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Ugh.

So I haven’t really written an entry with any real merit in a few days. mostly just inane quizzes and photo-rants. A lot of stuff has been happening lately, but stuff I’m not at liberty to speak about openly. 😉

At any rate, we (the IT team here at SOVA) have been struggling at an uphill battle to get raises and reclassifications (kind of like a promotion, but you don’t go anywhere, it’s like a promotion in reverse – the University realizes you’ve been doing more than you were expected so they give you a better position with the new duties officially listed) but as with most -, if not all – walks of life, it’s a dance of two steps forward one flying leap back. It doesn’t matter how timely we address issues, or how well we complete one or one thousand tasks, if we slip on even one minor issue, it uproots our entire reputation with the school. I feel really bad, because the current at hand issue is my fault. We had been doing swimmingly well, especially myself who possibly suffers the worst reputation in the office. I’d been saving peoples asses, rescuing files, swooping and being all cordial and helpful and shit – but last week someone called up for some minor help with a problem and some how it completely slipped my mind. I don’t even remember recieving the call, let alone the problem. So she called back yesterday and I appologized profusely and worked on her problem with all ferver and determination I could muster. Unfortinately I think she needs a rebuild and our faculty and staff hate that. So I gave her some workarounds and appologized again just for safety. Well, I can guarantee you that this is going to be a point of contention for months if not years to come. We move as fast as we can, we do all we can do, but we’re human and we slip up. And like is human nature, people only ever see our slip ups and not our shining successes, which means when it comes time to evaluate our performance, and determine if we deserve those reclassifications that we’ve been working so hard at getting, even when the money has been found, we still can’t get them because I fucked up once in the past 6 months. Once. How many asses have I saved? How many systems have I repaired? How many problems have I solved? Countless. How many times have I fucked up? I mean REALLY fucked up? Once. What’s keeping us, not me, but US from getting those reclassifications? That one fuckup… and a lie that someoene made – about me… and some other stuff we haven’t had a problem with in 5 years. I’m going to strip naked and see if I can live with the monkeys in the zoo.

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Anyway, in other news, I finally caught up with Derek yesterday and we’re going to be doing the D&D 30th anniversary game day on Saturday. I’m looking forward to it, even if all the stuff they have for us to do is almost like remedial D&D. I realize it’s really just a promotion to get new people involved, but it’s still gonna be fun, and there’s swag, so that makes it almost worth it. So if you’re in the Denton area and have always wanted to know what the big deal is with D&D, you can come play a crappy adventure with pregenerated characters on Saturday. Just come by Talon Comics around 1:00 or so and I’ll teach ya what for.

Working out’s been going okay but it has a strange psychological effect on me. Since I’m up there working out until 6:30~7:00 at night, I always feel like I’m losing even more time than I actually am. I haven’t been playing much City of Heroes because I get home and feel like I’ve already used up all my free time to work out, but really, I’m not going to bed until 11~12:00. But for some reason, and maybe its the fact that the sun’s going down earlier, it just feels like I’ve already used up all my liesure time. But then, I realize that I”m mostly just sitting and watching TV with Heather. Of course, there’s also a part of me that is concerened because now that I’m working out, I feel like I don’t spend nearly as much time with Heather a day, but really, it’s only about 90 minutes less than before. So I try harder to spend more time with her and as a result, do less of the things I like to do on my own, or with friends. I haven’t played D&D in a really long time, I’ve all but quit RPGA, and City of Heroes is down to once or twice a week. On the up side, there is that thing I was talking aobut not being able to talk about at the beginning of this entry.

So I have to train myself mentally to realize that even though I’m spending two more hours a day, four days a week, bettering myself, I still have plenty of time to do the other things I used to do, and still enjoy my hobbies. It’s just a learning process and with the stress at work, it’s not really going very well.

And then next month, in a little over two weeks, I’ll be doing NaNoWriMo and you’ll be lucky to see me on LiveJournal or in person at all.

This is what I have to deal with every day when I come to work. We have assigned parking spaces and this motherfucker parks next to me, and some days is even partly IN my spot. Incidentally, there’s hardly ever anyone next to this person, they just like parking on top of my space.

Any suggestions as to what I should do to suggest maybe them giving me a bit more “door space” so I can get out of my damn car without having to park in the space next to me?

Which OS are You?

Christopher Reeve Sept. 25, 1952 – Oct. 10, 2004

This makes me very sad.

http://www.imdb.com/news/flash/2004-10-11

well, apparenly I’m maried to:

She is Progressive Girl Click on the picture below to read more: Take the ‘What Kind of Girl Is She?’ quiz at CookingToHookup.com

and as far as I can tell by the other options… thats about as close as it’s gonna get.

edit:
I take that back, she may be more of a Indie Girl.

Well, I must be seriously tumbling into this NaNiWriMo thing. I made icons, so I must be serious at some level if I’m making icons for something.

I’ve got two people presuring me to do NaNoWriMo now. Its starting to really build in my head and more than likely I’m going to do it. I just want to give it a bit more thought before I acutally apply. 50,000 words is a lot to pump out in 30 days. In fact, it’s approximately 1,666 words a day. To keep ahead of the curve, I’d probably have to do 2,000 words a day average so that I could go brain dead on certain days.

It’s a grand coincidence that I dreamt of an intricate plot cross section the other day, and that could be expanded into a 50,000 word “story,” but at the same time, what if it’s an award winning idea and I waste it on literary masturbation. I guess I could always continue to develop and edit after November, but at the same time… Bah, who am I kidding. If I don’t force myself to write, it’s not going to be an award winning anything. I will continue to ponder the possibility and I’ll let you all know if I decide to do it next week. I’m gonna need all your support, encouragement, and constant hounding to do this, but I think I can.

At the very least, I can write 50,000 words of crap.

As I was commenting on my journal elsewhere (in a comment no less), I’ve been remarkably productive today, which lead me to feel that I deserved a donut. Two in fact.

To be honest, I’m still being productive and am taking a short break in my productivity to write this inane text just so you monkeys will know the level of my productivity. I loaded up the web site this morning and started work on a new News Ticker. We had discussed the inclusion of such a thing months ago in pre-production, but it was never implemented. Tired of having a “placeholder” there, I went searching around for such a thing to actually be useful. I found a fairly simple and minute news ticker that serves the purpose about as well as anything could and now am filling it with new for it to tick.

Yesterday, I spent the better part of the morning either working on Mac Laptops or completely reorganizing the desk space that effectively extends my desk space. We live in a cramped office and I am an animal of mass collection, so when I need to work on the afore mentioned laptops or any other number of extra devices, I need a space to put them. I have an El Cheapo desk that sits next-to my regular desk that works as a return that really doesn’t turn at all. But it’s where I hold all the temporary projects so as to not get in the way of my permenant projects. Anyway, I had determined that my space was too small yesterday and decided to clean up, de-clutter and expand. I”m feeling a lot more productive and maybe that’s why I got off my ass so early and started working on this news ticker thing.

Anyway, my scanner, which also found a new home, has scanned the image I need for the current event I’m about to post on the news ticker, so I should get back to being productive. After lunch I’ll maybe talk about some other stuff, or maybe even practice writing. Who knows.

damn I need to do an update… but right now it’s donut time… I’ll try to write something when I get back.