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FUCK IT'S COLD and other stories
Feb. 19th, 2015 11:26 pmWind chill this morning was a miserable -14 degrees F. Did I mention I had to warm up a bottle of power steering fluid before I could even put it in the reservoir? I was only outside for like 5 minutes and had gloves on, but they were going numb by the time I got in the freezing van. Damn it's cold!! Joey didn't have school all week the lucky duck, partially due to 11" of snow, partially due to freezing goddamn wind chills. As it was, I missed half a day on Monday and all of Tuesday.
I feel like I'm drowning at work. I'm learning so much cool techy stuff, like how to read IP addresss and how to rename networks and manually configure them remotely. The problem is that it takes 6-8 programs to do all this and we spend like 5 minutes on each program before moving on. I've cried on the way home twice and in the bathroom once. I feel better about it all now, but next week we start taking live calls in our training room and I'm absollutely terrified of fucking up and getting it all wrong and ending up fired. It can't really be as hard as I'm making it out to be, maybe it's just the panic disorder running rampant in my uneasy mind.
At lunch today I realized though I better make this work because THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING AWESOME. Three people from a training class getting ready to graduate sat near me (lunch room was super crowded) and the woman had on a FLAMEL necklace. THE FLAMEL. I told her I liked it, she said thanks as she whipped out her phone with the tardis cover on it. I don't watch Dr. Who, but I can appreciate her fandom dedication! Her and the two guys she was with started playing some card game that had to do with guards, bishops, priests and a princess. And a girl in my class brought her custom D&D dice to show off, and over half the class watches Attack on Titan and Kill la Kill and Sword Art Online. These are my people and I belong here- if I could just get the pieces of these programs to fit into place in my mind I'd be set for life.
Doctor had me pickup a blood sugar meter and new test strips. She wants me to start testing twice a day just to get a level on where I'm at. No new medications or dietary notes yet, though I imagine the diabetic days are coming. All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
I feel like I'm drowning at work. I'm learning so much cool techy stuff, like how to read IP addresss and how to rename networks and manually configure them remotely. The problem is that it takes 6-8 programs to do all this and we spend like 5 minutes on each program before moving on. I've cried on the way home twice and in the bathroom once. I feel better about it all now, but next week we start taking live calls in our training room and I'm absollutely terrified of fucking up and getting it all wrong and ending up fired. It can't really be as hard as I'm making it out to be, maybe it's just the panic disorder running rampant in my uneasy mind.
At lunch today I realized though I better make this work because THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING AWESOME. Three people from a training class getting ready to graduate sat near me (lunch room was super crowded) and the woman had on a FLAMEL necklace. THE FLAMEL. I told her I liked it, she said thanks as she whipped out her phone with the tardis cover on it. I don't watch Dr. Who, but I can appreciate her fandom dedication! Her and the two guys she was with started playing some card game that had to do with guards, bishops, priests and a princess. And a girl in my class brought her custom D&D dice to show off, and over half the class watches Attack on Titan and Kill la Kill and Sword Art Online. These are my people and I belong here- if I could just get the pieces of these programs to fit into place in my mind I'd be set for life.
Doctor had me pickup a blood sugar meter and new test strips. She wants me to start testing twice a day just to get a level on where I'm at. No new medications or dietary notes yet, though I imagine the diabetic days are coming. All in all it's just another brick in the wall.