back at work

I have been sitting on my computer at work for 5 hours now. I got up to grab my lunch out of the fridge a couple hours ago, and I ate here at my desk. I have read every story in my local paper (online) and on CNN.com. I watch the weather here (66 degrees and showers) change on the radar at weather.com (I have no windows so it's like a virtual window). I even look up traffic cameras to see where it is raining and how cloudy it is where. I can tell you about every pet offered on Craigslist and at the local humane society and I feel bad for the ones I see listed for weeks at a time. Reading the CL posts is how I ended up with my dog. If I wasn't allergic to cats, I would probably be the crazy cat lady and take in all the poor cats people can't keep for whatever lame reason. I go to freerice.com and try to use my brain a little while donating rice in the process. (Sounds lame, but when you have nothing better to do, it kills time and makes you smarter.) I research books to read and sometimes I sit here and read them. Today I brought Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, but I have not picked it up yet. I have been too busy reading about the GOP convention and the riots that have since ensued here. I have an office that I share with four other people, and only one of whom is here today. He and I do not speak much. It's fairly quiet in the room aside from my occasional phone call (personal, God forbid I have a work related phone call come in) and/or his sports talk radio he listens to online. The noise is a welcome distraction and keeps the room from being too eerily quiet.


The students come back to school tomorrow here, and though they do bring more noise to the halls and less parking spots in the morning, they do not end up in our office much so my day to day routine of web surfing (such a lame term), remains the same. Hence the search for work. I have no responsibilities that I am neglecting and I, in fact, try to take on more responsibilities than I need to. I enjoy working, being challenged and a sense of accomplishment. So I do my best to find work. But I can only do so much before my co-workers resent the fact that I am pointing out to everyone in the organization, how much time we have to do so little. As much as I am looking forward to the part time gig I will begin tomorrow, I am also not excited that it will only add to the hours that I am commuting and away from home, and not solve the dilemma of my current position. I work today and tomorrow, and a few hours on Thursday. Then I leave for a long dive west. Sitting in a car may or may not beat sitting here. We'll see. At least I will have company. :) Is it pathetic that I worry about missing my dog while I am out of town? Shadow will be with my parents and their dog, and they love him, but I know I will think about him and worry that he is missing me.... I need to get over that though. I sound like a crazy cat/dog lady already and I am only 26!! :)