Archive for June, 2008
The Man behind The Man behind The Man…
Friday, June 27th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
…in which I talk about the nature of being support staff.
I’m sure the same is true in the public sector as it is in government and public education, but tasks have a way of rolling downhill. The problem is, if tasks, recognition, and money were on one of those rock-sorting conveyer belts, money would be a tiny rock and would fall through to someone far up the line, recognition would be a medium sized rock and would probably trickle out a few bins up from where I am… and from where the big ass tasks and workload rocks fall.
Here’s the thing, with a few details as possible: from up on high, several millions of dollars have been allocated for a grant. Someone in our College is working on that grant and was in need of some research in an area that, while I am not specialized, I am at least familiar and savvy. So now I am tasked with providing research and data for a project that I will in no way be related to as it come to fruition. The millions of dollars and the praises and accolades will fall far from me, while I sit in my office and continue to be over worked and under appreciated.
This is the plight of “staff.” We are the gears that grind in the background. We are the Morlocks to the Eloi utopia that is the upper echelons of a research University. Pardon my hunched back and penchant for human flesh.
Originally posted at K. Close III
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POTD2 #157
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
POTD2 #157
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Bonsai!
Today’s Tweets
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 22:16 #POTD: POTD2 #156 tinyurl.com/5pqfmv #
- 10:04 Any news about Fable 2 makes me a little short of breath. #
- 14:02 Well, the new website seems to be as many steps forward as backwards in design and data management. #
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Today’s Tweets
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 22:38 I hate when my Xbox won’t connect. #
- 22:50 Hmmm, to play more and potentially stay up to late, or to be a good little automoton and go to bed. #
- 23:14 #POTD: POTD2 #155 tinyurl.com/5rqejy #
- 09:16 I miss rocking out. I need people to come over and join my band so I can advance it some more. #
- 11:37 three days behind on reading livejournal is impossible… #
- 13:00 Time to get the Red Album! #
- 13:10 #Blog: In the Summertime… kclose3.com/blog/?p=29 #
- 13:11 I still want my blog to be more insightful and thought provoking, but apparently, I’m not that creative of a writer off the cuff. #
- 13:12 #Blog: Bonsai! kclose3.com/blog/?p=28 #
- 14:15 Fuck you, Piss cat. #
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POTD2 #156
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
POTD2 #156
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Ia Inaction.
In the Summertime…
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | Personal Flaws | No Comments
…in which I talk about time passing, distractions, and the current state of my life.
So this summer is slipping by without me even half noticing. I keep waiting for summer to “start” when I stop and realize that its already half over. Sure, we still have July and August left, but still, we’re a lot further along that I’m giving the season credit for. › Continue reading
In the Summertime…
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
…in which I talk about time passing, distractions, and the current state of my life.
So this summer is slipping by without me even half noticing. I keep waiting for summer to “start” when I stop and realize that its already half over. Sure, we still have July and August left, but still, we’re a lot further along that I’m giving the season credit for. I keep thinking about things I need to get done and tell myself “I’ll take care of that when summer really hits.” I’m supposed to be making up the two incompletes on my transcript, and I do a lot of noodling about that, but again I think “I still have time, no rush…” but the truth of the matter is that time is quickly drifting away and before I know it, I’ll be “saving money” by not enrolling in class and instead making up the incompletes I failed to take care of over the summer.
I also look around the house and yard and think about the things I need to be doing there (which may, in fact, be a photo project I work on) and I feel like I can take care of them any time. Its just rough with the full time job and the baby to take care of all that other stuff. Heather and I both get up around 6:30 so that we can get ourselves and Ansel ready for the day, then we head off to work, via daycare, only to stay at work until 5:00. By 8:00 (on a good day), Ansel is finally asleep for a couple of hours and we could take care of things around the house, but by then, we’re both exhausted with work and baby wrangling, and neither one of us has any interest in doing anything more than maintaining a comfortable horizontal position and trying to not pass out so early that we feel elderly.
So we wait for the weekends to make up for all the crap we’re not doing every evening, but then we either try to spend time with friends or we just relax (or go shopping) and end up not doing the things we’ve been putting off anyway. And even when we do get into a mood to do some work around the house or yard, it seems like that’s a day where Ansel is super clingy so one or the other of us has to take care of him the whole time, which kind of breaks into the streak a little bit.
And then, of course, there’s the Xbox. The best, and most devastating purchase I’ve made in the past several years. It is such an attractive way to blow away a few hours. Damn you Xbox, I’ll love you straight to hell.
Originally posted at K. Close III
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Protected: Movie Night
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | Enter your password to view comments.
POTD2 #155
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
POTD2 #155
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Walter the Weasel and his new Ikea chair.
Today’s Tweets
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 23:15 #POTD: POTD2 #154 tinyurl.com/4mgd7e #
- 10:12 Some tracks just disappeared from the Pixies album on Rock Band before I had a chance to download them. I need Monkey! #
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