Updatification
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mousmeOkay, here's another stab at this.
Whatever was plaguing LiveJournal and its interface with Internet Explorer seems to have blown over. *knocks fervently on wood* I am now happily able to post to my little heart's content. Woohoo!
Let's see, where was I?
Right: Monday. Not much to report, save that work is starting to actually become stressful in a bad way instead of a good way. Up until now I've been riding on the high of actually being employed and having money and all that, but gradually it's starting to lose its novelty. I realise I bitched about work almost since I started there, but the truth of the matter is that I rather enjoyed the feeling of being productive.
I guess that after so many months of "active" work the more "passive" aspect of training is starting to get to me. Three weeks of doing nothing but sit in a room and look at PowerPoint projections is not the most stimulating way to pass the time. The main problem is that there's nothing for me to DO. I can't take notes because the info's already in the computer system and it would just be a waste of paper. Looking at the projection the entire time is impossible because there's only so many times you can read the same screen over and over. Our instructor doesn't believe in writing on the board, which bites for me because I'm a very visual learner, and I have more trouble assimilating things that I hear than things I see.
Not to mention that being online all day (phone lines) does actually require a lot of energy, whereas sitting in a classroom just drains me in an unsatisfying way. It's not mentally challenging like university, so I don't even get an intellectual workout, but I don't get wrung out emotionally the way I do when I'm taking calls. Right now I'm just going insane and wishing something, anything, would happen to break this.
I'm rather reminded of "le malconfort" described by Albert Camus in La Chute. It's a medieval form of torture, wherein the prisoner is locked in a metal cage that is large enough to hold him, but too small for him to either sit or stand or stretch out, so that he's always forced to be in a cramped and unnatural position.
Training at Bell Mobility is turning out to be a bit like that. I'm learning a bit of new stuff, but not enough to really stimulate me. However, because there *is* this slight bit of new stuff, I can't afford to turn myself off completely and think of other stuff, because I might miss something important.
Bleh.
In other news, I decided to fight the Demon Apathy this week. I signed up for Tai Chi classes in spite of feeling like the proverbial hair in the proverbial bowl of soup there. At least the sifu molests her cat the way I do mine, so she's got to be a good person for that. ;)
Of course, she didn't have pants in my size, which did nothing for my morale, but what can you do? She ought to have my size in next week. The shoes were a size too large, so she'll be getting a size smaller tomorrow. At least I have the belt and t-shirt, so that's half the uniform right there. My wallet is significantly lighter, but I'm looking forward to the lesson tomorrow.
Watching the lesson yesterday was truly inspiring, especially two of the more advanced students performing an intricate set of movements with fans. The young woman in particular was like watching poetry in motion. I wouldn't be surprised if she had some kind of ballet training.
*sigh*
Then I got my butt in gear today and went to the Nautilus Plus I saw across the street from the dojo. I'd been meaning to sign up there for a while, because they have a special for people under 25: $25 a month, and today they had a one-week special in which you didn't pay registration fees and got a free bag and t-shirt (for a total value of $100).
They have a Body For Life program there too, for which I signed up. It'll be nice actually having a professional show me how not to kill myself with all the equipment there. So I'm scheduled to go on Friday for a fitness (or lack thereof) evaluation, and on Monday I go back for a session in which my trainer and I will figure out my training schedule and so forth.
Had dinner with the Maternal Unit, who's been offered a one-month contract in China for an ad agency who are supposedly pitching to get the Volkswagen Jetta campaign. She and I both have misgivings about this, because it's through a friend of ours who isn't exactly known for his business sense. For one, he couldn't even tell her the complete name of the ad agency, and he doesn't really know the woman who runs it, but he "thinks she's really nice." WTF?!?
So the MU is going to look into it very carefully before plunging. If it's bona fide, this could be a big break for her, not to mention monetarily very interesting indeed. My mother's services don't exactly come cheap. At the height of her career she was making six figures and then some.
Today has been a hell of a day. After feeling so frustrated at work all I wanted to do was chew apart my computer table and come home and do something really unfortunate to myself, instead I had a rewarding evening in which I took my life and health into my own hands and thus felt better about the whole affair.
I also got my mother installed on Yahoo!Messenger. Heh.
Whatever was plaguing LiveJournal and its interface with Internet Explorer seems to have blown over. *knocks fervently on wood* I am now happily able to post to my little heart's content. Woohoo!
Let's see, where was I?
Right: Monday. Not much to report, save that work is starting to actually become stressful in a bad way instead of a good way. Up until now I've been riding on the high of actually being employed and having money and all that, but gradually it's starting to lose its novelty. I realise I bitched about work almost since I started there, but the truth of the matter is that I rather enjoyed the feeling of being productive.
