November 12, 2008
Ok, so November 12 minus March 30…carry the…Hmm…uh oh.
It’s really probably not a good sign when you can look back almost a year in the posts just on the main page.
Ok, so let’s see what’s on the post checklist. Whirlwind summer romance….nope. Travel…nope. Salsa dance class to try to facilitate whirlwind romance…sure, why not.
I’ve been through roughly 22 weeks of salsa classes since my last post. And when I look at it that way, I become a bit more disheartened than I was before I wrote it. Certainly I, technically know a lot of moves, but I just feel that I should be able to remember them outside of class a bit better after that long. I’m also fairly concerned that anyone who has not been in the class with me won’t have the slightest idea of what I’m trying to lead. Hopefully I’m just being a bit pessimistic, but I won’t really know until I actually get out there.
Which kind of leads into the second thing of note which is going on. That being the psychological counseling. The original stated goal was to be able to socially interact with other people. So far I’ve been assigned to read Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus, which is a wonderful resource if you happen to have married someone and need to develop a better understanding of why they currently wish to divorce you. That doesn’t really apply to me though, so I’m not especially interested in finishing the book. It also appears that when I do try to interact with people, I phrase things wrongly, and can’t pick up the difference between what I’m saying an how I should have phrased it. So I’m not really sure where the sessions are going. I’ll stick it out through the end of the year (at which point my health benefits will reset) and see if it seems to be helping.
Work is crazy. The manager is out for maternity leave again (we need to sit her down and explain where babies come from when she comes back), so I’m doing her job and mine, but without the various bits of software that make project management possible. On the plus side, I get to tell people what to do. On the minus side, I get paid the same as before, or possibly less, since there isn’t anyone to approve my overtime, so I don’t get paid for it. And I forgot to write down a lunch break on my timesheet for a day last week, so payroll reclassified some time worked as lunch, and then made me fill out a time off request for a half hour since that took me down to 7.5 hours worked that day. I’m not entirely sure that’s legal. Maybe I’ll need to drop a note to the auditors when they come in after Thanksgiving.
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December 12th, 2008 at 11:26 am
yeah that book doesn’t sound applicable at all… :/ good luck with the communication problems.
i’m heading to LA soon. i heard your parents will be in town. when are you free?