Domestic Geek

This is late this week because I had no internet connection last night and I was really exhausted to boot. I slept for 11 hours straight last night. It felt good, but I didn't get to work until almost 10 this morning. Anyway, here's my Friday Five:



1. What is your favorite time of year?
I love springtime.

2. What is it about your favorite season that, well, makes it your favorite season?
Spring is when things come alive. I love the baby birds, the new flowers, leaves that seem to pop out overnight. The weather is warming up, but it's not stiffling hot yet. The days are getting longer with more daylight, so I don't get as depressed as I do during winter. You get thunderstorms instead of blizzards. I love the rain.

3. What is your least favorite time of year? Why?
I hate winter. It's cold, everything is dead, the days are short. I absolutely hate having to travel in snow. It's a depressing time for me.

4. Do you do anything to celebrate or recognize the changing of seasons?
No.

5. What's your favorite thing to do outside?
I love gardening. I enjoy watching things grow and digging in the dirt.

I was just reading the message boards for Gateway HS at classmates.com. I'm amazed at the people who, 18 years after graduation, are still stuck in the past. I recognize some of the names I read, but I couldn't pick any of these people out in a crowd.

Mary, a girl who was my best friend until high school, is really stuck there. She lives in South Aurora and I used to run into her alot when I worked on that side of town. To talk to her, you'd think her life ended when we all graduated. Actually, she never went through graduation. Maybe that's why she can't let all of it go. She married some military guy and shipped off to another state two weeks before graduation. She became a baby factory. I think she's got like 5 or 6 kids now and they're all kind of bratty. That's one of the reasons when she wanted to get together that I blew her off. After the 10th reunion in '94 (that I refused to go to), she got all nostalgic and wanted to get back with all her old school buddies. She doesn't realize that we have absolutely nothing in common. The only good thing about all the moving around Marcus and I did during that time was she couldn't keep up with where I was. I know that's kind of mean, but I told her once that I really didn't care to reminisce about high school That was sooooo long ago and those people are complete strangers.

From my friend, Rev:

Man, the advertising department where Marcus works is getting all new G4s. There was a possibility they were going to sell off the old G3s to employees. I really wanted one. I guess they've decided against that and are going to figure out some other way to utilize them. Pooh.

OMG, CollegeAmerica has a new job placement person. She just left me a voicemail on my phone. Can this person actually assist me in finding a new job? I doubt it. I wonder why Kirsten left. Maybe because she can't find anybody jobs? That the only successful placements on the placement board were for people moving up in companies they already worked for? That several people on that board were listed more than once to make it look like people were actually finding jobs? That many of those placements were for a company that went under a year ago? That she had no idea exactly what kind of jobs people coming out of that school were actually qualified for? I know that sounds harsh, but dang it. Don't send my resume to a company saying they need a system administrator extremely qualifed in Novell, etc. when the school doesn't even offer such classes. I really need to get cracking on the job search, again. I haven't been trying much here. I'm thinking I'm going to have to take a couple of days off from work and find something.