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Slow day at work today.
I haven't been posting much, mostly because I haven't been feeling like I have anything to say that isn't coming from a well of frustration with life right now. I seem to have hit one of those patches where it seems like the universe is against me, in all kinds of petty and small ways that just chip at your soul. But I am trying to stay in my happy place as much as possible.
However, there is still other stuff going on so I'll at least give you a glimpse of that. :)
I think I did do something the weekend of the 21st but whatever it was, I don't remember it. Ah, well.
On February 26th, Chrysoula and I went out to see Jonathan Coulton at the Moore theater. Since it's in Belltown, we drove up to Kevin and Ray's workplace, said hi and dropped off Robin, grabbed one of their keycards, told them where the car was so they could leave us the one in the parking garage, and took off. We wandered down 2nd toward the theater, discussing the merits of each restaurant we passed. We finally decided on a sushi place right near the theater but there were a few other places we were looking at that might be fun to try some other time. Wandering around there made me wish I had enough money to live there, since, wow, a part of the city that has a nightlife! I'd even break my no-condos rule to live in a cool part of town but wouldn't be able to afford it either way. We were able to get coffee on our way back to the car at a cool coffee shop that's open late (3 am, Fri-Sat!), and makes their own pretty good chai. Lottery numbers! Where are you?
The show was a lot of fun. I'd never really heard of Paul and Storm, the opening act, before but I enjoyed their bit quite a lot. The Moore is a nice theater too. The seats weren't too horrible for me but that might be because I was seated at the very end of the row, next to the wall. Chrysoula worked on her spinning a little and I worked on a sock. I quit working on it because I was certain I had messed it up in the dark and didn't want to be one of those rude people using a cell phone/iPod for light in a dark theater to figure it out, but when I checked at home later I discovered I hadn't gotten it wrong. That is definitely one problem with trying to do increase rows in the dark. :)
I don't think I did much with the rest of my weekend except sleep, watch TV, and play Bioshock. It's awesome! I'm looking forward to playing the second game though it doesn't seem to be getting quite the good reviews the first one did.
I had a dentist appt on Monday for my cleaning and new bitewings. Whee! I continue my lifetime streak of no cavities.
The next week was my week at our Bellevue location. It was pretty fun, actually, and it's a lot easier to get to than I thought it would be. It's small, so there's only two people there at a time. The donor room is right outside our door, which would be pretty convenient if I wanted to donate (my body seems to spend a lot of time waffling between impending cold and allergies, so I've held off on it). From what I hear, and have experienced, it goes from boring-slow to OMG-STATS! from day to day. Most of the time I spent there was slow but steady except one fun night when I got back from lunch and before I could even put my hair up again we got called on a STAT that required both of us working right away. Crazy. But now that I've finished my orientation there, I should be sent to the Renton one soon (easy commute!) and I should get a 3% raise after that. Woohoo!
Chrysoula and Kevin and Ray had to have their dog, Hannah, put down on March 5th. I was able to stop by and give her lots of scritches and say bye on the 4th. I stopped by again on the 5th to hang out for a little while. I'll miss that crazy dog.
On March 6th, I went out to the second roller derby game of the season. Well, it's the second on the listing but the first one was an exhibition game so it didn't count toward the season team stats. It was pretty fun. Poor DLF continued to be completely outclassed by the Throttle Rockets, they have so many new people this season and they don't seem to have completely gelled as a team yet. The second game between Grave Danger and the Sockit Wenches started off a little better (very close for the first half) but GD overcame the SW. So many penalties. It did serve to illustrate an interesting change in the rules.
For the last couple of years, at least, there was a rule that if both jammers get sent to the penalty box then as soon as the second jammer sits down the jam is over and a new one is started with new jammers. But at this last game, as soon as the second jammer sat down the first one got to leave the penalty box. I don't know if her penalty time is just gone or what but I thought that was an interesting change.
I spent the entirety of this game on my own and... it's not as bad as I thought. It would be nice to have someone around to talk to and watch my stuff for bathroom breaks but it is nice that if I decide to wander around and maybe find a new seat I don't have to check with anyone or explain myself in any way. Heh. See! All the reasons I like being single too, heh.
