Yesterday I sent an email to a friend describing my day as "boring and draggish." It is 8:47am and thus far, today has been much the same. I like my job, because I am now into week number two, I am still getting paid to check my email, write blogs, and do a myriad of other things that I should really do on company time. It's bliss. Though I feel this odd twang in my gut every time my boss walks by. I think it's called guilt. Sometimes he gives me work when he notices I'm not doing anything. Sometimes he's too busy to notice I think. I like when he gives work. It makes me feel useful. I hate feeling useless. But it doesn't usually take me that long to complete the tasks he gives me. They are fairly simple.
And of course there is the phone. But I can't answer any of the questions the customers ask. So I hit "transfer" and my work is finished until the next time when the phone rings and the whole process begins again. I take occasional messages. If the sales guys go slow enough, I can usually even make some sense of what they are saying. Costumers. . . They are a different story. They think everyone should know everything. When they realize I don't even know who they are . . . Oie!
In the midst of short bouts of training, it has been nice to have a chance to write. The things I am writing are surprising even me. "Where do you come up with this stuff?" someone asked me the other night. The answer my friend is this: I have boring and draggish days at work and my mind writes all day long. The carefully selected words (or truthfully more often random ones) make it inked onto pages and are forever imortalized.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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