I guess that after so many months of "active" work the more "passive" aspect of training is starting to get to me. Three weeks of doing nothing but sit in a room and look at PowerPoint projections is not the most stimulating way to pass the time. The main problem is that there's nothing for me to DO. I can't take notes because the info's already in the computer system and it would just be a waste of paper. Looking at the projection the entire time is impossible because there's only so many times you can read the same screen over and over. Our instructor doesn't believe in writing on the board, which bites for me because I'm a very visual learner, and I have more trouble assimilating things that I hear than things I see.
Not to mention that being online all day (phone lines) does actually require a lot of energy, whereas sitting in a classroom just drains me in an unsatisfying way. It's not mentally challenging like university, so I don't even get an intellectual workout, but I don't get wrung out emotionally the way I do when I'm taking calls. Right now I'm just going insane and wishing something, anything, would happen to break this.
I'm rather reminded of "le malconfort" described by Albert Camus in La Chute. It's a medieval form of torture, wherein the prisoner is locked in a metal cage that is large enough to hold him, but too small for him to either sit or stand or stretch out, so that he's always forced to be in a cramped and unnatural position.
Training at Bell Mobility is turning out to be a bit like that. I'm learning a bit of new stuff, but not enough to really stimulate me. However, because there *is* this slight bit of new stuff, I can't afford to turn myself off completely and think of other stuff, because I might miss something important.
Bleh.
In other news, I decided to fight the Demon Apathy this week. I signed up for Tai Chi classes in spite of feeling like the proverbial hair in the proverbial bowl of soup there. At least the sifu molests her cat the way I do mine, so she's got to be a good person for that. ;)
Of course, she didn't have pants in my size, which did nothing for my morale, but what can you do? She ought to have my size in next week. The shoes were a size too large, so she'll be getting a size smaller tomorrow. At least I have the belt and t-shirt, so that's half the uniform right there. My wallet is significantly lighter, but I'm looking forward to the lesson tomorrow.
Watching the lesson yesterday was truly inspiring, especially two of the more advanced students performing an intricate set of movements with fans. The young woman in particular was like watching poetry in motion. I wouldn't be surprised if she had some kind of ballet training.
*sigh*
Then I got my butt in gear today and went to the Nautilus Plus I saw across the street from the dojo. I'd been meaning to sign up there for a while, because they have a special for people under 25: $25 a month, and today they had a one-week special in which you didn't pay registration fees and got a free bag and t-shirt (for a total value of $100).
They have a Body For Life program there too, for which I signed up. It'll be nice actually having a professional show me how not to kill myself with all the equipment there. So I'm scheduled to go on Friday for a fitness (or lack thereof) evaluation, and on Monday I go back for a session in which my trainer and I will figure out my training schedule and so forth.
Had dinner with the Maternal Unit, who's been offered a one-month contract in China for an ad agency who are supposedly pitching to get the Volkswagen Jetta campaign. She and I both have misgivings about this, because it's through a friend of ours who isn't exactly known for his business sense. For one, he couldn't even tell her the complete name of the ad agency, and he doesn't really know the woman who runs it, but he "thinks she's really nice." WTF?!?
So the MU is going to look into it very carefully before plunging. If it's bona fide, this could be a big break for her, not to mention monetarily very interesting indeed. My mother's services don't exactly come cheap. At the height of her career she was making six figures and then some.
Today has been a hell of a day. After feeling so frustrated at work all I wanted to do was chew apart my computer table and come home and do something really unfortunate to myself, instead I had a rewarding evening in which I took my life and health into my own hands and thus felt better about the whole affair.
I also got my mother installed on Yahoo!Messenger. Heh.
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Tai Chi? BFL?
Date: 2002-11-13 07:41 pm (UTC)GO YOU!
*pumps fist in the air*
*w00tz repeatedly*
*bangs head on wall as expression of happiness*
*remembers*
*apologizes abjectly and penitently for cancelling Mage yet again*
Massive kewlness. If you want, we can do the BFL mutual encouragement thing; motiveate one another and so forth. When are you starting?
Re: Tai Chi? BFL?
Date: 2002-11-13 07:52 pm (UTC)Mutual encouragement thingie definitely a good thing. I may create a friends group for you (and anyone else who wants to be bored with physical stats and stuff), and you do the same, and we can post there are regularly as possible. What say?
Could be a good way to remain on track.
No worries for Mage thing. Being a Busy!Lawyer and a Sick!Fearsclave at the same time is more than enough reason to cancel. One would have sufficed, but both at once is quite the double-whammy.
*hug*
Re: Tai Chi? BFL?
Date: 2002-11-13 08:14 pm (UTC)Let's not forget wineswillingFearsclave too :)
Roger the idea on the friends group. Good idea.
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Date: 2002-11-14 09:02 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-11-14 09:24 am (UTC)Let me know if it actually happens and I'll add you to the list. :D