Sunday I woke up early and decided to clean. Over the last couple of weeks (months?) my apartment had reached a tipping point of messiness that even I could not live with. So I spent a good portion of the afternoon working on the kitchen and living room. I was quite pleased with them by the time I was done. They'll get messy again (ok, are messy again already, but much less so) but at least I took care of it for a little while. :)
Later, Kevin came and picked me up and we went out to the pizza place at the Landing for dinner and then went to see Shutter Island at the theater. I enjoyed it overall but I wish I hadn't been right about the twist at the end. As soon as I heard there was one, I said "oh, it must be this" and I was right. But it was fun other than that.
Monday I ran errands and spent some time talking to Becky on the phone. Oh, right, I hadn't mentioned yet... A couple of weeks ago I was told that due to staffing issues my schedule was being changed from Sun-Thu/Mon-Fri to Tues-Sat/Mon-Fri. I ... spent a while being angry at my boss when she told me. I have roller derby season tickets! Granted, that's only once a month so it isn't too bad to find someone to trade with me (I found someone already for the April game) but still. I specifically asked to not work Saturdays but being low in seniority got stuck with it. And this is after spending way too long trying to figure out when I could take a week off for my birthday (July, apparently (my birthday is June 1st)) and having to be waitlisted for one (possibly two) vacations that I want to take but that have to be done at specific times. It's ... irritating. And moving my doctor appt has proven difficult and my car place is weird about time for oil changes and ... Like I said, lots of petty and small stuff.
Well, the vacation issue doesn't seem so petty and small to me (I find it really really frustrating) but I don't know if that's me being spoiled by never having problems like this with my vacations. I mean, when I was in school I was hampered by school dates but they were forecast well in advance and could be worked around almost all the time. And they've even placed extra limits on how many people can be out at once and I don't know how much that's effecting my ability to get the days I want but... yeah. So frustrating. I'd realized that major holidays would be a problem but a random week in October? Why is this so hard!?
Right. So to end on a happy note, the roller derby game on Saturday set national attendance records with 5,158 people there. Woohoo!
I haven't been posting much, mostly because I haven't been feeling like I have anything to say that isn't coming from a well of frustration with life right now. I seem to have hit one of those patches where it seems like the universe is against me, in all kinds of petty and small ways that just chip at your soul. But I am trying to stay in my happy place as much as possible.
However, there is still other stuff going on so I'll at least give you a glimpse of that. :)
I think I did do something the weekend of the 21st but whatever it was, I don't remember it. Ah, well.
On February 26th, Chrysoula and I went out to see Jonathan Coulton at the Moore theater. Since it's in Belltown, we drove up to Kevin and Ray's workplace, said hi and dropped off Robin, grabbed one of their keycards, told them where the car was so they could leave us the one in the parking garage, and took off. We wandered down 2nd toward the theater, discussing the merits of each restaurant we passed. We finally decided on a sushi place right near the theater but there were a few other places we were looking at that might be fun to try some other time. Wandering around there made me wish I had enough money to live there, since, wow, a part of the city that has a nightlife! I'd even break my no-condos rule to live in a cool part of town but wouldn't be able to afford it either way. We were able to get coffee on our way back to the car at a cool coffee shop that's open late (3 am, Fri-Sat!), and makes their own pretty good chai. Lottery numbers! Where are you?
The show was a lot of fun. I'd never really heard of Paul and Storm, the opening act, before but I enjoyed their bit quite a lot. The Moore is a nice theater too. The seats weren't too horrible for me but that might be because I was seated at the very end of the row, next to the wall. Chrysoula worked on her spinning a little and I worked on a sock. I quit working on it because I was certain I had messed it up in the dark and didn't want to be one of those rude people using a cell phone/iPod for light in a dark theater to figure it out, but when I checked at home later I discovered I hadn't gotten it wrong. That is definitely one problem with trying to do increase rows in the dark. :)
I don't think I did much with the rest of my weekend except sleep, watch TV, and play Bioshock. It's awesome! I'm looking forward to playing the second game though it doesn't seem to be getting quite the good reviews the first one did.
