So the heavy sigh is for missing posting yesterday, but I got called into work. The great thing about temping is that you get to see what other places to work really look like.
This place had:
- decent coffee
- an infestation of mechanical engineers about six deep
- it’s own ERP
- a decent fast restaurant in the basement
- one bus ride from here
- less than twenty minutes from here
- walking distance from here in a pinch or bad weather
- interesting, worthwhile work
- and the job is currently available
The heavy sigh is because I won’t get it, but gosh it was pleasant working there and I would have had loads of fun teasing elderly engineers. I would have also got to watch the Skytrain go by all day long, which doesn’t hurt my feelings.
BEST LINE OF THE DAY. One of the engineers, responding to something a contractor was saying in a conference call, and sounding, how shall I put it, mildly exasperated, said, “You are confusing expediency with practicality“, which caused me to SWOON.
Then I came home after a satisfying day, smiling in the rain and clutching my signed sheet, which I still haven’t faxed, and found my brother had just got home. He said, “I got ya a present, I hope you like it.”
Well, it was from that batch of slides that Loki processed from 35 millimeter to digital, the slides from when we were, like, 9 months old and 2 and a half, respectively, and Jeff’d had it blown up to half poster size (with Blossom Su of course, the framing magician of pictures, art and media, she wot did the Inuit hunters). Of all of the pictures in that batch, it was the one I wanted. Both of us look incredibly goofy, and nothing much has changed. I could hardly be more pleased.
A thoroughly satisfactory day.
Today, dentition maintenance at noon. Dafter Katie (that’s daughter written US Revolutionary War style) is going to Victoria to be a prop and stay to her grandmother (and, if I may be so bold as to say it, to get the hell out of Dodge the week before her -hopefully- last legal encounter with her ex boyfriend.)
Also today I have to phone my old employer and work some contacts. I am so ready to go back to work it’s ridiculous. And to think, a couple of weeks ago, I thought I had forgotten how. I am anticipating work – but things are, apparently, not very rosy at the old place and I have had two different engineers tell me not to come back, although I suspect both of them have ulterior motives. Maybe it IS time for me to move on, can’t step in the same stream twice, harrumph harrumph.
