I'm still alive!
Oct. 27th, 2006 07:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morleyroarlyI'm still here! Just moving through life at a different pace - one that rarely allows for livejournal updates.
Up at 7am. Leave the house by 8am. Work from 8:30am - 5pm, home around 5:30 (or, if I do errands, 6:30). Dinner, then fuss something (perhaps go to a yoga class, perhaps clean up the house, perhaps unpack boxes, perhaps visit with some friends), then attempt to get to bed by 11 but in reality get in bed by 12.
Work is going well! It's a bit on the slow side so far, but that's to be expected in my first week. Already I've been doing a wide variety of types of work - editing cost proposals and test drilling program specs, researching abandoned oil wells to determine the financial burden to new landowners, and my favorite so far - import old coal mine shaft maps from the early 1900's into GIS to overlay them with topography data and proposed plans for construction to determine the risk for subsidence and the need for strip mining and re-grading.
The company seems like a pretty good fit - I'm working with some interesting, intelligent folks, many of whom are in their late 20's/early 30's. It's a pretty chill and friendly office environment. The fact that it's a big company means bigger perks - yesterday and today I'm being sent for free to a 2-day in-house GIS training session worth $1000. My health care plan appears to rock. Free coffee and tea and cocoa and bagels. An in-house gym with pilates classes opening in December/January. A SLICK laptop, and a well-organized company intranet site with lots of useful information. And just yesterday, my boss indicated that I can be reimbursed for all my professional memberships - ASCE, GSA, AEG, and PGS - to the tune of over $300.
Now I just need to figure out how to hold down the job *and* still spend quality time with Tom. This week has been sorely lacking on the quality time front, and last night I cried quite a bit out of frustration. Hopefully next week will be a bit less crazy.
Oh, and I need warmer work clothes - my temporary window office, while beautiful, is chilly!
On a completely different note - everyone think happy thoughts for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tankgirlh today as she goes under the knife! She's getting snipped so as to never worry about procreating again. Congratulations babe, I'm thinking happy anti-baby thoughts for you!
Up at 7am. Leave the house by 8am. Work from 8:30am - 5pm, home around 5:30 (or, if I do errands, 6:30). Dinner, then fuss something (perhaps go to a yoga class, perhaps clean up the house, perhaps unpack boxes, perhaps visit with some friends), then attempt to get to bed by 11 but in reality get in bed by 12.
Work is going well! It's a bit on the slow side so far, but that's to be expected in my first week. Already I've been doing a wide variety of types of work - editing cost proposals and test drilling program specs, researching abandoned oil wells to determine the financial burden to new landowners, and my favorite so far - import old coal mine shaft maps from the early 1900's into GIS to overlay them with topography data and proposed plans for construction to determine the risk for subsidence and the need for strip mining and re-grading.
The company seems like a pretty good fit - I'm working with some interesting, intelligent folks, many of whom are in their late 20's/early 30's. It's a pretty chill and friendly office environment. The fact that it's a big company means bigger perks - yesterday and today I'm being sent for free to a 2-day in-house GIS training session worth $1000. My health care plan appears to rock. Free coffee and tea and cocoa and bagels. An in-house gym with pilates classes opening in December/January. A SLICK laptop, and a well-organized company intranet site with lots of useful information. And just yesterday, my boss indicated that I can be reimbursed for all my professional memberships - ASCE, GSA, AEG, and PGS - to the tune of over $300.
Now I just need to figure out how to hold down the job *and* still spend quality time with Tom. This week has been sorely lacking on the quality time front, and last night I cried quite a bit out of frustration. Hopefully next week will be a bit less crazy.
Oh, and I need warmer work clothes - my temporary window office, while beautiful, is chilly!
On a completely different note - everyone think happy thoughts for
tankgirlh today as she goes under the knife! She's getting snipped so as to never worry about procreating again. Congratulations babe, I'm thinking happy anti-baby thoughts for you!
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Date: 2006-10-27 03:39 pm (UTC)now on to the carving out more *you* time...
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Date: 2006-10-27 04:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-27 05:37 pm (UTC)i also like that morley called her soon-to-be-snipped friend babe.
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Date: 2006-10-27 09:36 pm (UTC)