that are not directly related to our work but are semi-related so that they will help us better understand [...]
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A couple of months ago, my beloved XP laptop began a journey down that slow, agonizingly painful path to nothingness. Even though I stripped every unnecessary background job and visual feature off him, he just sputtered through every reboot. The launch of any single software program took at least 50% of the CPU and if [...]
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For fifteen years, I felt as if my brain were rotting, under-used and under-appreciated in the workplace. A great desert of boredom stretched out before me like the never-ending desert that taunted Moses. I honestly had given up on my worklife being anything more. I began to believe that anyone who claimed they had “too [...]
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Life happens whether you blog it or not.
Only yesterday the plowed snow was higher than my crabapple trees and I thought it was going to be July before it all melted, but here it is the middle of May, my garden is overgrown with weeds, and my yard is dotted with dandelions and unidentified white [...]
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Goddess of Billing. Queen of Math.
These are honorifics I’ve been christened with over the last few days. I kind of would like to know when they will be added to my name badge and if a raise comes with them.
Even though a few months ago, our boss and the uptight member of our [...]
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Yesterday, I was a witness and participant in chaos and pandemonium.
Seriously, have you ever wondered what would happen if you cut the power to a building full of IT people?
O.K. Well, for the first five minutes, you get the same “Oh, [insert favorite explicatives here]!” that any computer-using group of people would exclaim as [...]
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What: The discombobulated inner-monologue of a single, thirty-something, displaced Southerner in small town New England.
Where: Maine
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