New Job, and New Updates.

You all haven’t seen me for a while, because I grew bored waiting on SL for the lindens to finally gift me with the ability to kick again, so I took a sabbatical. Work, also, has been running me ragged, working 12 hour days, for long periods of time. I just finished working 6 days straight, hoooray, OT.

This is not to say that I dislike my work schedule, or that it is, normally, unfair. The reason I worked so many days straight is that my coworkers variously all had family emergencies, children, etc, leaving me the only able bodied and in town person capable of working every day since last thursday.

But they’re back now, and I get my much deserved, and much needed, days off.

Which means, You may see me spar, and I will doubtless continue to lose, but, at least I’ll be losing at the same system I learned, rather than struggling to learn a new, unbalanced one.

EA

Work is good. Life would be nice.

So, I’m working, which is good. I am working a significant amount more than I expected though, so my life, real and otherwise, has basically.. flatlined.

I feel bad for not writing more, since, you know, I started this with high intentions, and held forth on subjects, large and small.

However, without sparring time, due to the cursed kick bug (still waiting for that fix to drop. When’s the next server update?), and the lack of much ‘life’ time, RL, SL, or Other, has led to me dropping the ball on this.

Not that I had much to say that anyone hadn’t heard. But I hope you’ve enjoyed my rants and raves.

I don’t intend to stop this entirely, but it’ll be on haitus a few weeks, at least until the kick bugs are fixed.

You can possibly tell that I feel more human, by the far more lucid tone of my writings, and my more than monosyllabic vocabulary. It is my hope that as my training term continues, I’ll find myself able to function better.

I am working, since it’s a far more reasonable a project, on an RPG of the pen and paper variety. Perhaps I can share more details with you some day soon.

EA

Dead To the World

Oh, good grief.

It’s taken me a whole week to be able to stay up a whole 3 hours after work.

This getting up at 6 am thing really sucks.

I started my new job today.

It’s awesome, and I’m having a blast, even if it is long hours, and deeply tiring.

However, it’s surprising how exhausted I am. I haven’t had any time for anything lately, not even blogging.

Hopefully, this weekend, I’ll be able to put in some serious hours.

I was overjoyed to see the post on Robby’s blog that the kick bug was fixed, but no such luck, I have discovered it was a mispost on the Linden’s part.

I guess that’s a good thing though. I wouldn’t have gotten to spar until this weekend anyway.

Be well, all, and I’ll be back soon.

EA

It’s official

I have a new job.

Like, a serious, 40 hour a week, 35k a year, 2 weeks of vacation, 401k, life health and dental insurance, sign on the dotted line, and be an adult job.

I have no idea how this could have happened. I keep waiting for someone to catch me, and tell me that I’m A) not grown up enough, or B) just not cool enough to actually get anywhere. Does that say something bad about my psychological state?

I start on Monday. Orientation. Since it’s a production facility, (I’m going to maintain equipment that Grows Semiconductors. Whee!) I’ll be working 12 hour shifts, in a funky 2/!2/3/!2/2/!3 schedule over the course of two weeks. Sounds odd, huh? Let me break it down. Out of a two week period, I will be dead to the world about 7 days of it. Luckily, this schedule gives me 7 days of free time in two weeks.

Why on earth am I writing all this in a C:SI blog?

First, I just got the confirmation that it’s real and happening, which, in spite of signing the offer letter, I had been dancing up and down with nerves about. I feel so elated right now, I could scream. Thus the need to vent, obviously, is high on the list of reasons for posting this.

Second, I’ll be around half as much, so I won’t be sparring as much. Especially at first, since I have the suspicion that 12 hour shifts are going to treat me poorly for the first month or so.

Luckily, I’ll be swapping over to my natural sleep schedule as soon as I get trained. (I love the night shift. Who in the hell decided that up and at work at 6 am was a good idea? I’d rather be sleeping. The only way to approach 6 am is from being up since 6 pm.) Once I swap, it means you’ll see much much more of me since I’ll be better able to function, at least.. Until I start school. But that’s another pointless rant without a single connection to C:SI.

EA