I'm Not Dead Yet!!

And I won’t be stone dead in a moment either. No my injury from my bike ride wasn’t fatal. Though my new job may be. I do have a “new” job and it made August go so fast. I have been working for a scientific supply company. I have been going through the catalog regrouping and re-categorizing items so that they can be found more easily. Though this is not intellectually stimulating it isn’t too bad a job. I get to sit at a computer with an internet connection all day. My first computer couldn’t play You tube but I was able to get a different one; without tech support or anyone else knowing. (My most recent finds are Chad Vader and “Ask a Ninja”.) The people that I work with are pretty fun. There are about 20 people in the room with all the computers around the walls. We aren’t in cubicles so we get to talk and goof off a good amount. For the project that I’m on, we have no goals. As far as I can tell, I can do 20 lines in my excel file or 1000 lines in a day, without worrying about trouble with my boss. In fact after the first week it was 3 weeks before I saw my boss again. Also any changes that I make are just suggestions. At least 2 people will review them before any changes are made in the actual catalog. So it pretty much doesn’t matter what I put in, they will decide later if they like it or not. Over all I do like the job. We laugh a lot. Though there really aren’t any good stories to tell. That’s why I haven’t written for so long. It feels like so little happens from day to day. It’s hard to write about so little.

A few things have happened in the last month and a half. About 6 years ago 5 friends and I started a roller hockey team. The team has existed year round for nearly 6 years. I am the only founding member still playing. (Though clearly I had a few breaks for India and DC.) We were never a very good team. One could for the most part expect to win 1 maybe 2 games a season but we were having fun. This summer we won the Championship!! It was really very amazing and exciting. There is a girl at church that I like, though I’m fairly certain that she doesn’t like me. I have been medically cleared by the Peace Corp. I am fit to go off by myself to the middle of the wilderness and try to help people. I even freaked out about how I’ll be all alone in the middle of nowhere. Can I handle that?!? Well rest assured that after a short talk with Lori I’m pretty much back on track. Ready to go, if they call me. Also I have an interview tomorrow to work in a research lab. The description was for basic stuff. I pretty much expect to be offered the job. I will have to decide if I want to take the job or if I want to wait and see what the Peace Corp comes up with. I can tell the Peace Corp to put me on hold for a year if I want. I’m not sure yet what I’ll do. I guess I’ll wait till I get an offer to make the decision.

I think that’s about it for the month. I want to say something about another year passing since 9/11. I’m still saddened whenever I think about what happened; during that day and in the time since. I pray for the families of the victims of that day and of wars that have come since. I pray that one day, the world will learn not to hate so much.