Friday, June 20, 2008

A Good Solid Jolt to My Expectations

Wednesday began as a day of fear, continued as a day of extreme happiness, and ended in solid confusion and concern with happy undertones from mid-day. The final portion will be left as an exercise for the reader, unlike the first two, which will be explained in very uncertain terms...

Wednesday was promotion feedback day. I just started my program, so my expectations were dismally low. I've also had a bit of emotional roughness in the beginning of my program, so sometimes getting anything done felt as though I had to pound my way through the brick wall of beaurocracy with a 50 pound weight on my chest and no will to pull through. I've since gotten better. Fortunately, I also learned that my perseverence paid off. I got promoted this year, and I got good bonus because I was among the good writeups my wonderful boss (you know who you are) wrote for interns in our office. So, by about lunch, I could float pretty much anywhere in Maryland I wanted. The rest of the day happened, confused me greatly, concerned me, and continues to, but I'm still happy about the promotion and the bonus. Life is never only one thing at once, is it? That's what multi-tasking is for. Otherwise we'd all run single-task operating systems. I can't help it; I'm a geek who climbs.

So, with my newfound monetary increase, the 64-bit machine I talked about awhile ago my actually come to fruition. I'm excited. I want to order it now, but I should probably wait until I see the bonus. I'm also going to have to think about a new cell phone since my BRAND NEW one bit the dust because it GOT A LITTLE WET! Do me a favor; don't buy Samsung electronics. You'll be happier in the long run. I haven't had one in recent memory that hasn't had major problems. Microwave? Check. Cell phone? Check. Sanity? Double check. Samsung is to me as Ford is to my parents; eternally and unerringly wretched.

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