The Aerie
February has come and gone, and for me, it's already spring. Oh, it's blizzarding out (is that a verb, blizzarding?), but that doesn' t matter because it's March. March, they say, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but what they don't say is that it has the attention span of a nine year old doped up on sugar cereal, TV, and video games. Today it blizzards... tomorrow it melts. Day after that, blazing hot sun and college kids sunbathing next to melting drifts. Day after that: blizzard again.
March and February are siblings who do not look alike. January and February, there's the resemblance: the barren gray icy cold, the interminable sameness. The only difference is that February is 10% shorter - a small mercy! Otherwise: twins. However, in honor of February's shorter stature, I think it's only fair that we chop the end off of it and start calling it Februar.
Why not?! Bwah-hah-hah-hah! Hah. Get it? Y-not? No? Sigh. Never mind.
Today as I mentioned it's blizzarding. At my client site, everyone has already gone home although it's only 2:00 in the afternoon. I could go home, except I'm paid by the hour AND I'm actually trying to stay on track with my work. I'll do this last thing, figure out the status reporting process, and then I'll probably head out. However, figuring out the status reporting process will likely take me till 4:00 or 4:30 anyway.
Wackiness continues in the rest of life. My U of M classes are languishing beneath the glare of my ennui. I have class Saturday and I'm sorely tempted to skip it, despite skipping one of the Saturday classes being equivalent to skipping a week of regular classes. Two weeks. My instructor, you see, is leaving, headed to Guatemala to adopt a baby, and everything is getting turned over to two other instructors... so who will know or care whether I attend class Saturday? Nobody.
Also, this weekend is the Marscon convention. I was going to take the kids just for their sakes, when they substituted guests of honor: Patricia Tallman of Babylon 5 is replacing some guy I never heard of (assuming her flight can make it in through the snow). Talk about getting bumped from coach to first class! So now I have to go too...
That will lead me to decide whether I'm going to class on Saturday, or maybe part day in class, part day at the con. Hard to say!
And then there's my biology class, with which I have done little. I did read the first two chapters, but I've stalled when it came to sending in the homework assignments. Mostly because they want me to mail them in old-school, using envelopes and paper and those sticky little photos called 'stamps'. I'm a 21st century kind of guy, and I sent them an e-mail, asking if I could e-mail my homework. A month later, no reply. Something tells me they're traditionalists.
Work continues to be weird. Well, not work itself, which is going fairly smoothly, but "the employment situation." Due to my job-search in January, I now have all sorts of odd opportunities going on. One company wants to send me to teach security in London at the end of the month: another is interviewing me for a Chief Security Officer permanent position which I might or might not be able to afford to take. With so much up in the air, it's hard to know what's going on from one day to the next.
Anyway it's going to be time to head home soon, and I still can't figure out how to do my status reports, so if I want to spend the night anywhere but here, I'd better get back to it...
Posted by Albatross at March 1, 2007 9:57 AM | TrackBack