I had a dentist appt on Monday for my cleaning and new bitewings. Whee! I continue my lifetime streak of no cavities.
The next week was my week at our Bellevue location. It was pretty fun, actually, and it's a lot easier to get to than I thought it would be. It's small, so there's only two people there at a time. The donor room is right outside our door, which would be pretty convenient if I wanted to donate (my body seems to spend a lot of time waffling between impending cold and allergies, so I've held off on it). From what I hear, and have experienced, it goes from boring-slow to OMG-STATS! from day to day. Most of the time I spent there was slow but steady except one fun night when I got back from lunch and before I could even put my hair up again we got called on a STAT that required both of us working right away. Crazy. But now that I've finished my orientation there, I should be sent to the Renton one soon (easy commute!) and I should get a 3% raise after that. Woohoo!
Chrysoula and Kevin and Ray had to have their dog, Hannah, put down on March 5th. I was able to stop by and give her lots of scritches and say bye on the 4th. I stopped by again on the 5th to hang out for a little while. I'll miss that crazy dog.
On March 6th, I went out to the second roller derby game of the season. Well, it's the second on the listing but the first one was an exhibition game so it didn't count toward the season team stats. It was pretty fun. Poor DLF continued to be completely outclassed by the Throttle Rockets, they have so many new people this season and they don't seem to have completely gelled as a team yet. The second game between Grave Danger and the Sockit Wenches started off a little better (very close for the first half) but GD overcame the SW. So many penalties. It did serve to illustrate an interesting change in the rules.
For the last couple of years, at least, there was a rule that if both jammers get sent to the penalty box then as soon as the second jammer sits down the jam is over and a new one is started with new jammers. But at this last game, as soon as the second jammer sat down the first one got to leave the penalty box. I don't know if her penalty time is just gone or what but I thought that was an interesting change.
I spent the entirety of this game on my own and... it's not as bad as I thought. It would be nice to have someone around to talk to and watch my stuff for bathroom breaks but it is nice that if I decide to wander around and maybe find a new seat I don't have to check with anyone or explain myself in any way. Heh. See! All the reasons I like being single too, heh.
Sunday I woke up early and decided to clean. Over the last couple of weeks (months?) my apartment had reached a tipping point of messiness that even I could not live with. So I spent a good portion of the afternoon working on the kitchen and living room. I was quite pleased with them by the time I was done. They'll get messy again (ok, are messy again already, but much less so) but at least I took care of it for a little while. :)
Later, Kevin came and picked me up and we went out to the pizza place at the Landing for dinner and then went to see Shutter Island at the theater. I enjoyed it overall but I wish I hadn't been right about the twist at the end. As soon as I heard there was one, I said "oh, it must be this" and I was right. But it was fun other than that.
Monday I ran errands and spent some time talking to Becky on the phone. Oh, right, I hadn't mentioned yet... A couple of weeks ago I was told that due to staffing issues my schedule was being changed from Sun-Thu/Mon-Fri to Tues-Sat/Mon-Fri. I ... spent a while being angry at my boss when she told me. I have roller derby season tickets! Granted, that's only once a month so it isn't too bad to find someone to trade with me (I found someone already for the April game) but still. I specifically asked to not work Saturdays but being low in seniority got stuck with it. And this is after spending way too long trying to figure out when I could take a week off for my birthday (July, apparently (my birthday is June 1st)) and having to be waitlisted for one (possibly two) vacations that I want to take but that have to be done at specific times. It's ... irritating. And moving my doctor appt has proven difficult and my car place is weird about time for oil changes and ... Like I said, lots of petty and small stuff.
Well, the vacation issue doesn't seem so petty and small to me (I find it really really frustrating) but I don't know if that's me being spoiled by never having problems like this with my vacations. I mean, when I was in school I was hampered by school dates but they were forecast well in advance and could be worked around almost all the time. And they've even placed extra limits on how many people can be out at once and I don't know how much that's effecting my ability to get the days I want but... yeah. So frustrating. I'd realized that major holidays would be a problem but a random week in October? Why is this so hard!?
Right. So to end on a happy note, the roller derby game on Saturday set national attendance records with 5,158 people there. Woohoo!
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