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Greetings from sunny and way too hot Maryland! It's going to be a blisteringly hot week, and even while it's working, our little AC can't quite keep up. Today (and the rest of the week) is supposed to be about 96 degrees. Ugh. I do not want to go out in this on Thursday. But I shall.
Started on the project yesterday, and got a couple of parts done. Today I'm hoping to be able to bang out the rest, leaving tomorrow to record the backing track. I already hate it, and I want to fling it across the room. Our various jobs are insane, and I'm already up to 62 slides. This thing is going to hit 150 easily. Fortunately, I got the hardest task out of the way. Delivery updates took forever to do and 48 slides on it's own.
After spending the day working in an unmotivated way, I re-ran my math, adding in that today is time and a half and I'll get a payout of 36 hours of PTO and decided that I could swing it, so Thursday will be my last day. It's going to be a very short week. On Tuesday, I'm leaving early for a psych appointment, I'm off on Wednesday, because I had a Holiday Pay day that wouldn't pay out, and then Thursday, I've got my physical in the morning, then I'm coming in at 12:00 and finishing the day out. I can't believe that I only have four more days with this job. It's completely bonkers to me.
As Jess pointed out, this is the first job that I've left voluntarily since I was 18. My first job, the doctor retired, the second and third fired me. It's strange to leave somewhere with my head high of my own volition. It's kind of awesome and terrifying and just weird. I've been with IKEA for 8 years, and I thought I'd be there until I retired.
It's funny, when I announced it, a lot of people gave me their phone # to keep in touch. Some of them I wasn't expecting, I have to admit. I'm going to try to keep in touch, though it's something I'm really horrible at. But I'm going to try, because I actually like these people. It might be easier when I have something to talk about? Since I'll be learning new things and shit.
At some point this journal will go back to being something other than new job flailing, but it might be a little while for things to settle down. :) I'm just a little bit excited.
Last night we played our Lost Mine game. I'm not the most enormous fan of the Storm Lord's Wrath module, so I've started jail breaking it down some. We had a great session last night, with a ton of combat, betrayal and moral dilemma. It was a lot of fun. Wednesday, we have Blades in the Dark, which I definitely need to do a bit of planning for. We left them mid heist, so I've gotta do a bit of work on the second half.
Okay, time for me to get myself together and prepare for work. Everyone have a wonderful Labor Day Monday!
Started on the project yesterday, and got a couple of parts done. Today I'm hoping to be able to bang out the rest, leaving tomorrow to record the backing track. I already hate it, and I want to fling it across the room. Our various jobs are insane, and I'm already up to 62 slides. This thing is going to hit 150 easily. Fortunately, I got the hardest task out of the way. Delivery updates took forever to do and 48 slides on it's own.
After spending the day working in an unmotivated way, I re-ran my math, adding in that today is time and a half and I'll get a payout of 36 hours of PTO and decided that I could swing it, so Thursday will be my last day. It's going to be a very short week. On Tuesday, I'm leaving early for a psych appointment, I'm off on Wednesday, because I had a Holiday Pay day that wouldn't pay out, and then Thursday, I've got my physical in the morning, then I'm coming in at 12:00 and finishing the day out. I can't believe that I only have four more days with this job. It's completely bonkers to me.
As Jess pointed out, this is the first job that I've left voluntarily since I was 18. My first job, the doctor retired, the second and third fired me. It's strange to leave somewhere with my head high of my own volition. It's kind of awesome and terrifying and just weird. I've been with IKEA for 8 years, and I thought I'd be there until I retired.
It's funny, when I announced it, a lot of people gave me their phone # to keep in touch. Some of them I wasn't expecting, I have to admit. I'm going to try to keep in touch, though it's something I'm really horrible at. But I'm going to try, because I actually like these people. It might be easier when I have something to talk about? Since I'll be learning new things and shit.
At some point this journal will go back to being something other than new job flailing, but it might be a little while for things to settle down. :) I'm just a little bit excited.
Last night we played our Lost Mine game. I'm not the most enormous fan of the Storm Lord's Wrath module, so I've started jail breaking it down some. We had a great session last night, with a ton of combat, betrayal and moral dilemma. It was a lot of fun. Wednesday, we have Blades in the Dark, which I definitely need to do a bit of planning for. We left them mid heist, so I've gotta do a bit of work on the second half.
Okay, time for me to get myself together and prepare for work. Everyone have a wonderful Labor Day Monday!
