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Dec. 22nd, 2004 04:20 pmBack to work after several days off due to schedule weirdness. So I've started my new shift, and spent most of the morning moving. For all that I complained, I think I'm gonna like it. I wasn't near enough to a window in the other room to miss them in this one. Being on the aisle seemed like a pisser but there seems to be a lot less traffic. This makes sense because there isn't anything interesting to go to back here, just more workers. In the other room there was the automation department, clerical staff, the scheduling guy, et cetera. And I talked to my neighbor and she said it was usually really quiet, moreso than she expected. Yay! It's also nice to have the whole pod to myself for once. Since pretty early on I was sharing it with some night staff person; it feels weird to have all this room to spread out. And it's clean! So though I will miss having easy access to a Kirby fix I think I will like it back here. It feels mellower.
I slept until about 2pm yesterday after my all-nighter. I got up and started on the preparation for the Yule ritual- a lot of folks showed up early so even despite a detour into fucking-with-my-iPod-land I was able to start right on time, and finish up by 8:00. People were out of the house by 9:30 which felt odd. But it was a good ritual, and almost as good- people cleaned up after themselves! My house was almost cleaner than before. This makes up for the Yule a couple of years ago when it looked like a bomb had hit the living room and kitchen, and I found a shrimp tail in the fireplace weeks later. I could've killed someone. So this was wonderful. Sherry wrote a really neat ritual and I enjoyed HPSing it for everyone. This feels more like the start of a new year than Samhain. I may have mentioned elsewhere that Samhain feels like the end of the year, but not the start of the new one- there's a grey limbo for a few weeks that seems to lack direction (yet be filled with shopping @@) and it's a relief to feel a sense of completion now.
The last order of business for the holiday season is to spend Christmas itself with my parents. I work today and tomorrow, and because of scheduling quirks I am off Friday and Saturday then must work Sunday from 7am to 3:30pm. So I plan to drive up to Sweetwater on Thursday evening.
And because I have planned this, it's supposed to snow. I think the last time I had an actual white Christmas was when I lived in Chicago when I was 10. It's a small chance of flurries, but I'd really rather not drive in any kind of precipitation when it's that cold if I can get away with it, so I guess we'll see what happens.
I slept until about 2pm yesterday after my all-nighter. I got up and started on the preparation for the Yule ritual- a lot of folks showed up early so even despite a detour into fucking-with-my-iPod-land I was able to start right on time, and finish up by 8:00. People were out of the house by 9:30 which felt odd. But it was a good ritual, and almost as good- people cleaned up after themselves! My house was almost cleaner than before. This makes up for the Yule a couple of years ago when it looked like a bomb had hit the living room and kitchen, and I found a shrimp tail in the fireplace weeks later. I could've killed someone. So this was wonderful. Sherry wrote a really neat ritual and I enjoyed HPSing it for everyone. This feels more like the start of a new year than Samhain. I may have mentioned elsewhere that Samhain feels like the end of the year, but not the start of the new one- there's a grey limbo for a few weeks that seems to lack direction (yet be filled with shopping @@) and it's a relief to feel a sense of completion now.
The last order of business for the holiday season is to spend Christmas itself with my parents. I work today and tomorrow, and because of scheduling quirks I am off Friday and Saturday then must work Sunday from 7am to 3:30pm. So I plan to drive up to Sweetwater on Thursday evening.
And because I have planned this, it's supposed to snow. I think the last time I had an actual white Christmas was when I lived in Chicago when I was 10. It's a small chance of flurries, but I'd really rather not drive in any kind of precipitation when it's that cold if I can get away with it, so I guess we'll see what happens.
