I neglected to post while I was in Carbondale, which is made more amusing by the fact that I spent the majority of my time in Carbondale on my computer. Okay, maybe TECHNICALLY I slept and did other stuff for more time than I was on my computer, but I bet it was a close number of hours.
So now that I'm back, I'm here for all of tomorrow and most of Sunday, before trekking off to Portland. It's for work, of course, though I didn't even find out that the trip was a definite thing until I was already on vacation. So I've only halfway unpacked my backpack, and will have to pack my suitcase after I do some laundry, as I seem to be running short on socks.
At any rate, I am glad that the snowpocalypse has receded, and I hope it stays that way for the rest of the winter. I'm not sure how much more snow I can take. At least I had some nice 60 degree days in Carbondale. :)
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Friday, January 02, 2009
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Another day...
Well, they're forecasting sun for today, but I haven't seen it yet. Right now I can't even see the ocean, as it's covered in fog. Fog seems to be the way of the morning around here, though--lots of it when I was driving yesterday morning, and then mostly cleared up by about 11 or maybe noon.
Today I'm going to be in the same office all day long, finishing up with handwritten stuff and moving on to typed stuff. Normally, I wouldn't mind the handwritten stuff too much--after all, that's what I worked with for close to 9 years at my old job. But the handwriting I'm dealing with here has proved rather annoying. The main annoyance is that they seem to have crammed as much writing as possible onto each page, which makes it difficult to scan through quickly. The paragraph breaks aren't terribly clear, so you can't just pick out the first line of each paragraph to skim. Quite annoying. :)
When you work with a lot of documents, you spend a lot of time thinking about ways that long-dead people could have done things to make your job easier. Too bad they probably weren't thinking "oh, I need to make this tidy for that girl who's going to be looking at this 100 years from now." :)
In other news, there is a store here called Pippi Longstockings, which sells crazy socks. I don't think I'm going to be able to go in there without buying something. Luckily, I think I've got a bit of spare space in my suitcase. :)
Today I'm going to be in the same office all day long, finishing up with handwritten stuff and moving on to typed stuff. Normally, I wouldn't mind the handwritten stuff too much--after all, that's what I worked with for close to 9 years at my old job. But the handwriting I'm dealing with here has proved rather annoying. The main annoyance is that they seem to have crammed as much writing as possible onto each page, which makes it difficult to scan through quickly. The paragraph breaks aren't terribly clear, so you can't just pick out the first line of each paragraph to skim. Quite annoying. :)
When you work with a lot of documents, you spend a lot of time thinking about ways that long-dead people could have done things to make your job easier. Too bad they probably weren't thinking "oh, I need to make this tidy for that girl who's going to be looking at this 100 years from now." :)
In other news, there is a store here called Pippi Longstockings, which sells crazy socks. I don't think I'm going to be able to go in there without buying something. Luckily, I think I've got a bit of spare space in my suitcase. :)
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