Aiya. It’s been forever and a day again, hasn’t it?
I feel like every once in a while I just lose touch with the internet… It’s like I’m sitting here playing around online for months and then all the sudden real life walks up and taps me on the shoulder — Hey, don’t forget about me.
It’s hard keeping the husband — real life — and the affair — internet life — separate sometimes. Although… that’s a really bad metaphor, considering I would never be in that kind of situation.
How about this one: real life is the Quaker rice cakes I just bought to help me watch my sodium, and the internet is the big bag of pretzels I wouldn’t mind chowing down on. Both taste pretty damn good, but one definitely has to win out a little more often than the other, or my blood pressure is going to skyrocket.
I don’t know if that metaphor was any better. Oh well.
So!
A lot has changed in the past couple of weeks… I’m no longer working for the job I’ve been at since October 2004, since I’m not taking classes at SLC this year and my job was a work-study student job. I have a new job, which is really, really laid back, and I seem to have gotten a slow start on it, but I think will be very engaging once I get through the “training” part. My boss is wonderful so far, encouraging and instructive.
She told me to stop apologizing so much in my emails, when I can’t figure something out and feel awkward about asking so many questions. “As women, we say sorry WAY too much. You are entitled to all of your questions.” I’m not sure if she meant it this way, but I found it really inspiring.
And I think I need to take it to heart. I do apologize too much for wanting to know things… I feel like, looking back on how I’ve been, whenever I feel like I’m stepping on someone’s toes or crossing some conservative and imaginary line the first thing out of my mouth is an apology. Why? So what if I cross that line or step on someone’s toes? Some toes were made to be stepped on, and some lines were made to be crossed — how am I ever going to learn what I want to learn and do what I dream of doing if I don’t venture out and ask those questions?
And so I’m going to. Or at least, I’m going to try to. (I think the reason I was never a very good journalist, back in my high school days when I was on the newspaper staff and dreaming of New-York-Times-fame, was because I was bad at asking the really hard-hitting questions. My favorite article I ever wrote was about people’s pets. The one time I did go out on a limb, most of my friends ended up hating to me, and I haven’t really spoken to some since then.)
In other news… Moses (the kitten) is getting along really well with Toby and Oscar… They have their play-fights, but nothing too bad. I’ve even seen her snuggling with them. She makes sleeping difficult sometimes, though, because she can be very clingy at 3 in the morning. Or when I just get home from going out, even if it’s just been for an hour or two. Oh boy. Too much love.
And in still more news… We may be getting another chinchilla in the next couple of months, as a companion for Frankie. He seems very lonely sometimes, even though I take him out every night for at least half an hour to play… Sigh. Poor little lonely Frankie. We’ll get you a brother! (Or at least a cuddle-buddy toy… but who can resist another chinchilla?)
So, now that I’m working from home and only have classes on Mondays and Thursdays, I’m really going to try to commit myself to sitting down every morning/early afternoon (after a nice breakfast of Kashi GoLean with Silk Soymilk Plus Omega-3 DHA — heart healthy!!) and writing a blog entry, either on here or on a new product review and general chatter blog I’m starting up in the next few days/weeks (using Joomla!, an open-source CMS that we use at my newwww job). And the Kashi GoLean and Silk+ are the first reviews to be on there! Mwahaha.
Off I go!
